Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It’s my pleasure to host this month’s Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence. So, without further ado, I present to you the December 2024 Leadership Development Carnival! Connect with Dan ) Is Development Feeling Heavy? Leaders can’t afford to ignore it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2025 curated just for you. Nawazs potent, proven strategies guide you to anticipate the unavoidable hazards of leadership without changing who you are, based on over two decades of coaching and in-depth research into the psychology of behavior and relationships.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

Project management, encompassing issues that crop up during planning and issues that show up during execution, is another area that may require your overview and handling. Most people are not good at handling disagreements or conflict situations, especially if they end up on the losing side. They will personalize the conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. Another time, we were working with an organization’s managers and having them rate the leadership behavior where they felt the most need to improve. Invest in Your Leadership Growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. Compassion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. But what do you do if your senior leader is not showing up as often or as supportive as you would like? How do you ask for the leadership support you need without looking needy?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2025

Not in the literal sense but in the early days of Silicon Valley, I was on the front lines of sales, business development, and corporate development. That kind of moment can knock you down or wake you up. Product leadership taught me to zoom out and engineer systems at scale. I didnt start out as a founder.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For forceful leaders, its seen as giving power away; giving power to your staff means giving up your power. Its also accepting power up. Quite the contrary, within bounds, accepting power up actually extends your personal power. He is the founder and president of his own leadership consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

So why does maintaining practices that yield a high-performance state of mind matter so much for leadership? 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.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. How likely are employees going to speak up under these conditions?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. In this episode, you’ll get two essential criteria to examine when considering who you promote into a leadership role. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Responsibility is a great power developer. People who are never thrust into responsible positions never develop their real strength. Give power so that others may grow.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

When team members are willing to take risks and stand up for their beliefs, it cultivates an atmosphere of innovation and creativity. She frequently speaks on compliance, leadership, and risk management. They lead by example, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and growth.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

And this gets to the heart of leadership: Your greatest potential is not just about you; its about us. Some of the greatest heroes in your life are probably ones who have done the simplest things, like shown up when you needed it, encouraged you when everyone else walked away, or stood up for you when others did nothing.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How questions bring up negative thoughts and inadequacies. It can also send up the red flag that lets you know youre about to do something stupid. I just want to emphasize how important it is to concentrate on the step you need to take right now and not trip yourself up by looking too far ahead. Principle #1: Find Your Why?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025

The one who shows up with Connection, Clarity, Curiosity, and Commitment aka the Four Cs of productive collaboration that ground our book Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict and our SynergyStack Team Development System. In our leadership development programs, we talk about being interested and interesting.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. The appeal of empathic leadership extends beyond conventional office environments. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types. A S workplace cultures evolve, we must specifically prioritize the needs of each human being.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In business, leaders can prepare their teams to face daunting challenges by developing scenarios, role-playing, and setting clear expectations. Tony Randolph, who was 6’8”, had to guard Sampson, even though he was giving up nearly 10 inches. Every player had a role, and they trusted each other to fulfill it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Leadership isn't easy. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

What is important is to develop a culture that constantly asks the questions: Where do we go from here with what is working? You need to always be growing and improving over and over again to keep up with the demands of the marketplace and an ever-changing world. Real leadership is the key to speed and agility.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can. Our bodies tense up, and were on the defensive. Those in leadership are often scared of losing their edge. Humanness Right now, the world is swept up by advances in technology.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In Voyager, women finally had a realistic representation of female leadership aboard a Star Trek vessel, one that was determined and decisive but also empathic and willing to listen. In fact, she’s almost a prescient paragon of what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. So what exactly is going on?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

The options senior leadership considers may be to sell it, give it a defined period to show or go, or take on the task of rehabilitation. Leadership may wonder whether this is essentially a culture problem or whether poor performance itself creates what looks like one. Steer away from emphasizing how “leadership creates the culture.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

T HE context of leadership has changed. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances. Good leadership happens when someone, by intention, has a positive impact—whether through empathy, inspiration, or wisdom.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2024 curated just for you. Because of unparalleled stress, burnout, disengagement, and continual distraction, employers are sitting on a treasure trove of potential but have, until Lead Boldly , lacked the keys to developing the mindset and skill set to unlock it.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2023 curated just for you. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Because, leadership is an activity―small actions taken in moments of opportunity. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. They are not.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman teaches us to see things differently, using art to challenge our default thinking and open up possibilities otherwise overlooked. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2025

If you’ve been following David and me for a minute, you know we’re big on team building activities that go deeper than trust falls and marshmallow stacks , and get people talking about what matters. And isnt that the essence of human-centered leadership? When we feel seen and heard, we show up more fully for one another.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

L EADERS HELP FOLLOWERS find causes worth signing up for—something they can make an emotional investment in. That highlights the importance of leadership communication. Boyd Clarke and Ron Crossland are the ones who said, “The biggest problem with leadership communication is the illusion that it has occurred.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

If you think you’re inherently bad (I am a failure), rather than a normal person who makes mistakes or bad decisions (I occasionally fail), you’ve essentially given up before even trying. Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II. The same thing occurs when you label other people.

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