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Leadership Challenges Today: The Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder
Leadership Challenges Today: The Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder

A Leader's primary role is to ensure that a group of people produce a desired outcome.  To accomplish this goal, a leader must encourage their team by setting a clear vision.  The vision may be a short-term goal, such as a meeting agenda, or a long-term goal such as a five year plan.  No matter what the goal, the vision is essential for motivating a team and getting others on board.  Some leaders, however, appear to suffer from LADD - Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder.

Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder often manifests itself in three different ares:

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Leadership HacksAdam WitmerLeadership Attention Deficit Disorder, Leadership, Vision Casting, Meetings, Innovation, Strategy, Momentum
Radical Leadership: The 4 R's of a Radical Leader
Radical Leadership: The 4 R's of a Radical Leader

Leadership looks different today than it did just a decade ago.  In years past, a leader’s authority was often derived from his or her special skill or expertise.  Because a leader had a special skill (or inside knowledge), he was able to take an authoritarian my-way-or-the-high-way leadership style.  In just a few short decades, all of that has changed.  No longer can leaders rely solely on special information or expertise as a leadership advantage.  Thanks to Google, information is just too easy to come by.   The internet has leveled the playing field so much that newer generations are demanding a radical new kind of leadership.  Organizations need radical leaders.

There are four R's to radical leadership:

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Change Management, Leadership HacksAdam WitmerLeadership, Change, Innovation