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June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Welcome to the June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival!

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Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Some of it will be exciting: Their people have the motivation and talent to delight patients. What about solutions?

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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People Are Not Cogs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus like Don Tapscott , Tammy Erickson , John Hagel , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Gary Hamel , and more recently, Umair Haque , have all written about how our new economy is about producing ideas, experiences, and meaning. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age. It's feeling motivated.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They use the information acquired through reading in order to inspire, motivate, and lead those around them. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. The question is not if you should be reading, but rather what should you be reading?

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Change Your Employees' Minds, Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

In the work underlying Beyond Performance , we found a technique we call 'laddering' that even the most hard-nosed business operators can feel comfortable with; the reason is that it closely resembles the "five whys" approach lean organizations use to get to the root causes of performance problems. Because it overheated," comes the reply.

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