view original / projecttimes.com In the pressure filled world of managing programs and projects, it is a healthy thing to take a break, look at the world around us, and reflect. One major source of reflection can be the approach our beloved pets take to life, and the tasks they look to tackle. Like project leaders, dogs …
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Ever have one of those weeks? No...not one of those...but...one of these...where EVERYTHING goes just right? I am a car guy...and have a 1966 GT350 which I love to work on. Sometimes...every once in a while--you turn the key and she just purrs...the glass packs resonate perfectly, tap the gas a couple times and there …
Governments’ Innovation Barrier by David Paschane
View original / innovationexcellence.com It seems true that what we think about defines what we are capable of. I often hear that athletes, musicians, orators, and many others must see themselves accomplishing their goals in order to perform at their best. What is it that government employees think about, and how does that thinking shape …
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What Does “Professional” Look Like Today? by Allison Fine
view original / blogs.hbr.org According to a Booz & Company/Buddy Media survey released last October of more than 100 large companies, only a third have a senior executive charged with overseeing social media. And just over a third (38%) reported social media as a CEO-level agenda item. There are nearly a billion people on Facebook — just about everyone, …
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‘Understood properly, the Death Star is not worth it.’ by Gregory Koger
View Original / mobile.washingtonpost.com / I wish to address the most important policy question of the millennium: Should we build a Death Star? This debate picked up this year after some Lehigh University students estimated that just the steel for a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the current GDP of the Earth. Kevin Drum suggests that this cost …
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Leadership Encourages Hope by Bret L. Simmons
View Original / bretlsimmons.com The process of leadership flourishes when people assume responsibility for the choice to pursue substantive changes that enhance a shared purpose. This process is potent when its participants have hope – the belief that one knows how perform and is willing to direct and sustain consistent effort to accomplish goals that …
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Removing the Biggest Obstacles to Strategic Thinking by Dave Lavinsky
growthink.com / view original Every business needs a vision - a clear definition of what you'd like your business to become in the future. And, every business needs a set strategy - a definition and plan of how your business is going to reach this vision. All the key elements -- what you sell, to …
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Five Golden Rules for Leadership by Dr. Maynard Brusman
view original / expertclick.com Question for Discussion – Do you have a framework for effective leadership?- In The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By, (Harvard Business Press, 2011) Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman have distilled leadership into five core roles: 1. Strategist—Leaders shape the future. 2. Executor—Leaders make things happen. 3. Talent manager—Leaders engage …
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Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way: By Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times May 6, 2012 Pg. SR13 Dubai, United Arab Emirates--TRAVELING in the post-Awakening Arab world, I have been most struck by how few new leaders have emerged from the huge volcanic political eruption here. By new leaders, I don’t just mean people who win elections, I mean leaders — men and women with …
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Five Ways to Change the System from Within : Experts’ Corner by Richard Tafel
view original / bigthink.com / Richard Tafel Tafel's five steps for changing the system from within: 1. Find a focus. Tafel is fond of referring to the "trim tab, the little rudder on a boat that when you change it can change a whole system. " The first question activists should ask themselves is, what one rule could we change that would …
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