Not the Same Old Stuff
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Innovation Leadership Lead Less, Encourage More
Leaders and managers have to change if they want true innovation in their businesses. If managing process is usurping your time, you will not innovate—nor will your people. The age
Fail Fast, Fail Smart, Fail … ? Take the counterintuitive road to innovation success
Failure being rewarded—even encouraged? How crazily counterintuitive. Yet the world’s best companies—such as Google, Apple and Salesforce, or any company that innovates with speed in today’s technological world—embrace failure. They
Values: We teach what we live
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Customers, Colleagues or Shareholders?
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Compassionate Leadership
Such powerful words. I’ve been using them for a lifetime. Turns out, I did not understand the essence of their meaning. And when it comes to building teams and being
Appreciation: Give what you want to get
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Get Ready for Digital Transformation
Steve Jobs was famous for his preparation. He held himself to such a high standard for his presentations that he drove himself and his teams to exhaustion. He was relentless
An Alchemy of Leadership, in Three Parts
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How Top-Performing CEOs Stand Out
By Stephen Garber The stereotypical CEO is characterized as a charming, tall, white man educated from a top university, a strategic visionary on a vertical career trajectory with the ability
People: The Hardest Part of Business
By Stephen Garber In Amsterdam (where I lived for seven years in the 1970s, just sayin’), if they don’t like you, they do not call you names or suggest rude
Get Real What defines you, really?
By Stephen Garber How would the people in your life describe you and what drives you? How would your colleagues at work and clients describe working with you? How consistent
