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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever to climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America. Rainier and Mt.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A transpersonal leader has travelled a road where these attributes have been developed, alongside a honed appreciation of how to improve judgment and decision making. They gather differing perspectives and then make the decisions, with the best interests of the organization (not their careers) in mind, without needing a full consensus.”

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One Thing to Eliminate From Every Job Description

Let's Grow Leaders

” They reached quick consensus: responsiveness, self-sufficiency, creativity, and candor topped the list (with a beautiful argument about the pros and cons of compliance). ” “I travel a lot so I’m going to count on you to make some important decisions when I’m in the air. Let me explain why.

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Unlocking Creativity: Are These Creativity-Inhibiting Mindsets Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. Travel helps to spark creativity as does creating temporal distance.

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Growing Support Among Patients And Doctors For Telemedicine

The Horizons Tracker

The analysis found that there was no clear consensus with studies showing a mixture of feelings towards video consultations, from both patients and staff. The research explored the experience of both doctors and patients with telemedicine applications in primary care, and included analyses of seven studies conducted since 2010.

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People Want A More Sustainable Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

“This is important for everyone, including leaders and policymakers, to know so we can recognize and raise awareness of the common consensus contrary to popular belief. Something that wasn’t missed was the commute to work, with most people being quite happy to have lost what they regard as unwanted travel.