Lead Change Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Early in my career, my boss challenged me to speak up and be more of a leader in staff meetings. ”. A spiraling up effect occurs. “My Bottom line—are you providing the right C in the right amount? Think about the leaders (family members, friends, teachers, coaches, mentors, and bosses) who challenged you. “ You can do it!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

While we love our “bottom line” tangible measures of results, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” We occasionally stumble over the TRUTH but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Follow David. Follow Beth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

23:17 The top 10% and bottom 10% is not an assessment of the character of the person. If the criteria you are focusing on change, the top 10% and bottom 10% can swap very quickly. 38:36 When you focus on the bottom 10%, you’re focusing on a person who does not want to be there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Eyebrows up can be sadness. One eyebrow up can be skepticism. Conversely, sitting back and having your face in the bottom quadrant appears less powerful. Look for pleasure/displeasure. Rolling lips in can mean holding back emotions or information. Pursed lips often mean silent disagreement. Eyebrows going down can mean anger.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They take their cues from the situation, stepping up when needed, but when their stewardship is fulfilled, they step back and follow others with equal ease. While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.”. Source: Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Blend the bottom line with the human spirit. I owned up and made a commitment to making sure it didn’t happen again. As an administrative pro, it’s easy to get caught up in the systems and workflow, and neglect to remember the big picture. Make sure to take time to get to know them as a person and learn what energizes them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

As I told my friend, make sure you are walking up that road not only to pay the rent, or to be able to go to the movies after you paid the bills of the month, but to create something really great. Those victories that in the bottom of your heart you truly know they were very hard to gain, but you did it.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2016

If you think leadership is about the bottom line, think again; it’s about the people. Without the people there is no bottom line. You won’t ever become a truly successful leader until you understand a person’s need to be heard and understood is much more important than satisfying your need to impart wisdom (see: Shut-up and Listen ).

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Join Simpler Trading’s CEO Brittany Burns and me for a practical look at how you can lead with conviction, build a culture of integrity, and focus on the bottom line. 22:17 – Next, Brittany shares what she tells every new hire as they join the company to ensure that they’re speaking up. A Culture of Integrity.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you as leader should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety , ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The bottom line is when you don’t do what you say you will do, or when others have unclear expectations about what you will do, it will result in disappointment, lack of engagement and trust and compromised integrity. When you are not able to keep your word (or keep it on time), let everyone know immediately and clean up the mess this causes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2017

Michael, his partner Mallory, and the team at Thriving Talents are role models of blending the bottom line with the human spirit— and proof that a Millennial run company can grow fast, gain wide-spread international respect, and make a lasting impact on the results for the their clients.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. On the days in which I fail, I pick myself up (usually with a good someone’s good help) and pledge to do better tomorrow. They also prize connection and relationships.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 18, 2017

We open each post by sharing a bit about how we know each thought leader, and conclude with additional reflections on how their work aligns with our Winning Well approach to blending the bottom line with the human spirit. How Do I Sign Up? The symposium is FREE.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”. In the end, that’s what it’s all about.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Ask questions because if you do what everyone else is doing, you will end up like everyone else. Losers brace for impact and wonder how to clean up the mess. They gave it up. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Go back to the bottom and work your way up.” Fear shows up on its own.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2016

As I pulled up to Sam’s office, I knew he’d be unhappy with my recommendation–which involved a serious look in the mirror at his own leadership behaviors. ” “Sam, I’ve got a whole list of something elses–actions that I know will improve the bottom line. And then shut up.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices. From top to bottom, everyone was expected to get on board.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. ” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment. This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

Lock up a good partner who thrives on being the best no. Unfortunately, many organizations come up short on their risk tolerance and make decisions that end up impacting morale and hurting the long-term bottom line. I have witnessed C-Suite executives flying “leadership solo” and those with a good no.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Anticipating is 90% bottom-up and only 10% top-down. Information, insights, and marketing intelligence must bubble up, not cascade down.”. Acknowledging fears must come first, before collective genius can ‘bubble up,’ instead of information just cascading down.” To anticipate, you need to make the hierarchy invisible.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Children may pull up plants for fun. The Powers That Be may come up with an idea that threatens your productivity or morale. Bottom Line. Organizations aren’t machines.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2018

That helps with HTC’s bottom line which is important as the company is primarily a hardware manufacturer, and especially so given the company’s recent financial troubles. Whatever HTC ends up announcing, we’ll be there at CES next week on the 8th to find out. isn’t included at all in a Vive 1.5, Stay tuned!

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

For example, it’s not uncommon for companies to believe that improving the bottom line is more important that employee engagement or development. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. A singular focus on metrics (side up) results in workplaces where employees aren’t fully engaged (side down).

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If the guys are big sports fans in your workplace, you might take the time to read up and follow the teams they like so you can connect on a topic they’re interested in. He is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity (Thomas Nelson). About the Authors .

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

She’s tried everything: more recognition, contests, she even came in dressed as a superhero to try to get the team riled up. Each of these stunts worked for a day or so, but then the results returned to their normal mediocre state and the stress levels creeped right back up. You Don’t Fully Understand It.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 5, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series "Ethical Values Are Good For Business" I shared the importance of clearing up the confusion employees have in balancing ethical values with bottom line profitability. In Part 2, we looked at the importance of aligning strategy with the organization's values.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Also disruption is happening in the global executive search industry where firms like LinkedIn and other internet-based solutions to help companies find qualified candidates are eroding the big search firms from the bottom up. GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Also, start-up companies in the Fujitsu technology accelerator program work in the satellite locations as well, creating a company-startup mashup. But what does this mean?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 13, 2020

People who are otherwise obscure on the national scene are now showing up in news feeds and quenching a yearning for sanity, direction and confidence. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta relating to us as a parent and an executive, saying enough is enough and here are things we’re doing about it. Fascinating and fun to watch.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Bottom line? Why It Matters Your overworked team member is showing up for you and the organization during a critical time. Now its your turn to show up for him. The company is in the middle of an intense period of transition. Things have been turbulent, and hes the go-to subject matter expert on multiple critical priorities.

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