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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge? Humble to have the conviction that you don’t know; arrogant to have the conviction that you can develop the knowledge. –

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if Lessons from Gilbert and Sullivan. Lynn Dessert plants some thoughts about leadership development at Elephants at Work on Is Your Organization Teaching the Right Lessons to Build Executive Talent? if No Action is Taken.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. But companies that follow this approach don't develop a capability to create new growth businesses. Gilbert says he has found success from creating a "modular exchange" between the old and new business.

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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Those people have developed skills and mindsets appropriate for yesterday's business, not tomorrow's.