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This is the last month of the year, and the best time to review your growth and goals achieved as a leader and as a person. This is also the perfect time to plan for the year ahead. Fine-tune your leadership goals, improvise your leadership development plans and build your leadership skills as you step into the next year.
It turns out that 90% of the time leaders’ decisions and subsequent actions are driven by their non-conscious automated processes (e.g., habits, biases). In other words, for much of leaders’ daily life experiences, they operate mindlessly.
Most leaders project a calm, confident exterior to the world, but beneath that calm public exterior lurks the fear of being found out as a fraud. They wonder, What if they discover I’m not who I’m pretending to be? Or I don’t really know what I’m doing. I’m just making it up as I go along.
Often dubbed Silicon Valley North, Canada’s startup scene is scorching. From Shopify to Slack to Hootsuite, our country boasts a number of highly successful startups that have raised the bar for innovation and employment.
Workplace culture is both a “hot” and important topic in the world today. Companies, organizations, and government agencies are all struggling with the reality that they have seriously unhealthy workplace cultures.
Over the past three years I’ve researched the connection between innovation and intrapreneurship to determine if intrapreneurs really can drive disruption inside even the most labyrinthine organizations.
A few years ago in the small Swedish town of Strömstad, police received a late-night domestic disturbance call. The caller reported hearing disconcerting noises, including loud banging and crying, coming from a neighbor’s house.
The word ‘Disruptive’ has come to signify the kind of transformative change that uproots existing norms of competitive economies and forges a path of its own by rewriting the ‘rule book’ while relegating complacent titans of industry to the annals of history.
In Part 3 of this Series, I shared some ideas about what managers can do to create a culture where accountability will naturally flourish.