Issue 5.4 | September 2015 In this Article: we continue to reflect on how to rethink our assumptions to lead better. Here we examine the charity sector. Because this article explores a landscape (and an argument) that may feel quite foreign to [ … ]
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Becoming a Better Business Leader: Unlearning Capitalism
Issue 5.3 | July 2015 In this Article: we build on last month’s article (how to unlearn flawed assumptions that hinder transformation) by showing how we can unlearn the flaws of Capitalism, and do business better. Next month we will focus [ … ]
Read MoreIt Takes More than a Big Idea: Why Negotiation is the Pathway to Successful Innovation
Issue 4.11 | September-October 2014 In this Article: progress is built on negotiation as much as it is on innovation. The first in a two-part series on negotiation. by Jonathan Wilson All human progress is the result of innovation [ … ]
Read MoreStealing Business: When Value Creation Becomes Extraction
Issue 4.5 | October 2013 In this Article: while thieves extract value, leaders create it. by Jonathan Wilson Few of us may be part of it or even directly encounter it, but we all know what corruption and thievery [ … ]
Read MoreGood Business: Abandoning the Miserly World of Profiteering
Issue 4.3 | July 2013 In this Article: doing business out of self-interest makes for bad business. by Jonathan Wilson Ten years after the wrack and ruin of genocide in Rwanda, I visited the tiny but infamous country. [ … ]
Read MoreThe Rush to the Future: Wisdom and Knowledge in Leadership
Issue 4.1 | March 2013 In this Article: knowledge comes from the future, but wisdom from the past. by Jonathan Wilson Earlier this year I transitioned, for just a few weeks, between universes. I passed from the business world [ … ]
Read MoreThe Unhappy Visionary: How to Develop Organizational Vision
Issue 3.11 | October 2012 In this Article: three acts of reflection carry us from dissatisfaction to vision. by Jonathan Wilson Jason Kilar didn’t begin the revolutionary online video service, Hulu, because he had a vision, but because he [ … ]
Read MoreBeyond a Hollow Victory
Issue 3.10 | August 2012 In this Article: how we define success will define how we get success. by Jonathan Wilson Through the lush hills of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a road winds past quiet fields and woods and descends [ … ]
Read MoreStrategic Planning and the Dirty Habit of Thumb-Sucking
Issue 3.9 | July 2012 In this Article: how to avoid the trap of building a sophisticated strategy on a shaky foundation. by Jonathan Wilson Everyone loves a rags-to-riches story. The North American reader may not have heard of [ … ]
Read MoreThe Measure of a Leader
Issue 3.8 | June 2012 In this Article: how you use power will determine your leadership legacy. by Jonathan Wilson It is one of the great mistakes of a leader to believe that he will be measured by what [ … ]
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