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The Inner Development Goals to Reimagine and Reshape Our Future

Coaching Ourselves

This is the realization a concerned group of academics and business people came to prior to founding the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Initiative in 2020.The In 2015, the UN laid out the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an urgent call for action providing a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030.There

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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. BlackBerrys, iPhones, Androids, iPads, and all their digital relatives are transforming our lives—for better and for worse, with profound implications for management. On vacation?

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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. BlackBerrys, iPhones, Androids, iPads, and all their digital relatives are transforming our lives—for better and for worse, with profound implications for management. On vacation?

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

New managers , or those aspiring to manage a team, often are looking for a playbook to help them get started. And, let’s face it, seasoned managers often need a refresher on some of the basics. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. 4 Things Great Managers Do. 2) Energize.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Denise cares about people.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. There seem to be two key reasons.

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25 Great Leadership Development Quotes

Great Leadership By Dan

When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi. Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it." — Henry Mintzberg.