The Practical Leader

JANUARY 9, 2012

I used to love the sharp, fresh smell of ink and paper as I opened a new book and heard the creak of the spine cracking. Our workshop was at the beautiful Fairmont Resort in the picturesque Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. Books don’t seem to smell that way anymore.

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Books Airlines Open-book Sharpe 49

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Check Your Sense of Humor:  That hair trigger, quick witted, maybe sharp tongued sense of humor that gets you a lot of laughs when you’re out with your friends doesn’t play so well when you’re the senior leader.

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How To Handbook Executive Coaching Case Study 169

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Mark Thompson – New York Times bestselling author, coach, investor and advisor to leaders who are transforming their companies—from Virgin’s Richard Branson and Apple’s Steve Jobs, to Pinterest founder Evan Sharp. Specializes in group coaching for board members.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. Instead of threatening or replacing the design leadership, the CEO effectively offered facilitative "therapists" to moderate participatory design workshops with customers.

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Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

You are welcome to pop along to the Education Space, which provides daily artist-led workshops, education programs, and art-based activities for children too. The environment provides a sharp contrast to the hushed tones of traditional art fairs. It is inclusive, an "art fair for the masses". There is music in the background.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

When Foreman was scheduled to do an all-day workshop at an invitation-only event in Scotland, he arrived only to learn the sponsor had been unable to enlist a single participant. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.” Don’t worry,” the sponsor told Foreman.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Become an expert and keep the saw sharp – always be looking for ways to expand your knowledge, experience and command of your craft. Find work that keeps you sharp and keeps you in a learning mode. Can you be sharp and to the point with your messages to maintain high productivity and efficiency.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

For example, one consumer goods company we work with recently held a full-day strategy workshop with its local Russian team and partners to revamp their assumptions about the Russian customer, understand how demand and preferences are evolving, and figure out what this means for their strategy in terms of pricing, product portfolio, and channel.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough. The result of their expensive workshops is people who are not design experts will start to think that now they get design and can do it by themselves. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

The high-speed scenario workshop involved three steps: 1) Identify key story elements or drivers of the STEM talent “story” to be explored; 2) conceive a plausible future by combining the elements; and 3) explore this future to understand its implications for their businesses.

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Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We then gave a 90-minute workshop, called “Bias Interrupters for Managers,” that differs from most bias trainings in three ways. First, instead of focusing abstractly on the “mind bugs” that drive cognitive bias, the workshop pinpoints precisely how common biases play out in everyday workplace interactions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Consider only the complaints aired by a National Institutes of Health workshop, which convened to deal with the problem of why so many findings from animal studies could not be replicated. If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that academic publishing is what the Internet was once called — the Wild West.

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