Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 19, 2018

You might see Tom and know he would make a great servant leader. Be innovative: The bike couriers chose to play a risky game where one person is a “fox” who wears a fox tail and rides a bike with a can of paint dripping a trail and a group of bikers is hunting the fox. What would that innovation look like?

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Leadership Cost Innovation Learning-by-Doing 187

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

True leadership starts with the leader working on herself first and serving her team, not the other way around. It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. So what are the top leadership competencies the best leaders exemplify?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 8, 2012

Book Clubs. Encourage book clubs – internal and external. Find the best book on the topic and start a group to read it together and discuss implications for your company. Offer them a forum such as casual lunch presentations, open to the group, that they can present these ideas. What change do you want to make?

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Organization Conference Open-book Consultative 184

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Guess I’d add CURIOSITY – if I were to add to this cool list:-) Curiosity’s the gift of staying alive mentally – looking for nuances that could hold innovation possibilities – the lifeline that prevents us from defaulting to ruts – the trigger that stirs up more brainpower when we could be bored.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Organizational Development Book. By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their people, leaders are making it more difficult to achieve their own desired outcomes. There are a number of ways to do this, as I outline in my new book Alive at Work. Other employee innovation ideas were larger.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Conversing in an open way that allows all options and possibilities to unfold. Creativity and innovation depend on it! Before I read the book I think I classified myself as a fairly trusting person. Mary Jo — this would make an awesome book! I have not read the book you mention, but have heard its a really good one.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2019

He knew that as long as people were worried about their jobs, they wouldn’t be bringing their best selves to work, and they almost certainly wouldn’t be developing innovative solutions that would add value for their customers. And, as a result, people went back to work, they felt safe, and they did, in fact, innovate.

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Long-term Short-term Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 82

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month. Booking this “up-date” meeting too often can be a burden and if you let too much time pass in between things fall between the cracks. As a result a lot of idea sharing and thus opportunity for innovations was potentially lost.

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