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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

From distorting the past to limiting creativity to reducing happiness, experience can cause misperceptions and then reinforce them without our awareness. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. But what makes that possible? Where are we going? Do you see me?

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Thank You for Being Late

Leading Blog

Creativity becomes, in part, about asking the best questions. You have to know more, you have to update what you know more often, and you have to do more creative things with it. ☙ You can’t just show up. You need a plan to succeed. Self-motivation is now so much more important.

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July 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Shelley shares: “ We talk a lot about the need to gather information, discuss, debate and gain consensus. Creativity/Inspiration. Getting your employees to go beyond the obvious and adapt to being resilient in the work they perform requires them to be more creative and innovative in how they manage stress and frustration.

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Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents

Strategy Driven

and miss the unspoken metamessages, values, history, rules, and consensus issues that make up our CPs status quo. Imagine being able to enter every conversation and have it reach its most ethical, financial, and creative possibility. It’s not our fault: we fail because our conventional skills are focused on: content push.

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Morning Advantage: Inside the Messy, Daunting, and Thoroughly Confusing Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Ethics aside, Auld’s Craigslist experiment is worth reading. The consensus, no surprise, is networking. To Boost Creativity, Go Abroad (Pacific and Standard). Within 24 hours, his fears were realized. He received over 600 replies. BONUS BITS:: Where Are They Now? 25 People at the Heart of the Financial Crisis (Guardian).

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The Four Regions of the Thinking Brain Made Simple - Part One

Building Personal Strength

This is the part of the brain that facilitates critical judgment, intuition, creativity, logic, decision-making, planning and organizing. The brains of other mammals may be similar to the human brain, but they have important differences, and there are ethical limitations to studying animal brains.

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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business Review

Failure to meet them could be interpreted as having a poor work ethic or being incompetent. The demo didn’t officially start until after 2:15 PM, and unlike their Flemish counterparts, the French delegation wasn’t concerned with time efficiencies of the equipment so much as its ability to enable team synergies and creativity.