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jonaizlewood.com
Why moving from pixels to people is never a straight line
jonaizlewood.com
~11 min read · May 13th · Moving from managing pixels to managing people isn’t a straightforward decision. Many of us underestimate the change in pace, scope and…
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Corporate Rebels
10 Progressive Organizational Structures Developed By Real Companies
Corporate Rebels
6 min read · Apr 27th · So, I recently came across an old tweet of Jurgen Appelo, in which he asks: "Apart from Holacracy, the "Spotify model" and Liquid Organization, what other frameworks/models do you know for adaptable…
Harvard Business Review
How to Be a Compassionate Manager in a Heartless Organization
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · May 5th · Being a compassionate leader is being a good leader. It can be hard to do that when the rest of the company’s culture seems to rely on favoritism or neglect. What can you do if you want to manage your…
staceyashley.medium.com
How to Avoid Being Busy. Be Focused and Increase Your Leadership Impact.
staceyashley.medium.com
6 min read · May 15th · The leadership refrain for 2022:
MIT Sloan School of Management
15 assumptions leaders should reconsider
MIT Sloan School of Management
4 min read · May 10th · Time to take a fresh look at what customers want, how people work, and how to drive innovation.
Reset Work
'A New Way to Think' by Roger L. Martin:
Reset Work
5 min read · May 6th · The new book by Rotman business school's former dean provides examples of how cultural change is best pursued indirectly, through day-to-day shifts rather than top-down decrees.
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Fast Company
These are the storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs
Fast Company
8 min read · May 3rd · In an excerpt from his new book, Nest cofounder Tony Fadell writes of his time at Apple and how he saw Steve Jobs marshal facts and emotion to tell a tale.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 81, including Robert Scoble, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, John Maeda
youtube.com
Choose Falling over Failure
youtube.com
May 3rd · The language of "falling" vs "failure" matters because it changes our mindset. Falling happens naturally. As leaders, we have to encourage our teams to take ...
Gulf News
For great leaders, being innovative too is a key trait
Gulf News
3 min read · May 4th · Whatever be the case, businesses should not try and rush through innovation
Reader View · Shared by 143, including Ines Bieler
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Seth Godin
The win-win fallacy
Seth Godin
1 min read · Apr 24th · There are some problems where a useful solution is a win for everyone. But not many. Certainly not the problems that have been around for a while. If there were a win win solution, someone would ha…
Shared by 323, including Matthew Turland, LARRY ELKAN, Peter Herger, ₵BZ
MIT Sloan School of Management
Why distributed leadership is the future of management
MIT Sloan School of Management
3 min read · Apr 19th · Managing the future of work requires a nimble mindset focusing on small, short-term wins, and a ‘cultivate and coordinate’ approach to leadership.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 322, including Shelly Kramer, Under30CEO, Thomas Pleil, Ines Bieler
TED Talks
5 ways to show you can lead — even when you don’t have a leadership role
TED Talks
3 min read · May 6th · If you want to become a team leader or manager, you’ll have to demonstrate that you can lead without having an official role to point to. Here’s how you do that, from organizational psycholog…
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 222, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Ines Bieler
Harvard Business Review
What the Best Presenters Do Differently
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · Apr 27th · Our minds are wired for story. We think in narrative and enjoy consuming content in story form. So understanding the difference between presenting and storytelling is critical to a leader’s ability to…
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 165, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Abel Caballero Díaz, Andres Saldarriaga, Johannes Dornisch
Harvard Business Review
Democratizing Transformation
Harvard Business Review
~13 min read · Apr 12th · Give your entire workforce the capacity to become innovators.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 159, including Kate Nasser, Elinor Stutz, Thomas Pleil, AI, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem
MIT Sloan School of Management
15 assumptions leaders should reconsider
MIT Sloan School of Management
4 min read · May 10th · Time to take a fresh look at what customers want, how people work, and how to drive innovation.
Reset Work
'A New Way to Think' by Roger L. Martin:
Reset Work
5 min read · May 6th · The new book by Rotman business school's former dean provides examples of how cultural change is best pursued indirectly, through day-to-day shifts rather than top-down decrees.
Reader View · Shared by 156
coachingforleaders.com
Overcome Resistance to New Ideas
coachingforleaders.com
1 min read · Apr 21st · David Schonthal, co-author of The Human Element, show us the power of making new ideas familiar when introducing change.
Reader View · Shared by 150, including Alex Osterwalder🇨🇭, steve blank, Mark Kaigwa
youtube.com
Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson
youtube.com
Apr 21st · Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson: https://youtu.be/IC-B0QaoQ80#b2b #business #creator #cre...
Shared by 148, including Jonathan Kogan
Gulf News
For great leaders, being innovative too is a key trait
Gulf News
3 min read · May 4th · Whatever be the case, businesses should not try and rush through innovation
Reader View · Shared by 143, including Ines Bieler
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The New York Times
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
The New York Times
20+ min read · From 2017 · New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 1152, including Ryan Boren, Justin Jackson, Chris Schultz ✌️, Sara Usinger, Kim Scott 🇺🇦 #BLM, Kris Fannin, Thomas Power, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Dan Ariely, Rand Fishkin, Nir Eyal, Kelly Hoey, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Shawn Venasse, Nathan Baschez, Pat Kua, Moritz Meenen, Ben Tossell, Herbert Bay, Stowe Boyd
First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 855, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bill Trenchard, Ines Bieler
Aeon+Psyche
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid
Aeon+Psyche
5 min read · 2021-08-04 · Struggling to understand is perfectly honourable. Being wilfully stupid is something else and we should strive to fix it
Reader View · Shared by 775, including Jason Silva, Nir Eyal, Ian M Calvert, David Papandrew, maxadorno, Massimiliano Aroffo, Thomas Power, Peter Herger, Cecily Whiteley
The Atlantic
The Best Time-Management Advice Is Depressing But Liberating
The Atlantic
5 min read · 2021-08-11 · You can make time for things that matter, or you can make time for more email.
Reader View · Shared by 706, including Garance Franke-Ruta, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Ruben Schönenberger, Olga Khazan, Chloe Abrasada, Marcos, Kelsey D. Atherton, Víctor González Pacheco, Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Dorothy Bishop
First Round
An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years
First Round
20+ min read · 2021-08-10 · Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, tracked exactly how he spent the two years since founding the company for a rare inside look at being a startup leader.
Reader View · Shared by 666, including Oliver Raduner, Kelly Hoey, Jessy Lane, Mohamed Azazy, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa, A S K Chaitanya Reddy, Chloe Abrasada, Howard L Morgan
First Round
The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit
First Round
20+ min read · Jan 11th · Anita Hossain Choudhry (The Grand, First Round) and Mindy Zhang (Dropbox, Oscar Health) draw on their experiences as executive coaches to unpack why managers fall into the “fixing” trap and make the…
Reader View · Shared by 644, including Jessica Gioglio, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Bill Trenchard, Arne Keuning, Scott Monty, Michael Kolade, Víctor González Pacheco, Jeff Atwood, Thomas Pleil, Massimiliano Aroffo
First Round
Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
First Round
10 min read · From 2015 · Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's the secret that's made all the difference for her.
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James Clear
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
James Clear
5 min read · From 2013 · When it comes to getting things done and making progress in the areas that are important to you, there is a much better way to do things.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 605, including Greg Meyer, Florian Hanke 🍎, Howard Getson, Jay West, Zain Fathoni, Kris Fannin, John Zeratsky, Jochen Burkhard, Brent Summers, Luzius Meisser, Mark Kaigwa, Francis Wade, Leonid Bugaev, Ines Bieler, Stephanie Booth, Dez S. Papp, Matthias Lampe, getAbstract, Katja Evertz, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
TED Talks
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
TED Talks
From 2015 · Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...
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