I was reminded yesterday of this talk given by Simon Sinek. Not sure what to do next? Start with asking yourself “why” you should take a particular action.
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What game you are playing?
Checkers or Chess? Monopoly or The Settlers of Catan? Football (American) or soccer? The short game or the long game? Regardless of what you like, there is a structure to how a game is played….
Getting to the next level
One of the important lessons I learned from participating in competitive sports is that in order to get better, you very often need to work at it. Additionally, more practice is not always the best…
Building the capacity to innovate
Innovation will not change the economy overnight. Change takes time and the focus of innovation leaders working inside government, existing industries, and in startups should be to create an environment where it can thrive. Although…
Fundamental, systemic, and transformational
Over the past few days, I’ve been publishing specific quotes that have made an impact on me over the past few years. This is the last one from Nicholas Vitalari and Haydn Shaughnessy’s The Elastic…
The traits of leaders
Leadership comes in different shapes and sizes and I’m most concerned with how people lead. The work of Ronald Heifetz recently caught my attention and in his book, Leadership without Easy Answers, he describes the…