Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2016 that you might have missed: Learn to Respond, Not React! Political Anger Is Showmanship, Not Leadership by @JohnBaldoni. If you want innovation in an organisation , no single boss should have the power to kill an idea. - @profhamel. Leadership Theology by @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2016 that you might have missed: Criticism, Boundaries and Useful Feedback by @JesseLynStoner. Learn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation via @IXchat. The Best Free Leadership Advice You'll Ever Get by @LollyDaskal. Nobody Rises To Low Expectations by @tnvora.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). We fear rejection. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

As we close out 2015 we begin thinking about how we’d like 2016 to be better. This one area can boost innovation, results, engagement, and service – or erode all those things. It deserves leaders’ undivided attention in 2016 – and beyond. It’s the last month of the year. The holidays are upon us.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2016

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January. The Right Kind of Crazy : A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation by Adam Steltzner with William Patrick. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 100 titles. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April. The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 100 titles. The Third Wave : An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future by Steve Case.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2016

Mary Jo Asmus of Aspire Collaborative Services encourages that you are the instrument that makes your leadership work. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership advises that it doesn’t take much to stay interested, motivated, and growing, but it won’t happen by accident. She likens it to keeping a relationship fresh.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

My mind is spinning around as I try to defragment and reorganize the many experiences, images and memories that have made 2016 such a fascinating year. As he started to explain his various considerations, I realized that he fitted into a pattern I have been observing throughout 2016. Abyss of Boredom. The Way Forward.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It cannot quite reach that next level of innovation. The leadership challenge for pragmatic leaders is to transform organizations with clunky or myopic tendencies into truly thriving organizations that meet their potential. Pragmatic leaders have to be innovators. In the final analysis, pragmatic leadership is about execution.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Guest post by Randal Moss : Great leaders consistently talk about the need for their organization to ‘be innovative’ in their thinking. They recognize that innovation is a strategy for growth and that being able to harness that power will drive their organization’s success and their own as well. In some industries that is daunting.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. This is a future that will be ripe for innovation of all kinds—for good and for evil. In this book, I will explore the external future forces most likely to disrupt leaders and leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2016, Alibaba facilitated sales of $15 billion. In 2016, Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw less than 3.5 Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation. “An An organization’s goal is to improve the efficiency of innovation founded on human insight and creativity.” billion dollars.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

More alarming Gallup’s 2016 survey for the UK reveals that the percentage of UK employees feeling engaged at work has plummeted to just 8%, down from 17% in 2012. These employees psychologically “own” their work, helping move their organisations forward by driving performance and innovation. there is no compelling vision.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey , “72 percent of Americans say ‘a lot’ of responsibility falls on individuals to make sure that they have the right skills and education to be successful in today’s economy.” The Innovators – While employers might innovate on their own, oftentimes they get outside help.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

This edition features insights on authentic leadership, change, rationality and transformation. You Can Only Get There From Here – The Art of Intentional Leadership by Scott Mabry. And emergence leads to those seemingly small but powerful innovations and practices that disrupt the established order of things.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Susan Mazza , CEO of Clarus-WORKS , Founder/Author of Random Acts of Leadership ™, and Co-Author of The Character-Based Leader. A leadership lesson Susan gained from her first job was the importance of empowering people based on their capabilities rather than limiting them by their level.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2016

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : For many of us, making and breaking promises to ourselves for the New Year has become an annual tradition. Let’s set our yearly leadership development goals and put some best practices in place to help us achieve those goals. Get feedback on your leadership skills.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret. 2/2016: Chris Edmonds.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

Linking Leadership to Learning. Her strengths in generating alternatives and seeing the big picture allow her to be at the forefront of innovation and engagement year after year. If unchecked by some attention to the opposing Deciding style, Alaina might never deliver the practical outcomes needed for her leadership challenges in HR.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup. Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 29, 2018

Whether in terms of profits, innovation or retention of staff. A 2016 study by the Harvard Business Review (HBR) used a Global Empathy Index to measure how much empathy was happening in a company. See box below: And like engagement, empathy is a proven critical factor behind ethical leadership success in business.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. Instead, we leave options open to the next generation.”.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2016

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. What can a choir of society’s most disadvantaged teach us about leadership and the importance of building a great team? Today we are pleased to reacquaint you with Tony Adams, a returning Instigator. We need to listen and respond.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2018

As I polled them with ideas ( 100 Ways to Bullet Proof Your Career , The No B t Guide to Getting Ahead , Leadership Truths from the Trenches ), the one that become the hands down winner was the one that I threw out as a joke: Did I REALLY Sign Up for This?! leadership truths on how to drive, survive and thrive. Work is exhausting.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. The title of my presentation was “Toy Box Leadership” loosely based on the book by the same name, with a subtitle “Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child,” by authors Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell. The workshop was a success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 5, 2018

It’s important to recognize that attracting and retaining Rockstar performers is vital for organizations to grow, innovate, and outperform the competition. A 2016 Conference Board survey revealed that attracting and retaining talent is the number one concern amongst CEOs, regardless of their company size or industry.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2016

T he guest for today’s Answers From Leadership podcast is Keith Wilmot. In this capacity, he founded and launched IGNITOR, an internal creativity and innovation approach. What does leadership look like to you? What difficulties have you faced in your leadership? What leaders will be at Leadercast Live 2016?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

The skills touted as most important for advancing careers are changing: 40% of business leaders chose innovation skills as most important for succeeding at work today, behind decision-making skills (39%) and leadership skills (35%).

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Let’s talk about culture,” said the new VP at our first leadership meeting after acquisition number eight. Since we’re talking about culture, is there something as a leadership team that we can do to excite, reengage, and empower them? TJ Jones is an author, speaker, coach and leadership crusader. We want to feel safe.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Choosing leaders The authors examined 193 private equity (PE)-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more, a figure comparable to mid-sized public firms in the S&P 400 Index, that were acquired between 2010 and 2016. Paying off The advantages of appointing an external CEO for private equity firms are clear, the research suggests.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Along the way, the leaders of these organizations turned their backs on the tenets of great branding, defined as carving out unique brand positions and adding to that strategic advantage with innovations that thrill customers. In 2016, the Cayenne will be produced in Slovakia. VW Succumbs to the Lure of Slovakian Labor.

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CO2

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Role of Executive Coaches in Fostering Transformative Leadership Executive coaches play a pivotal role in shaping the leaders of today and tomorrow. This blog post delves into the transformative journey of leadership development through the lens of executive coaching.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Released in 2016, this documentary directed by Matt D’Avella captures the lives of Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things is a film following two men, who have titled themselves “The Minimalists,” on a 10-month tour across America promoting their book Everything that Remains.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 21, 2016

Throughout history, the greatest innovators and problem-solving artists of their time were people considered odd or eccentric. Her new book, Intentional Leadership (Motivational Press, 2016) debuts later this year. Otherwise, I recommend an outside party well-versed in the particulars.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Delegating does not mean abdicating leadership responsibilities.

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