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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Global trade had driven down agricultural prices, eroding the traditional sources of wealth for the great estates and gradually starving the aristocracy of income. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. In Downton Abbey, resistance to change nearly cost the Grantham family their estate.

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The Vision Code: A Guide to Creating a Compelling Vision

Skip Prichard

That’s where Oleg Konovalov, business educator, consultant, coach, and a top global thinker on leadership wants to help. We have to remember that we live in a world now where consensus increasingly has become very important for everyone to secure. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus.

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Collaborative Decision Making for Successful Implementations

Strategy Driven

Without: * real collaboration * gathering data from the best set of sources * consensus and buy-in procedures in place * understanding the full impact from a proposed decision * front-loading for change management (to avoid failed implementations). What sort of success is possible when one source is driving change and.

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

Strategy Driven

How do you manage your CP’s biases, triggers, filters, and assumptions to expand choice and possibility, and avoid unconscious resistance, fallout, and restricted results? Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? I’ve trained it to 100,000 sales people, coaches, leaders, and negotiators globally.

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Get the Yes: Winning Funding, RFPs, and Grants

Strategy Driven

A global consulting client received an RFP from a Fortune 50 company – the company historically used Company X as their consulting provider. Groups sending out RPS or funding sources seeking clients to back don't know all the consensus or implementation issues that will occur during the implementation. Case Study. Here's a real story.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, the inverse is true if you want to motivate a team that is increasingly mobile, global and socially driven. The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them.

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. often fall on deaf ears.

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