Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

Visualize your goals and then craft a plan for achieving them. During my career as a successful commodities broker, I learned a key lesson about success: self-management is more important than talent. High achievers: Identify goals. There’s a difference between goals and dreams. To summarize: Define your goals.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

That means they will do whatever they can to anticipate potential pitfalls that could get in the way of achieving their goal and work on mitigating these obstacles so that the way to the goal becomes less onerous. Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Have those with MBAs specialized in strategy, marketing, or entrepreneurship? Listen carefully to how candidates describe their current and future goals. Another flag-raiser is someone who has very specific goals. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. I believe the goal for leaders in this century is to widen the lens of their thinking by challenging not only their own assumptions but also the beliefs and biases on which their organizations operate.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. .” It just wasn’t where I wanted to be in my career,” she explains.

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