Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? But many still adhere to the outdated myth that leaders must be “superhero leaders: infallible, unflappable, and fearless."

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Leadership today is more challenging than ever. Organizations need leaders who drive engagement, innovation, and outstanding client experiences. Trends including the rapid pace of change, constant restructuring, and a 24/7 always-on work environment are creating overwhelmed employees and eroding trust in workplaces.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. People, projects and organizations could be in one of three phases on this learning-innovation curve. A comfort to know for all those entrepreneurs and learners out there! They know they have to be agile, more responsive to change, innovative.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

The fast-paced and innovative nature of the tech sector necessitates rapid experimentation and adaptation. Entrepreneurs and startups embrace the mindset of failing fast to quickly test ideas, pivot where necessary, and optimise their products or services for the market.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

Old ways of leadership have to give way to newer mental models based on agility in decision making, critical thinking, adaptable learning, people orientation and responsiveness to change. High level of adaptability and flexibility with agile mind that is buoyant is necessary for survival today ~ @vivekparanjpe. - – - – -.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2019

The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. In today’s complex world, leadership must rely on high levels of trust and openness throughout the organization. Learn more and register here.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2015

Leadership is Not Something We Accomplish by @StrategicMonk. Leadership Success: Think Balance Beam Not Mountain Top by @KateNasser. The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis by @profhamel. by @scotteblin.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Innovation is innovation, no matter where it’s applied and regardless of its source.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 18, 2014

More on complexity and the road-tested strategies that cut through the clutter can be found in the pages of my new book for leaders, managers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. This book is for anyone who is keen to embrace the practices that foster agility, foresight, adaptability, and resilience.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

here’s no shortage of leadership advice on the internet, but figuring out which resources are actually valuable can feel like information overload. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated 10 of our favorite leadership blogs and podcasts for 2022 on leadership strategy and development. Tanveer Naseer Leadership.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 7, 2017

Is it hard being a woman entrepreneur? So, when asked to moderate a panel of women entrepreneurs , I thought it was time to change the conversation. Women are agile entrepreneurs. Is it hard getting funding? Is your venture really a ‘business’ or is it ‘just’ a lifestyle business?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. In the last decade, we’ve learned to over-rely on iteration. Radhika Dutt.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. With this in mind, the Coronavirus outbreak arguably represents an opportunity for growth and innovation, and good leadership will be central to ushering this in.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 13, 2012

It reinforces a binary world of it’s “me” or “them” - either/or – not “us”, not “and” Throughout my career, when I focus on the “ Thou ”, helping my clients’ solve challenges and innovate resulting in growth, jobs, philanthropy, the “ I ” takes care of itself.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Usually, entrepreneurs have lots of ideas, but it takes them time to really implement them. Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. Research and examples published in HBR this year — including an account of a much more effective government agency’s approach to solving problems — prove how critical they are to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In our new book Agile Talent , Norm Smallwood and I focus directly on this latter question: What must organizations do to be attractive to top creatives or other external experts? Our data suggests an even higher percentage in the future — over 50% of global companies surveyed plan to increase their use of agile talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Wise leaders will enable individuals to be entrepreneurs and masters of their own fate. It extends into end-to-end consumer solutions, data sharing, and open innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. Neither is acceptable in a world dominated by digital innovation, change, and disruption. But it need not be like this.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. They want to see how these approaches … are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation.”

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. Its even 100% free!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books. It’s not very agile.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities. The first year went great as all the low-hanging UX design fruit was plucked. The decision?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Led by serial entrepreneurs. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations. Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Embracing your multiple identities can improve your ability to take others’ perspectives and engage in creative and innovative behavior. In fact, some of the army leaders we spoke with even specify broadening their subordinates’ identities as an explicit goal in their leadership philosophies.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Stephen M.R. Blog Post ). The first is panic.

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