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Leading with Experiential Intelligence with Soren Kaplan

Let's Grow Leaders

Learn how to uncover your hidden assets, remove invisible barriers limiting peak performance, and amplify strengths to achieve breakthroughs for yourself, your team, and your organization. 27:27 – A practical application for XQ is in hiring and building teams. Examining them and making choices about them is key.

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Learning the Wrong Lesson

Leading Blog

In What You''re Really Meant to Do , Robert Kaplan tells the story of a television producer that got passed over for a promotion. All this talk about being a team player and helping others sounds nice, but it''s not how people get ahead." At that point, everything you do is operating from a place of weakness and not your strengths.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” β€” Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. β€œIn You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard in 1992. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. Saul urges us to also create a shared operating model on HOW value will be delivered. 1] Kaplan, Saul.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. The Solo Flier. I’ve got this.” Version 1.0.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.