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Three Steps to Update Your Leadership Operating System for 2021

Lead Change Blog

With 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to consider upgrading your LOS—Leadership Operating System. Your LOS is a collection of the leadership traits, styles, techniques, and strategies you use to lead and manage people, and it’s imperative to make sure your LOS is up to date if you want to maximize your effectiveness.

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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

Roughly speaking, we have two thinking systems. Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. I think autopilot system and intentional system describe these systems more clearly. The autopilot system corresponds to our emotions and intuitions.

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A Framework for Leadership Action in the VUCA of the Pandemic

Next Level Blog

With that in mind, here’s a simple framework for getting started with VUCA leadership that I came up with last year when I was working with a group of global general managers. Those are the perfect conditions to trigger a fight-or-flight response in the sympathetic nervous system.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

While an immature (developing) prefrontal cortex can be advantageous in leadership qualities like courage and passion , it can provide challenges for leadership skills, critical for a startup, like judgment, integrity, empathy, emotional intelligence, and vision, since these require these executive cognitive functions.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

The Lean CEO : Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence by Jacob Stoller Lean is not just a manufacturing system. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. by Brad Lomenick Brad Lomenick reflects on his leadership journey in H3 Leadership. and Hustle (How will I get there)—he gives us 20 habits to build our leadership on.

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What Happens Now? A Look at 7 Reasons Leaders Stall

Leading Blog

“If we are to generalize, we can say that you advance as a leader, the technical and tactical skill you need—distribution expertise, for example—pale in comparison to the strategic and interpersonal.” They divide leadership capabilities into two groups: complexity skills and sophistication skills. Purpose Stall.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

We make these mistakes not only in work, but also in other life areas, for example in our shopping choices, as revealed by a series of studies done by a shopping comparison website. A heavy equipment manufacturer had a systemic struggle with underestimating project costs. Magazine, and CNBC.

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