Leadership as a Dependent of Conditions
Posted on23 May 2013
TagsClaudio Fernández-Aráoz, Nitin Nohria, Warren Buffett, fundamental attribution error, conditionality, Boris Groysberg, certainty, control, Harvard Business Review, James Surowiecki, leadership, security, success, Talent, The New Yorker, training, Ron Johnson, J.C. Penney, Target Corporation
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If we awoke one day with amnesia with life totally scrambled, would we have the same leaders? In his article, “The Turnaround... Read More
Confidence as a Psychological Weapon of Leadership
Posted on02 May 2013
Tagslogic, certainty, confidence, facts, honesty, Influence, interpretation, leadership, message, power, psychology, subconscious, trust, uncertainty, martyrs
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Confidence frequently indicates incompetence. However, leadership often requires confidence. Since people often fear uncertainty, they naturally gravitate to people who provide certainty,... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #7 Effective Orders
Posted on18 Apr 2013
Tagsprioritization, command, employees, executive, formal organizational power, leadership, morale, organization, Pollyannaism, change, success, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, machismo
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Responses to my original Sun Tzu post have encouraged me to write more about important Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of... Read More
Leaders, Followers, Individuals and Heroes
Posted on28 Mar 2013
Tagsinformal organizational power, individual, archetype, heroes, Lone Ranger, Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Dirty Harry, power, leadership, formal organizational power
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“If you’re not a leader, you’re a follower.” You’ve heard this how many times? Yet, there is a third: people who don’t... Read More
Personality is our Politics
Posted on28 Feb 2013
TagsUniversity of Virginia, Peter Hatemi, Rose McDermott, Pennsylvania State University, Brown University, New York University, ideas, facts, Influence, innate, leadership, people, Personality, Real-time personality assessment, The Economist, University of Texas, John Jost
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People often believe that political views are a battle of ideas. In reality, they are more a battle of personality types. People... Read More
Best Sun Tzu Quote: Pinnacle of Skill
Posted on18 Feb 2013
Tagsapproaches, change, change management, coaching, employees, fear, fun, ignorance, inertia, Influence, leadership, management, management by walking around, military, problem solving, resistance to change, training, uncertainty, warfare, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series
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Before his writings became a business management guide, I had read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War back in the early eighties.... Read More
Anatomy of Events
Posted on07 Feb 2013
TagsAnatomy of an Event, Meteor Analogy, flow, time, crisis, employees, event, going with the flow, Influence, leadership, people, power, prevention, situation
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When we examine events, we tend to look at them too narrowly and statically. The advantage of the schematic in this post... Read More
Lightning-rod Employee (Scapegoat)
Early on in my career, I witnessed a manager’s termination for the incompetence of her boss. The strategy he outlined for her... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 13): Overcoming Biases
One of the points Giovanni Gavetti makes in “The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011 edition) about associative... Read More
Leadership Lesson from Wobbly Furniture
Posted on15 Oct 2012
Tagspeople, Amanda Forest, consumer, content, David Kille, emotions, Influence, Joanne Wood, leadership, relationships, smells, social skills, storytelling, The Economist, University of Waterloo, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, women
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The relentless advance of technology and research methodologies is accelerating our understanding of ourselves and constricting the domain of free will (more).... Read More
