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Being a Good Leader is Hard Because

Rmukesh Gupta

Effective leadership demands mastery in various areas: making tough decisions with limited information, fostering self-awareness, ensuring the welfare of others, practicing active listening, cultivating high performance, upholding organizational culture, remaining humble yet driven, building trust, managing conflict, aligning team and individual goals, (..)

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What is the purpose of a manager nowadays?

Idea to Value

How is it possible that managers have such a different belief about what their staff are doing, or how they should be doing it? Often these would either be families, or workshops where an expert master would teach a few apprentices their craft. A few months ago, I saw a piece of research which has stuck with me.

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The surprising downsides to being an Overachiever at work

Idea to Value

I remember this quote from my childhood, and it is meant to show that people who work the hardest are likely to be the ones who are best able to complete additional hard tasks. Unfortunately, being an overachiever in a work setting has been shown to have some seriously negative consequences. Hard work vs Strategic Work.

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Scaling a business depends on controllable factors

Jeffrey Phillips

One of my favorite musicians is (was) Warren Zevon , who had a great sense of humor and was also a good musician. You may be familiar with his song "Werewolves of London" but perhaps one of my favorite songs of his is " Lawyers, Guns and Money ". We ought to ask ourselves as leaders in any company: what can we control?

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Identifying and overcoming the innovation resistance

Jeffrey Phillips

All good stories need a protagonist and an antagonist, the "good' character and the not so good character to develop tension. Much like the old westerns where the good guy wore a white hat, and the bad guy a black hat. Every story with any meaning or tension has these two opposing forces.

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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Which of these is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Generating good proposals for innovative products and services is fairly easy. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. Here are some good reasons to kill innovation projects.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. What does a business leader do in this situation? The reality is that it’s not a hard problem to address. Otherwise, the downstream technical debt created can be overwhelming. But everyone’s situation is unique.