Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The process can feel overwhelming—from analyzing existing processes and software systems and choosing where to apply AI automation, to preparing every tier of the organization for the transition. 16:32 AI Systems are here to make us a lot more productive. What Leaders Need to Know About AI. Connect with Kavita. Get the Book.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 12, 2023

author of The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram , provides an overview of Organization Development tools and frameworks traditionally associated with solving typical business challenges—infusing and enhancing them with insight from the Enneagram. In this episode Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D.,

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Leading in Context

JUNE 14, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Research is showing that diet sodas do not help prevent weight loss, and in fact may be a cause of weight gain. How can this be? Since the way we understand it depends on which kind of thinking we use, let's examine the issue using several different kinds of thinking.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Anyone can develop the skills necessary to be an effective leader. In this blog post, we will discuss 10 ways that you can develop strong leadership skills during your adolescence. Joining clubs and teams is a great way to develop leadership skills. Leadership is not a quality that is innate in some people and not others.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Roger Martin on our personal knowledge system dynamics: “Personal knowledge systems are highly path-dependent. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

The more you invest in people and the more focused and intentional you become about helping people overcome obstacles, the more you will develop your discernment muscle.” Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

The authority to solve complex problems and challenges will reside in the system of stakeholders, not in the leader. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Source: Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe II.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But in a world turned upside down — by a pandemic, by climate change, by a reckoning with systemic injustice — what does winning even look like now? Someone who sees the system. Equitable leaders are also skilled at seeing systems and understanding interdependence. They want an equitable leader.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

You also can’t spot and avoid the kinds of codes and conduct that threaten your values if you never even develop a strong sense of what it is that you value. Sometimes compassion means looking in the mirror to see how you or a dysfunctional system lead to the poor judgment or wrong behavior. A consistent system.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

” Digital Healthcare System Integrations Implementing digital solutions in healthcare is challenging due to the lack of integration between various software applications, databases, and devices used by various health providers. Some of these have occurred rapidly, forcing executives to adapt or be left behind quickly.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO. Is the older or the younger brain better equipped for the startup CEO? The human brain develops back to front, thus the prefrontal cortex is one of the last regions to fully develop.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series on Recognizing Ethical Issues, I addressed the gaps in our thinking that require us to develop an ethical alert system. In Part 4, I will explore how you can develop ethical thinking.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Elliott Parker on building resilience: “Resilience is the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure. Resilience is developed and maintained through learning, optionality, and redundancy. Source: The Seven Frequencies of Communication: The Hidden Language of Human Connection II.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

They introduce young people to the necessary disciplines of work, the routines and systems, the need to sell as well as produce, the numbers that matter, and the people who can be relied upon. By things, I mean the buildings, information systems, or anything else physical.) That is sensible, for a time.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Peter Senge on getting to the root of the issue: “The bottom line of systems thinking is leverage—seeing where actions and changes in structures can lead to significant, enduring improvements. But the leverage in most real-life systems, such as most organizations, is not obvious to most of the actors in those systems.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

They align their best efforts with the organization’s in natural ways that other systems can’t lead them to do. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. It is the difference between rowing and sailing.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series on Recognizing Ethical Issues, I addressed the gaps in our thinking that require us to develop an ethical alert system. In Part 4 I described ways to develop ethical thinking. In Part 3, I dug into the importance of ethical awareness as the basis for ethical decision making.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2024

The others is that the authority to solve complex problems and challenges will reside the system of stakeholders, not in the deader. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Stewardship is about service, not opportunism.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. A company with a robust value system that resonates with all employees and customers will draw more people to its product.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Install a career GPS, an internal strategic system for navigating where you are, where you want to be and how to get there. . Career Growth: How to Be More Creative as You Develop Your Team (Video). Match it up with your personality so you get to be you in your career. Ask yourself, what do you want to be known for? .

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This mindset can be developed with effort and curiosity. Leaders won’t perform at their best if they do not focus on their development to development activities that advance their skills.”. Any leadership development journey begins with a baseline established through self-awareness. Principle 4: What you consume matters.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Sometimes they do invent something that has the potential to be transformative, but they develop it within a system that is defined and constrained by the facts of the present —like a spaceship in a Jules Verne story with lace curtains hanging over its portholes, and a cockpit fitted out with gas lamps, Persian rugs, and overstuffed armchairs.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When HR checks the performance management system, this manager looks like they’re on top of their game. Development plans, check. Or, they haven’t been trained on what success looks like for these critical employee development activities. They’ve check all the boxes. Weekly one-on-ones, check.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

With this cybersecurity background, I was recruited to run another security company that had developed a clever computer card implementation of the emerging virtual private networking standard. Somebody on the team always knows about a problem before it is detected by some kind of oversight system. Unfortunately.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Niccolò Machiavelli on resistance to change: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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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? Connect with Dana ) How to Develop a Positive-Impact Organization? ,

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Leading in Context

JUNE 9, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Developing ethical leaders and building ethical cultures have become critical business priorities. As if that weren't already challenging enough, managing ethics well also requires systems thinking and a broad understanding of ethical responsibilities. Why is ethics such a challenge for organizations?

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As organizations strive to cultivate the next generation of leaders, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in leadership development programs has become increasingly prominent. As an executive coach, I’ve identified several ways AI can be leveraged to strengthen leadership development programs.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series on Recognizing Ethical Issues, I addressed the gaps in our thinking that require us to develop an ethical alert system. in Part 2, I explored why some leaders who want to do the right thing still don't "do the work" to learn how to do it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Mark Sanborn on why culture matters: “Culture is a corporate immune system that protects against variance, decline, or abandonment by identifying and combating threatening forces like toxic partners, disjointed processes, and bad decisions.”. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Second, there’s negotiation to put pressure “on authority figures to legitimize changes in the system of rules.” In the end, you really only need one workaround for most challenges. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * And finally, there’s the workaround.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

How will you change the system? You can get a little ahead of the problem by or you can go further upstream and look for the more systemic issues. When we are in a negative or scarcity mindset, we become “less insightful, less forward-thinking, less controlled.”. Where can you find a point of leverage? How will you avoid doing harm?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. It started with creating systems that captured and vetted new ideas from all over the organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel!

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It’s a belief system that the ‘yeses’ will come if we stay the course, and the ‘nos’ along the way are just feedback.” Fifth Key: Resilience “Resilience is the ‘capacity of a system, enterprise or person to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances.’ It’s about fulfillment.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Indian mathematicians invented a system for measuring objects. Arabic mathematicians eventually adopted the system, and it was through them that Europe would eventually learn about the numerical system we still use today. S OMETIME between the 1st and 4th century, something incredible happened.

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