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Using Storytelling To Craft And Communicate Your Strategic Vision

Tanveer Naseer

I held that belief for most of my career, afraid that asking others for help crafting vision was a sign of intellectual weakness. For instance, Malcolm Gladwell explored the ties between choice and happiness by recounting the spectacular career of food scientist Howard Moscowitz. To “show,” leaders must tell stories.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. Once a decision has been made, it's up to the team to figure out how to make it work. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. This is how collaboration gets embedded as a normal way of working. But how to get through the pain barrier? Jumpstarting collaboration. Get the benefits flowing faster.

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Even Senior Executives Need a Side Hustle

Harvard Business Review

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty. Gary John Norman/Getty Images.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Let’s consider a few examples.

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Struggling at the (Computer) Games of Life

Harvard Business Review

I initially couldn’t figure how to move my waiter (turns out you just have to click where you want him to go), and my 14-year-old son walked over to check what was going on. As for risk, in my career I have worked for four large and stable media companies (stable when I worked there at least, except for my last few years at Time Inc.)

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