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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly. Make sure it’s balanced with innovation and growth.

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Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins

Art Petty

Art Petty and Wally Bock talk about some of the later books in Jim Collins' Good to Great Series: How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice. The post Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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The Two Qualities that Make Leaders Great

Leadership Freak

When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.… Some leaders are humble. Others are driven. The great ones are both.

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Collin Powell's 13 Rules of Leadership

CO2

Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. If You Want To Innovate, Avoid These Myths by Greg Satell @Digitaltonto. Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser. Coaches help you find your own answers.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2013

Leading Blog

Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Carter The Chaos Imperative : How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Breakthrough by David C.M.

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