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Practice Management: Vision and Leadership

| Leadership Style | Vision |

A conversation with Ronald Heifetz: Leadership without Easy Answers
Articulating an organizational vision has to start with a lot of listening, not just a leader with a point of view.

Coaching the Team
Management minute--four tips to help you be a better business coach.

Setting Priorities from Inside Out
The complexity of modern life creates conflicting priorities.  This short piece gives a map for prioritizing those conflicts.


Leadership Style

Capitalizing on the Real Decision-Making Style of Your CEO
Even a light shower of data looks like information overload to some CEOs.  Understanding the requirements of your own CEO can help you to give the necessary information to get the right decision.

Strong Leaders Want Strong Sidemen
In business, as in a jazz combo, there has to be a strong leader with a vision.  But strong sidemen are the shoulders on which the vision rests, and they should be as good as you can find.

Fight. Learn. L*E*A*D.
Five lessons in leadership from the front lines of the Army's National Training Center.

Learn to Play the Power Game
Power derives from a person's position in the heirarchy.  Playing the game is a skill.  The more you practice, the more effective you'll become.

Stanford Executive Institute
Ready to knuckle down to some hard work and hone those executive skills?  Try one of the high-powered executive training programs like this one.  Most of the big schools have them.
 

Vision

Innovation Line: Q&A with Barry Nalebuff
Co-Opetition is a game theory business strategy that guides managers in their interactions with others in the "value" chain. Interesting concepts.

Practical Techniques for Producing Profitable Ideas
Mostly common sense, but still useful reminders for helping ideas to grow into something beneficial.

Benchmark: Encourage Wild Ideas
See what pointers you can pick up from the world's most celebrated design firm.

Merix - A Vision for the World to See
Have you noticed that most firms have vision statements that sound the same?  Be sure to see this novel ``visual" mission statement.

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