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Blueprints Aren’t Just For Buildings

Lead Change Blog

In the process I designed my own system for creating such a vision: I called it a Life Blueprint. A few years into it I got to the point where I was keeping myself busy, but it wasn’t growing, I plateaued. I needed a plan, a blueprint. I created a clear vision for the company I wanted to build and the life I wanted to lead while building it.

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You Can’t Raise Performance with Low Expectations

The Practical Leader

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (which was the basis for “My Fair Lady”) used a similar theme. Search for systemic root causes. In his Harvard Business Review classic “Pygmalion in Management,” J. Developing people into what they could be. Empowering. Partnering. Heroic manager. Facilitative leader.

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I Exam: Negative Nuggets of Pessimism or Positive Points of Optimism?

The Practical Leader

This has turned social media into systems that amplify our worst qualities.” ” George Bernard Shaw. Because bad behavior grabs our attention, it’s what generates the most clicks, and where we click the advertising dollars follow. ” Rutger Bergman, Humankind: A Hopeful History.

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Ready for Change – book review

Rapid BI

Ready for Change: Chapter 1 – Spurring innovation through strong HRM systems – Dr Helen Shipton. Ready for Change: Chapter 5 – Collaborative Decision-making – Prof Duncan Shaw. Ready for Change: Chapter 2 – Establishing Organizational Receptivity for Change – Dr Michael Butler.

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The Lost Art Of Inquiring & Listening

Lead Change Blog

George Bernard Shaw once said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” The bank went through a massive system conversion in 2013, condensing twenty-four types of checking accounts down into five. ” Therein lies the problem.

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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

And within another 15, the nascent automobile industry found itself rocked by yet another innovation: Henry Ford's system of mass production, which obliterated hundreds of competitors who could not produce cars as quickly or cheaply. Within 20 years, the horse and carriage industry would be under assault from the automobile. innovators.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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