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LeadershipNow 140: March 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? HarvardBiz: Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation Try asking "What are you learning?" Stanford GSB: Why Failure Drives Innovation. Look back, zero in on what worked and adjust your focus. Make Quarter 2 look like the best of Quarter 1.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? Professor Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management IMD. ? You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. It is the age of the employees.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

A client in need of innovation? Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. I scribed notes of my favorite articles and had my secretary type them. Years later I referred to these notes in my capacity as a consultant. Yep, I can help with that,” I’d say. And sure enough, bright folks such as Gary Hamel, C.

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The GuruBook

Leading Blog

He has curated ideas from 45 internationally–known doers and thinkers on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic leadership. Schein, Henry Mintzberg, Tom Peters, Pascal Finette, Andreas Ehn, Murray Newlands, Brian Chesky, Hampus Jakobsson, Craig Newmark, Alf Rehn, Paul Nunes, Nathan Furr, Mette Lykke and others.

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Henry Mintzberg’s Bedtime Stories for Managers

Leading Blog

Managing is not about sitting where you have become accustomed,” writes Mintzberg. Is this any way to foster the innovation needed by so many organizations? The lesson is that managers/leaders (both sides of the same coin) need to get out and run their businesses. They need a dose of reality. It’s about eating the scrambled eggs.”

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company by @profhamel. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. From @WallyBock The hardest thing for a manager to learn. From @JohnBaldoni President Kennedy: One-Two Punch In Speechmaking. Six Characteristics of Virtuous Organizations via @GraziadioSchool.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

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