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5 Benefits of the Leadership Journey

Skip Prichard

If, however, you see the market, technological, and demographic realities of our digital age, this journey will prepare you for the rest of the 21 st Century. You get to open up and go on what Peter Senge calls a journey of life-long learning. This journey is not for the faint of heart. It is clearly not for everybody.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Peter Senge has written extensively about the future importance of the learning organization. A task force had to be assigned.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. Being a leader means being in a position of special trust and responsibility.

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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?

Harvard Business Review

When it becomes an escape from reality, rather than a positive change in reality, it becomes much like other forms of escape (movies, gaming, shopping, addictions), and it only temporarily relieves us of our daily pressures. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge.

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We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent

Harvard Business Review

We both look squarely at the same phenomenon — income inequality — and have similar interpretations and I am thrilled at the huge positive impact that he has had on this important issue. The second enhancement that I would suggest to the Piketty narrative is to draw a distinction between the real economy and the capital markets.