Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 27, 2016
A guest post from Greg Marcus. Being a better person is easy in theory – do less of the negative stuff, and more of the positive stuff. The same holds true for leadership. The problem comes in when we either don’t know what we should do, or we do know but can’t help ourselves and do the negative anyway. When I was in the corporate world, I was very good at my job, and very, very arrogant.
Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 9, 2016
Respect is a much-talked and much-written about cornerstone of effective leadership, particularly the more human kind. Yes, leaders need to be respected because it leads to a bond of trust that enables a culture of accountability and success. But it’s not all about YOU getting respect. It’s just as much about them being respected too. It’s about the people you lead.
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General Leadership
OCTOBER 19, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “They criticize our generation, but they forget who raised it.” Anonymous. In today’s workforce we have four generations of workers. Effective leaders understand the perspectives, values, and paradigms that shape each generation and the all-encompassing and frequently discussed subject of generational leadership.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The reason most corporations are broken when it comes to talent acquisition is they are simply looking for the wrong things through the wrong lens. Their hiring models are built for the old economy. They are looking for conformity rather than a non-conformity. They look to protect the status quo rather than disrupt it. They are hiring for the present and not for the future.
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Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Conflict, from your home to the workplace, is inevitable. In fact, did you know that according to a Gallup Poll, negative conflict drains the U.S. economy by $350 BILLION a year in lost productivity and wasted energy? But conflict gets a bad rap. According to Nate Regier, co-founding owner and chief executive officer of Next Element , a global advisory firm specializing in building cultures of compassionate accountability, it shouldn’t be seen as an energy drain but as an energy source.
Michael Lee Stallard
OCTOBER 8, 2016
Congratulations to Texas Christian University (TCU) for being recognized by The Wall Street Journal as #2 in the U.S. for student engagement, an assessment that measures, according to the Journal , “how connected the students are with their school, each other and the outside world, and how challenging their courses are…” To learn about TCU’s unique “Connection Culture” check out this TCU Magazine article and the TCU Center for Connection Culture.
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Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 23, 2016
Remember those yellow legal note pads? They used to be my constant companions earlier in my career, before PCs, smart phones, laptops, and tablets. (Yes, there was actually a time like that, as strange as it may seem now. And oh yes, that officially qualifies me as a dinosaur.). I would always be making “to do” lists on those pads. Some were short, and some were long.
General Leadership
OCTOBER 14, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I don’t know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it’s the only time you’ve got.” – Art Buchwald. Standing in front of the assembled group of more than 150 staff to tell them they were being reorganized–again–was a little daunting to say the least.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2016
You may have read my 3 part-series on Culture By Design. The final installment was published just last week. The response was so overwhelming that I thought it may be worth offering one more piece on the subject of corporate culture. With that, let’s explore what happens to an organization that fails at its cultural transformation work because it chose not to craft its Culture by Design.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2016
At your core there exists a unique set of abilities. We refer to them as strengths. These are not difficult to discover. There are many “strength finder” type assessments that are more than capable of pointing these abilities out. What usually go unnoticed are the multiple enablers that surround our lives and enhance our abilities. They make our abilities come alive.
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Leading Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2016
T ODD DURKIN is one of America's top fitness trainers helping people move beyond their perceived limits from the inside out. The principles he uses in his approach to his work are something all leaders can consider and apply. Durkin brings servant leadership to all that he does. He has been motivating others with his Word of the Week (WOW) since 2011 and has now compiled them in a single book, The WOW Book.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Once your product becomes a commodity, you’re hosed. Even your once loyal customers start looking around for where they can get your offering cheaper, faster, or with less hassle. Most companies get this and take deliberate steps to differentiate their products. Sadly, as companies work to scale, one of the biggest mistakes I see is that they begin to de-personalize the customer experience in the name of efficiency. .
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Leadership is not necessarily about getting people to follow you. In fact, the test of leadership effectiveness is what happens when you’re not there. If everything depends on you and falls apart when you’re not there, obviously the effectiveness of your team is limited because you can’t be there all the time. At times you might […]. The post Leadership That Matters appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
General Leadership
OCTOBER 13, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.” President George Washington.
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N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2016
If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. So if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2016
This month we are featuring Instigator Will Lukang , an Executive Director for a financial company and an Independent Coach with the John Maxwell Team. Will was part of the original group of Lead Change Group members. . Will graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines with a BS in Commerce/Major in Accounting. In addition, he has an MBA in Information and Decision Technology Management from IONA College as well as a Master of Arts in Strategic Communication and Leadershi
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2016
J OSEPH BADARACCO PROVIDES A WAY to resolve the inevitable gray areas we will all face from time to time in Managing in the Gray. They are the core of a leaders work. Gray areas demand our best judgment. The five questions provide a way to get there. They are “a distinctive way of sizing up gray area issues, analyzing them carefully, grappling with their full, human complexity, and then—and only then—making final decisions.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about having fun. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about giving thanks. Submit your ideas here! Chip Bell of the Chip Bell Group finds fun in his surroundings such as a happy office with great music, quirky artifacts, awesome pictures, a gazillion books, and a cat that sleeps on the copier nearby.
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.
Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Guest post from Bernie Swain : Leadership requires all sorts of qualities: judgment, character, confidence, an unshakeable commitment to a work ethic guided by a moral compass. But in order to lead others, people also have to lead themselves, a quality that is often tested during periods of adversity. I got to know many leaders in politics, the military, business, sports, and entertainment over the 30-plus years that I led the Washington Speakers Bureau, a company I co-founded and built.
General Leadership
OCTOBER 17, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “You’ve got to know when to hold them…and know when to fold them.” Kenny Rogers – The Gambler. How many times in life were you told to never give up? Vince Lombardi , legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959-1967, famously said, “Winners never quit and quitters never win!
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2016
You can’t be your best if you don’t make time for yourself! Here’s how writer-director-producer Peter Berg put it when speaking about his passion for boxing. “[T]he contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.”.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Conflict has a bad rap. When I ask audiences what’s the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word “conflict,” I usually get answers like, “run away,” “somebody gets hurt,” “I hate it,” “fighting,” or “war.” Most people have negative associations with conflict, usually from personal experience. Maybe it is from growing up in a home where conflict turned nasty and people got hurt.
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Leading Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. Rock Bottom to Rock Star : Lessons from the Business School of Hard Knocks by Ryan Blair. Simplify : How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed by Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood and Perry Marshall. Becoming a Leader of Character : 6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home by James L.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 13, 2016
You know your boss is headed into the talent review meeting. You’ve updated your resume, had the heart to heart, and said your prayers. And then… the response, “it went fine… just keep up the good work… oh, and be patient.” If that’s ever happened to you, it’s probably because of a “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” type oath amongst the execs having the conversation.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 20, 2016
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General Leadership
OCTOBER 3, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. “ Amelia Earhart. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.
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N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Ours is a society that reveres winners. We love winning. And while our quest for victory is laudable, we too often overlook those who compete nobly and yet fail to win the ultimate prize. Sadly we label them as “losers.”. Essential to a leader’s development is managing adversity. It’s one thing to lead when everything is going your way; it is another thing to lead when the odds are against you.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2016
This post is part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from leadership coach and author Kimunya Mugo. This was completely new. Waking up every morning was a major struggle. It was like someone glued my eyes shut every night. My mind was tired, my body wrecked and my spirit crushed. For two months, I survived through life.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2016
P RINCIPLES ARE WONDERFUL THINGS, because if they are really powerful they can save us enormous effort and stop us going down dead ends. In science and business there are just a few such principles; but whereas most scientists are aware of the beautiful principles in their field, few business people are guided by principles in their daily work, preferring to rely on methods —the next level down.
Tanveer Naseer
OCTOBER 4, 2016
With a complex endeavour such as leadership, it’s only natural that there be different schools of thought and perspectives on what would be the best way to lead your team and organization forward. Of course, while there might be different approaches to leadership, there are still a few binary aspects to how we approach the role of leader in today’s organizations.
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