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What is Leadership?

by Steven M. Smith

How do I define leadership?
Leadership is the ability to adapt the setting so everyone feels empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problems.
Leadership is an ability, meaning a leader has a capacity to do something through talent and skill. Talent is natural ability and skill is proficiency gained through training and experience. Talent certainly  helps, [...]

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Zeroing In on the Right Problem

by Steven M. Smith

Workshop
If a project team is working on the wrong problem, the best solution in the world won’t help them satisfy their customer.
How can you help a project team zero in on the right problem? You cannot do it by yourself. You will need help. You will need to gather the right people. In addition, you [...]

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Types of Meetings

by Steven M. Smith

There are different types of meetings. Each type requires a different structures and supports a different number of participants. For instance, a status (feedforward) meeting has no limit to the number of participants while a decision-making meeting produces results faster with a small number of participants.
If you want to help your teams have more effective [...]

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