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I recently stumbled across a post “ The Toughest Choices a Leader Must Make”(which is alternatively titled “Thinking Strategically About What You Want to Accomplish in Life”) that really caught my attention. Its author is Ray Blunt, who is Associate Director and Fellow at the Washington Institute fro Faith, Vocation, and Culture. His focus as a leadership consultant and teacher is on servant leadership.
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For this week’s Tuesday Reading, we turn to a Harvard Business Review blog post by Linda Hill and Kent Lineback “Better Time Management is Not the Answer”. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professof of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Lineback has spent many years as a manager and executive in business and government. They are co-authors of Being the Boss – The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader.
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Are you up for a challenge? Josh Linkner in a recent Fast Company blog post, “The 5% Creativity Challenge”, challenges each of us to schedule two one-hour thinking sessions each week. Linkner is the author of Disciplined Dreaming - A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity and CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners.
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Today’s reading is “Managing Yourself: Stop Holding Yourself Back”from the Harvard Business Review. The authors are Ann Morriss, managing director of the Concire Leadership Institute and Robin Ely and Frances Frei, both professors at the Harvard Business School.
Morriss, Ely, and Frei have been studying for over a decade what gets in the way of ambitious employees who want to step up and lead. Ely has studied race, gender, and leadership; Frei has focused on coaching senior executives; and Morriss works on unleashing social entrepreneurs.
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Luca Baiguni, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Personal Development at the Politecnico di Milano, was recently was in Barcelona on business and spent some time visiting the city. One of his must see places was the Sagrada Famìla, the basilica universally considered the masterpiece of Antoni Gaudì, the Spanish architect who lived from 1852 to 1926.
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The reading today, “Take ownership of your meeting experience”, appeared in the Facilitate.com blog and comes from the keyboard of Danuta McCall, a senior member of the Facilitate.com team.
The reading’s key point is that we, each as individual participants in a meeting, play a role in whether that meeting is successful or not. We do this through four choices:
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Today’s reading comes from Anthony Tjan’s Harvard Business Review Blog. Tian is CEO of the venture capital firm Cue Ball and is a recognized business builder. The piece “Six Habits of a Talent Magnet,” which he wrote with Tsun-yan Hsiehm chair of the LinHart Group, can be found at <http://bit.ly/e5VSWy>.
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A few weeks ago, one of the Harvard Business Review Blogs contained a short post by Linda Hill and Kent Lineback with the eye-catching title “The Words Many Managers Are Afraid to Say”. Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Kent Lineback spent many years as a manager and an executive in business and government.
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Last week my attention was drawn to a 2007 article by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. "What is this thing called CEO leadership?". Kraemer is clinical professor of management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and an executive partner with Madison Dearborn, a private equity firm based in Chicago. He is also the former chair and CEO of Baxter International, Inc., a global healthcare company.
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On March 15,2011 Harvard Business Review's Management Tip of the Day was "Live Your Mission, Don't State It". Two sentences – "A mission statement is an abstraction. An organization on a mission is inspiring." – caught my eye in this summary of Dan Pallotta's HBR blog entry "Do You Have a Mission Statement, or Are You on a Mission?".
