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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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These Powerful Traits Can Make You into a Successful Leader

Lead from Within

Here are the most powerful top traits that can make you be the most successful leader you can be: Self-management. One of the most important traits of successful leadership is self-management. Be aware of your strengths, but also learn how to manage and leverage your weaknesses. Supplying innovation. Being a visionary.

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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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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. Jamie Anderson is Professor of Strategic Management at Antwerp Management School, and Visiting Professor at INSEAD.

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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. We are in a life-changing profession. It’s not an option these days.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. In an organizational setting this applies equally, where people empower themselves through creativity, innovation and superior customer service.”. Jennifer V.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.