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Leading Through Change: 4 Practical Tips To Help Your Team Embrace a New Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

Here’s the question that prompted this production of #askingforafriend … “Hey Karin, I have a really exciting vision I know will be helpful for my team. In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard.

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Here’s something for all managers to think about… what’s the best way to “help&# your employees? Business leaders and management writers bemoan the lack of execution but there’s no problem getting executives to conduct planning sessions and planning reviews. posted at The People Equation.

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How to Have the Courage to Move into A Brave Place

Frank Sonnenberg Online

The concept can be traced back to Kurt Lewin , a founder of social psychology and of management theory. Lewin and his colleagues created “safe spaces” in which groups of employees and managers could speak honestly about working conditions and productivity goals without fear of retaliation or retribution.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Interestingly, the company's founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Psychoanalyzing the World’s Problems Won’t Help Us Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

A product of anxiety. For the past year these concepts have found their way into newspaper columns, management magazines, corporate boardrooms, and politicians’ speeches. They followed Kurt Lewin’s admonition that the only way to truly understand social systems is to try to change them. Global elites? Human behavior?

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