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Leadership is Language

Leading Blog

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. Doing something doesn’t mean you aren’t thinking, but the brain operates much more automatically.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

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7 Deadly Mistakes That Even Great Leaders Make

Lead from Within

It’s a sad truth of our time that the state of leadership is not well regarded. Here are some of the most harmful leadership mistakes you may be making: A sense of omnipotence. In today’s world, you have to rely on consensus and shared ownership rather than any individual point of view—even your own. The Leadership Gap.

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A Year-End Note Of Inspiration To Keep Pushing Ahead

Tanveer Naseer

In the case of 2016, there seems to be a common consensus that this was a particularly bad year which many are glad to see come to an end. It’s in these moments where our leadership is needed most – not simply to help our employees with managing their feelings of resignation, but to encourage them to find the path for what to do next.

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

We described what we meant by that in the consensus report Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow , and in more detail in a collection of readings that introduces the science. Assessing that uncertainty requires making predictions precise enough to be evaluated in the light of reality.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. But this is not cause for alarm.

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More than One Way to Organize a Business

Thin Difference

Most business executives want order, although chaos and uncertainty appear often. Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Leadership and team development challenges still exist.