by Mike Myatt Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leader Beware – ignorant bliss, no matter how enjoyable, is still ignorant. If you’re in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you’re either very naïve or very arrogant. All leaders have blind spots – the question is what are they doing about them? The reality …
12 Most Inescapable Leadership Teachings by David M. Dye
Leadership is a journey where the first steps are often the most difficult. Throughout that journey you learn through your own experiences and the lessons of others. However, those early lessons are often the most critical. These 12 most inescapable leadership teachings are a combination of both types of learning: wisdom gained from early mentors …
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Leadership, Culture or Strategy – Which one wins?
by Susan Radojevic, theleadershiphub.com Since the year 2000, we have been in what experts are now calling “the Creativity Age”, where technology, information and ease of global connections are accelerating the creation of new ideas at a record pace. Change like this can only mean one thing – opportunity! To seize this opportunity and gain …
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Disruptive Thinkers: The PME Debate Needs More Informed Thinkers
by Mike Mazarr LT Benjamin Kohlmann’s piece in SWJ (“The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers”) is a fascinating and provocative essay. It’s partly about the need for radical thinkers to disrupt military and defense bureaucracies—but much of the commentary targets professional military education (PME), and these parts of the essay share many of the characteristics …
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12 Things Highly Productive People Do Differently
by Marc and Angel Hack Life: http://www.marcandangel.com “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee Being highly productive is not an innate talent; it’s simply a matter of organizing your life so that you can efficiently get the right things done. So, what behaviors define highly productive …
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Why You Won’t Get Breakthrough Innovation by Being Nice by Simon Rucker
If you want to create a really transformational innovation, you'd better be in an organization that's designed to support, not merely tolerate, someone as challenging as Steve Jobs. Otherwise forget it. "No Simon," I know many of you are thinking, "that's not how it works these days: Innovation is all about flat structures, empathy, co-creation..." — you …
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Disruptive Thinkers: The Disruptive Poets Society by Grant Martin
How The Dead Poets Society Advocated Disruptive Thinkers, Why DoD Shouldn't Encourage More Disruptive Thinkers, and 10 Principles for Those That do Think Disruptively Dead Poets Society In the movie Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams plays a private school English teacher who attempts to encourage his students to think for themselves. He encourages them with …
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Vision? We don’t need no stinkin’ vision…
“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” — David Gergen Vision, Goals, Strategy are all things I am passionate about...pretty much a strategy "wonk." I am very aware there are leaders that find these things to be …
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4 Secrets of Great Critical Thinkers by Paul J. H. Schoemaker
The best problem solvers see a complex problem through multiple lenses. Here's how to become a better strategic thinker and leader yourself. In 2009, J D Wetherspoon, a chain of more than 800 pubs in the UK, was facing declining sales. Demand for beer had been down for five years. In addition, pricing pressure from …
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12 Ways to Know If You Are a Leader by Michael Hyatt
You’ve heard it at conferences. You’ve read it in books. Everyone is a leader. Do you believe this? I don’t. While everyone has the potential to be a leader, most never take up the mantle. They are content to let others take the risk and do the work. Several years ago, I read a post by Tony Morgan called …
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