You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2012

For me, it begs the question: What must we do to change the record… to make sure upcoming generations of organizational leaders have the opportunity to think differently about the work of leadership and management long before they even get their first job? In what way can I champion a positive and collaborative leadership model?

Leadership 76

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The very debate is a positive. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. The leadership team had done their best to generate solutions to our situation. Then they were asked to argue the ideas and each table come up with their best ideas.

Brainstorming 150

Brainstorming Open-book Project Idea Generation 150

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). Our Kapable team has driven positive change to make our internal policies and workplace more inclusive. The HR Digest: Has it been particularly easy or difficult to advance diversity for leadership roles?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

It takes courage for your team members to bring up a new idea or a fresh perspective. By making sure that you are open to new ideas, and that you suspend judgment during the idea generation phase, you’ll be encouraging people to think about things a little differently. Yellow Hat: Use a positive perspective.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I love to encourage big dreams and I want to be a catalyst for idea generation and innovative thought. In spite of that tendency in me to act quickly, I have learned one principle of leadership by personal experience. Why are positive emotions anymore trustworthy? I’ve been a church planter and a church revitalizer.

Idea Generation 39

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

Venture Capitalist 78

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

Venture Capitalist 61

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 61

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play. Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

Venture Capitalist 56

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The reality is change spurs momentum, so if you want to create some excitement around you, get a variety of people in a room and let the ideas flow freely. If you are in a stuck or stale position – and want to see new growth – one recommendation I’d give is to organize a session of ideation.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. Another problem that makes people skills hard to acquire is that the learning isn’t well supported by books, videos and courses. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Once you are in your “Creative at Work” position, start coming up with ideas.

Creativity 50

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. They convened the program’s top 75 performers — many still fresh out of business school — for a three-day stint of idea generation and problem solving.

Development 12

Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership. To find out, we conducted a study examining over 300 leaders to identify the actions that define strategic leadership.

Strategy 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

By connecting the unconnected — 360 leadership assessments and help wanted ads — Symanowitz forged an online business that sprouted in Africa and now grows globally. Generating new business ideas that make a positive financial impact takes time. Yet compared to innovators, they just don't do it as often.

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How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Though many organizations already use assessment for hiring , leadership development , team-building , and executive coaching , it has not been extended much to hiring and building better innovation teams. Why does this even matter?

Creativity 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

You have to take your idea public, which means entering the "ideaplex" — that glamorous, treacherous place where videos go viral, TED stardom beckons, a thousand new authors publish each day, and think shops like IDEO make a business of idea generation. Communication Informal leadership Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

Health Care 10

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Even small changes in your everyday routine can have a positive impact on your creative output – for instance, taking a different route to work everyday, or taking on new hobbies and activities. The reason why incubators are so effective is that they successfully combine many of these techniques (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

People in the organization who do things below the top nine priorities have vastly different perceptions of the organization, its mission, their role and the parts to be played by others: Some jockey for position… to make their priority seem to advance higher. Creative new ideas generated. Information learned.

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Creative new ideas generated. Corrective action should be discussed in positive and pro-active terms. He conducts company evaluations, creates the big ideas and anchors the enterprise to its next tier. Show returns or savings on previous appropriations.

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