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By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog was called "10 Quotes to Inspire Leaders in 2024". It reflected insights for leaders into how to lead in ways that bring out the best in others, and featured specific areas of focus and strategies for living and leading with values.
Source: Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. This is how we can start to heal our brokenness: sending people home as better spouses, parents, children, friends, and citizens of their communities.”
Source: Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Morgan Housel on taking the good with the bad: People who think about the world in unique ways you like almost certainly think about the world in unique ways you wont like.
Source: Going on Offense: A Leaders Playbook for Perpetual Innovation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In the workplace, were comfortable ceding our power to the bureaucratic hierarchy so we can settle into a predictable, stable set of routines and tasks.
Source: Character in The Company * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Me, I am orthodox anti-Euclidean. There simply is no short distance between two points. There’s only a meander.
Source: As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
By Linda Fisher Thornton Of the 52 weekly posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2024, these 10 were the most popular. See if you noticea theme that connectsthese new topics that readers accessed most frequently:
Source: The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Their job is to make them more valuable and to keep making them more valuable into the future.”
Source: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In short, even though we don’t really know what the issue is or what’s going on for the person, we’re quite sure we’ve got the answer they need.”
Source: Noel Tichy and Ram Charan: Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch , Harvard Business Review * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If the analysis shows that brilliant work fails again and again as soon as it requires cooperation by others, it probably indicates lack of courtesy, that is, of manners.”
Source: Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Heroes take action, which is why they are so good at experiencing meaning. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Productive Failure suggests that making initial learning more difficult and challenging, where you may struggle and even fail to solve a problem or perform a task, can be beneficial learning.
Source: Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Connecting with the group you lead means demonstrating you are part of the group, understand its challenges, can do its jobs, and can stand the pressure and the heat.
Source: Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.
Source: Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. You have to define an alternative that is actually better, not just for those who agree with you, but for the vast majority of those who will be affected by the change you seek.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. 6 percent, not 6 percent, but 60 percent. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: The Contrarians Guide to Leadership * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. He may, by dint of circumstances, remain in power, but his followers would almost certainly be better off without him.
Source: Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In this regard, they both threaten and protect.
Source: Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Do the right thing and do wella new way of saying Do well by doing good. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. When you can clarify your whyand by that, I mean the answer to every why do you do what you do questionyou can start to live and lead effectively.
Celebrating Your Reader’s Choice Content of 2024 As is our tradition, we share your reader’s choice content of the year from our Let’s Grow Leaders blog, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, and Asking for a Friend Video series.
Source: Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life / Blog Post * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. You simply cannot free yourself from the conflict loop if you are unable to use your own emotions toward constructive change.”
John Spence- Thoughtfulness in Leadership In this blog, I introduce how swapping ‘mindfulness’ for ‘thoughtfulness’ can transform leadership practices. Do you tend to arrive a few minutes early or fashionably late? You probably think it doesn’t matter. But it does.
Source: Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Morgan Housel on incentives: “No matter how much information and context you have, nothing is more persuasive than what you desperately want or need to be true.”
Source: Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. That is how you begin to write your best story possible.”
Source: The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The leader’s job is to energize and facilitate, not dominate and control.”
Source: Navigating the Impossible * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Because we keep forcing our minds to process, we never give them space to think, and by doing so, we take away their ability to solve.”
Source: Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The balcony is a place of calm and perspective where we can keep * our eyes on the prize.”
Source: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. It is as much the product of circumstance as of genius.”
Source: Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. “When I focused on the other agents, scrutinizing their every move and comparing myself with them, I was quickly distracted from upping my own game.”
Source: Emotional Capitalists: The Ultimate Guide to Developing Emotional Intelligence for Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: Start with the Answer: And Other Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Taking the best of the past, and linking it to the present and desired future is the most dynamic way to build a business.”
Stop Wishing Your Life Away * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. And there is a name for that: bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is the triumph of means over ends.” Source: Thrive! Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.
Source: Disruptive Thinking: A Daring Strategy to Change How We Live, Lead, and Love * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Jakes on personal responsibility: “We are born looking like our parents, but we die looking like our decisions.”
Source: Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness—A Philosophy for Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Claiming your freedom is the ultimate secret for mastering your life.”
Source: The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Those experiences then feed back into the acquisition of even more limited tools and the formation of an even narrower stance.”
Source: Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If personality is how you respond on a typical day, character how you show up on a hard day.”
Source: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. “Many of the profound and persistent problems we face stem from a lack of skill (which in turn stems from a lack of deliberate practice) than from a genetic curse, a lack of courage, or a character flaw.”
Source: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. It’s natural to want to repress dissent, but a good reaction to public criticism can be the very thing that establishes your credibility as a strong leader, and will help you build a culture of guidance.”
Source: The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. One moved by a transcendent purpose is like a sailboat with the wind behind it, filling its sails.”
Source: The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The leader’s job is to energize and facilitate, not dominate and control.”
Source: Ice Cold Leader: Leading from the Inside Out * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. As leaders, we put ourselves in a position to take conscious action by always being aware of the driving behind our actions: our emotions.”
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