Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Transformational Leadership: How To Prosper as a Leader In Today’s Hypercompetitive Environment “A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” — Nelson Mandela The business environment is constantly changing as organizations […]
Lisa Bodell, Founder & CEO, futurethink In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner to the C.I.A.— wrote a field manual for agents looking to sabotage organizations in the name of American national security. The manual included a striking strategy: complication. The agency directed saboteurs to “insist on doing everything through channels. Never permit shortcuts to be
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Justin E. Crawford, Founder, Agents of Efficiency There are good reasons people take pride in DIY, but it can be a trap for small-business owners. It sucks precious time away from focusing on the core of the business — and there’s nothing more valuable than your time. What makes things worse for small-business owners stuck in the
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Michael LeBeau, CEO, Managing Partner, Founder, Scrum50 As an entrepreneur, your job is to get new concepts converted into new products or services that you can launch into the market as quickly as possible. What Six Sigma did for continuous quality improvement, the “agile” process is now doing for innovators at companies large and small.
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Sharon M. Weinstein, Chief Wellness Officer, SMW Group LLC “I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B.White How is your day going so far? Are you improving the world, or are you enjoying it?
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Why is it so embarrassing to admit we need help? Don’t we all need help every day of some kind? We ask an executive assistant for help calling someone back…or setting an appointment. We ask someone to make us lunch at Arby’s. We ask the pilot to fly the plane and flight attendant for a
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