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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and OrganizationsWhat is leadership success? Is it money, promotions, happiness, raising a family, changing the world, or advancing your industry or community? FORBES is predicting that neither money nor power will be the defining characteristics for leadership in the future – what an effect that would have on organizations....
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Via Scoop.it – Leading Lightly – Managing MindfullyKen Blanchard has a new Book out: “Great Leaders Grow”, in which GROW stands for: Gain Knowledge Reach out to others Open your world Walk towards wisdom.   A key point of the book is: “The two primary reasons leaders get off track are ego and fear....
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and Organizations A top girls’ school is planning a “failure week” to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. What a wonderful idea: teach people how to fail, and especially, how to deal with being ‘wrong’. This is something one should also do in...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business   In a recent leadership development workshop I ran, one woman bravely spoke her truth about the reality of the toxic corporate culture they all worked in. It was dysfunctional.   As are so many corporate cultures: the vision may not be inspiring, but it’s OK, the values are...
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and Organizations The Occupy Wall Street protesters have taught us a number of critical lessons about mobilizing movements that leaders — whether business, political, or non-profit — should bear in mind.   Whether you agree with Occupy Wallstreet and their basic ideology or not, it was fascinating to see...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business Companies that strive for greater work-life integration should be prepared to deal with issues that never entered anyone’s mind when people kept personal life safely at home. By Megan Hustad, contributor FORTUNE — Stressed at work?   Ongoing discussions about the value and usefulness of authenticity, or being yourself...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive BusinessThere is a lot of talk about ‘meaning’ in the workplace lately. From studies about motivation to the reason people spend hundreds of hours playing Warcraft, ‘meaning’ has become an element of mental hygene that matters.   Anyone who remembers their Maslow Hierarchy of Needs will quickly recognize that meaning...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business CEOs with wider faces lead companies that perform better. By Christopher Peterson, Ph.D….   Fascinating how more and more of our preconceived notions about people are now ‘proven’ in studies, although this one may fall under the heading of self-fulfilling-prophecy. It seems that men with wider faces are perceived...
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Via Scoop.it – Leading Lightly – Managing MindfullyIt seems that Powerpoint has replaced documents in the world of business for all but contracts. This brings the inevitable result that people try to cram the content of whole novels onto 87 slides.  As an alternative, try writing your main story into a real document, wit...
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and OrganizationsFor those who cling to the picture of the Leader as Hero, Manufacturing Weekly has some great tips taken from watching the now deceased Kim Jong-Il.   While most of them are simply funny, their consequences for the people of North Korea are not. … Just as in...
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