Diana Stepner
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Diana Stepner
Fair point. Does the research suggest a better way to select leaders?
We recommend that institutions de-emphasize ambition as a factor in the selection process. Instead, they should focus on attributes that are known to predict leadership effectiveness, such as intelligence and sociability. Further, they should solicit a wider, more representative p
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-productive-tension-tim-wigham/
Using Effective Tension To Yield Higher Workplace Productivity
https://www.q4solutions.com/insights/effective-tension-workplace/
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
https://www.lifepurposes.com/resources/-artificial-harmony-personal-attacks-and-healthy-conflict
Creating a fearless organization is not about perfection. It’s about committing to learning, particularly in the face of fear and uncertainty. As leaders, the question isn’t whether fear exists—it’s how we respond to it. If we can meet it with curiosity, courage, and a commitment to growth, then we might just build something remarkable. A fearless
... See moreIdentifying Core Values
First, you cannot “set” organizational values, you can only discover them. Nor can you “install” new core values into people. Core values are not something people “buy in” to. People must be predisposed to holding them.
Executives often ask, “how do we get people to share our core values?” You don’t. Instead, the task is to fi
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How an AI-enabled software product development life cycle will fuel innovation
Prompting Universal Intelligence UI-GPT
Let’s break it down with actionable insights and use AI as an example:
Your Thoughts Are Prompts
They instruct the systems you influence. Are your thoughts driven by abundance or scarcity?
Your Emotions Are Weights in the Algorithm
Gratitude amplifies outcomes, while stress distorts them. What emotions are you fee
Cognitive reappraisal is a way of reinterpreting a situation in order to change its emotional impact. It’s one of the most effective strategies for managing emotions. Instead of trying to suppress how you feel, you change the story behind the feeling.
Cognitive Reappraisal: The Art of Seeing Things Differently
Too many companies would sooner drop us to save the numbers instead of dropping the numbers to save us.
AI may change the context of our work as leaders, but it cannot change the essence of leadership. We believe leadership is a social process that enables individuals to work together to achieve results that they could never achieve working alone. Our definition, supported by decades of research and experience, emphasizes that leadership is inherentl
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