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Burn the Business Plan

Leading Blog

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. Many entrepreneurs who started their own careers in large corporations regarded them as critical to their subsequent success. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The reason?

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7 Ways we can Stretch Ourselves as Leaders

Ron Edmondson

A rapidly changing work culture takes creative, innovative and adaptable leaders. Leaders must learn to stretch ourselves as the demands upon us continually change. It’s mandatory just to keep up with the pace of change. How can a leader keep up with the pace of change? What can you do to grow?

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These Powerful Traits Can Make You into a Successful Leader

Lead from Within

Being a visionary means understanding that continuous change is occurring all around you, so what worked in the past may not work now. Supplying innovation. Being a visionary. Exceptional leaders have the ability to look into the future and create a vision that will benefit their organization. Exemplifying humility.

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How To Stay Relevant & Have Impact

Mills Scofield

If we are going to handle this continually changing the world, we have to adapt ourselves. Reinventing You shows us how to find our value, communicate our value and continue enhancing our value to others. We are in an age of immense disruption: industries, societal codes, politics, demographics, you name it.

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Staying Ahead of Innovation Challenges

Harvard Business Review

We recently hosted at frog design a group of mid-career executives who are in the Global Executive MBA program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. We have done this collaboration for several years now, and it's enlightening to see how the students are facing an ever-changing set of innovation challenges. Challenge 3: Risk.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Do employees feel that their boss honors their career aspirations, building needed skills that serve their organization now and in the future? Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , says “ Improve Your Perception: A reputation that took decades to build can be threatened by a single event. Jennifer V.

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2010: When Leadership Hit the Rapids

Harvard Business Review

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.