Terry Starbucker

MARCH 5, 2019

There’s a role a leader must play that in this day and age is even more important than being a teacher or mentor. It’s the role of a plumber. Yep, a plumber. Think about this for a minute – a plumber deals with pressure and flow all the time –in this case as it pertains to water. How that water is pressure controlled and directed is critical to the overall performance of a water circulation system, especially when heated water is involved.

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General Leadership

MARCH 18, 2019

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein. Extremely well trained. Reliably successful in highly dangerous environments.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

W HEN YOU AVOID the tough discussions and decisions, you hold your business back, make your team dysfunctional, and cause yourself stress. You set up a kind of conflict debt. Conflict debt, writes Liane Davey in The Good Fight , “is the sum of all the contentious issues that need to be addressed to be able to move forward but instead remain undiscussed and unresolved.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2019

How do you build a high-performing, cohesive team when people are working on different schedules? Clarity is even more important as you get everyone working toward the same goals and it takes extra effort to build relationships with little face-time. Here are […]. The post How to Lead a Team on Different Schedules appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Louie was doing his job well, actively selling Marie on the reasons why she should list his firm’s talent assessment on her company’s website. He mentioned making money three times, and improving metrics four times, in response to Marie’s questions. “Louie, thank you for reaching out,” said Marie. “Our companies’ interests don’t appear to be aligned, so a partnership isn’t going to work.”.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. Fintech, as this sector is colloquially referred, focuses for the most part on disrupting the state of affairs induced by the use of technology. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed.

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General Leadership

MARCH 13, 2019

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”. Leo Buscaglia.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

T O GET FROM where we are to where we want to be requires a shift in our thinking. When our thinking shifts in an area, our perspective changes, and new opportunities become visible. We serve people differently. In Leadershift , John Maxwell states, “every advance you make as a leader will require a Leadershift that changes the way you think, act, and lead.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2019

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about inspiring creativity and innovation on your team. We’ve expanded the Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork and are always looking for […]. The post Inspiring Creativity and Innovation on Your Team: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

I often hear (about) leaders in organizations mumbling things like, “We need to get the dialog going on the subject of.” Sounds good, doesn’t it? But what do we mean when we say dialog? Is it just a hip way of saying we should talk to coworkers? A monolog only works to transmit powerful messages. The opposite of a dialog is a monolog. Monolog literally means one ( mono ) does the word ( logos ).

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Career Advancement

MARCH 4, 2019

“Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.”. ~Kris Carr~. Client Gerald asks: Some of the employees I supervise really seem to self-sabotage at work a lot.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 12, 2019

The following is a guest piece by Fred Stuvek. All of us will face some degree of adversity in our life, this is inevitable. You can’t run from it. You can’t hide from it. It will find you. You have to deal with it, embrace it as a learning experience, Click to continue reading.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 11, 2019

A Reel Leadership Article. The last Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to release before this year’s highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame, released this past Friday. Captain Marvel took to the screen and wowed most audiences. Starring Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Vers/Captain Marvel as she struggles to remember exactly who she is. We see Captain Marvel’s struggles, disappointments, and triumphs in the latest […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Captain Marvel appeared f

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. After all, I was tenured and had supervised dozens of students seeking undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 5, 2019

When You Can’t Use an Idea, Pivot to Get More Ideas “I need people to think.” Mattias, the CEO of a mid-sized human service provider, leaned back in his chair and sighed. “They have all kinds of idea that just don’t work. […]. The post How to Respond When You Can’t Use an Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2019

By the year 2020, the workplace will require some unique skills in order to thrive, to be resilient, and to relish an ever-changing world. Now is the time to begin developing them. The Institute for the Future teamed up with the University of Phoenix Research Institute to pinpoint skills that are the result of several current economic drivers. Skill #1: Sense-Making.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. The basics of behaviour tell us far more than the latest fad. I became obsessed with observing like a detective, working out what, why and how.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 26, 2019

How many times have we heard these words in a workplace? “We’re in the dark here”. “Nobody knows what’s going on”. “This is an information vacuum!” Too many times, right? These are classic signs of a (very) big leadership fail I call “ Leadership by Osmosis “. That is, the expectation that a leader’s knowledge can simply be transferred to others without the benefit of much verbal and written communication – kind of like Mr.

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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.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 26, 2019

Some of you may not know this, but I’ve been writing this blog for over 10 years now, which of course, means that you end up covering a lot of different topics and ideas around leadership. But what it also means is that after a point, you get the urge. Click to continue reading.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

H ORST SCHULZE knew from the time he was eleven years old that he wanted to work in a hotel. It was at the end of his first apprenticeship in an assigned essay he coined the phrase that would guide him the rest of his life: “Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen.”. This guiding principle— Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen —is the bedrock of everything Schulze does and teaches.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2019

To get your team’s best ideas, ask courageous questions. Have you ever watched a team member do something insightful, helpful, or creative and asked them why they hadn’t shared it with everyone else? Their answer holds the key to unlocking your […]. The post How to Unlock Your Team’s Best Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

“Well-oiled machine.” For most of the time I’ve been in business, that was the metaphor for organizations. Leaders designed machines. Other leaders operated machines. And the machines themselves? Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. If a part broke or if a part wore out, all you had to do was replace it with another part. That metaphor comes from the early Industrial Age.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2019

Guest post from Aryeh Brickner: The other day I was in an elevator. A man who looked to be in his thirties got on, while talking on the phone. Entering behind him was a couple with a baby boy about a year old in their arms. The guy on the phone says, “I have to hang up now, I just got into an elevator”. The father turns to him and says in a nasty tone, “Did you really have to endanger all of us just to finish your call?

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Women on Business

MARCH 23, 2019

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Leading in Context

MARCH 20, 2019

By Linda Fisher Thornton The theme I noticed in the most viewed posts on this blog in 2018 was Looking For a Better Kind of Leadership. Google reported that the most popular Google searches in 2018 were about how we can be good people. It sounds like it's a great time to explore the question "What is Good Leadership? While it's tempting to over simplify leadership and think about it as any one thing, good leadership can only be fully understood by thinking about it in multiple ways.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Many companies have a set of values and company policies. However, very few companies educate leaders about ethics and encourage leaders to discuss ethics with their teams. Ethics are usually an afterthought, taken seriously only after an event that causes a business or team to fall apart.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2019

Why focus on the fundamentals? When I was defending my master’s thesis over 25 years ago, one particularly snotty professor (who had never actually worked in an organization outside of academia) leaned back in his chair and smirked, “It strikes me that […]. The post The Surprising Way to Focus Your Team on Fundamentals appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

Welcome to the March Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Communication. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting shared Is Your Workplace Full of Facts or Opinions? She asks: “How often do you get fact and opinion confused?

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 25, 2019

A Reel Leadership Article. Most of the movies I attend can be classified as action, suspense, thriller, or comedy. Rarely do I share a Reel Leadership article about a documentary. Today, though, is one of those rare moments and I think you’ll enjoy this one. The Russian Five isn’t about government collusion with Russia or Russian spies. No, The Russian […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Russian Five appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Women on Business

MARCH 27, 2019

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