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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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The Delicate Art Of Persuading Your Boss

Tanveer Naseer

Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. Invite her to continue to share with you as you grow in your leadership. business communication Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts emotion idea listening perception teamwork' A calm, well-planned approach will help convince your boss to do the right thing.

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A Crisis of Character – A Book Excerpt

Lead Change Blog

In a post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. An excerpt from chapter two, Why Character-Based Leadership, authored by Chery Gegelman , appears here.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance. Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. Does this imply that we should hope for more incompetent leadership in the future? Because most managers are simply unbearable.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Solution exploration and hypothesis testing: The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an incubation process like I-Corps, the system adopted by all U.S. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit.