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The Spertus Institute for Judaic Studies in Chicago faced a challenge. It was a wonderful place for people to come together to learn from each other and share perspective on Judaic history, culture and issues in lively discourse. But its building sent a different message. It said, “We’re special. Don’t even think about coming in [...]
The thing about this vision thing is that it's not about your vision. It's about their vision. The great leaders over time have most certainly painted pictures of a brighter future. Those pictures have been ones in which their audiences could picture themselves. As Jean Brown points out in Onboarding, Martin Luther King's "I have [...]
No one who ever worked in marketing at Procter and Gamble would ever consider letting anyone develop any sort of advertising without a clear creative brief. We should hold ourselves to the same standard when it comes to recruiting briefs. No on should ever consider letting anyone start recruiting for any new employee without a [...]
The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and me” to “we”. Of course transitioning leaders must pick the right strategy across Start-ups, Turnarounds, Accelerated Growth, Realignment or Sustaining Success (Watkins). Of course CEO [...]