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Meetings

Good leaders balance advocacy and inquiry to resolve conflict

25 May 2008

Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision into today is [...]

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Separating strategy from planning conversations

11 May 2008

To be effective it’s necessary for leaders to separate strategy from planning, separating the why and what from the how. This is necessary simply because strategy and planning require two different thinking styles which are not complementary. As highlighted in a post on management-Issues:
“Ever been in a strategy meeting where everybody was focusing on the [...]

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Steve Jobs and his leadership

30 March 2008

Fortune has a great feature on Steve Jobs, titled "Steve Jobs speaks out" that looks at some of Steve’s perspectives on business, leadership and technology. In the article Steve reveals some interesting insights into Apple and his leadership principles.
 

 
On Apple’s focus
 
"Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major [...]

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Context, Purpose, Drama and Conflict: The secret sauce of great meetings

24 March 2008

Patrick Lencioni author of the numerous books including "Death by Meeting" wrote an interesting article "Avoid ‘Death by Meeting’" which provides some great insights on creating an effective meetings. Patrick describes the two primary reasons meeting are ineffective as..

Meetings lack drama. Which means they are boring.
Most meetings lack context and purpose.

 
Drama and Conflict
Great [...]

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