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Micro-Motivation: A Powerful Technique to Inspire Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Even when people have the skills, if they don’t feel confident and excited about their ability to be successful in the new arena, they will be reluctant to try. Scaffold people with lots of extra attention, skill building, fun, recognition, and celebration. Pick one or two tangible skills to work on.

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Strategic, Simple, and Successful Guide to Managing Change for Leaders

Lead from Within

Leading change requires new mindsets, skills, and techniques. Change agents, peer leaders and early adopters, communicate, listen, and demonstrate desired behaviors. It’s more than managing budgets or metrics; the key lies in understanding and managing the people side of change.

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6 Communication Lessons from Social Media for 21st-Century Leaders

Engaging Leader

I was not one of social media’s early adopters. Aspendale Blog Communication skills Feedback Social media Tactics Technology' I finally got on Facebook in 2009, roughly the same time as your grandmother. Not until 2011. All those hashtags and short URLs confused me.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

Only by fundamentally changing the way the organization works—through flattening hierarchies, speeding up decision making, helping employees develop needed skills, and successfully understanding both opportunities and threats in the environment—can an organization truly adapt to a digital world. What Skills Do Digital Leaders Need?

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

“Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.” technologies.”

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.