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 [ … ]

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negotiate to innovate

It 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 [ … ]

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Good 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.  [ … ]

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The 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 [ … ]

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The 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 [ … ]

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Strategic 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 [ … ]

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