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When a Success Formula Hardens

Leading Blog

When this happens, they are at risk for what Donald Sull calls in Revival of the Fittest , active inertia. T HERE IS danger when success goes to a leader’s head. King Solomon wrote, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

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Learning to Manage the Map Paradox

Leading Blog

Donald Sull calls it the Map Paradox. W E ALL HAVE mental maps that we use to explain the world as we experience it. They also provide us with a guide to our actions. But here’s the thing. These mental maps are based on yesterday.

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3 Ways To Harness The Power Of Differences

Lead Change Blog

Professor Donald Sull calls it active inertia, an organization’s tendency to follow established patterns of behavior. Blockbuster, Eastman Kodak, and Borders are but a handful of companies where process became habit and values became dogma, resulting in those companies becoming history. People do the same thing.

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0616 | Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt

LDRLB

Donald Sull is a global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Kathleen Eisenhardt is the S. Ascherman Professor of Strategy at Stanford, a highly cited author, and the co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

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Weekly Round-Up: 2020 Culture Champions, Bolster Your Bottom Line, 14 Best Change Management Articles, Leadership Insights & Tips, Ensure Your Employees Feel Valued

leaderCommunicator

The Culture 500 measures and compares more than 500 U.S. companies across nine cultural dimensions, by narrowing in on employee data to examine what makes company culture distinctive and effective.

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Randy’s Six Rules for Selecting Business Books – (with insight from the book Simple Rules by Sull & Eisenhardt)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is some advice from the helpful book Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex… Read More Randy’s Six Rules for Selecting Business Books – (with insight from the book Simple Rules by Sull & Eisenhardt).

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Simple Rules and Busking

CEO Blog

I recently listened to a book - Simple Rules - How to Thrive in a Complex World by Donald Sull. I know one of the best geniuses for writers or marketers is to simplify and Sull does that well in this book. It is a great book that explains not only why simple rules work but how you can develop them. Simple rules work because: 1.

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