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The Power Principle: Why Influential Leaders Outperform Forceful Ones

The Power Principle: Why Influential Leaders Outperform Forceful Ones Issue 207, April 10, 2025 We are intrigued by the uneasy balance between power and force – a debate that has recently become a focus of the American dialogue. This cultural conversation is underscored by author David Hawkins who wrote the insightful “Power vs. Force.” According to Hawkins, there’s an important distinction: “True power uplifts and serves the whole, while force demands justification and serves the few.” Here’s a simple way…

Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role 2040’s Ideas + Innovations

Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role Issue 118, July 20, 2023 Last week we gave you a case study to demonstrate how critical the human factor (and personalities and our own blind spots) becomes in seeking to innovate, make change and transform. Change is ever-present in daily life. It is also a constant in response to an organization’s market, system, and the needs and wants of customers and workforce. Resistance to innovation, change, and transformation is…

What Role Do You Play? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

What Role Do You Play? Issue 72: Sept 8, 2022 Here’s a real-life scenario. Recently there has been friction and dissension within a management team. Managers are struggling to help manage a disruptive economy, guide strategy in an ambiguous marketplace, rein in a headstrong CEO that is resisting authority, and manage multiple powerplays among members who believe they have all the answers or who are afraid to reveal themselves and what they don’t know. This is not a fictional drama…

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Role Playing

Role Playing Issue 45: March 3, 2022 We have written over the past year highlighting the necessity of recognizing the many roles we play, whether the roles are assigned or expected. Human beings can appear to be many different people throughout the day dependent on the situation or environment. We assume different roles depending on the situation at hand, although our core values don’t change. These roles may blur from time to time, but it is critically important to recognize…

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