Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Fisher , author of the new book, To The Top: How Women In Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting The Rules For Success. “We In her book, Fisher outlines how collectively we can permanently build a more inclusive way of working into corporate culture to launch more women to the highest echelons of business.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing Leadership Mentors. During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Welcome to the October 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. Communication. Diana Peterson-More shared Covid Communication: Spread a Little Kindness.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Other times, we'd find a recently read book on our desks, carefully chosen to inspire or challenge us. Occasionally, he'd even surprise us with tickets to the US Open, announcing that the van would leave in just 15 minutes. While these elements have their place, they aren't the be-all and end-all of effective leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In his book, Education is Freedom , author James W. He outlines the importance of education for all humankind and the power of education to change our world. And in his book, he shares much about his time at Blockbuster and that company’s journey. Why We Learn Collaboration : leveraging the power of others working together.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It opens the door to making a relevant and trustworthy referral they can consider – And while they appreciate hearing a few names of tremendous speakers I know and trust, it is also a great to help promote people that I know will be fantastic on their stage. Because most organizations don’t bring back the exact same speaker every year.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Power of Collaboration: Why It Matters The significance of collaboration in the workplace cannot be overstated. When individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise come together to exchange ideas and insights, the resulting synergy often leads to creative solutions and increased efficiency. .

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

And the most Effective Leaders follow a repeatable, step-by-step process for clarifying and solving the right problem, emphasizing the importance of writing down and agreeing on the problem, acknowledging distracting assumptions, listing possible causes through diverse perspectives, and gaining support for implementing the solution.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Along with her leadership faults, Jane was innovative, creative, personable, dedicated, and very hard working. She consciously chose to “reframe” the situation and foster Jane’s leadership strengths. The power of reframing Reframing is about intentionally offering up a different frame to a leadership situation.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But there is a remarkable power in cultivating wonder—the ability to experience awe, curiosity, and a childlike sense of marvel. Four Benefits of Wonder Ignites Curiosity: Wonder sparks our innate curiosity, opening our minds to new possibilities and encouraging us to explore the unknown.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

But remember, it’s not enough to identify the values that will drive decisions by all team members – Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Celebrate cultural diversity while nurturing a shared identity. Highlight these similarities to build trust and empathy.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

But as organizations become more diverse and complex, and as everyone is called upon to work more independently, refining these skills has become an imperative. Simple and profoundly wise, Humble Inquiry , the best business book of the year in this category, has the makings of a classic.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 20, 2017

Recently I was at an event at the Princeton Club talking about my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. More than ever before, we have a real gap in our leadership. The climate of leadership these days is laced with distrust and skepticism. Break down the silos.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

People didn’t buy 62 million books on how to improve the bottom line. As I stare out at the sunlight dancing over the high tide-soaked marsh, it occurs to me that there are many life, love, and leadership lessons to be learned from this global experience. “We People sought to connect, to give and receive support.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Full-spectrum thinking ( FST ) combines the “nuances of the analog world with the power and scale of digital.” Johansen spends a good deal of the book applying FST to the future of business, technology, our lifestyle, and our sense of meaning. Intelligent coworkers with powerful digital augmentation will be everywhere.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. Heart First is engaging, inspirational and packed with powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. Jonas Altman’s book, Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change Your Future crossed my desk and grabbed my attention. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

He has designed leadership and succession programs for emerging and experienced leaders for NASA, Saks Fifth Avenue, UBS Bank, Walsh Construction, Spanx, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the U.S. Bill’s Books Motivate and Inspire. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that Bill calls a leadership kick in the ass.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. It is about being open and humble. It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

I’m a big believer in the power of assessments. These individuals are comfortable with ideas, ambiguity, and keeping their options open. The important lesson here is that building cognitively diverse teams—who develop respect for and appreciation of their evaluative/ ideator opposites—is a key to success.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. And it’s meant to be hard.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a rather quick/short summary of key highlights of 2022 for me: Book Illustrations The year started with the buzz around my friend Krish Shankar’s new book “ Catalyze: Power up your people ecosystem ” that was released in December 2021. The book contains visual chapter summaries in form of my sketchnotes.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Max DePree popularized the idea that leadership is an art. To reduce leadership to a set of algorithms is to remove it from its context; to ignore the complexities, the contradictions, and the possibilities. Artists must deal with uncertainty, contradictions and diversity almost by definition. Leaders need to have this capacity.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But there is a remarkable power in cultivating wonder—the ability to experience awe, curiosity, and a childlike sense of marvel. Four Benefits of Wonder Ignites Curiosity: Wonder sparks our innate curiosity, opening our minds to new possibilities and encouraging us to explore the unknown.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Find out what your personal leadership strengths are so you can make the most of them. The best leaders are great risk takers, because they are open for opportunity. Know yourself. Accept risk.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

Peter Economy’s book, Wait, I’m the Boss?!? , If you don’t know him, Peter is a bestselling business book author and ghostwriter with more than 100 books to his credit. s “Leadership Guy” because of his many articles on that platform. s “Leadership Guy” because of his many articles on that platform. 4) Support.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Raising your game as a communicator is one of the best ways to make a difference in the world, but it takes courage to open up to others and invite others to open up to you” says Michelle D. Gladieux , author of the new book, Communicate With Courage: Taking Risks To Overcome The Four Hidden Challenges.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 5, 2023

A few years (and roles) ago, I spoke up to disagree with a member of my company’s leadership team. The response I was met with was open and curious. In fact, I don’t feel comfortable contributing ideas with our leadership in general.” Work to show appreciation, humility, and openness to contributions and challenges.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For many in this situation, harmless diversions from our work were labeled as laziness ; so, we trudged away day in and day out. In my upcoming book, “ The Power of Having Fun “, I call this break an “Oasis.” Here are the 5 steps you’ll need to break that cycle and experience the power of having fun!

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In her timely new book, " TALENT WANTS TO BE FREE ," Professor Orly Lobel challenges conventional wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity to reveal how our "War for Talent" is backfiring on our quest for innovation. Yet, the power of surprise is necessary to create business breakthroughs.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Taco Bell Scholarship is open to a diverse pool of applicants. Taco Bell doesn’t just consider academic excellence; it values determination, leadership, and a passion for making a positive impact. Community Involvement : Taco Bell values individuals who are active in their communities and demonstrate leadership skills.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 28, 2024

To reflect the reach that research has in the digital age we welcome work that is published in multiple formats including books, ebooks, podcasts, blogs, and film. At the same time, our understanding of a greening economy, our transition to such, and our leadership and management of such is also accelerating at pace.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2023

As employers now compete for talent, they must meet the demands of potential employees who, with abundant job openings, can afford to be choosy. Harness the Power of Complementary Mentoring. According to some sources, it costs 1.5 to 2 times an employee’s salary to hire a replacement. Positive Workplace Culture.

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