Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Most people don’t have that kind of experience and sometimes learn the price of inauthenticity the hard way, such as former network news anchor, Brian Williams, who notoriously claimed to have been shot down in a helicopter while covering the Iraq war in 2003. When you are living your life on purpose, you are living your authentic life.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 23, 2013

We bought a cable company back in 2003 that had been part of a much larger company. On the contrary, if they are using “We”, as in “ Here’s why WE need to do this “, or “WE need to operate under these new policies and procedures “, then you know you are making progress. In most cases, it is.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2013

In a 2003 study conducting by the Learning and Development Roundtable (now the CEB Learning and Development Council ), it was found that managers who are very effective at employee development can outperform their peers by up to 25%. It’s called “manager-led development”. And it’s not new at all.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 25, 2011

I’ve also written about the challenges facing cancer patients and their families from my wife Katie’s battles with breast cancer in 2003 and advanced ovarian cancer in 2004 (today, Kate is cancer free). I’ve followed Jobs closely over the years and written about him. Being at M.D.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 19, 2017

Back in 2003 I read Ruby Payne’s book, A Framework for Understanding Poverty. I used to run a moving company and many of my crewmembers came from a low-income background. This book was immensely helpful in shedding light on some of the foundational mindset differences between economic classes.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 7, 2011

An article written in 2003 regarding security and technology is not going to be relevant in 2011. It really is so much more than a bottom line. One reviewer of the book on Amazon.com also mentioned that the book is comprised of a collection of IT articles published in the last decade.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 29, 2013

Source: Consulting Psychology Journal, 2003, “The Return on Investment of Leadership Development: Differentiating our Discipline”. “Companies reporting strong leadership development programs are 1.5 times more likely to be found atop Fortune magazine’s ‘Most Admired Companies’ list.”

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 27, 2016

This article was written in 2003 and became a chapter in my book Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. I hope you enjoy it today. Sitting at lunch after a Saturday meeting, and the topic of homemade ice cream comes up. Recipes are discussed and I mention the new White Mountain freezer that I got for […].

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 9, 2016

January 2003 was cold and wet in Kuwait. For leaders, this idea means we have to implement the plans we make. Perfect plans don’t accomplish anything–implementing them does! That surfing maxim came home to me in the deserts of Kuwait of all places. We’d been planning for months and now it was “go” time. … Read the rest.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2003, Marton Anka, the founder of LogMeIn, now GoTo, spent three hours a day in Budapest crossing a bridge between Buda and Pest, the two halves of Hungary’s capital. GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Necessity is the mother of invention. He hated the “downtime,” so he invented remote access to a server so he […]

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Tony Mayo

MAY 30, 2011

You may recall that in 2003 the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude created in New York’s Central Park a huge art installation called The Gates. I encountered today a wonderful expression of the same insight that I shared in my video, Roadwork for Enduring Success. You may not know that they began seeking permission for this [.].

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In 2003, with the help of Ken Blanchard, I started my transformation. It was all about the destination. Fast-forward 30 years to today. After transforming my leadership beliefs, my focus has taken a dramatic turn for the better. I spent most of my career as a power leader.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Bush’s administration as the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy between 2001 and 2003. She went on to hold the position of CEO for two more major ad agencies, Tatham-Laird & Kudner and Ogilvy & Mather and was named the most powerful women in America by Fortune magazine in 1997.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Referenced : Six Sigma Team Dynamics; The Elusive Key to Project Success ; Eckes, George;Wiley: 2003. Contact Mike and join the Train-The-Trainer workshop to master your facilitation skills. michael cardus is create-learning. image by dingler1109.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2013

Last week I wrote about a 2003 study conducting by the Learning and Development Roundtable that found that managers who are very effective at employee development can outperform their peers by up to 25%.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ A while ago, I read an interview with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where he made a fascinating observation. And he nailed it with that statement. Because the changes around us are getting more and more intense.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Vital signs: awareness and treatment of uncontrolled hypertension among adults—United States, 2003–2010). We already know that 1 in 3 U.S. adults – or 67 million people – have high blood pressure in their own right (CDC. This common condition increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death for Americans.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamification, starting his work in the industry in 2003 and was rated #1 among the […]. Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamification, starting his work in the industry in 2003 and was rated #1 among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus by UK-Based Leaderboarded.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Great leaders have the wisdom to know what actions are needed and necessary to achieve success. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. and Kaiser, R.B. Developing Versatile Leaders.” Better Under Pressure. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. About the Author Paul B.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2019

Janine writes: “In the spirit of the 2003 classic rom-com, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” let’s think through common ways you could be losing your employees — and how to get back on the right track.” It’s time we celebrate incongruence and see how dissimilarity and difference can create stronger teams.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you want to see a great example of that, take a look at the letter that former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps four-star general Jim Mattis wrote to his Marines the day before they crossed the Line of Departure in the 2003 Gulf War. Mattis’ letter is a model of expressing commander’s intent.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2013

Mattis, Commanding General’s Message to All Hands, March, 2003 ——————– Read – then do – then read some more – then do some more. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. General J. This is the formula. And this Marine General reminds us of it so clearly.

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Women on Business

MARCH 21, 2011

Can you remember back to March 20, 2003? It sounds like it really must be from a woman’s lips. “ To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done ”. The quote seems so fitting as we watch a planet in crisis. We had just entered the war in Iraq, that time of shock and awe.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

However, since 2003, I have used Michael Fullan’s theory with excellent results in my consulting practice. I offer my apologies for massacring an old saying, but for many years I have encountered lots of change theory, often applied poorly. It is, perhaps, unfamiliar to you. Here, I would like to share why and how I use it in practice.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 19, 2013

People who experience positive relationships (as opposed to ambivalent or negative relationships) experience lower blood pressure, systolic heart rate, and diastolic heart rate (Holt-Lunstad, et al.,

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That was in 2003. She then fell out of the tree, landing in poison oak. Sigrid started climbing uphill. The EMTs and fire crews had to chainsaw their way down and really find their way to get to me.”. It took Sigrid many months and more courage to recover. Sigrid and her husband had to short-sell their house to stay financially afloat.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Including its CEO Elizabeth Holmes Last week in a Silicon Valley courtroom, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud in connection with the failed blood-testing company she founded in 2003. The Stanford dropout will … Continue reading →

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 29, 2011

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends Tim Sanders Crown Business (2003) Note: Here is a review of a book I read when it was first published in 2003. I recently re-read it prior to reading and reviewing Sanders’ latest, Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence. [.].

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 8, 2011

In this post , Max Goldman references Becker and Huselid’s “ High performance Work Systems and Firm Performance" and Joyce, Nohria, Roberson' similar ratio in their 2003 book “ What Really Works.” ” How much does execution matter?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

It “broadens people’s thought-action repertoires and builds their enduring personal resources” (Frederickson, 2003). Barbara Frederickson described the effects of positive emotions. Negative emotions narrow your repertory and diminish your coping abilities.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since its introduction in 2003, the Pumpkin Spice Latte has attracted its […]. It was the earliest ever launch of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte and it kicked off a season in which everything from Cheerios to protein powder to dog shampoo promises the nostalgia of Grandma’s pumpkin pie.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public. And that was Hastings strength. Hastings became CEO and Randolph became the president in 1998. He realized that he liked building things more than the finished product.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That was until Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation in 2003 and that got hot. In 1997 Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma and it sparked a revolution. It seemed that for years all anyone could talk about was disruptive innovation. Then Stanford launched its d.school and design thinking was where it was at.

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Lowney (2003) discusses heroism as an important leadership trait, mixing a balance of dreamer and pragmatist. Rogers (2003) points out the essential nature of credibility in being a change agent, embracing knowledge and safety.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Yes, it’s the “Rooney Rule” (established in the NFL in 2003) – and it’s had mixed results – but in general, has had a positive impact. Mentors can help paint a realistic picture of the role, advantages, disadvantages, and implications.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Studies of why people fail ( Finkelstein , 2003; Dottlich , 2003; Lombardo ; Bennis , 2002; Zenger, 2002) all include some version of the lack of willingness and ability to adapt and learn from experience. Learning agility relates to learning to think, feel, act, and believe differently based upon experience and changing circumstances.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 8, 2011

In this post , Max Goldman references Becker and Huselid’s “ High performance Work Systems and Firm Performance" and Joyce, Nohria, Roberson' similar ratio in their 2003 book “ What Really Works.” ” How much does execution matter?

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