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Leading Thoughts for December 22, 2022

Leading Blog

Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values. Developing your Lookout skills over time will create the lasting change you want, in your leadership and in your life.”.

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May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy looks at the Bureaucratic Mass Index of organizations – and how to upgrade them to Humanocracies with freedom and responsibility ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared What Does a Career Look Like Today ? The same is true for your leadership career.

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2020 Christmas Lectures Part 3 – A Human Workplace

The Horizons Tracker

This has been a mission of London Business School’s Gary Hamel for pretty much his entire career, but it’s perhaps fair to say that the pandemic has really shone a light on the need to not only provide great workplaces that support people when they’re at work, but also that support people in their entire lives.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.

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June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee. Marina Jankovic explains The Best Career Change Approach. How can you have both freedom and control?

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. This latter view has strongly influenced my work.

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Love, Trust, and Candor: Today's Management Priorities

Harvard Business Review

Management guru Gary Hamel has coined the term Management 2.0 , which seeks to reinvent management in a way that is fit for the future and for humankind. As Hamel says: "Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy.we pushing the envelope of transparency.". Trust is a key tenet of this school of thought.