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In Unsafe Thinking, Jonah Sachs identifies six key components of unsafe thinking and practices “that help us overcome the impediments to its use.” My own experience suggests that safe thinking can become perilous when hostage to what James O’Toole so…
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Ama Marston is an entrepreneur, internationally recognized strategy and leadership expert, and the coauthor of TYPE R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World. (Hachette book Group; 2018). She has worked on five continents with global leaders like Mary…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Rajdeep Dash, Andreas Kremer,Luis Nario, and Derek Waldron for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…
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When Barbara Bush concluded her commencement address at Wellesley College in 1990, she asked her audience to consider this possibility: “Who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and…
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Amy Wrzesniewski is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, Yale University. Her research explores how people make meaning of their work, with a focus on the impact meaning has on employees and the organizations in which…
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In The New Science of Radical Innovation, Sunnie Giles focuses on the competencies that leaders will need if their organizations will be able to win in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Change remains the only constant and…
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The High Potential’s Advantage (US only 4/17): Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader Jay A. Conger and Allan H. Church Harvard Business Review Press (2018) “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal I agree…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information,…
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EDNA: Description
Many years ago when I began to teach English at the Kent School in Connecticut, I devised an acronym for my students based on two primary sources: Aristotle’s Rhetoric (4th century BCE) and Modern Rhetoric (1949) co-authored by Cleanth Brooks…
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