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Blake Mouton Leadership Grid - A Model on Leadership Styles
Most leaders and managers tend to fall into patterns in how they go about balancing between prioritizing people concerns vs…
Frameworks/Mental Models
Someone should have told us but no one did. Important frameworks every leader should know.
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Andy Grove on Balancing Top-down vs Bottom-up Approaches to Leadership
Ever wonder why that particular initiative of yours never got traction? Organizational politics kills more initiatives than people realize, and…
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Singular Big Bet vs Multiple Small Bets-Two Contrasting Approaches to Strategy
In their book, Business Experimentation, Rob James and Jules Goddard highlight two approaches to strategy that are diametrically opposite to…
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Strategy as Tetris rather than Chess
Is chess a good analogy to describe decision making and strategy in organizations? For most folks, probably not.
Less in…
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Mintzberg on Managing the Flow of Information and Influence
Managerial effectiveness often hinges on how well their unit interacts not just internally but externally as well. In one definition,…
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What is Implicit Leadership Theory and How it Affects Careers
What makes someone “leadership material”? We would like to think there’s an objective answer to that question. But often…
Why Developing Negative Capability is Critical in Leadership
We think of capability as a positive term— it’s active and additive rather than passive and subtractive. In leadership,…
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A Strategy of Small Wins and Small Bets - Typical Mistakes and How to Get it Right
In 1984 Karl Weick published a seminal paper titled Small Wins in the American Psychologist Journal. Four decades later, the…
35 Essential Midlife Career Change Frameworks
Changing or quitting careers is hard. Doubly so in midlife. Should I quit or stay? I grappled with that question…
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The Mundanity of Excellence - Greatness as Mastering the Mundane
Greatness and mastery always look shrouded in mystery from the outside. But look closely and it is more about mastering…
Strategic Timeframes - Balancing Long Term Focus with Short Term Actions
Leadership, management, and organizations are riddled with paradoxes. The more we recognize them the more we can be effective in…
How Bezos Thinks - All his Frameworks and Mental Models
In 1994 Amazon was just an idea in someone’s head, that of Jeff Bezos. Today it's a trillion dollar…