on trails Archives - RapidStart Leadership https://rapidstartleadership.com/tag/on-trails/ Accelerating the Leader to Excellence Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:36:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://rapidstartleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Logo-for-Favicon-v5.png on trails Archives - RapidStart Leadership https://rapidstartleadership.com/tag/on-trails/ 32 32 94017446 9 Secrets to Leading Sheep – No Matter How Many Legs They Have https://rapidstartleadership.com/leading-sheep/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leading-sheep Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:46:32 +0000 https://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=9721

Leading sheep is not too far different from leading people, as this would-be shepherd learned the hard way; here are 9 secrets to doing it well.

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]]> 9721 Optimization: Surprising Lessons in Efficiency from the Ant World https://rapidstartleadership.com/optimization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=optimization Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:06:49 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=5919

“How can you optimize a system that’s error-prone?” As humans, we are fallable.  In our efforts to achieve, produce, and progress, we make mistakes, we misjudge, we stumble. Any enterprise that involves humans will, by definition, be imperfect.  But is that really such a bad thing?  When it comes to optimization and effiency, there are […]

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]]> 5919 Visionary Leadership: When Social Proof Fails https://rapidstartleadership.com/visionary-leadership-social-proof/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visionary-leadership-social-proof Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:53:57 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=4524

What is visionary leadership? In 1921, an explorer and naturalist named William Beebe was trekking through the jungle in Guyana.  He came across a large colony of ants marching along a path that they had made. Curious, he followed the little ant highway to see where they were going. After a quarter mile of climbing […]

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