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14 Leadership Experts Reflect on Humor and Fun: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

” - Will Rogers. John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shares that joy in work encompasses fun—that it is fun to take pride in what you do and help others. Sepetember’s Frontline Festival is about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace.

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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogersinnovation theory. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. If you think you should target the innovators to be your change ambassadors, think again. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

FT: Thirteen traits of true innovation. HBR: The Big Lie of Strategic Planning by Roger Martin. A Simple Way to Manage the End Of Year Rush by @ScottEblin. Dealing w/ Toxic People: Pleasures That Calm by @KateNasser. How to Maximize Your Energy When You Don''t Have a Lot by @JesseLynStoner.

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The ?M? Word: A Company's Most Underrated Intangible | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. it wasn’t fun.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Five Rules Every New CEO Should Follow by Roger Martin. How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation from @MindShiftkqed. FT: Manage your time as well as your staff. What you are doing right now determines how you will be remembered by @Jim_Kouzes. Which Comes First: Organizational Values or Personal Values?

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Five questions to ask each week

Lead on Purpose

“Do business by design rather than by default.&# — The Product Management Perspective: We will improve our effectiveness and our ability to work with others by giving careful thought to these questions. Reply Michael Ray Hopkin , on June 19, 2010 at 10:17 pm said: Roger, glad to hear your enjoyed this post.

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