Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
The number one frustration I hear from team leaders is that their feedback falls on deaf ears. The employee seems to get it– for a minute, and then they go right back to their old habits. So they give the same feedback again, this time “louder” either literally, or through progressive discipline, or sadly sometimes threats or biting sarcasm.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
I remember the first time I got it at age 22, a mere 4 months after I graduated from college, as a staff accountant at a public accounting firm. It was given to me reluctantly, out of sheer necessity, and it terrified me. But on the other hand, it was what I wanted. After all, I was young, and overflowing with exuberant ambition. So I took the ball, and ran with it, all the way up the field.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Yesterday I went to our local UPS Store to drop off a number of packages. My hands were full. I was doing the classic “chin press” to keep the tall stack intact as I walked towards the door. As I got closer, I realized I had too few hands available to open the door on my own. At that point, a gentleman walked out of the store and held the door open for me.
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Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
J im Collins in his book Good to Great shares that we need to get the right people in the right seats on the right bus. As leaders, we know this is crucial. What we often forget is that we can place the wrong leaders in the wrong seats on the wrong bus and this creates more issues than having the wrong team members. I recently came across a great quote and I don’t know who said it.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
T ENSIONS are objectives that seem to be in conflict. They are values that seem to be in opposition. We often treat them as either/or choices when they should be treated as both/and dynamics. Each value or characteristic supports and even makes possible the competing value. Robert Quinn has produced a valuable tool for understanding this concept in his book The Positive Organization.
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General Leadership
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth. Comedian Steve Harvey has a video on YouTube where he describes how to take a “jump” and put change into motion in your life.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
An open letter to all who are thinking about being a leader, are about to be a leader, or are already been given the responsibility of a leader and are trying to figure out how the heck it all works: . Dear Prospective, Pending, or Current Leader: I understand you are trying to be a leader. First off, that’s fantastic – leadership is a great calling that can bring you great success and satisfaction on so many levels, both personally and professionally.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Mastering Leadership, by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams, will be released on November 30, 2015. We are pleased to share an excerpt with you today! When we step into positions of leadership, we make a set of promises in the form of expectations. We all expect certain things from our leaders, and these expectations constitute the Promise of Leadership. Leadership expectations come in two forms: 1) Explicit : expressed expectations for certain outcomes that come with the role of the leader and that sh
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Guest post from Darrin Murriner: Most people would agree that good leaders are brave leaders. But our definition of brave may vary widely. For some bravery could mean facing a tough personnel decision or making investment decisions to enter a new market. And while those decisions can often be brave, I contend that the highest form of bravery in an organizational context is keeping at bay the opposite of bravery; fear.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
U RBAN MEYER is an elite college football coach and currently the head football coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes. In Above the Line Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season he presents the lessons he has learned over his career. Ironically, some coaches are so preoccupied with pushing for results that they fail to build a culture that sustains the behavior that produces results.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
I’ve never met someone who would admit to preferring drama over collaboration. And yet, most cultures have too much drama, too little collaboration. What’s up with that? This weekend we stayed in a beach house in Nags Head with my sister, and 28 of her closest friends (most of whom we had ever met) to run the Outer Banks Southern Fried racing weekend.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.” — Aaron Goldman. Across the years, especially when I was a young employee or supervisor, I was always interested in how little information flowed in the organizations I belonged to.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. There it was, finally, the question I was waiting for from my brilliant but mercurial multi-multi-millionaire boss. I had been pondering the answer for several weeks. We were working on an important project in the fall of 1990, and there was a problem, one demanding some out-of-the-box thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could
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Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
We are pleased to congratulate Instigator Linda Freeman on receiving the Statewide Energy Innovator Award from ReThink Energy Florida. Because Linda was not able to travel to the award presentation earlier this summer, a presentation is scheduled at a meeting of The Children’s Trust in Miami on November 16. Kim Ross, President of ReThink Energy Florida, will present the award at that time.
Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
M y wife used to work in a high-end restaurant in Pentwater, Michigan. She loved working in the kitchen and creating culinary magic. While watching another movie, her eyes lit up with joy when she saw the previews for Burnt, the new Bradley Cooper movie. Burnt is about a two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out, and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
“Wherever you are, be all there!” Jim Elliot’s advice offers a difficult challenge. “You’re here but your mind is somewhere else” is a common refrain. Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram, authors of 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time , write “Every day, millions of people are negatively impacted by the inability of a person to connect appropriately and to be present.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
“But we’re already doing so much better than last year, when is enough, enough?” “Don’t you see how overwhelmed we are already?” “That’s not a stretch goal, that’s a delusion.” If you’re like most managers, at some point you’ve heard this kind of pushback from your team. Challenging your team to do more (often with less) is one of the biggest challenges of a manager.
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.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “S wonderful! ‘S marvelous! That you should care for me!” Ira Gershwin. What do you care about as a leader? Is it the same thing that your team members care about? What about the organization?
Michael Lee Stallard
NOVEMBER 21, 2015
At the 2015 World Business Forum in New York City, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini laid out the most important vision at the conference: a vision to save healthcare. Bertolini’s message is that healthcare is broken and that he is committed to fixing it. Although his vision will be difficult to achieve, his resolve and thoughtfulness is evident. He knows fixing healthcare is important.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Are you getting all you want? Are you achieving all of your goals and succeeding in life? Are you living a fully intentional life? If you are, I salute you. I can’t make the same claim. I do aspire to live more intentionally, though – I am an aspiring intentionalist. To live a more intentional life, I constantly strive to gain greater agency, the quality of living intentionally.
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Guest post from Chris Hutchinson : If you’ve gotten past the title without choking on your warm office beverage of choice, you’re probably thinking something like: 1. Are you kidding? You’ve clearly never met [colleague/boss/archenemy]! 2. Don’t think so. People either have natural leadership ability or they don’t. If you don’t have the right wiring, it doesn’t matter. 3.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. It actually builds on the ideas and thinking presented in his classic book written with Bob Sutton, The Knowing Doing Gap over a decade ago. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? Pfeffer believes that the answer is to be found in the systemic processes that produce leaders who often behave differently from what most people might like or expect.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about gratitude. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, in celebration of the launch of the new Star Wars: the Force Awakens movie we’re going to give you two options. You’re welcome to submit your “best of” post of 2015.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
People follow leaders by choice. You can get compliance through imposing your authority, by coercion or manipulation, but you won’t be trusted and respected. When your followers do have a choice, there is no guarantee they will continue to follow you. And if you find yourself out on a limb, it is likely you will find you’re alone. Be a leader people want to follow.
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
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
It was an amusing game at a leadership retreat, especially after a few adult beverages. The instructions were simply describe leadership as a highway sign and tell why. There were the comical ones like One Way or No Turns , or Rough Road Ahead ”. But the one that stumped us all was Speed Limit 24 MPH. When the laughter stopped the explanation that followed was more than a frivolous detour.
Tanveer Naseer
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
The following is a guest piece by former Disney executive Ken Goldstein. I don’t like performance reviews. I never liked giving them, and I never liked getting them. They are like school report cards, only less well-meaning and more poorly formed. They make the workplace more political, needlessly enforcing nerve-wracking centers of power. They serve a legal function much more than a creative function.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Black Box Thinking : Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do by Matthew Syed. Why Should Anyone Work Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. It's My Pleasure : The Impact of Extraordinary Talent and a Compelling Culture by Dee Ann Turner.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Are you afraid to talk about leadership development at work? Would you like to invest more in developing your people, but worry that your boss will pooh pooh the idea? You’re not alone. This week, I had the honor of co-hosting the Online Servant Leadership Summit with Becky Robinson. We had some great guests including Ken Blanchard, author of the new One Minute Manager and Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes.
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