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Leadership Storytelling

Lead Change Blog

When I was a little boy and my grandmother was still alive, we would travel to Philadelphia every Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with her. Artificial intelligence researcher Roger Schank says that we think people are wise when they’re able to do that. After dinner, my uncles would go to the front room. It’s a skill you can learn.

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Spotting Where Innovations Are In The Diffusion Lifecycle

The Horizons Tracker

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. It’s a process that remains largely observed to this day and being able to spot where an innovation is on the lifecycle is pretty valuable.

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Drive 65 and Succeed with Team Process Goals

Great Results Team Building

Many Thanks to Mike Rogers for sharing it with his audience. It is true that “If you want to go fast, go alone – if you want to go far, travel with a TEAM.” Read the entire article to learn about vision, process goals, and why your team should Drive 65 by clicking HERE. and also for including FISTITUDE in his recommended books !).

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Remote Leadership Development

Lead Change Blog

And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development. Traditionally developing leaders is a mentoring activity.

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Why Are You Always Late?

Coaching Tip

A study published in 2012 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that prompting people to mentally picture a task from the perspective of an outside observer caused them to make more realistic predictions about how long the tasks might take, said Dr. Roger Buehler, the lead author of the study.

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Communicating with customers

Lead on Purpose

Travel budgets are typically flush with cash, optimism abounds and your desire to discuss company direction is high. A lot of suppliers are spending time internally focused, curtailing travel expenses. However, in difficult times one of the first things to drop off in many companies is customer interaction.

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Mini Saga #89 – Footprints

Rajesh Setty

The road less traveled is lonely. Finally Roger’s startup was showing some promise. Roger was tired – no salary or vacation for months and mostly no weekends. Roger smiled, “But the chance to leave your footprints somewhere – before anyone else is priceless ”. Mini Saga #89 – Footprints. Four years.

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