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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

In Nadella’s case, within his first few months, in line with the future destination he had plotted for the business and his new focus on certain product classes, he adjusted staff within the marketing team and mixed up the leadership in the device and cloud divisions of the company.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders. With that in mind, they also provide their “most senior leaders executive coaching , leadership acceleration initiatives, and other training.”

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From Yurt to Beer Cooler: Adventures with Duct Tape

Mills Scofield

My friends, Annie Kahl and Dan Festa had sent up a flock- load of duct tape to the class to play with. This is the task we received last week in DesignStudio, a class at Brown University where we “imaginatively frame design problems and develop novel strategies for addressing those problems.”

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Don’t Just Lead – Guide!

Great Leadership By Dan

As Ed Bernbaum, a mountaineer and Senior Fellow at the Mountain Institute writes, “Just as Everest stretches people to do more than they thought they could, so companies want to stretch their employees to reach the loftiest goals, to be number one in the field, to provide the best product or service in the industry group.”

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Three Tips for Macro (Not Micro) Managers

Lead Change Blog

Rebecca and Jason heard this drumbeat loud and clear in the same management classes. Recognizing what it took to become an all-state athlete in high school, Rebecca imported coaching into the heart of her leadership to build dynamic teams. The Macro vs. Micro Dilemma. How could asking “How are you doing really?”

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

In the CEO Afterlife

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Reportedly, John Scully was the top of his class during his Pepsi years. During his era, Steve Jobs was miles ahead of every other forward thinking CEO in that race.

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Four Examples of Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders. As the title suggests, we will describe and explain the four leadership styles that constitute the Situational Leadership ® Model.