Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson on leading together: The dark truth of success is that if we make it all about ourselves, our own egos, our individual performance, it eventually breaks down. It wont have staying power.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 11, 2025
You could be a bad leader for doing the right thing! Servant leadership doesnt win popularity contests in authoritarian environments. Showing up as a humble leader in a dysfunctional culture makes you the problem. Here are seven ways to be a "bad leader" in a good way.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Practical Ways to Show Up as a Human-Centered Supporter after a Sudden Layoff Your friend just lost their job in a sudden layoff. They’re blindsided–concerned for themselves and the mission. Maybe its tied to recent government turbulence or related downstream impacts. Or a corporate shake-up. Either way, theyre reeling, and youre wondering how to help without overstepping or offering a bunch of empty clichs.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
O RGANIZATIONAL teams determine overall performance, shape culture, drive growth, and deliver results or not. Todays teams face a new reality. Never before have they encountered the changes and challenges brought on them by remote, hybrid, and in-person work environments. Add in the emergence of AI and countless other workforce and societal trends, and its apparent that yesterdays approaches no longer apply to todays realities.
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Rich Gee Group
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Listen to the interview. The Hard Truth About Leadership (That No One Tells You) You read the books. You listen to the podcasts. You even tried that "power pose" in the mirror before a big meeting (don't worry, we won't tell). But somehow, despite all the leadership advice, you still feel like you're fighting uphill when leading your team. Sound familiar?
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
Stop Fooling Yourself If you expect to scale your business model, nothing and I mean NOTHING matters more than having a mission, vision, values (purpose) coupled with the right people doing the right things right. Hope is not a strategy. Your hiring process is broken. You believe you are good at picking talent, but the frank truth is your gut instincts are literally costing you millions.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 1, 2025
H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2025 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. You're the Boss : Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) by Sabina Nawaz as our job expands, the added pressure to perform corrupts our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Many leaders weaken decision-making by prioritizing agreement over commitments. Over-concern about agreement sabotages decision-making. In some situations, people dont commit until they agree 100%. When thats true, change your process and expect everyone to commit once decisions are made. Those who aren't committed find fault. Those who are committed find a way.
Rich Gee Group
MARCH 11, 2025
Listen to the interview. When Bill Gates was propelling Microsoft to global success, he scheduled his calendar in five-minute increments - every second was prime real estate. But behind this frenetic pace stood his Executive Assistant, managing a constant stream of emails, calls, and logistical details that could bury any top executive. Without that support, Gates would have spent a huge slice of his mental energy on daily firefighting instead of transforming the software world.
Leading in Context
MARCH 12, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton The first post in this series,The Missing Domain: Ethical ThinkingexploredWHYleaders need to fill the gap and help people develop ethical thinking. This post will begin to unravelHOWto do that.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
You Care. Your Boss Doesn’t (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss Youre giving it your all. Youre solving problems, driving results, making things happen. But your boss? Theyre off in another world. It could be your boss is disengaged. Or, maybe they are super engaged, just not on your MITs (most important things). Maybe theyre laser-focused on a massive restructuring.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Here is a selection of Posts from February 2025 that you will want to check out: Four Ideas to Improve Workplace Communication by @artpetty The Leadership Trap: Quick fixes by Marlene Chism @stopyourdrama Exemplar or Empire? 1 of 3 by @jamesstrock Washington and Adams Cast a Vision. 4 Leadership Lessons on Scarcity, Dominance, and Delay by @BrianKDodd CEO Coaching: Idiots at the Helm?
Leadership Freak
MARCH 4, 2025
Power blinds. Some become the jerk boss they never intended. The pressures of leading push people toward destructive behaviors. Some people become the jerk boss they never intended. Bosses dont become jerks overnight because they were awarded a fancy title.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Why are some organizations able to thrive during periods of uncertainty while others struggle to find firmer footing? While its easy to assume it has to do with something distinctive about their product or service offering, the truth is that its something far more fundamental. While we all understand that.
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 12, 2025
I first heard of the BANI framework a few weeks ago when I ran an updated post on leading in an age of non-stop VUCA and a reader left a comment on LinkedIn that the world isnt so much VUCA now as it is BANI brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. Yeah, that feels about right. I dont necessarily think that VUCA and BANI are mutually exclusive; rather I think they complement each other and can provide a lot of guidance for executive leaders pondering how to navigate uncharted waters.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
High Performance Teams Dont Leave Their Achievement to Chance You know what it’s like when a high performance work team fires on all cylinders. Theres energy, trust, and clarity. You make decisions quickly, everyone shares their insights, and people genuinely enjoy working together. But you also know what it feels like when things are offwhen trust erodes, confusion reigns, and progress slows to a crawl.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Richard Farson on contradictions: Contradictory impulses to both succeed and fail can be found in every project, every work team, even every individual. Every management choice, Job offer, or new applicant can appear both appealing and unappealing.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Ive talked with many leaders who were confused, angry, and ready to quit. Sometimes I say, Well, isnt this exciting. My smile confuses them. Some disagree. Others think I dont get it. Leaders run toward the battle, not away. Perceived capacity governs response.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leaders understand that their role revolves around adding value for others, not for themselves. They are careful to avoid taking advantage of situations for personal gain or for the gain of their colleagues or friends. This other-centered focus keeps them thinking about how what they do will impact those they serve and others in the community.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 4, 2025
Optimize hiring, onboarding, and team alignment with psychometric assessments. Reduce friction, enhance flow, and scale your business the right way.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Episode 292: Are leadership challenges making your job harder than it should be? 90% of leadership challenges come down to just four things. If your team is struggling with unclear priorities, missed expectations, or low morale, you might be overlooking these critical foundations. The good news? Small shifts can make a big impact. In this episode, youll discover how to: Clarify expectations so your team knows exactly what success looks like.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Craig Wright on the value of thinking opposite: The more a person can exploit the contradictions of life, the greater his or her potential for genius. Great artists, poets, playwrights, musicians, comedians, and moralists embed oppositional forces in their work for dramatic, and sometimes comic, effect.
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Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 13, 2025
The problem with wisdom is the young arent interested and the old think they have it. I know Im not wise because I think I am. I am better off than he is, for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. Plato 10 wise questions even fools can use.
Great Results Team Building
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Appreciation is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use to build a winning team. In fact, Harvard Business Review reported that 69% of employees say they would work harder if they felt their efforts were better recognized. And Terryberry found that 92% of workers are more likely to repeat a specific action after receiving recognition for it.
Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 12, 2025
Are you caught in the relentless cycle of ‘eat, work, sleep, repeat’? According to my guest for this episode of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast, the problem we face with this cycle of busyness is not a lack of time management, but a lack of clarity over what our personal.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Episode 291: Are You Struggling to Lead and Retain Gen Z Employees? Gen Z isnt lazythey just want work to fit into their lives, not the other way around. But for many leaders, this mindset shift creates tension, leading to high turnover and frustration on both sides. How can you bridge the gap and turn Gen Z into one of your biggest workplace assets instead of a management challenge?
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Leadership Freak
MARCH 5, 2025
Turbulence isn't going away. It often increases. Crap is fertilizer. Post-traumatic growth is the norm. About 7 in 100 people experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their lifetime. Approximately 50 to 66 in 100 people experience post-traumatic growth (PTG). Here's how to ask questions that make PTG likely.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 11, 2025
Luck Is Not a Strategy Success in business is often attributed to a combination of skill, strategy, and timing. However, there is an uncomfortable question that every founder and CEO must ask at some point: Are we successful because we are truly good at what we do, or have we simply been lucky? The answer lies in what you do with luck. Every company encounters moments of fortuneboth good and bad.
Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 5, 2025
What do Satya Nadella, Mary Barra, Warren Buffett, and Indra Nooyi share in common? Yes, theyre all successful leaders. But the trait they all share is they love to learn. They have this insatiable curiosity to know what they dont know and because of that, theyre not afraid to.
Anese Cavanaugh
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
What kind of impact do you intend to have today? Its one thing to mean well its another to actually create the impact you want. Setting clear intentions (whether for yourself or with your team) saves time, energy, and resources while bringing focus and alignment. You are always making an impact, and you have the power to consciously set an intention for how you want to experience each moment and how you show up for others.
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