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MBAs–both the degrees and the people who have them–are an obsolete waste of time and money. An irrelevant recipe for failure. At least that’s what all the cool entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are saying. So what’s next? Learning to code and “lean startups.” Accelerators are the new b-school. There’s just one problem though. While creating a product and starting a company have never been easier, building and sustaining a business have never been harder. And lean is not everything. That means business education has never been more important. But first, both b-schools and companies need to learn some new tricks.
Via Vicki Kossoff @ The Learning Factor
Do you have what it takes to be a leader in the businesses of the future? Plenty of companies are worried that the pool might not be big enough to pick from in the future, so check out this infographic by NowSourcing to see if you’ve got the right stuff to succeed.
Via Gust MEES, donhornsby, Jose Luis Anzizar, David Hain
"Many years ago, I proposed a storytelling self-development tool for use by wildland firefighters. At that time, I was told another entity was working on a similar project. As with many initiatives, I don't think it came to fruition. It has been two years since I presented the tool to blog readers, so here it is again." Read the full article to find: - the 8 “how-to” suggestions - a selection of printed resources that include books and websites
Via Kim Zinke (aka Gimli Goose), Ariana Amorim
In almost every organization, there is a concept of overhead. Inc.com provides a solid overview of overhead, but simply stated it is the “costs incurred to make something else possible.” This is a great definition, and it should be applied squarely on leadership. Overhead costs on leadership should be low, meaning little burden on others. There are certain required overhead costs to leadership: Mentoring Coaching Training Setting direction Listening Communicating Other enabling activities…. What kills a culture and team member spirits is a loaded overhead leader. The costs of a heavily burdened overhead leader can be very damaging. The costs to make something else happen, in bad leadership terms, are too high. What are the characteristics of a high overhead leader?
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"Whether you are in a position of leadership or lead from your position, being the bamboo is critical to your ability to influence and effectively lead your team, your organization and your life. Why? Here is what we know about bamboo and what that has to do with leadership..." Read the article to embrace these important traits.
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"Let's face it. CEOs come and go. But leadership, if developed in a comprehensive way, endures." 4 insightful findings.... excellent points on leading.
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Emotions are a key driver of our behavior. Emotional Intelligence or EQ is crucial to managing your behavior, to your success both professionally and personally, and to the choices you make in the...
The thoughtLEADERS Blog covers leadership, communications, strategy and operations. All posts are practical and applicable to help you apply the methods we teach. It’s nauseating to hear – someone soft-shoe dancing around an issue because they’re afraid of hurting someone’s feelings. They do so because they might receive negative feedback in a 360 review that they were abrupt or too direct in delivering feedback on that issue. So rather than going the direct route, they water down their message until it’s a mealy mouthed blathering stream of meaningless crap (yes, I’m fired up as I’m writing this). Let me ask you this – do you want to follow a “leader” who doesn’t speak his or her mind? Someone who is more concerned with how their actions will be perceived rather than saying what they really think? Do you want to follow a leader who is more interested in doing nothing wrong (and hence not doing much of anything) or would you rather follow someone who takes a stand for what they believe in and suffers the consequences as appropriate? MUST READ...
Via Gust MEES, donhornsby, David Hain, ThinDifference
Great teams don't just happen.They are built. Over the past 15 years, I've had the opportunity to serve on teams, lead teams, and facilit...
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Whatever happened to leadership? Have all the great leaders gone from the world scene? Are leaders born, or do they emerge in appropriate circumstances? A few years ago the London Sunday Times ran an article with the title “Whatever Happened to Real Leaders?” It read in part: “The foreign secretary was a stuffed shirt. But the prime minister was not even that: ‘he was just a hole in the air.’ The words are George Orwell’s, applied to Lord Halifax and Stanley Baldwin, in the late 1930s. What resonance they have today! . . . What the country needs is leadership, and this is true of the Western world as a whole.” The article continued, “The gap between the desirable and the real has never been as great in this respect. As you open the newspapers or watch the television news, is there a single political leader in the West whose words you would expect to remember? Would you expect to learn anything from them? Do you expect them to do anything inspiring or creative, or even just the right thing? We have reached a real low point in leadership, lower than at any other time in recent history. . . . ‘I sowed dragons, and I reaped fleas,’ said Nietzsche.” It’s a powerful plea for the kind of leadership that can deliver humanity from the grip of its many problems and evils.
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"Making Right Minded Choices – A Leadership Challenge (Making right minded choices: a leadership challenge: http://t.co/WIWOPtdT #leadership #change...)..." "Some of the attributes of someone who uses right minded thinking more consistently than others are: Self-Awareness – An understanding of the choices and impact of choosing between the ego and the right mind. Resilience – resilience against the ego thought system and the pressure to conform to negative beliefs. Ability to tap into the right mind – being able to pause before reacting and choosing ones thoughts. Living in a different paradigm. Humility – A recognition that we are all in it together and an appreciation that their choices matter and therefore they choose carefully and with humility. Vision – A vision borne out of collective interest and not self interest. Responsibility – a no blame culture in every situation. The victim and persecutor dynamics are dissolved. Generosity – kindness, inclusivity – not excluding anyone, sharing, realising everyone is equally valuable, and can equally make mistakes. Wisdom – understanding when to let go and when to pursue •Non – Judgemental – realising everyone is either acting from their right mind, which is love or ego mind which is lack of love." Read the article to get the final one...
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Is Twitter one of the most important phenomena for the future of learning and business?
Nigel Cameron thinks so. Strategic adviser and futurist, he is Chairman of FutureofBiz, LLC (Chicago, Washington DC, and London) and President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET, Washington DC).
He consults, speaks and blogs about the emerging future and its vast impacts on business, and is writing a book intended to aid greater understanding of how to prepare ourselves and our organizations for tomorrow.
Read more, a MUST: http://community.paper.li/2012/09/17/nigel-cameron-time-for-leaders-to-get-twitter/
Via Gust MEES, Roger Francis, donhornsby
"Having a great boss shouldn't be such an unusual experience." 3 great lessons to read.
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Did you know that the most powerful leadership tools you will ever use are within you. The key to successful leadership is you. Fashioned from our beliefs and demonstrated by our actions, our leadership is an articulation of our inner self. Our values drive our leadership. How we lead is an expression of what we believe.
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
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Just how many types of stories are there, you ask? The answer is, as usual, it depends who you ask. Various storytelling aficionados categorize stories in different ways, and there are no hard and fast rules. These are overviews of each (read the full article for more details and prompts to help you come up with each type of story): 1. Introducing me 2. Conveying values 3. Teaching 4. Jumpstarting action 5. Inspiring Here's the link to the full article: http://www.internal-monologue.com/2012/07/careful-around-campfire-five-types-of.html ; These 5 broad categories and the examples shared in each are really good and will build a good foundation for leadership storytelling. According to Paul Smith in his forthcoming book on leadership storytelling "Lead With A Story" (August 20112), there are actually 21 different categories/applications for leaders to know about and use. But this article brings clarity to the topic and will definitely get you started! Thank you to fellow curator Gimli Goose for this article!
Via Kim Zinke (aka Gimli Goose), Karen Dietz, David Hain, ThinDifference
"A plethora of people, courses, and self-help guides profess to lead you by the hand to the promised land of business success. The problem is that things are always messier than the how-to's make them out to be. This is why it is often better to consider less the specifics and more the principles and qualities that bring success. In my experience — and in the research my co-authors and I did for our new book, Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck — there is one quality that trumps all, evident in virtually every great entrepreneur, manager, and leader. That quality is self-awareness. The best thing leaders can to improve their effectiveness is to become more aware of what motivates them and their decision-making."
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Though I don't like statements such as one "must" and companies "have to", I believe that the overall view is correct. The world's changing, business environment is changing as well. New leadership skills are required that were not taught in public schools at all but neither at business schools yet.