Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Secrets of Highly Successful Young Entrepreneurs by Deborah Lynn Blumberg via @StanfordGSB. How to hold employees accountable without micromanaging them by Claire Lew @KnowYourTeamHQ. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. 3 hallmarks of effective leadership communication. Hardy and Dan Sullivan. Words matter.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Author/speaker Jason Seiden just posted a “best of the web&# collection of articles on leadership that includes the post I recently wrote about the CEO of Starbucks. posted at Team Building & Leadership Blog: Create-Learning. Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. at Great Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. Yet, it has been our experience that when facing new situations, the best managers create leadership circles, or groups of peers from across the firm, to gain more perspective about problems and solutions. The best time to innovate is all the time.”

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. What I’ve discovered is again and again, is it’s actually the underlying leadership style inherent in the business that has the biggest impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review. Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth.

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