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The Key to Change is a People Focus

Lead Change Blog

So, they spend time looking at products and services, hierarchies, technologies, job descriptions, roles and responsibilities, rules, and policies, which are the tangible things that are easily grasped and wrestled with to make improvements. Roger introduced me to the concept of the organisational iceberg.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great leaders don’t major in the minors and understand that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing…Great leaders are committed to not losing focus and not giving-up. They are committed to both personal and professional growth. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Thank you for sharing this freely.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. What you can and are committed to accomplishing…rather than what mysteriously lies ahead. Commitments to learning, which creates knowledge, which inspire insights, which culminate in wisdom.

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

The Normal Way of Generating Commitment… Normally, we commit to an idea when we are rationally compelled by the logic of the idea and we feel emotionally comfortable with it. ” Hence the modern equation is: logic plus data provides proof, which generates emotional comfort, which leads directly to commitment.

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Stop Scheduling Conference Calls and Finally Commit to Videoconferencing

Harvard Business Review

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal. You and Your Team Series.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Learn Like A Leader

Mark Sanborn

Being a reader won’t necessarily make you a leader, but the leaders they studied were committed to reading as a means of personal and professional enrichment. ” – Will Rogers. An example: the experts in key card computing were displaced by new technology.) Leaders read voraciously. Leaders think for themselves.