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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Perception Gap Is?

Lead Change Blog

Simon Sinek refers to this type of leadership as being finite. Leaders who are more people centric and who recognize that business is a long term game that can only be “won” if we have the right team in place to serve all our stakeholders. Committed: Committed leaders are in it for the long term, and focused on the future.

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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

It leads to short-term thinking. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Is Social Accountability Changing Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets. Rather, business leaders need to take a longer term approach, which means no longer being driven by the 90-day reporting cycles of the world’s stock markets. In the short term, that is,” he is quoted as saying.

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Homelessness Interventions Needed For Older People

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Simon Fraser University highlights how better support is desperately needed for this vulnerable group. The research builds on a pilot study that examined the impact of interventions targeted at people over 50 in a number of Canadian cities that have experienced a significant rise in homelessness among older people.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP is a broad term, and it applies to those who you might not have a positive perception of — including mobsters. He is a globally recognized microeconomist and author of seven books and has taught organizational economics, accounting, and finance at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School for more than forty years.

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5 Leadership Lessons for Independence Day

Skip Prichard

” — Simon Sinek 3. Resilience and perseverance are key to overcoming challenges and achieving long-term success. By communicating a compelling vision and rallying our teams around it, we create a sense of purpose that propels us towards greatness. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.