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Thoughts About Big Changes vs. Little Changes

Lead Change Blog

In all educational examples, the best goals are not degrees, diplomas, or certificates, but enhanced thinking skills and more effective abilities to be a productive person. Tactical changes are not critical in and of themselves, but they can result in change on a less epic scale.

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Open Door Policy: Meaning, Benefits & Implementation

HR Digest

Individuals belonging from different backgrounds, diverse cultures and traditions, varied temperaments and mentalities, and different educational qualifications work towards a common goal in an organization. The corporate culture is continually changing.

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How can we prepare people for a future we cannot predict?

Innovation Excellence

As so many of us are aware, we are living in an era of extreme rapid & continuous change, driven largely by the technological leaps of the Digital Age, impacting exponential shifts in customers needs, priorities, preferences & expectations that affect all of us, no matter what business we are in, or what kind of.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. That equates to 26 million young Americans who are unable to participate--mostly due to inadequate education, physical fitness or criminality. As such, 75% of Americans seek the opportunity for service opportunities in other ways.

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7 Ways we can Stretch Ourselves as Leaders

Ron Edmondson

Leaders must learn to stretch ourselves as the demands upon us continually change. It’s mandatory just to keep up with the pace of change. In fact, when hiring decisions are made these days, most leaders I know (including me) look for these abilities as much, if not more, than experience or education.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”. Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change. The costs of not doing so—not continuously changing and evolving—are likely to be high.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

We required the educational equivalent of Sherpas, people able to carry part of the load in order to guide participants toward their personal and organizational summits. This required not just hiring a bunch of individuals with such guiding skills but also developing ourselves continuously as a robust faculty team.