Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Short-Term Focus - It’s always urgent, and there’s never time for the long-term investment in people and processes that will impact the business. This can work for a week or so, but beyond that you’re doing substantial long-term damage to your team. Who’s in?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Financial, health and wellness, career, or people-oriented. Short-term or long-term. His passion is in helping leaders be better leaders, and in helping people achieve career success. Goals come in all shapes and sizes. They may be personal or work-related. Lofty or low hanging fruit.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 2) Dream aggressively quantitatively over a long-term horizon, tempered by economic factors at the “macro” level.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

The most sophisticated companies understand this implicitly, which explains why many leadership development programs now focus heavily on what they call “narrative competence” the ability to create compelling stories about complex market forces, client relationships, and individual career trajectories that withstand tumultuous periods.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

They are focusing on long-term growth rather than short-term productivity. A couple of examples are the role of insecurity as a driving force behind striving for excellence and the importance of self-evaluation. 25:32-29:12: AI’s impact on the workplace is also scrutinized.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

by @JenniferVMiller Never Give Up Hope: The Detroit Lions Community from @JohnBaldoni See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. My Life in Full : Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 15, 2023

However, another side to this coin is one where "good political behavior" can propel your career forward. Bad Political Behavior On the flip side, "bad political behavior" comprises actions that can hinder your career growth and damage your professional reputation. In contrast, "bad political behavior" can be detrimental.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s more like a career change than it is like a job change. You’re looking at doing work you don’t like every day for the rest of your career. You must try on the role to determine whether leadership is something you want to do for the rest of your career. Leadership Isn’t for Everyone. You want to make the right choice.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

5:30 Jim shares about a study done with some of his students about people they admire for short and long term. In the long term, courage tends to stand out as the most admirable. ” Also, think about longer-term horizons. 27:22 What advice do you have for people wanting to change jobs or careers? kindness).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. Despite an effort to implement these changes, many organizations still fall short of a successful transformation.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

The practice of EQ, and particularly our capacity for exercising self-regulation over emotional reaction, is literally where the rubber of our inner fortitude meets the hard long or short road of our effective leadership. In short…to reign in our emotional reactions. You lose all around. It’s just that simple.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Nurturing investments leads to lasting growth and stability, surpassing the fleeting advantages of short-term thinking. Prioritize health such as regular exercise, mindfulness and meditation, and nutritious eating habits, to pave the way for a better quality of life in the long term. Career development? It’s FREE.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. They have the drive to innovate—the willingness to continually experiment, to test new ways of organizing and deploying resources, to abandon outmoded approaches when circumstances change; in short, to “make all things new.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 20, 2014

When I asked them to self-assess where they feel they ranked in terms of class participation, 100% rated themselves in the top 30%. Keep it short, simple, and exploratory. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning 360 feedback how to get feedback from peers how to get your team to tell you the truth'

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

I’ve struggled with setting goals throughout my career and life. Goals that are short-term will push you to get things done: Our goals don’t have to be long-term goals. Long-term goals often never end, because we lose sight of the goal. Maybe you’re like me and struggle to accomplish goals?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). An entrepreneur should be able to summarize an idea in one short sentence.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 15, 2014

It creates some frustration in the short term, but saves you huge amounts of time and makes people feel more important in the long term. At the end, the supervisor told the employee she had failed and would be fired shortly. The employee cried and wailed. Any serious disciplinary action has to be absolutely by-the-book.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It means creating a dynamic team excited to drive the organization forward, energized by new challenges, and aligned with the company’s long-term vision. Conversely, organizational strategy provides the roadmap for achieving business objectives and long-term aspirations. The magic happens where succession planning meets this roadmap.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Relationship Momentum is a book about how to create momentum for moving your ideas you’re your career) forward. The problem emerges when people don’t understand the difference between strategic objectives and short-term tactical responses. Church begins by stressing that at the foundation of any success is relationships.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2022

Acting, without thinking, can destroy your career. In fact, there are countless examples of people who threw away promising careers due to reckless behavior. Here are 15 simple ways to destroy your career: How to Destroy Your Career. That includes cheating a customer for short-term gain. Win at all costs.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The most common motivational factors are family, financial, recognition or career progression, but sometimes it can be something out of the norm. Internal motivation is the most powerful type of motivation and develops an environment for long term sustainable performance.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. But this status offers no protection and – in the long term – it is disastrous, both for workers and for society as a whole.”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2021

It’s never too early or too late to start thinking about ways to improve your professional skill set and give your career a boost. With that in mind, here are six tips that could help give your career a boost. Ask yourself these questions and figure out what your career goals are. Know What You Want. Get Qualified.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2017

A few years into my career, I worked for a boss who asked a whole new style of questions. That boss wanted to know how we were going to achieve both quality and quantity or how we would meet our short-term goals without jeopardizing our long-term position. Dad said he wanted to make sure I thought things through.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As your career evolves, your continued high performance will require you to show new behaviors. While studies seem to indicate that exercise matters a little and diet has no measurable effect on high performance, I think that may be short-sighted. And the two certainly play into long-term performance. Step Six: Fake It.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

I experienced this personally in my corporate career. It was “slash and burn” our way to a “profitable exit” over a very short term. The leadership part HAS to come first. EVERY time. Early on, I put the business first, and it was a totally unproductive and unfulfilling experience.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

While it might help in the short-term, the pursuit of approval is a guarantee of long-term failure. Leadership is not necessarily safe but can be perilous to our career; it involves much more risk than just being a team member. As painful and emotional as I knew it would be, I chose the latter and am glad I did.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. Mark is a business leader, author, and storyteller.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2021

One of the best ways that you can achieve career success is for you to try and keep assessing your performance. If you can do this, and follow the below tips then there’s no reason why you can’t achieve success in your career. If you want to excel in your chosen career, then you have to be willing to learn. Do it yourself!

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Communication, the human connection, is the key to personal and career success. But if it’s not done right, it can actually create discord, as this short story shows. A bowling event or a trust fall exercise won’t have long term benefits unless the experience can be quickly tied to daily challenges the team faces.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective. Because, if leaders are balancing the needs of stakeholders in a values-conscious way, they will not cut corners or put short term gains at the forefront of decisions. This meets the need to slow down and not overreact.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 22, 2020

Traditional “motivators” such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to help you grow your career and reach your ambitious goals. And even setting goals can backfire, if you’re not setting them for the right reasons.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This does not mean personal career goals should be ignored – only that they must come after serving stakeholders. A common failure of executives today is an emphasis on short-term results without regard for the long-term costs. Specifically, we speak here of putting the needs of those you serve, first. Empathetic.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2013

. • Forty-four percent of lawyers would not recommend a career in law to young people. We tend to define our choices too narrowly and see them in binary terms. Short-Term Emotion. Eighty-three percent of corporate mergers and acquisitions fail to create any value for shareholders. We miss other options. Confirmation Bias.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This process isn’t just about evaluating credentials; it’s about finding a leader who will inspire your team, drive operational excellence, and align with your organization’s long-term goals. This process involves discussing compensation, benefits, severance terms, and other key elements.

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