Category: Leadership by Soul
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Negotiate to Innovate
We live in an age of innovation, and in a culture that prizes it dearly. But innovation is a social process, and negotiation is a key social mechanism to enable it. Jonathan Wilson draws on the latest Apple innovation – its Apple Watch, to demonstrate that this breakthrough required not just problem solving ingenuity, but…
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A Thief in the House?
A hard-hitting self-critique of how we steal value from ourselves and our customers.
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Dreams too lofty? Perhaps not.
The Fall season of Leadership by Soul posts begins with a new home and a new look for these monthly Leadership reflections. The September edition is entitled Too Big to Pursue? Forsaking the Inevitable to Pursue the Impossible wherein SoulSystems CEO Jonathan Wilson weighs in on those high strategic goals that may not be as…
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What Rwanda can teach us about good and bad business
A visit to Rwanda shortly after the infamous genocide shed a compelling light on the current economic spirit of miserliness and profiteering. In short: business done out of self-interest is, essentially, bad business. Read the original post here.
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The counterintuitive leadership wisdom of empowering your mob
In this Leadership by Soul post, SoulSystems CEO Jonathan Wilson demonstrates how leadership can be distributed without an ensuing anarchy, outlining several ironies that arise when leaders give up control. See From Threat to Throne: Empowering The Mob.