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Andy Atkins

North Yorkshire County, UK
As seen in: The Independent (UK), Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, The Tablet, StrategicCHRO360
Strategist/Non-Exec. Product, Marketing and Ecommerce troublemaker. FInstLM. BMC and MCS member. Conservation-minded.
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How the Best Leaders Shape Conversations

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By Alison Brooks, Andy Atkins
| Harvard Business Review Verified
Everyone has experienced meetings that miss the mark. They meander. Important concerns go unspoken. Decisions remain unresolved—or worse, the same decisions are revisited again and again. It’s tempting to blame agendas, calendars, or meeting overload. But these frustrations point to a deeper problem. Every strategy, innovation, decision, and relationship begins as a conversation. Meetings are simply the place where many of an organization’s most consequential conversations happen.
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An Analysis of 1,000 Meetings Shows How the Best Leaders Shape Conversations

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By Alison Brooks, Andy Atkins
| Harvard Business Review Verified
SKIP TO CONTENT Every strategy, decision, and transformation begins as a conversation. Yet leaders rarely think intentionally about how those conversations unfold. The highest-performing teams steward... Everyone has experienced meetings that miss the mark. They meander. Important concerns go unspoken. Decisions remain unresolved—or worse, the same decisions are revisited again and again.
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Want More Innovation? Try More Disagreement

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By Andy Atkins
| StrategicCHRO360 Verified
Curiosity about a problem is at the heart of innovation. What is the unfilled need? What’s possible that we haven’t tried? But there’s another type of curiosity that’s just as important: curiosity about the perspectives of others. What are they seeing that I may be missing? What contributes to their perspective? Popular mythology frequently depicts innovation as the product of solo genius. However, innovators are often collaborators, not loners.
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The Independent View: Conference 2013: Lib Dems must stand up for the environment

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By Andy Atkins
| Liberal Democrat Voice
For a fleeting moment in May 2010 there was genuine optimism that the environment might be put at the heart of Britain’s political agenda. With a coalition of Liberal Democrats, praised by many, including Friends of the Earth, for their manifesto’s prioritisation of environmental issues, joining forces with a ‘vote blue, go green’ Tory party, fresh from championing the Climate Change Act, it looked as if yellow and blue really could produce green.
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How Leaders Build Trust

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By Andy Atkins
| Fast Company Verified
By Andy Atkins 4 minute Read Trust me. When’s the last time you actually believed those words on the job? If your answer is a long time ago, you’re not alone. In fact, many people instinctively recoil from those two words–especially when uttered by business leaders or professional colleagues. A sign of the times, perhaps, but there’s a ray of hope–good news, in fact, for leaders looking to make quick progress in building trust in their organizations.
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