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Understanding Leadership

Coaching Tip

Source: Robert Steven Kaplan: What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner. Leadership is a way of thinking that engages your special talents now and, ideally, for the rest of your life. It involves a process of learning and being open to adapting your behaviors. . Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook at $.99).

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How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

The frequently cited research of Robert Kaplan and David Norton shows that more than 90% of employees don’t fully understand their company’s strategy or know what’s expected of them to help achieve company goals. Remember that there is a tipping point in this quadrant. Most of us face this reality each and every day.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Saturation is reached at 90%+.