The Virgin Way – Insights Into Richard Branson’s BRAVE Leadership
The Virgin Way – Insights Into Richard Branson’s BRAVE Leadership

While Richard Branson’s new book, “The Virgin Way” is “about listening, learning, laughing and leading”, applying the BRAVE leadership framework to the book’s ten summary ideas yields highly applicable insights.

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Moses Was Wrong: Avoid Sprawl, Infill Cities (And Teams)
Moses Was Wrong: Avoid Sprawl, Infill Cities (And Teams)

Social and work communities thrive in close proximity. Fight urban or corporate sprawl with infilling.

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Rebranding? Be Like Blue Ribbon Sports (Nike)
Rebranding? Be Like Blue Ribbon Sports (Nike)

A BRAVE approach to rebranding can make all the difference – like it did when Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.

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Why You Should Adopt Google’s Nested Approach To Office Layouts

The anthropological research across cultures indicates that groups of seven people, plus or minus two, create the strongest trust bonds and best reinforce cultural norms.

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The Only Real Question Anyone Has About Any Change You Lead

“How does this affect me?” Until you provide an answer to that question, no one is going to pay any attention to anything else you say.

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How About An App To Measure Changes In Employee Commitment?

make sure you are paying attention to whatever leading indicators of employee attitude changes you can get hold of

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Leverage John Kotter’s ‘Dual Operating System’ To Accelerate Change In Large Organizations

how the left, hierarchical side and a new right, networked side of large organizations can work together to accelerate important changes.

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The Single Most Important Secret To Scaling Up An Entrepreneurial Venture

In most cases there’s one thing keeping an entrepreneurial venture from making the turn from startup to a sustainably growing and thriving enterprise – the entrepreneurial founder and leader. The…

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Five Keys to BRAVE Innovation

The five keys to BRAVE Innovation are a cross between the ideas in Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite’s The Innovator’s Field Guide, with my own BRAVE leadership framework.

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