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Thank You For Your Service!

Lead Change Blog

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Author information Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable, adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2015

Leading Blog

Unthinkable : The Culture and Politics of Getting Innovation Wrong by Tom Hopkins. Leading Continuous Change : Navigating Churn in the Real World by Bill Pasmore. Humans Are Underrated : What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin. Rising Strong by. Brené Brown.

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Burn the Business Plan

Leading Blog

Most important, they learned the culture of business, how big companies did or did not do a good job of serving their customers, and their customers’ continuously changing needs. When you begin everything changes. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. Building a company takes time. The reason?

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3 Small Steps for a CEO, One Giant Leap for Leadership

LDRLB

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

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These Powerful Traits Can Make You into a Successful Leader

Lead from Within

Being a visionary means understanding that continuous change is occurring all around you, so what worked in the past may not work now. Supplying innovation. Being a visionary. Exceptional leaders have the ability to look into the future and create a vision that will benefit their organization. Exemplifying humility.

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7 Ways we can Stretch Ourselves as Leaders

Ron Edmondson

A rapidly changing work culture takes creative, innovative and adaptable leaders. Leaders must learn to stretch ourselves as the demands upon us continually change. It’s mandatory just to keep up with the pace of change. It seems we are always learning something new. It’s not an option these days.

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The Stand-Up Strategists

Leading Blog

These outcomes are even more vital during times of continuous change - two of the most common reasons that employees resist change are lack of sufficient information and a fear of the unknown. Jumping to conclusions….