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By Mike Brown Suppose you are part of your organization’s management team. The organization is trying to encourage an employee idea program so employees will come up with possibilities to improve your prospects, processes, and products. You really want to get employees involved generating and sharing ideas, but nothing is happening. That may be because …
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Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since …
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By Michael Nichols There are many good people mired in mediocrity and comfort. They spend much of life defending why they do what they do, selling what they’ve always sold, and protecting their organizations from being devoured by the forces of the new. Let’s face it – maintaining the status quo has to be exhausting. …
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Leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias according to The Law of Intuition; the 8th Law of John C. Maxwell’s 21 irrefutable Laws of Leadership. According to Maxwell the Law of Intuition separates great leaders from good ones. Great leaders use intuition to couple instinct with intangible factors like morale, momentum and relationship dynamics to read “what’s happening” …
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Edited by Shaun Usher Some time in the 1480s (experts tend to agree with 1483/84, at which point he was approximately 32-years-old) Leonardo da Vinci applied for a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza — then de facto ruler of Milan but not officially its Duke for another few years. Da Vinci did so …
by ALICE KORNGOLD You might learn a great deal in school, but it’s doubtful that you’ll actually develop as a leader by reading a book or taking a course. The military is right about experiential development: People grow and become leaders by making a commitment to a cause, and having personal responsibility and accountability. For those of …
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Maxwellian thought combined with DeMarco banter: Bud Wilkinson states, "If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team." Some sports teams seem to embrace an everyone-for-themselves mind set. Not to call out my beloved 49ers here--but prior to this last …
By BRYAN CHAFFIN Writing for the April edition of the Harvard Business Review, biographer Walter Isaacson has penned a piece looking at the “real leadership lessons” of Steve Jobs. Mr. Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs, used the 6,824 word essay to try and boil down that biography to the most essential and salient aspects …
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by Alan Sockwell and Brad Westveld An interesting pattern begins to emerge when you look at which issues leaders seem to struggle with clearly identifying as areas of weakness or risk within their organization. Independent of culture, geography or industry, the same areas or threats arise again and again. Consider them Blind Spots – those …
Charisma is not a substitute for genuine leadership. These five steps can help you develop, and blend, the two. Leadership charisma and personal charisma are very different things. They both involve the same kinds of personal attributes--the ability to project confidence, the capacity to engage others, skill in articulating ideas, vision, and goals—which may explain …
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