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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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Why a Business Coach Is Every Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

Strategy Driven

There are certainly a lot of attractive selling points to starting your own business, including increased freedom, personal fulfillment, and an escape from the traditional nine to five career. They can consistently remind you of your company’s vision, its mission, its goals, and its strategies for achieving them.

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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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When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble

Harvard Business Review

A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.

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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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Guest Blogger Julie Freeman: The Trustworthy Leader

leaderCommunicator

I got a taste of that skepticism many years ago when I began my professional career as a high school English teacher. Leaders need their employees to stay on board during the changes and continue to contribute to its strategy. Trust has an impact on an organization’s ability to cope with change and to continue to engage its employees.

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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.