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The biggest difference between management and leadership? The desired outcome. The desired outcome of managment is order and predictability- the desired outcome of leadershp is change. What is your vision and who do you want to create value for in the long run? How do you begin to effect change that moves your organization toward your vision? Change for the leadership team is intimately tied to change for the company.  Effecting significant change, and how we change in the process. Identifying positive and effective change.

This video explains something about what a “DesignShop” is about. No two DesignShops are alike- but the results they produce can have a global impact.

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Are your values working- making money- for you? Quality is a value of course, but what are your other quantifiable values? Defining values, personal and corporate. What exactly is the price of non-conformance, and how are your values important to your success?

…if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. Some thoughts on how corporations move forward.

Most organizations share the same knowedge- so what sets them apart? Not the strategy, but the way the strategy is executed; more specifically, the organization’s ability to execute.

Greg Metzler describes what are typically thought of as hard and soft skills- and why the differences between those two distinctions are becoming blurred in some corporate cultures.

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