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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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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. Have you ever thought about how it affects you? ” John R. Sean Glaze presents What Emergency Brake Does Your Team Need To Let Go Of? ”

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource.

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

More HR predictions from Bruce Lewin, with Reviewing Predictions for HR posted at Four Groups’ Blog. Erik Samdahl weighs in with The Top 10 Talent Trends of 2010 posted at Productivity Blog. Alice Snell gives us an encore with Taleo’s Top Ten for 2011 posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions.

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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? Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. Really hard.

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

Harvard Business Review

A product of anxiety. They followed Kurt Lewin’s admonition that the only way to truly understand social systems is to try to change them. At last week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the spirit of the Viennese forefather of psychology infused the Davos air. Global elites? Social divisions? Human behavior?

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