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Dealing with Incivility and Promoting Respect at Work

Lead Change Blog

If we calm our emotions when we overreact and try to think rationally, we strengthen the mature brain, allowing us to respond wisely and with respect. Listen in as Ralph explains how incivility impacts our brain chemistry and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform at work.

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Tips On Honing A Culture Of Winning Through Focus by Martin Zwilling

In the CEO Afterlife

For larger and mature companies, the hard part seems to be giving up the familiar space that isn’t working so well anymore, so that you can focus on a new segment or opportunity. This culture must be maintained by every company at every stage of maturity. Innovation-driven mindset and actions. Don’t wait for a crisis.

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Let's be blunt.

Coaching Tip

In "UNLASHING THE INNOVATORS" , author Jim Stengel offers valuable insight from the front lines of many Fortune 500's biggest corporations. Source: Jim Stengel: Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups . The truth is, older brands need to acknowledge that the world has changed.

Maturity 101
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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

An organization that is nimble has the modernized and matured their practices related to people, processes, technologies, ecosystems, and strategy such that they can seize opportunities as they present themselves and stave off issues that present themselves more readily, as each will be presented more quickly than in the past.

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. But once this is understood, innovation can become a personal leadership skill as well as a corporate one. Dana Theus talks playtime, the boredom that precedes the brilliance, and the risk of looking foolish in Why Is Leading Innovation So Hard?

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value. I Think Not.

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

At a time when creativity and innovation are at a premium, good ideas are actually more threatening than ever. Bobb Biehl once said that a sign of maturity is putting process between opportunity and response. Try these 16 tips. Are good ideas ruining the effectiveness of your team or organization? Yes, you read that correctly.