Thinking

Learning to Think Like a Leader

by George Ambler on May 25, 2008

  Photo by erix! I came across an interesting Harvard Business Review article “How Successful Leaders Think” which really resonated with me. The author Roger Martin makes the following point concerning leadership: “But this focus on what a leader does is misplaced. That’s because moves that work in one context often make no sense in [...]

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Leaders Make Space to Think

by George Ambler on January 20, 2008

Photo by www.hansvink.nl I believe that great thinking and great leadership go hand-in-hand. Leaders think differently…. Leaders think differently about themselves. Leaders think differently about others. Leaders think differently about what’s possible. Leaders think differently about life. Leaders think differently, and that’s what distinguishes them from followers! Your thinking creates your beliefs, your beliefs results [...]

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The Power of Having Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

by George Ambler on September 15, 2007

The phrase “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” from a post by Bob Sutton describes an important philosophy for leaders, Bob Sutton describes the importance of this idea as: “….the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act on their knowledge, but the humility to doubt what they know…to deal with an uncertain [...]

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Are You Taking Enough Time Out to Think?

by George Ambler on April 3, 2007

Photo by Sebastian Fritzon “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment [...]

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How does a genius think?

by George Ambler on February 13, 2007

“Good thinkers do not necessarily think harder, longer, or more exactly; they have simply learned to think in directions that are more likely to be productive.” – Unknown What is the quality of your thinking? I recently stumbled upon the book “Marketing Genius” by Peter Fisk, who describes the following insights into how a genius [...]

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