ForeignPolicy.com May 30, 2012 By Cara Parks and Joshua E. Keating As summer blockbuster season kicks into high gear, big-budget action movies like The Avengers, Battleship, and Prometheus remind us that there's one thing that unites Americans: Our shared fear of an alien attack. They also remind us that when the invading space fleet arrives, …
6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them by Robyn Benincasa
fastcompany.com / view original Taking a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference between management and leadership. According to writer and consultant Peter Drucker, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Manager and leader are two completely different roles, although we often use the terms interchangeably. Managers are facilitators of their team …
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8 Leadership & Management Lessons On The Starship Enterprise by Elish Bul-godley
view original / tweakyourbiz.com If you are a Star Trek fan, you will know that it’s a franchise borne from Gene Roddenberry’s 1960s vision of an utopian society. It was based on his a coherent set of idealistic principles the background to which; were the emerging political tensions within American Society during a phase of economic expansion, …
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Please, Can We All Just Stop “Innovating”? by BILL TAYLOR
view original /BILL TAYLOR/ blogs.hbr.org There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. The dynamic is always the same, whether the idea in question is reengineering, six-sigma quality, or lean production systems: A genuinely original strategy …
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