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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Recently, we had one of our global leadership development participants ask how we would lead through a no-win scenario. Shaw finally chooses to care for his men and orders them to burn the town. Own the UGLY. Collaborate.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Important Ideas on Change and Transitions: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Brian Sooy of Lead Change Group offers Positive Communication Leads to a Culture of Innovation. ” - George Bernard Shaw. Managing Through Career and Life Changes. Monique Valcour of the Harvard Business Review Blog Network shares If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material.

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Why You Want Mavericks In Your Team (And How To Manage Them)

The Horizons Tracker

George Bernard Shaw famously said that progress only ever comes as a result of unreasonable people bending the world to their will, and yet in an organizational context such mavericks are often pretty unpopular. Managing a team of mavericks. “It’s one of the big reasons why I’m on the team.

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Ready for Change – book review

Rapid BI

This is a change management book aimed at Leaders, managers, Human Resources and organizational change professionals looking to be ready for change. One thing I do first when looking at a management book for the first time is look at the design. Related posts: Change management – approach and models. Robin Martin.

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Subjective Understanding in the Workplace: Embracing Complexity and Fostering Collective Intelligence

Mike Cardus

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow.

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