Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

If you are a strong leader, with a proven track record of results and looking to advance, chances are you are going to be asked to take on a job you know nothing about. On paper, you will be completely unqualified. Welcome to the world of succession planning developmental assignments Much research has shown that [.] The post Got Results? How to Succeed in Your Next Developmental Assignment appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Leadership Development “Let’s write a book.” Often we don’t see significant turning points in our life. Or we don’t realize their significance when they happen. Many times radical change comes from a simple decision. Some decisions fire off a chain reaction of additional decisions leading to unexplored territory.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I imagine most of you are familiar with Dan McCarthy and his insightful blog, Great Leadership. I also know that many of you are also bloggers, who, like me, have aspirations of “some day” turning your posts into a brilliant and useful book. Dan has done just that in his e-book, The Great Leadership Development and [.] The post The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit: A Book Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Leader’s Climb by Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen is a business fable about learning to counteract the growing pressure to go too fast, fight too much, and force too many decisions. There is an alternative to this pressure we all feel. Throughout the story—an exercise in itself to create space, slow down and become more aware—the author’s stress three qualities to strengthen your leadership: Awareness (slowing down), Acceptance (embracing reality), and Abundance (considering multiple options).

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Last month, I shared a disappointing statistic — only 15% of angel investors are women. But did you know that only 11% of partners in venture capital firms are women? Did you know that women perform 66% of the world’s work but only earn 10% of the income? You can see those statistics and more in the Investing in Women infographic shown below from Pemo Theodore, Founder of Ezebis, and Ai Ching Goh of Piktochart.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Have you ever received an email from your manager announcing a significant organizational change that left you with more questions than answers? Sure, you could take the initiative and ask your questions, but given the lack of information, you’re not even sure if your questions would be relevant or not. And you certainly don’t want to be perceived as being resistant or “too focused on the details and not seeing the big picture”.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

As a child one of the first things we are taught to do is to share. We don’t do it naturally; and we may learn this habit grudgingly (you probably don’t remember this for yourself, but if you have kids, you’ve seen the pattern repeated, haven’t you?). Some things don’t change much as we grow [.].

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This infographic from the Wall Street Journal captured the typical work week of a Chief Executive Officer in November of 2009. Fast forward to 2012 and “answering e-mails” would surely bite into the time-starved CEO’s work week. Nonetheless, I suspect meetings at 18 hours a week isn’t a declining trend. Meetings can be a necessary evil for every leader; meetings can also be the catalyst to advance the strategic agenda.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I’m so committed to pressing into the future that it’s hard to enjoy the present. You can’t lead if you aren’t dissatisfied. How are you navigating the leadership tightrope between what is and what could be? Leadership tightropes include: Passion to improve and discouragement at progress. Pressing into the future and rejection of the present. [.].

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: If you want to transition from a career in for-profit companies to non-profit organizations, then you need to prepare yourself mentally for the change you’ll see in your paycheck, environment, and more. Betsy Baker offers several tips to help you make the move successfully on Opportunity Knocks: Hours. 9-5 is not the norm in the non-profit world. “Many nonprofits may start their workday later in the morning than corporate businesses but may very well be work

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

. Last week a contractor came to the house to estimate some work we need done at our home. I’d never met him before, and frankly, felt very frustrated during and after the meeting. Why? Because he talked too much, and now I want to avoid contact with him in the future. Despite my direct attempts to remind him that we needed to get back to my questions about the work and frequent statements that I needed to get back to my own work, most of the two hours (which should have been 30 minutes)

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Why do I blog? Why do people blog? I blog because it helps me see my thoughts. Get clarity. Make a small difference to my community. Build meaningful connections. Establish credibility. One such connection I made during my blogging journey was with my friend and mentor, Rajesh Setty. He is one of those who has, through his writing, taught me some very important lessons in my blogging journey since 2006. - – - – -.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “The Art of HR”. For my final Doctoral project, I researched how Top Employers provide effective HR services to their organizations. I compiled my results into this book. Please email me directly if you would like a copy. Developing and retaining the best employees is one of the top future challenges for HR departments.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The 5 Whys is a question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem. wikipedia. If you work in any kind of manufacturing and now most healthcare organizations you have heard of the ‘5 Whys’. The goal of asking why 5 times is not to p**s everyone off but to find the root cause of the problem and by finding the root cause we can fix the problem.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When conducting research for his latest book, Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner interviewed hundreds of thought leaders in creativity, innovation, and talent management. One of them is Judy Gilbert, director of Talent at Google. Whether or not you have any interest in being employed by Google, you need to know which skills this pioneering company values most.

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Managing Communities

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

photo credit: dotpolka Back in July, when I asked what you’d like me to write about, Ben asked about lurkers. Specifically, how to convert lurkers to active contributors without changing the forum platform in use. In Ben’s case, his forum is for a browser based game. 50% of the people who play the game have [.].

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Deep Imprints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Last week I had a phone conversation with a Tony Robbins coach. He told me something that will change your life: What is talked about is a dream What is envisioned is exciting What is planned becomes possible What is scheduled becomes a reality Today, schedule some time with yourself and look at your dreams. Is [.].

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Maybe this is just me, but would you like to help de-stress your pastor or leader? Tell us what the conversation is about…before the meeting. I typically get requests that start like this: Pastor, can you call me? Pastor, I need to meet with you. Pastor, can I have a few minutes of your time? You can only imagine what happens in these meetings. I often hear something such as: I had an affair.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Last week I received this e-mail from a manager in Toronto: “You were recommended to me by my boss. He is interested in having me take some leadership training specifically on the issue of ‘managing up.’ I see that this is an area you discuss on your website. Would you have some time to discuss how we can pursue some training on this?

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Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The latest spin from the Technology Strategy Board reveals that a paltry £7M is going to be spread thinly across 17 projects - shared by 70 institutions, with a direct benefit to a clutch of very well known global companies - among them GSK, ICI, P&G and Unilever - all firms that ought to be able to fund their own sustainability process improvements - which should, by definition, be self-funding anyway.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I was recently at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, giving a seminar sponsored by Sales & Marketing Executives International. I had an informal logistics meeting with some of the association members before the event when Jamie, the young woman who directed me to my preparation room, talked to me about her career. I asked her what she was seeking to become.

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The Idolbuster

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Chapter 5: The Pivotal Role Of Circumstance Part 3 . In the last posts , I described the illusion of control as the propensity to think that one has a greater impact on the outcome of events than one actually does. Wikipedia lists three reasons why people experience the illusion of control: As a coping mechanism to deal with chaotic situations where there is little actual control.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Big data is great. But we should consider that we've actually had more data than we can reasonably use for a while now. Just on the marketing front, it isn't uncommon to see reports overflowing with data and benchmarks drawn from millions of underlying data points covering existing channels like display, email, website, search, and shopper/loyalty — and new data streams such as social and mobile engagement, reviews, comments, ratings, location check-ins and more.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong." Little did he know it when he penned these words, but journalist H.L. Mencken was tapping into the very core of behavioral decision making and the need to understand and compensate for it. Every day, senior managers are tasked with making very significant strategic decisions for their companies, which usually require support by teams of internal and external experts and a heavy dose of research.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Business English deserves its terrible reputation. We invent jargon, rely heavily on clichés, repeat catchphrases endlessly, and restart sentences three or four times before finding a way to finish them. And to paraphrase Schopenhauer , every generation ridicules the other ones, and they are all right. Millennials think their elders speak in a lifeless monotone (think Ben Stein ), and we think they use upspeak way too much.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

If you sift through recent employment figures in the United States, you'll find an intriguing trend: a steady uptick in the number of people leaving their jobs to go to work with new companies. For several years workers held on to their positions thanks to the recession, but we're starting to see employees testing the waters, especially at the managerial level.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

File these two items under the "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" category. First, an op-ed in the New York Times that would aim to solve both the underemployment of low-paid women (who want more and more regular working hours) and the overemployment of women at the other end of the economic spectrum (women in white-collar jobs where devices and expectations mean they're always on).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Data makes me nervous. In school, I was always more comfortable taking a college course like Physics for Poets than I was taking any class with real math. Even today, I'm uneasy at the thought of a something as simple as an accurate look at my diet. I like to go by feel. I'm sure this is in part because I fear what I'll learn. Data is painfully honest.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The upcoming election is largely about the economy, and the economy is about jobs. The stubbornly high unemployment rate, and the struggle of countless Americans without jobs has been an endless topic of discussion. But it isn't the only story of the Great Recession. There's also the one about the millions — perhaps tens of millions — of men and women who do have work but who have seen their professional growth stalled, their ambitions stunted, and their dreams shattered by an econom

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