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6 Ways to Build Trust During Organizational Change

Lead Change Blog

Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. Employees will not embrace taking risks or innovating in new ways if they are fearful of being punished, criticized, or looked down upon for making mistakes. Address people’s concerns. Make it safe.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

Great Leadership By Dan

If they don’t create a work culture that supports efficiency, innovation, high performance, and employee engagement, they won’t satisfy that triumvirate. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. How do you know the Positive Impact was due to culture change?

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

MaxMckeown: " A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." ~ The Truth About Innovation cc: Larry Page, Google. Here are six possibilities « Blanchard LeaderChat. “ Is Gen Y Sick of Tech? via @mediapost. 3 Ways to Actually Help Your Team (and Yourself!) by @davidmdye. Is it Time to Re-examine the Leader You’ve Become? from @artpetty.

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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. Blue Lobsters. Not anymore.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2017

Leading Blog

One Minute Mentoring : How to Find and Work With a Mentor--And Why You'll Benefit from Being One by Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz. The Power of Little Ideas : A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation by David Robertson with Kent Lineback. The Leadership Gap : What Gets Between You and Your Greatness by Lolly Daskal.

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Top 10 Servant Leadership Tweeters in 2011

Modern Servant Leader

He also possesses an especially innovative mind with an eye toward business. Ken Blanchard. Chris’s content through Ken Blanchard companies and his own blog is frequently among the best servant leadership material. Ross is a great example of a servant leader proponent who embeds the principles in everyday life.

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