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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The project launched with ambiguous purpose leaves the project manager free to interpret results to his advantage. The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

The first three styles generally generate positive emotions, while the fourth is more typically associated with negative emotions and therefore has the most limited application with regard to enabling cognitive flexibility: Sense of Fun involves a leader projecting an energetic, positive, playful vibe, and having a generally humorous outlook.

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Managing for the Unexpected –Understanding Emergence Theory In Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Quite the opposite, in fact, it proposes that we possess the optimum combination of elements to make our enterprise stand out within the markets in which we compete. ü Projects aimed at reengineering selected business processes will be necessary to ensure that “best practices” and other quality standards are designed into new processes.

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Open Spaces, Open Minds

LDRLB

In the typical company, project teams spend very little time together. People need the freedom to leave the office to find our own places in coffee shops and street markets. Innovation innovation mcKeown open spaces organizational behavior' They tend to spend that time in poorly designed rooms. Tables divide individuals.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. But I have been doing people and project management for years. And LeaderLab at [link].

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Win Loss Analysis: A Strategic Imperative | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

This common organizational behavior ultimately corrupts decision making as senior managers make decisions based on inaccurate information derived from prospects who were not fully candid and salespeople who are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased information.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers. This may happen in two ways.