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Comment on Turning the Tide of Adversity by Not Fast Enough | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:44:43 +0000

[…] those just starting out in the sport of rowing whose races were scheduled for yesterday, another lesson in failure. Months of training sessions distrusted by conditions and races cancelled for the same all leading […]

Comment on We Are All Weird by Embracing the Failure of Normal | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:15:34 +0000

[…] the spirit of embracing the failure to conform, I’ve written a number of posts extolling the world of weird. Michael Lazerow elaborates articulately with a number of further perspectives of the wonder of […]

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by Badasssss Dreams | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:18:57 +0000

[…] unfinished novel or film script is one of the classic dream bubbles. Many of those converging on Cannes this week will be the hopeful carting their inflated aspirations in folios and CDs. Perhaps few as fervently […]

Comment on Pale Blue Dot by Best Interview Fail Ever | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:25:43 +0000

[…] Cannes has endless interviews with the stars, but none as deliciously #FAIL as this one. Talk about breaking all the rules. But, what’s there not to like. The interviewee, a charming Mila Cunis (who just rose in my estimation by leaps based on her embrace of this total failure) called it “the best interview of the day”. The publicist whose exposure of the movie and the actress went viral. The rookie interviewer who, never mind bolting out of obscurity, had the best minutes of his life. […]

Comment on Premortems by Leadership updates for 05/15/2013

Leadership updates for 05/15/2013 — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:12:16 +0000

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Comment on Shameless Leadership by Leadership updates for 05/06/2013

Leadership updates for 05/06/2013 — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:47:56 +0000

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Comment on Embracing the Worst Worker by Leadership updates for 05/02/2013

Leadership updates for 05/02/2013 — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:47:07 +0000

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Comment on 5 Whys by Premortems | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Premortems | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:04:46 +0000

[…] Gary Klein proposes the notion of a ‘premortem’. Sort of a pre-emptive 5 Whys… […]

Comment on Powell v. Rumsfeld by Influence and Peace | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:41 +0000

[...] This observation echoes one of my earliest pieces back at the outset of the Iraq War contrasting the imbalance of Leadership and Management in that undertaking and looking at the executive personas exhibited by Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell. [...]

Comment on True Misery by Influence and Peace | Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:38 +0000

[...] modern day conflicts don’t have big landmark ‘Victory’ days celebrating the end of conflict. Just because the combatant government and military has [...]