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Tim Duncan and The Importance of Servant Leadership

Your Voice of Encouragement

Today I''m featuring a guest blog post by Quinn McDowell, a colleague whose passion for developing strong leaders, parents and young people matches my own. The truly indispensable leaders on any team are the ones that give away their power, influence, and personal prestige for the good of the team. 1 pick in the NBA Draft.

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3 Signs of a Healthy Team

Building Personal Strength

In this guest post, some insights from Quinn McDowell, a writer who knows a lot about teams. Teams are a complex web of relationships that must be nurtured and developed. The best teams learn to insulate themselves against the outside influences that would seek to destroy their chemistry and pull them apart.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. 2) What is it that the world really needs?

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. 2) What is it that the world really needs?

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A Framework of Organizational Tensions

Leading Blog

Robert Quinn has produced a valuable tool for understanding this concept in his book The Positive Organization. A person who seeks a predictable, smooth running organization often focuses on disruptions and disruptive influences; the natural inclination is to fix those disruptive problems. It’s not about finding balance.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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