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Category Archives: Executive Development
Why Leaders Should Practice Forgetting
When it comes to common knowledge, leaders have a lot to learn about forgetting. Why? Because forgetting is essential to finding new, innovative solutions to long running problems and challenges. It’s way easy to reach into one’s memory grabbing a … Continue reading
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Innovation At The Start
I recently had the opportunity to spend a day and a half with innovator John Kao at the ASAE Great Ideas Conference to discuss the “Four Questions of Strategic Innovation”. Kao, well-known for his extraordinary creative expertise also shares a … Continue reading
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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
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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 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
Leading in the Wilderness
We are definitely in leadership wilderness. As a leader, finding true north—even with a compass in hand—seems nearly impossible some days. Let’s suppose as an example, you are in the business of producing and selling single-use plastic shopping bags. You … Continue reading
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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
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
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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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