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Baldheaded Leadership

Lead Change Blog

She was the chief operating officer of a large company, and this was the leadership conference for her company. When we boldly remove the cover-ups of clever presentation, smile-generating politeness, kick-butt power, and aesthetic prettiness, baldheaded leadership is the reliable basic bond that makes employees feel confident, even gallant.

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What Happens When The Values Of Civil Servants And Their Politicians Clash

The Horizons Tracker

The same can’t be said in the political world, however, where changes in leaders can have a profound impact on not only what an administration tries to achieve but how it seeks to achieve it. This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2020

Leading Blog

Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America’s destiny for generations. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Blog Post ).

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Statesman vs. Politician | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. Thanks again for this historical perspective. Now we're over 300 million.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. You are absolutely correct that design influences perception, and perception impacts brand.

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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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Leaders: Born or Made? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor. [.]

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