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his knowledge base was static, not dynamic—meaning that, despite his extensive expertise, he didn’t invest in exploring ideas that were outside of his familiar domain.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
My experience has taught me that the key to organizational success today is in getting the people to want to own the responsibility for their own performance.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Several practices can help you institutionalize reflection and continuous learning in your organization or team.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
successful leveraging of top professionals is at the heart of the success of the professional firm.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
The assistance to entrepreneurs or management firstly consists of striving to help someone focus on their goals. Directors have to see to it that a business plan is carried out.
Carié Maas • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me
Can we become better than our competition at accumulating, disseminating, and building on our firmwide expertise and experience, so that each professional becomes more valuable in the marketplace by being empowered with a greater breadth and depth of experience?
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
The key is to move the Agency from a team of generalists to a team of specialists.
Peter Hoole • Agencynomics
Try the classic “team of rivals” If I could give every team the perfect set of advisors, I’d include: A product visionary who imagines the dream solution for customers (customer lens) A pragmatic engineer who wants to build the product ASAP (pragmatic lens) A marketing wiz on a mission to make the business grow, grow, grow (growth lens) A finance e
... See moreJohn Zeratsky • Click: How to Make What People Want
Every key person should have at least one person who can replace him or her.