N2Growth Blog
JUNE 9, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. This video applies to us all – especially those in leadership. I highly recommend watching this video as a recommencement of sorts – to being grounded in humility, reality, authenticity, and transparency. The reason people want to be led by you is not because your special, but because you understand you’re not.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 15, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Like learning to drive, leading, and managing people is an experiential journey. My entrance onto the leadership stage was when I was promoted, having stood in for the team leader from time to time. I don’t know about you, but although I had practiced at managing people, I hadn’t experienced it properly until I had [.].
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Terry Starbucker
JUNE 3, 2012
“Things change.” Yes, they do. And leaders who fail to absorb this concept into their core being are perfect candidates to be left behind the pack in a cloud of business dust. As change happens, we must change. We must adapt to new technologies, new theories, new business models, new people and attitudes – sometimes within weeks, or even a day.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 19, 2012
While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. These are the tried and true models that have shifted my thinking about leadership and help create teachable leadership moments for others. Mind you, I’m not a scholar, so the models I favor tend to be simple, practical, and I have to had seen evidence that they are effective.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JUNE 11, 2012
When you have a vision, you know where you want to go and you can see your next steps – but you won’t be able to see the entire path. Vision is not about the path, it’s about the destination. As you take each step, the next step becomes clear as long as you stay focused on your vision. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Next Level Blog
JUNE 5, 2012
The past few days in London have marked the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been a pomp and circumstance extravaganza, and the members of the Royal Family have all had parts to play. One thing the Windsors appear to understand better than anyone is that appearances matter for people in leadership. Click headline to continue.
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Lead Change Blog
JUNE 6, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development In Part I, we discussed the first three steps to better manage your time. Remember, time management is the act of exercising conscious control over how you spend your time in an attempt to increase efficiency or productivity. The key words here are conscious control. Time management is impossible without the person making an honest [.].
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 10, 2012
Starbucker Graduates, 1982. Dear Business School Graduates of 1982: Congratulations! It’s graduation time, and I always get a bit nostalgic this time of year, remembering my good old days at college. For me, college was this cool utopia, where I had all the trappings of adulthood, but not quite all the responsibility that came with it. The professors tried to teach us as much as they could about business and #leadership, and in turn, I tried to absorb as much as I could.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 7, 2012
Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle : In high school, I wasn't an amazing athlete, but one of my closest friends sure was. Most people didn't know it, though. He was quiet, even shy, and spent most of his time either practicing or studying. Nothing he did off the court—not the way he acted, how he dressed, or who he talked to—shouted "jock!
Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 22, 2012
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to host a number of talented and respected leadership and business thinkers who’ve graciously shared their insights and experiences with my readers. While I’m grateful to each and every one of them, I have to say I’m particularly excited about hosting the writings of this next guest, those of my daughter Alya.
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Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 7, 2012
We’re discussing how to build your leadership like an architect builds a home. There are specific steps you should take: choose the location, select a style and finally, create the blueprint. Last time, we covered how to select a location. Next time, we will cover designing the structure. Today though, we dig into selecting the style of structure.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 20, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I love history, and have always enjoyed being a student of history. Earlier this week we launched a new project: The History of Leadership. The project consists of an interactive historical timeline of the world’s greatest leaders dating as far back as 2000 BC. Since history has been recorded, so have great lessons in leadership.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 7, 2012
Posted in Light Your World Workplace Issues Do you remember the children’s story “STONE SOUP…?” It is a children’s fable, about a hungry traveler that comes to a small village and begins knocking on doors asking if someone will feed him. Unfortunately it is a very poor village that is concerned they will not have the resources they need to feed their [.].
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 24, 2012
You’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. And yet, there’s one last thing that you need to do to get it all to true greatness. It’s gut check time. How do you really FEEL about this road you’re on?
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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 11, 2012
There’s been a lot written about the concept of “authentic leadership”, that is, being a leader that is comes across as sincere, genuine, and real. Authentic leaders lead from the heart and are true to their values and principles. Authenticity builds trust, credibility, and inspires – all essential elements of great leadership. Becoming a leader isn’t just about studying famous leaders or role models and then trying to emulate them.
Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 12, 2012
Over the last two summers, I’ve been working on renewing the various gardens around my house. As I came to the end of the process this year, I noticed some interesting parallels with the nature of today’s organizations and in particular, the periodic need to take steps to help rejuvenate your team and their collective efforts. Whether your organization is looking to address the challenges being brought forth by today’s global economy or simply to make some changes to keep on co
Leadership Freak
JUNE 29, 2012
Leaders who lift get further than those who push down. Performace improves when people feel encouraged and declines when they’re discouraged or hopeless. You don’t have to beat up high-performers – they do it to themselves – lift them instead. All successful leaders encourage; they fill people with hope. The added responsibility of encouraging others may [.].
Persuasive Powerhouse
JUNE 13, 2012
The ability to hear sound comes naturally, but the ability to understand a sound’s meaning (including someone’s words and emotions) is learned. Listening at the level where we understand someone’s meaning doesn’t come easily for leaders who are surrounded with distractions. It takes hard work, especially for those of us who have spent the better part of our lives with our brain (if not our mouths) chattering away.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 11, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Gene was upset with his new team’s quarterly business results, and his withering criticism of their performance during the staff meeting had brought a stunned hush to the room. Not one of the ten people sitting around the table had been exempt from having their deficiencies cruelly described and even mocked during the meeting.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 17, 2012
(Writers note: It’s ironic that this post about embarrassment was the first one in 7 years where I hit the “publish” button prematurely. Apologies to my RSS feed readers for the “blank” post yesterday). It was December 16th, 1993, my 34th Birthday. I was in suburban Washington DC, working for a certain professional football team that was looking to build a new stadium.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 21, 2012
Guest post by By Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese: In order to become a chief catalyst for collaboration, you will have to model behaviors that embody the way you'd like your employees to work. For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition.
Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 26, 2012
While last week heralded the end of the current school year, it also marked the completion of my first year serving as the chairman of the Governing Board for the regional high school my oldest daughter attends. Having worked with a number of teams and committees, I can honestly say that this team was one of the most effective and collaborative teams I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with.
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Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 22, 2012
The corporate culture pyramid has four sides: The Culture Pyramid. 1. Employees : What employees believe about the culture. 2. Leaders : What the leadership team believes about the culture. 3. Corporate : What the company claims about the culture. 4. External : What external stakeholders believe about the culture. It used to be that particularly strong sides 2 and 3 could mask realities in 1 and 4.
Persuasive Powerhouse
JUNE 19, 2012
. I am a habitual interrupter. Although I felt I’d made some changes, I became aware that I had much further to go on this goal during a meeting when I interrupted someone recently before she barely got a word out. She let me have it (deservedly so). After that, I started observing my communication to see if this was just a one-time mistake on my part.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 20, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development As a leader, you’re required to utilize more than your logical management skills. It is also necessary to connect and understand yourself and those around you to make informed decisions. In order to do this you need to be connected with your emotions and the emotions of the people you are managing. One way to [.].
Next Level Blog
JUNE 19, 2012
It was 7:30 on a Sunday night on the campus of one of the world’s best-known companies, and I was the guest speaker for a group of about 70 of the company’s top high potentials. They had just finished the first week of a two-week program that had wrapped up with a weekend project two hours earlier. Week two was. Click headline to continue.
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 28, 2012
Guest post by Nan S. Russell: The great recession and economic crisis have accelerated shifts in how people view their work and their leaders. Studies confirm what many see – no longer are title and authority the driving force behind results. Leader credibility is down and the trust deficit is up. The post-recession workplace harbors a new reality for leaders.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 6, 2012
“I have a picture of myself from when I was about two years old. It shows me with a bowed head and stooped shoulders, in despair, peering through sad eyes that wondered what I was doing in this world …” Shirzad Charmine. A surprising quote from a bestselling book titled, “Positive Intelligence,” wouldn’t you think? [.].
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 5, 2012
If you were an architect, there are steps you would take to build your home: choose the location, select a style and finally, design the specific structure. To architect your leadership style, you need to follow similar steps. Today, we begin by covering the selection of location. For your home, location matters. In real estate , the theme is “Location, location, location!
In the CEO Afterlife
JUNE 10, 2012
Why is creativity so important in business? Because it is the idea, and not the money that drives entrepreneurship. This month’s Fast Company names the 100 Most Creative People in Business, with an emphasis on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television and sports. To be honest, I’d never heard of the vast majority on these people.
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