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Steven Snyder, PhD, is the founder of Twin Cities–based Snyder Leadership Group, an organizational consulting firm dedicated to cultivating inspired leadership. Snyder has developed the breakthrough concepts introduced in Leadership and the Art of Struggle based on years of research, including...
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Sought-after speaker and consultant Joan Kuhl arms young women with the tools they need to transform male-dominated corpo...
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Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...
Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people probl...
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Short of lives depending on you, it’s hard to imagine more pressure than being on the mound in the final inning of a pivotal World Series game. You’re aware that millions are watching, you’re playing in a packed stadium where the energy and tension are palpable, and your teammates’ fate depend...
October 28, 2015
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Resilience has long been touted as an essential capability for bouncing back from leadership setbacks. Yet despite the overwhelming consensus and supporting evidence that resilience is vital for success in today’s business environment, the truth remains: resilience is hard. It requires the cou...
October 28, 2015
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The Moment When Everything Changes
Any American of the right age can tell you with absolute clarity where they were when they learned of President Kennedy’s assassination, an event whose 50th anniversary is approaching later this month. Like Pearl Harbor before it and 9/11 after, it was a moment when time seemed to stop, when t...
October 28, 2015
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If you are like most people, you haven’t paid much attention to your personal brand. But marketing guru Dorie Clark argues that this could be a costly mistake. Your personal brand is your most valuable asset, and you should care a lot about it. In fact, you should take proactive steps to audit...
October 28, 2015
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Celebrate the Holidays with a Peaceful Center
In the US, the holiday season kicks off with two very different events: the traditional festival of Thanksgiving followed by the riotous frenzy of Black Friday shopping. That same duality seems to define the entire holiday season. It’s a time of celebration and joy, but it’s also a time when r...
October 28, 2015
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Turbocharge Your Innovation Project with Lean Startup
Over the past several decades, lean management techniques such as value stream mapping and root cause analysis have yielded untold billions of dollars of savings, helping businesses run more smoothly and efficiently. Still, these approaches center mainly on optimizing existing operations and ...
April 27, 2015
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Five Leadership Lessons from General Motors CEO, Mary Barra
I had the privilege of getting to know GM’s new CEO Mary Barra last summer, when we both attended Leading a Global Enterprise, an Executive Education Program at the Harvard Business School. Barra embodies the very essence of a 21st century global leader, and she is a leader whom I have come to...
March 6, 2015
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In the 1980′s, when I worked for Microsoft, you could feel the buzz. We were only 250 employees back then, but each one brought enormous drive and energy. The company worked together as one—the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Microsoft still has some of the most talented employees in ...
March 6, 2015
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The Cubic Centimeter of Opportunity
I first learned about the Cubic Centimeter of Opportunity from my friend, Stan Halle, in 1983. I was contemplating two job offers, and had sought Stan’s advice which to take. One offer came from a well-known consulting company in Boston, where I was living at the time. It was the safer of the ...
March 6, 2015
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Evidence Based Innovation Comes of Age
Sometimes when you get a first glimmer of something radically new, you just know it will change everything. VISICALC, the Mac, the Netscape Navigator, and of course the iPhone, all come to mind. Last night, I had a similar feeling at the Mayo Clinic. Something big has arrived, allowing large o...
March 6, 2015
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Steven Snyder posted a blog post
Turbocharge Your Innovation Project with Lean LaunchPad
Over the past several decades, lean management techniques such as value stream mapping and root cause analysis have yielded untold billions of dollars of savings, helping businesses run more smoothly and efficiently. Still, these approaches center mainly on optimizing existing operations and ...
March 6, 2015
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Steven Snyder is now a member of Berrett-Koehler Community
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Steven Snyder posted a blog post
An interview with Steven Snyder Author of LEADERSHIP AND THE ART OF STRUGGLE Q: Counter to commonly held beliefs about leadership struggle, you write that great leadership is signified by struggle. Can you explain what you mean by this? A: Struggle is ...
April 8, 2014
