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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 had a reaction.  The world was changing rapidly when Kilar left Amazon in 2006, and access [...]

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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 Tesco, but it is the third largest retailer in the world.  It’s also unlikely you’ve heard [...]

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The 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 he has personally achieved.  You may have met the vice president in charge of a certain [...]

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The Myth of Mastery: Leading Your Company Through Complexity

Issue 3.7 | May 2012 In this Article: why a company should master culture before it attempts to manage complexity. The Myth of Mastery: Leading Your Company Through Complexity by Jonathan Wilson The nasty surprise awaiting every growing organizational leader is the utter complexity of the world in which they are meant to make a [...]

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From Noble Thought to Noble Deed

Issue 3.3 | November 2011 In this Article: disciplined action, not just a great idea, makes a leader. by Jonathan Wilson It is a tiresome and common fact of our world that the noble-minded are plenty, but few of them act in accordance with their sentiments.  Thought-leadership does not a leader make.  It is a [...]

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Profit Fixation is Bad (for Business)

Issue 3.1 | September 2011 In this Article: why an exclusive focus on profit creates a dangerous distraction from value creation. by Jonathan Wilson  Apple does not exist to make a profit.  If it did, it would never have made the ground-breaking iPod nor the ensuing iTunes, let alone a magnificent series of breakthrough products [...]

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The Politics of Courage

Issue 2.12 | August 2011 In this Article: courage in leadership begins with the courage to not think of yourself. by Jonathan Wilson  August 2nd, 2011 is a date that will remain infamous in history.  The day saw the close of the US government’s debt-ceiling debacle that, it is claimed, brought the world to the [...]

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Leadership that Lasts

  Issue 2.11 | July 2011 In this Article: what your leadership is built on will dictate how long it can last and what legacy it will leave. by Jonathan Wilson  In the course of human history fifty years is a fleeting moment, but for each of us it is a considerable portion of the [...]

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Scanning the Horizon You Plan to Reach

Issue 2.10 | June 2011 In this Article: the why, the what and the how of strategic planning.   by Jonathan Wilson Far in the distance, palm trees and jungle hung over the blue Pacific waters.  The sun rode high in the sky, casting its warm tropical light onto our outrigger canoe that rode the [...]

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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Issue 2.8 | March 2011 In this Article: how leadership that influences is the result of persistent initiative.   by Jonathan Wilson “The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is … that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which [...]

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