Scenario Planning and Agility: The Case for Scenarios In an Uncertain World Scenario planning and agility. Too often, managers and leaders focus on controlling the near term. They don't take the time to consider if what they prioritize as important today will be useful, valuable, or applicable to some future state of the organization. As soon as the future comes up in … [Read more...] about Scenario Planning and Agility: The Case for Scenarios In an Uncertain World
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What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
Be it Angry Birds or Galaga, Fallout or Call of Duty, knowing what good likes like is pretty easy. You gain an achievement, rack up three stars or land on a leaderboard. In the pre-social gaming days, it was a local leaderboard, the one on the game you were playing at Shakey’s Pizza during lunch from your sys op job on a HP 3000. Today your achievements are splattered across … [Read more...] about What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring
What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring Angry Birds players rack up high scores from exhibiting the most destructive of behaviors. In the world of management, however, it is important to think about the young birds, before they become angry, and how to help them find their place. How can you help them prosper? How can you apply mentoring to help them test … [Read more...] about What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring
Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson: Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl
Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson: Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl What can we learn about leadership from a Dabo girl? Well, a lot as it turns out. I had the pleasure of hanging out with several Star Trek celebrities over the course of a recent Seattle convention weekend. I was particularly struck by Chase Masterson — Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s Leeta, the … [Read more...] about Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson: Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl
5 Reasons to Rediscover Management and Question the Focus on Leadership
Peter Drucker didn’t really believe in leadership as the core skill for business. Looking at his quotes yields an equivalency between efficiency and management, and between effectiveness and leadership. Management does things right, and leaders do the right things. But beyond a few passing quotes, Drucker dedicated himself to helping people do things right. Drucker viewed … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons to Rediscover Management and Question the Focus on Leadership