Leadership Insights
13-August-2019
Leadership Insights - a weekly selection of relevant ideas from the blogs of thinkers, writers and practitioners to help you Unleash Your Leadership
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BY Ken Byler (@kenbyler)
Our society has big problems and we seem to lack the imagination required to engage in creative solutions. Business and political systems have deeply entrenched systems and ideologies that discourage new ways of thinking. It’s easier to talk about change than to actually implement it.
BY Art Petty (@artpetty)
There’s a lot of conventional wisdom holding us hostage to old thinking in our firms. In my experience, it pays to listen hard and to strive to understand what the mavericks, heretics, and revolutionaries have to say. You might find yourself thinking and acting differently in the process.
BY Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak)
The secret to bringing out the best in others is finding the ‘right’ ratio of challenge to support.Your challenge-support style sits on a continuum. The right ratio depends on the person you’re dealing with, not your preference.
BY Steve Keating (@LeadToday)
If you’re going to truly lead you’ll need to risk allowing your people to see you fail from time to time. So stop with the fear tactics. Begin developing a strategy for building the trust of your people. You’ll soon discover that respect grows best when fertilized with that very same trust.
BY Julie Winkle Giulioni (@Julie_WG)
What used to be rigid and hierarchical is becoming more human and highly responsive to changing business needs. The former focus on functions is evolving to allow for a more fluid exchange of resources as necessary. The orderly structures of the past that reflected an inward-looking orientation are giving rise to outwardly-focused, organic structures. And finally, ‘command and control’ that has characterized business for decades is now being replaced with curated groups and far greater collaboration.
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Narayan Kamath
