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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Learn how to manage the complexities of running a fast-growth firm.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Dunning-Kruger Effect Incompetent leaders overestimate their ability, not recognizing their lack of skill. His teaches leaders and teams how to be extraordinary. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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Pig Wings: Creating Demand in a New Category

Harvard Business Review

So why not combine those two loves and create an innovative new type of food: Pig wings? He and his team are in the midst of transforming Farmland Foods from a supply/commodity company into a demand-driven innovator. And yet when marketing the innovation to consumers, Farmland is continually met with skepticism.

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0507 | Denise Brosseau: Full Transcript

LDRLB

And really, how do you leave a legacy, so for a lot of my older clients and folks that I work with that have been in their world for a long time, it’s what are they going to leave behind? Here’s one of my way to get here, but let’s all focus in on how to do that. It’s called, How to be a Power Connector.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.