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Author Archives: Kerry Stackpole
Process or Vision? The Making of Great Leaders
Can great leaders succeed by focusing on process over vision? Is luck a more important indicator in the success of great companies? Why is it leaders point to their own talents when things go well, but tend to fault economics, … Continue reading
Posted in Executive Development, Governance, Innovation, Leadership
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How Safe Is Your Organization?
In 2011 approximately 275,000 organizations automatically lost their tax-exempt status because they did not file legally required Internal Revenue Service annual reports for three consecutive years. While the IRS believes the vast majority of these organizations are defunct, a review … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Governance, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Volunteers
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Seven Strategies for Growth in Tough Times
Ever worry that you’ve used up all your ideas for recruiting new customers, retaining long-time clients, or filling up the seats at your seminars? Is your business in danger of being like all the rest? Try looking beyond your business for fresh inspiration. … Continue reading
Posted in Brand, Leadership
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Why Quick Thinking Helps You Thrive
If changing an unproductive habit, resolving a professional stumbling block or making mistakes were as simple as being aware of it, we’d all be living perfect lives. For most of us linear living is simply not possible, so we live … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Servant Leadership
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Steve Jobs and His Legacy
Steve Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56. I always found a bit of childish delight in knowing that someone of such extraordinary accomplishment shared by a coincidence of life the exact same birthday as my own. Steve Jobs … Continue reading
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Why Leaders Need To Think Creatively
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution…To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions with a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance…” – Albert Einstein Often thought to be the … Continue reading
How Are Your Poll Numbers?
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of 1,000 adults taken between August 27-31, 2011 found that generally speaking 44% of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing. 51% disapprove. The other 5% aren’t sure. The President’s poll … Continue reading
Inattention and Failure
Failure does not occur in a vacuum. In most instances, a failure is the result of several, perhaps dozens or even hundreds of decisions and choices made along the way. Sometimes those decisions are sufficient to avoid outright failure but … Continue reading
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Why Systems Thinking Makes You Smarter
When it comes to understanding risk and the complexity of change and decision, looking carefully at systems thinking and systems theory can offer a valuable framework for understanding. Working from this framework offers the opportunity to examine your decision-making in … Continue reading
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The Decision Tree
There are challenging moments in every organization that most oftentimes arise surrounding the decision-making process. Do we have enough data? What do our members/customers/clients think? Have we thoroughly tested our idea? What don’t we know? As the old adage goes, … Continue reading
Posted in Executive Development, Leadership
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