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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make (2004) by Hans Finzel. But we don’t need to fear change.

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Should Inoculation of All Children Be Made Mandatary by Law

Coaching Ourselves

It is quite unmanageable to objectively regulate what influenced the diminution in the numeral of deaths—the innovation of antibiotics in the Forties, the betterment of sanitisation and healthcare standards, or the unveiling of sure vaccines. Hear Your Mark. Bar for the Saki of Bar (2010). The New York Spectator. Tail AM, Markel H.

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Are Britain's Top Cops Anti-Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

So Prime Minister David Cameron calls William Bratton , arguably the most successful — and innovative — police commissioner in post-war American history for advice. The open defiance by England's law enforcement leadership toward a world-class innovator is almost as shocking as the riots themselves. The immediate result?

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How Leaders Can Build a Change-Friendly Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

People don’t resist change - they resist being changed. There is a lot of rhetoric on innovation and its companion, risk-taking. Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in a Decade of Radical Transformation, Mary O’Hara Deveraux, © 2004. These are the basic conditions for engagement. Anything else is window dressing.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

The writer is a United States Marine Corps officer who wrote these words after reflecting on his experience of leading Marines during three very difficult combat deployments in Iraq, including an exceptionally arduous and grueling tour in Ramadi in 2004. Every fiber in your body will want to go there,” he said, “but resist the temptation.

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HP's Decade-Long Departure

Harvard Business Review

And it's not like they were ignoring innovation. Margins were low, commodity vendors were lining up, record labels offered resistance, they did not have any IP or any DRM and nothing but Mac users as target audience. By the time their success was worth noticing, in 2004, HP and Dell decided to dabble in devices.

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Reinvent Your Company Through Culture

Harvard Business Review

This also helped us get rid of a few "culture resisters," senior people who opposed constructive change. At all the companies I led, we published five or six behaviors we all expected of each other so that we could share, learn, innovate, and grow as individuals and as members of a team.