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… lessons in Adaptive Leadership

November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday I reviewed a couple of articles from Harvard Business Review (November 2010) on “Leadership Lessons from the Military“. Today’s post will finish the job by reviewing the article “Four lessons in Adaptive Leadership” [p86] by Michael Useem from Wharton Business School. Useem and his colleagues at Wharton have incorporated military leadership principles into the [...]

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… Leadership Lessons from the Military

November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Harvard Business Review features this title as it cover story for the November 2010 issue. A sad indictment that it has taken me 12 months to get around to writing about it – but better late than never. There are three articles from this issue that I wanted to draw your attention to – each [...]

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… explore vs exploit – resilience as learning.

June 3, 2011 By 1 Comment

To be resilient requires that we be open to new ideas. That has been a message in a number of the posts in this series, including  the previous post discussing the Hamel & Valikangas article. Here is a new idea – resilience can mean different things in the Strategic, Tactical and Operational contexts of an [...]

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… learning by our own mistakes!

May 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

No matter how good we think we are, to maintain a skill or habit we need to practice it – and regularly. Once a year is probably not going to cut it. For many years I travelled extensively, and at times would have been taking an international trip at least once a month. I would [...]

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… ritual and resilience

April 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Here in Australia we have just finished a 5 day weekend. This year the Easter Weekend (normally 4 days) occured at the same time as the ANZAC Day public holiday. For the benefit of international readers ANZAC Day is a national day of rememberance for those who fought and died in war. It commemorates the [...]

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