Niko Canner

Incandescent #founder, #management thinker, father of two, blogger on business & life #YGL @humanenterprise

[Niko Canner @nikocanner]

Wisdom from Drucker (Management): "Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future."

[Niko Canner @nikocanner]

David Lancefield and I examined the parallels between what it means to be intentional in life and what it takes to build an organization's breakthrough strategy.

Listen below:
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[Jack Martin Leith @greatcreator147]

First there was Playing to Win, a strategy approach originated by @RogerLMartin.
Now there's Play Bigger, which helps its clients design a category they can dominate.
Worth a look if you're an entrepreneur.
HT @nikocanner @humanenterprise
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Incandescent has made a minority investment in Minds at Work. Together, we'll deepen the connection between strategy execution and individual growth—using change not just to overcome barriers, but to catalyze performance and personal development

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Building on our work together, Incandescent and Minds at Work are deepening our partnership. Founded by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Minds at Work helps individuals and organizations achieve critical but hard-to-implement change.

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One of the most important questions you can ask is: "What am I hiring my job to do?"

This question is equally relevant whether you're trying to achieve your fullest potential in a job that's right for you, weighing whether to stay or leave, or actively searching for what's next

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Boutique firms drive when their partners have the right conversations. Here is a guided framework for having six of the conversations that matter most.

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Is there anything greater to wish for in one’s work than to be called by love and taught by necessity?

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@GeneticAlliance #entrepreneurship #impact

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Entrepreneurial action could be defined as the art of pursuing goals that cannot be achieved by remaining as you are.

#Entrepreneurship #development

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The gospel of disruption prophesies falsely approximately as often as the gospel of tradition. https://t.co/5KeGh17ZQw

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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say” (E.M. Forster) turns inward. Turning outward, as you so beautifully do @patrick_oshag, we see our defining choices are whom to be in conversation with & how to bring to each conversation our most generous self.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

“To care about anything in the world is to imply the question of how one becomes an instrument for advancing what matters.

The question of great achievement need not come from the self’s ambition – it follows from the recognition that one can be an instrument of something larger.

Among the most important choices we each make is this choice of how we regard the possibility of great achievement. This choice is woven through how each of us crafts our individual path and how we find, help shape and enable others.

While there are arguments for and against the impact of the individual – Carlyle vs. Tolstoy – we all benefit from taking an optimistic view of this question and acting as if individuals can make a very big difference.

The structure of this is much like Pascal’s wager. There’s little downside from adopting too optimistic a stance, and a great deal of upside if that stance proves right.”

https://t.co/JmRD9XrzrO by @nikocanner

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Moral leaders, knowing the power of meaning what they say, step further back—and from that higher ground, ask what’s most worth saying and most worth meaning.  Are you committed to meaning what you say?  My essay reflecting on @TheHOWInstitute report:
https://t.co/IpjVymPpIW

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In The State of Moral Leadership in Business, @DovSeidman and his team at @TheHOWInstitute throw the gauntlet: employees in every sector pervasively demand moral leadership and rarely experience it.
https://t.co/mAMuoMrQyh

[Niko Canner @nikocanner]

Effective individuals in every field of endeavor go further than their peers in meaning what they say. Elemental as that is, it is an incredibly demanding and powerfully differentiating standard.

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@humanenterprise “The Shape of a Year” in a reflection on what we learned in the first year of this experiment: https://t.co/Dk9U24Tv8m

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Too often, the cycles by which we manage organizations and structure our work numb us and deaden us, even as they propel us forward.

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At @humanenterprise we’ve been asking: How can we be most intentional about how we use the shape of our years, as well as the rhythms of our quarters, months and weeks, to place our collective attention on what we care about most?