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Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

N2Growth Blog

It’s just another well-intentioned sound bite that will destroy your company and your career if you choose to follow it. Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy.

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How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals…or Falter

Strategy Driven

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Employ some leadership fundamentals. You need to practice some leadership fundamentals. You just finished reading How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals.or Confusion reigned. About the Author.

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Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Steve about some of his insights and tips to outsize your strategy, profits, and potential. Over the course of my career, I have seen the business world transform and certain powerhouses, think Amazon, Apple, and Uber, redefine the business model to capture incredible value. Steve Coughran.

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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. Useem has identified ten principles or capacities that will be called for to supplement traditional leadership capacities. Bring in better leadership.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step.

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.