Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Research has shown that as leaders rise up in the ranks , their proficiency in nurturing talent declines rather than increases. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. How can you develop your talent?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The problem is that most business executives, even high-performing ones, dont recognize the value of mental state like elite athletes do, so they dont develop skills and habits to get to that state consistently and effortlessly. The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

“Management isn’t doing—it’s seeing that it gets done.” Belker, The First-Time Manager. Tons of information is accessible on the internet on mistakes that first-time managers make. Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers. These skills develop by practice. Bump in Ego.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Beverly Crowell of Designed Learning shared Developing Flawless Clients. Development.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to the February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Yet many supervisors and managers on the road to becoming valuable and valued leaders fail to do so.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Welcome to the March 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Cory Rieken of the Development Dimensions International (DDI) contributed What Happens When Leaders Fail to Use Key Principles? David summarizes, “I’ve never met a manager who has enough time to do everything they want to do.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This means that every leader, manager, and employee can describe the culture and what it stands for, and the descriptions will be very similar to a large extent.” Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” Nothing makes up for poor leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

But they were intelligent people and they observed what the military people did to make all those goods show up. The soldiers would go up into a tower with little poles sticking out of the top. Then, they would pick up a small box and talk into it. Bottom Line. This is what they saw.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership shares How to be a More Strategic Manager to find out how. Culture and Teamwork. ” – Michael Jordan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I managed a national top-forty accounting and consulting firm (SS&G). Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Inept managers were responsible for losing talent with leadership potential.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 8, 2022

History: Management consultant Joseph M. Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control, and improvement, naming it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896. It is an adage of business management that "80% of sales come from 20% of 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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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Guest post from Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage: What would your organization be like if every employee had a great manager? In every organization, managers are a key leverage point to drive higher performance and better business results. The impact managers have on turnover and engagement go straight to the organization’s bottom line.

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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. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were the born leaders we all grew up with. Leaders who rest on their laurels without making the effort to develop their skills will eventually be overtaken by those who view leadership as a professional skill to be developed and refined. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Who experiences greater levels of stress: management or employees? Managers seem to think they do, but hard research data makes it clear: Employees experience greater stress, and that affects the company’s bottom line. The right degree of challenge fires them up to produce positive results. Find the Right Fit.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

That’s why it’s vital for you to develop a Winning Well relationship with your assistant(s.) . Blend the bottom line with the human spirit. I owned up and made a commitment to making sure it didn’t happen again. Let’s Grow Leaders/ Winning Well has a team of several people who assist in the mission.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. When what you seek is to build into others more than glorifying self you have developed a level of leadership maturity that values surrender over control.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

You see, leadership development and succession are only positive practices if they’re applied to those worthy of the investment. Leadership teams who view themselves as a protected class are leadership teams not living-up to their obligations and responsibilities. As mentioned above, anything can be taken to unhealthy extremes.

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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. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. However, using a mix of quantitative and qualitative metrics makes managers both more efficient and effective.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

When co-workers, managers, and their subordinates lose respect for one another, it negatively impacts their work and the work of the people around them. Some organizations respond with well-meaning exhortations to “just get along,” or they encourage private chats with human resources or senior management.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 3, 2011

We should also recognize that employee engagement affects strategic alignment i.e. disengaged employees show up for the paycheck but they don’t tend to put extra effort in aligning their behavior with organizational goals. The bottom line is that only 10 percent of America’s workforce are mobilized (i.e.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When “our decision frames are set by others, and we forget to keep track of what options and factors we ignore, [we open] ourselves up to unnecessary risks and missed opportunities” and unsubstantiated fear and perspectives. The bottom line is that we are all dependent on others to some extent; it’s a fact of modern life.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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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. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. Bottom line - toxic individuals kill productivity, and if allowed to run unchecked can have a much broader and deeper impact on an organization than one might think.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me?

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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. You need routines if you are going to win these battles and manage the distractions. They gave it up. Start at the bottom and work your way up.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Research shows that givers sink to the bottom of the success ladder. Adam Grant explores in Give and Take , what separates givers at the bottom and top. Developing Others. Givers that end up on top are otherish. Givers may make others better off, but they do so at their own expense. Otherish Givers.

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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. This makes teamwork even more crucial to overall success or failure for the organization. Not really.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

From my perspective, the issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed-up in three words…&# Deal With It. &# While you can try and avoid conflict (bad idea), you cannot escape conflict…The fact of the matter is that conflict in the workplace is unavoidable. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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Execution Company CEO Skills 397

Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Invest in training for all hiring managers. Consider making this training compulsory for anyone involved in hiring and go one step further by requiring a level of competence to be demonstrated before authorizing the manager to undertake hiring for the organization. Review your hiring process. Measure your retention and loss of talent.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Welcome to the March 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Cory Rieken of the Development Dimensions International (DDI) contributed What Happens When Leaders Fail to Use Key Principles? David summarizes, “I’ve never met a manager who has enough time to do everything they want to do.

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