Chris Brady

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Mediocrity is worshipped, decadence masquerades as creativity, and lazy is the new cool. Make excellence the cornerstone of the life you are constructing. "Had some good breaks," say others. "Yup, knew the right people." " "Plus, he was at the right place at the right time. Raise your standards.

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Letter Blog Travel Definition 122

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

While management focuses on control, organization, and supervision, leadership is the ability to inspire, motivate, and influence to empower others to create organizational success. Great leaders like to build capacity within a company to encourage others to reach their potential and be creative.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? What might a house-for-the-poor look like? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. This leadership imperative goes far beyond being collaborative and "playing nicely" with peers.

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Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy. All rights reserved.

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Team Building Construction Learning-by-Doing Training 104

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Be creative. “Negotiation isn’t about conceding, it’s about being creative,” Weiss adds. “Be mindful about what draws other people out in a constructive way,” says Wheeler. You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume. Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The code not only works, other coders — perhaps less talented — can safely and creatively build on it, with it and for it. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

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Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 14

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. A Brewing Situation for Grassroots Leadership through Social Power. The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. Canada border crossing.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies.

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