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Category Archives: Change
How 50 Wise Women Are Changing Our World
The Washington Post delivered a wonderful and informative Christmas gift to its readers–an illuminating story about the growing array of talented women in leadership–and the writer and force behind the success of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women conference, Pattie Sellars. … Continue reading
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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
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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 Accidental Classroom
Creating an innovation pathway to deliver the future is about answering this question and others more fully and with fresh zeal. Continue reading
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Winning Hearts Through Enchantment
Bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki sent me his new book Enchantment the other day. I’ve just started my read and will gladly share my thoughts with you as we go along. As leaders we are constantly under pressure to move … Continue reading
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40 Seconds To Failure…or Is It Success?
Innovation is defined as the introduction of something new—a new idea, method or device. The Economist Magazine playing off an ancient joke asked, “How long does it take to change a light bulb?” The answer was 136 years—the time it … Continue reading
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The Future. Until It Isn’t.
Part of the opportunity that underlies the work of leaders is the opportunity to observe, consider and extrapolate from history, experience and current events just what the future might look like. Continue reading
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That Angry Moment.
American voters had their angry moment this week. They turned the U.S. House of Representatives over to the Republican Party. It was an object lesson in the failure of leadership. This was not a partisan moment. It was a moment of supreme despair and frustration. If the blameworthy Republicans drove the car into the ditch—as President Obama said so often on the campaign trail—it became his administration’s failure to get it out of the ditch and back on the road to jobs and a renewed sense of optimism that doomed Democrats in the mid-term elections. Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, democrats, elections, Eugene Robinson, House of Representatives, Leadership, midterm, Obama, republicans, trust, US Congress, Washington Post
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Misreading Paper and Print
Sometimes in the rush of change people misread what they are seeing. If there’s a mantra for the 21st Century it should be “take a closer look”. While the floodgates of modern media have brought us an amazing array of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, communication, digitial media, electricity, environment, magazines, newspapers, paper, print, Print Grows Trees, printing, renewable resources
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The Penalty of Miscalculation
Competitive behavior often compels people to only acknowledge information that confirms their position while ignoring that which otherwise undermines it. Increasing one’s commitment to a previous course of action demonstrates consistency, which is often viewed as a favorable attribute by others.
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