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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. I’d hear my coaching peers share what they were working on, and my ego would question why I wasn’t going after the same types of projects.

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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

your role shifts toward, “Let’s get our best people on the project. For months senior leaders dismissed warning signs and data from employees about severe problems and had ignored market trends for years. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. Instead of, ”Listen to me, I have the answer!,”

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Exploration — a broad, open search for strategic partnerships, unresolved problems, latent or unmet needs, new markets and customer segments that potentially fit the organization’s Focus and Context (vision, values, and purpose) and its core competencies. This is a rich source of innovation.

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” For this year’s projects, goals, decisions or initiatives, have you asked yourself … Is this the right timing? Missing emerging market trends and opportunities. Let’s dig in! QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG?

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

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Finding Your Bigness Balance: Seven Ways to Properly Set the Size.

Kevin Eikenberry

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. To be more specific, for each goal, consider setting a range of targets like this: Target A – This is a perfect world scenario, I/we absolutely want it goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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