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Leading Thoughts for December 22, 2022

Leading Blog

Developing your Lookout skills over time will create the lasting change you want, in your leadership and in your life.”. Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

Assess : Skill-set requirements. Forecast demand for skills and understand skill “supply” dynamics, and then identify how any gaps will be closed. Define the portfolio of initiatives to deliver on your strategic objectives and meet your skill requirements; then sequence your actions and reallocate resources accordingly.

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4 Habits Of Innovators

The Horizons Tracker

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age. Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times.

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Cutting Down On Bureaucracy And Unleashing Our Human Spirit At Work

The Horizons Tracker

London Business School’s Gary Hamel and Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini have been fighting the good fight against bureaucracy for many years now, and they continue to wage war on it in their latest book, Humanocracy, in which they make a data-driven argument for uprooting bureaucracy and unleashing the human spirit at work.

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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

In their latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel and his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini, outline seven steps leaders can take to better respond to crises such as this one. Invest in skills. Tackle the climate of fear. Co-create strategies.

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What Matters Now

Leading Blog

What Matters Now by Gary Hamel is probably one of the most important books you could read this year. It is, as Hamel describes it, “a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings.” By working systematically to surface these invisible dogmas, you can turn reactionaries into rebels. •

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

And sure enough, bright folks such as Gary Hamel, C. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. One of my mentors was brilliantly creative, the other skillfully strategic. A client in need of innovation?

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