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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. Laura Schroeder of Working Girl provided Resilience Starts with Operational Excellence. 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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Case Study: When Key Employees Clash

Harvard Business Review

Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets. Ronnie Emerson was director of clinical operations in Orlando, a position Matthew had created soon after taking the reins at Kid Spectrum. Matthew, it's Ellen.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0 You behave, you stay.'

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. I tend to digest 5 to 10 books at a time and my libraries at home and at the office are overflowing with hundreds of books [Yeah, I know.

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