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Focus on three or four defined strategic imperatives, then execute and measure results.

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Just Go and Do It

Don't wait – initiate! Leaders don't wait for something to happen or someone to tell them what to do.

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Just a Job or Part of Our Deeper Purpose?

There is no particular job, industry, or organization that magically transforms "just a job" into passionate life work. However, to spot an opportunity we need to know what we're looking for. We need to clarify our purpose.

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Just a Job or a Source of Deeper Joy and Meaning?

We need to either find the work we love, or learn to love the work we have. Get passionate or get out.

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Interested in Leadership, or Committed to Becoming a Leader?

Many managers in leadership roles have stunted personal growth. We can focus on the gain of improvement, by keeping our preferred future and purpose firmly in front of us, and develop the "habit" of personal improvement.

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Inspiring and Energizing with Strong Verbal Communications

Effective leaders that inspire, energize, and arouse people to improved performance, can stand in front of a large or small group and express themselves with a clarity, conviction and credibility that stirs their audience or group members' feelings and emotions.

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Innovation Through Accidents and “Controlled Chaos”

The innovation paradox: Random, chaotic, and unpredictable innovations need a stable management system and process to nurture the growth and development of "lucky breaks."

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Innovation Needs a Culture of Trust and Openness

If we want more experimentation and learning on our teams or organizations, we must establish an atmosphere that builds self-confidence and trust.

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Innovation Means Looking Beyond What Is to What Could Be

We need to manage the paradox of paying close attention to closing today's customer and partner performance gaps while we explore, search, and create tomorrow's new markets, customers, and partners.

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Innovation Champions, Skunkworks, and Organization Learning

When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion, or skunkworks, to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. What we know is less important than what we do with what we know.

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Innovation Calls for Leadership

Seizing the opportunities of tomorrow calls for leadership. It means taking off the blinders of what is, in order to see what could be.

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Innovation and the Law of Averages

To double our innovation success rate, we need to double our failure rate. Our goal is not failure; it's success, therefore, we must use the Law of Averages to "fail our way to success."

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Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 3)

Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success

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Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 2)

Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.

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Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 1)

Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success

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Innovation and Learning Through Successful Failures

When asked why he wasn't getting results with his countless tries to successfully develop the light bulb, Thomas Edison replied, "Results? Why, man, I've gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

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Improvement Planning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)

Discover the Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success

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Improvement Planning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part One)

Discover the Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.

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Improvement Planning Infrastructure and Process

Personal, team, or organization improvement doesn't happen just because we want to get better. Unless we have the infrastructure and processes for constant and ongoing improvement, it's all just wishful thinking.

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Improvement Planning for Taking Charge of Change

Continually improving our capabilities calls for coordination and planning. The goal of planning isn't plans, however, but action.

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