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Leadership Lessons from the Titanic | Navigator Newsletter #184

Chart Your Course

Ranking is good for command and control, but not good for change and innovation. Our unlearning curve must be greater than our learning curve if we are going to succeed. Rank Has Its Privileges? Ranking people limits their potential. Today, businesses rank and classify people — sometimes unintentionally.

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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

&# What To Do In the absence of either or both of those factors, effective leaders become directive: They tell people what to do, show them how to do it, bring them along the learning curve, and don’t back off until the level of performance required can be achieved without close leadership.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

Change is innovative. One can always learn from the past, dust it off and reapply it. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Learn from successes and three times more from failures. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Benchmarking.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

But not before we learn from it. In a complex world where predictability is impossible and innovation and risk are necessary to survive and thrive, mistakes are not only acceptable, but welcome. We want to accelerate the learning experience, get our people up that learning curve faster. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. This was created by the same folks that brought you iDecide+.

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Criteria for a Critical Decision

CO2

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. This was created by the same folks that brought you iDecide+.

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How to Unleash Breakthrough Thinking in Business

Strategy Driven

In today’s rapidly changing and exceedingly competitive business environment, it is imperative to continually uncover new and innovative ways to stay ahead of the curve and, most importantly, not get left behind. Break the Innovation Chokehold: How to Stop Ruling Like a (Not-So-Benevolent) Dictator and Start Encouraging Big Ideas.

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