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We invited some of the smartest people we know to consider four of the toughest questions around. Fast Company celebrates its second anniversary with the ultimate business roundtable.

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Steve Cunnigham's video summary of the book The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

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Now is the time to rethink long-held strategic assumptions inside your company, to challenge decades of conventional wisdom in your industry, and to push yourself to learn, grow, and innovate. ... Here, then, are ten questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations — questions that speak to the challenges of change at a moment when change is the name of the game. The leaders with the best answers win.

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Economic downturns are as much about psychology as about GNP, as much about withering confidence as about shrinking employment. As individual leaders, we have no control over whether banks will lend or consumers will spend. But we do control our own mindsets and "animal spirits" -- the memorable phrase coined by an even more influential economist, John Maynard Keynes, in the depths of the Great Depression.

Here's Keynes: "A large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive. . .can only be taken as the result of animal spirits -- a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities."

Translation: If all you've got is a spreadsheet filled with red ink and grim forecasts, it's easy to be paralyzed by fear. But if you've got some leadership nerve, if you can summon those "animal spirits" of which Keynes writes, then hard times can be a great time to separate yourself from the pack and build advantages for years to come.

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Graphic: 1. Is there anything wrong with this? 2. How close to the edge can I get without actually doing something wrong? 3. Can I justify it? How far can I go without facing the consequences? 4. How did I get into this mess?

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A succinct summary of Servant Leadership:

How well our employees serve and hopefully delight our customers is a direct reflection of how well we serve and delight our employees. This approach to leadership is often called Servant Leadership, but don’t let yourself get hung up on the labels. Here are the basic precepts of this approach (Greenleaf, et al. 2002 ; Spears, 1995).

* Put service before self-interest. Be resourceful.
* Listen first to affirm confidence in others. Listen to figure out the will of the group and then further it however she can.
* Inspire trust by being trustworthy. Be willing to give everything away – power, control, rewards, information, and recognition.
* Help others find the power of the human spirit and accept their responsibilities. Work exists for the person as much as the person exists for work.

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...truly effective leaders in any field — including technical ones — know how to tell "the story" of their particular research endeavor, technological quest, or marketing plan, etc.

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Here are my top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the K12 Online presentations that I think are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators as well as make them think!

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Welcome to the "AI Commons"--a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.

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Scott McLeod shares his article written for Iowa school administrators, April 2009 - emerging technologies and related educational trends. Nice summary and links.

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Aggregating sites from across You Tube with high quality content re thinking, social analysis, leadership, teaching, etc.

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HR World links to the sites of others in a variety of areas of leadership, management, organzations, business.

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Article characterizing the eclectic, non-business library collections of several successful business leaders.

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Goleman's site

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summary of a Reeves presentation

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Summary of Reeves and 90-90-90 school studies

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Doug Reeves and company. Resources, links, presenters

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Blog 1 on the Elements of Persuasion by Robert Dickman and Richard Maxwell. The structure of "story" - "a fact wrapped in an emotion that compels us to take an action that transforms our world." Links to Chp 1 of the book free.

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brief article with links re use of AI and positive psych with students and staff at The Culver Academies, college-prep boarding school in Indiana

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Fullan's home page with articles, bio, etc.

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