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Be•Know•Do: Leadership the Army Way: Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual Frances Hesselbein and Eric K. Shinseki (USA Ret.) Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute, 1st Edition (2004) How to develop leaders who have character, competence, knowledge, and results-driven initiative I…
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Amy C. Edmondson Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how the most valuable organizational learning occurs: through teams Amy Edmondson characterizes “teaming” as “teamwork on the fly.” It could also be termed “informal collaboration on steroids.” Whatever,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a leadership column posted by George Bradt at the Forbes magazine website. To check out a wealth of free materials, learn more about George and his firm, and sign up for email alerts, please…
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Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for free email alerts, please click here.…
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The Winning Factor: Secrets from a Veteran Olympic and Corporate Coach Peter Jensen AMACOM (2012) How and why a “development bias” can help you to become very best you can be Opinions vary as to what the decisive factor is for an individual to win or…
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Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Whappen When You Dare to Dream Whitney Johnson Bibliomotion (2012) “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Søren Kierkegaard In The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets…
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Kevin Murray is Chairman of the Public Relations Division of Chime Communications, a London-based international marketing services company. Chime’s PR Division is ranked number one in both the PR Week and Marketing magazine public relations league tables for the UK. He started his career as…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Deborah Farrington, a founder and general partner at StarVest Partners,…
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One of the most dangerous and potentially damaging forms of ignorance is not knowing what we think we know but, in fact, don’t. This inevitably results in false assumptions and premises on which incorrect decisions are based, leading to….You get the idea. The number of…
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The unique and compelling power of illustrating an idea
I have just read Toby Lester’s Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image. The first of several dozen of passages caught my eye and I immediately thought of Dan Roam. More about him in a…
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