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Does Your Culture Engine Need a Tune-Up?

Next Level Blog

In his new book, The Culture Engine, veteran leadership consultant Chris Edmonds makes the very valid point that many leaders focus far more on what their organizations do than how they actually do it. General Leadership Next Level Podcast audio Chris Edmonds podcast The Culture Engine'

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Skip Prichard

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable. Not only was the U.S. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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Helicopter Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Stephen Klemich : It is often asked, what is the difference between Leadership and Management? For over 30 years we have always referred to Leadership as being able to rise above the situation, be objective, strategic and find time to contemplate the culture, people and one’s leadership impact.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership). Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. But he didn’t.

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Empathy-Driven Leadership: How to Be Compassionately Competitive in a For-Profit World

Leading Blog

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.