Guten Tag
The Designing Leaders team may be offline, or otherwise slow to respond, until next week. We are currently in Vienna, Austria, exploring modern leadership methods in cafes (which is code for “we are getting all the coffee and pastries we can get this week”). Back soon!!
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- Sep, 30, 2015
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Sep, 30, 2015
Born or Made?
Are leaders born, or are they made? The Designing Leaders crew had this discussion last month over dinner, and we have been thinking about it a lot since then. It’s an old question that we have all asked ourselves before, and plenty of people have offered up an answer, but nothing that seems to really […]
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- Sep, 25, 2015
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The Military-to-Civilian Transition
Last week, Designing Leaders hosted a small discussion session in Singapore on the issue of hiring leaders and managers who have just left the military (looking here at the regular Singapore Armed Forces, not the National Service that is compulsory for males). Singapore has a long history of integrating retired and other long-term military personnel […]
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- Sep, 23, 2015
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Be Open to Bad News
The idea of “shooting the messenger” was first expressed by Shakespeare, or so says Wikipedia. But in a nutshell, the leader who lashes out at the poor subordinate who got tagged to report bad news is wasting time, and wasting messengers. Don’t be that leader. Many leaders say they want open communication in their workplace, […]
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- Sep, 21, 2015
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Turbulent Thailand
In the last few weeks, when people ask us about Thailand, the questions have usually been about the recent bombing. As horrible as that event was, it is but one piece of the turbulent times in Thailand today. We wanted to share a few thoughts on what we are seeing in that country. This is […]
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- Sep, 18, 2015
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