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How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Keep thinking about it as we travel back to 1845. The idea was deemed far too risky, and most engineers wrote it off as an unsafe proposal. This sparked a dream in Merritt – he envisioned a similar bridge across the Niagara River, capable of facilitating rail travel and enhancing trade with the rapidly growing US network.

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Are You Assuming Change?

Lead Change Blog

People will view your proposal through their lens, and that will bring different opinions and perspectives. Also, do not assume that lack of proper change implementation is about always about implacable resistance to the proposed change, or even a significant rejection of the values embodies in the change proposal.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. Perhaps they started careers in a very different environment, for example, a well-traveled photojournalist or even a failed technology entrepreneur. .

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8 Most Frequent Change Needs of Any Organization

Lead Change Blog

However, a clear vision, mission, and aligned values serve some admirable purposes, not least enabling others to see your proposed ‘direction of travel.’. Often, if they have a strategic focus, it resides in the minds of the principal actors in the business, rarely shared and certainly not captured anywhere in a document.

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14 Years In, What I’ve Learned.

Rich Gee Group

I put in the late hours and traveled across the globe. It’s your job to assess, propose a solution, and take action. Buckle your seatbelts. It’s frequently harder than corporate, but much more fulfilling. I was in corporate for 20 years and busted my butt for every boss I had. When you have your own business, s**t happens.

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Making Lockdowns Smarter For The Next Pandemic

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from the University of Chicago proposes a new method for implementing similar lockdowns that would result in fewer infections while also limiting the economic hit society would have to take. The various lockdown measures introduced to try and slow the spread of Covid-19 relied heavily on their ability to restrict our movements.

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Be a Champion for Difference

Lead Change Blog

Instead of addressing the merits of what the other was proposing, Liz and Hunter fought over whose approach was right and whose was wrong. Liz wanted to travel back roads. Alonzo asked them what did it matter what roads they traveled as long as they reached their destination. Liz wanted to work out all the details in advance.

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