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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. What lies beyond the edge is the opposite, an unfamiliar landscape barely coming into focus.

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Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

N2Growth Blog

It’s just another well-intentioned sound bite that will destroy your company and your career if you choose to follow it. Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

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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Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Steve about some of his insights and tips to outsize your strategy, profits, and potential. Over the course of my career, I have seen the business world transform and certain powerhouses, think Amazon, Apple, and Uber, redefine the business model to capture incredible value. Steve Coughran.

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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Today, we must learn how to shape networks around a shared purpose. Consider the case of Blockbuster , whose CEO John Antioco had proven himself as both a manager and a leader.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. Instead of being reactive and treating conditions already present, the objective should be to proactively identify children at risk before they develop a health condition and keep them on the path to wellness.