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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Prahalad wrote about in one of their books. Sometimes, you’ll see success. And, if they’re successful, their success brings something new to your organization. When a team member takes a risk, reward them. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Most importantly, the implications and action steps became an ‘easy sell’ to my team. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. These tips can't guarantee ultimate design success.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform. Gary Hamel and C.K.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform. Gary Hamel and C.K.