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To Lead is to Transform
Resilience Or Perfection?
This post is dedicated to Jeremy a true Software champion. Who do you want on your team? Which of these two kinds of individuals is more essential for your success? A person who never makes a mistake or someone who is able to recover fast from a mistake? Yes, if we’re talking about a brain surgeon or a structural engineer please give us a meticulous...
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Are You the Corpus Callosum Of Your Organization?
The corpus callosum is the largest bundle of nerves in the human body. It connects the two halves of your brain. It helps the right and the left hemispheres of the brain to communicate and coordinate their activity. As with your brain so is the case with your organization. Certain parts represent and are more inclined to “left brain” functions and other parts are by...
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The Culture Factor of Trust
Learning something unique from the participants who attend my seminars is the best part of the work I do. I get to see and experience the world through their eyes. In my recent seminar in Chapala, Mexico we explored the Three Pillars of Trust. This is a powerful module in which we unlock the anatomy of Trust and translate it into practical and pragmatic behavior....
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The Art of Leading Through Coaching And How Jordan Learned to Resist the “Let Me Fix It” Reflex
Jordan is a young manager. From the start, he has been very effective in solving problems and was quickly promoted to a management position and responsibility. His approach to solving problems has always been aggressive. Show him a problem and he is all over it. Jordan takes great pride in fixing problems. When he walks into a room, Jordan enjoys hearing people say, “Mr. Fixer...
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The Leadership Principle of Complementarity
Neils Bohr coined the complementarity principle in his approach to quantum physics. Bohr explained the need to embrace two different and apparently contradictive views of reality. One is the view that light is made of particles and the other that it is a wave. Particle and Wave views of reality are mathematically contradictive yet both are needed to hold together Quantum Physics. What is the...
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Adizes Insights
The theme of this Blog is “Thoughts for Times of Change.” Recently I spent a few hours reading and thinking about the recent Insights from the Adizes Institute. Ichak Adizes is a pioneer, one of the most important thinkers alive today. He is a “Change Doctor.” Ichak has been a teacher in 32 countries and is a consultant to top managers and heads of states...
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Innovation Requires “Whole-Brain” Not Just “Right-Brain”
The Economist writes intriguingly about Evan Williams the founder of Blogger and Twitter: “Williams accidentally stumbled upon three insights. First, that genuinely new ideas are, well, accidentally stumbled upon rather than sought out; second, that new ideas are by definition hard to explain to others, because words can express only what is already known; and third, that good ideas seem obvious in retrospect.” The Economist...
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High On Value, Low On Ego
Greatness appears in many forms. It’s attractive, it has presence and power. It sharpens your senses and makes you focus. It’s too precious to miss. I experienced such alertness when I interviewed a successful executive this week. Here is what he told me in response to the question: “how were you able to overcome and remediate the ‘blame culture’ you inherited along with many other...
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New Epoch Big Bang – From DNA To RNA Centric Biology
(Excerpts from writing on June 20th, triggered by the Economist Magazine: Biology Big Bang, June 14th) In 1953 the double helix molecule of the DNA was identified. The secret to life was believed to have been found. It is difficult to overestimate how far reaching and enveloping this belief became in the following decades. It was a paradigm that captured our imagination. We learned to...
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