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The Stand-Up Strategists

Leading Blog

The four styles we identified are based on our understanding of humor-driven dynamics in organizations, and build upon the broader world of humor research: Sensory humor involves a leader projecting an energetic, positive, playful vibe, and having a generally humorous outlook. Jumping to conclusions….

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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. buy now.

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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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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.

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How To Stay Relevant & Have Impact

Mills Scofield

If we are going to handle this continually changing the world, we have to adapt ourselves. It is a book even those of us fully satisfied and complete in our current positions should read. We are in an age of immense disruption: industries, societal codes, politics, demographics, you name it.

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2010: When Leadership Hit the Rapids

Harvard Business Review

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.

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

In the CEO Afterlife

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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