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Section 1: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
Section 2: Planning and Execution
Section 3: Projects and Initiatives
Section 4: Organizational Culture and Change
Section 5: Innovation
Section 6: Organizational Structure

 

SECTION 1: LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

		Leadership Transition: Leave Your Campsite Better Than You Found It
		Slow Courage and Doing the Right Thing
		How to Take Charge
		The Formula for Good Judgment (and the Cure for Bad Judgment)
		How Not to Derail Your Climb Up the Corporate Ladder

 

SECTION 2: PLANNING AND EXECUTION

		Are Goals Dangerous?
		A Clear Success? You Bet!
		Strategic Assumptions
		Accomplish More with Less
		The Three C’s of Accountability
		How to Make Strategy Review = Strategy Execution

 

SECTION 3: PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

		Strategic Project Control Starts with Asking the Right Questions
		Cross-Functional or Dysfunctional? The Keys to Getting Those Big Initiatives Right
		Tips for Managing Projects More Effectively

 

SECTION 4: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE

		Five Steps to Build a More Response-able Organization
		Create a Culture of Candor
		Organizational Change – Getting Everybody on Board
		Transformational Levers for Big Organizational Change

 

SECTION 5: INNOVATION

		When Failure Leads to Innovation and When it Doesn’t
		We Can All Play in the “Innovation Sandbox”
		Lessons Learned About Lessons Learned

 

SECTION 6: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

		Restructuring Requires Smart Tactics
		Accountability Without Authority: How to Drive Employees Crazy
		Matrix Management – and Three Rules That Make It Actually Work
		On Head Chopping