Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. Shaw suggests that not all blindspots are bad. We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard. Some may actually protect a leader from doubt.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Ready for Change: Chapter 5 – Collaborative Decision-making – Prof Duncan Shaw. Ready for Change: Chapter 10 – “Marketing is all about T-shirts and posters – Right?” Great read and a powerful resource – I will be re-reading this one again soon. ” – Dr John Rudd.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

But there is a larger lesson here: the power of storytelling to connect, inspire, and stick with us. Quoting George Bernard Shaw, Roberts writes, “The problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” You're not going glean a lot of useful career tips out of Hamlet (promoted too soon? how to cope!) Raised in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

But there is a larger lesson here: the power of storytelling to connect, inspire, and stick with us. Quoting George Bernard Shaw, Roberts writes, “The problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” You're not going glean a lot of useful career tips out of Hamlet (promoted too soon? how to cope!) Raised in the U.S.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Use Data and Analytics : Ask for and use the power of data and analytics to be a piece of decision-making. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Shaw, P., & Mowles, C. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R. Griffin, D., The Organization of Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on. Such market dynamics behave like vortices — a whirlwind in the air, or a whirlpool in water. “Even a vortex is a vortex in something,” noted George Bernard Shaw.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? My former colleagues Sumantra Ghoshal and Peter Moran wrote a landmark paper arguing that, unlike markets, firms deliberately take resources away from their short-term best use, in order to give themselves the chance to create even more value over the long term.

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