Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 19, 2013
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less” -C. S. Lewis Is humility teachable? Is humility developed by nature or nurture? Am I really audacious enough to write a post on teaching humility? Apparently yes. Let me add a caveat. I don’t have humility handled. I have the best intentions, but [.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 25, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Perhaps you’ve even been guilty of uttering such a phrase yourself. Here’s the thing – leaders don’t accept impossibility as a valid thesis. If you think I’ve lost my mind, or that my optimistic nature has crossed over into a state of irrational exuberance or delusion, I’d encourage you to read on as I challenge the logic of impossibility.
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Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 18, 2013
Why do people react so strongly when they don’t have a voice in decision-making? Research suggests there is a rational biological basis for this reaction. It comes down to this: feeling that we have little or no control is detrimental to our health. The famous Whitehall studies in the U.K. established that there was an inverse relationship between level of hierarchy, power, control, status and cardiorespiratory disease/mortality rates in members of the British Civil Service.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 29, 2013
Posted in Leadership Development Do you get distracted? Everyone does. You do. I do. Distractions are everywhere. Social media has made distractions the norm. Work. Distraction. Work. Distraction. Work. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Work. Now go home and help yourself to some more distractions. Distractions are dangerous. Distractions are costly.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 10, 2013
I’ve seen and heard (and written) about a lot of great leadership lessons, but there’s a short list of them that have really “stuck” with me. They’ve since become an essential part of my leadership practice, and my life. I’m pleased to share these “greatest hits” with you, and hope that you to will find them as sticky as I have. “ An ounce of demonstration is worth a pound of explanation “ - Emil Liebling.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
MARCH 18, 2013
Often the words collaboration, coordination, and cooperation are used to describe effective teamwork. But they are not the same, and when we use these words interchangeably, we dilute their meaning and diminish the potential for creating powerful, collaborative environments. Collaboration has been a big word in the news lately, most recently due to Marissa Mayer’s explanation of her decision to bring Yahoo employees back to the office: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication an
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 11, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Marissa Mayer is a case study in what NOT to do as a new CEO. While she’s clearly under intense pressure to pull Yahoo out of what many see as a death spiral, making rookie mistakes is not going to help her cause. Being a new CEO of a struggling enterprise is a challenge for any leader, but it’s also not a role every leader is ready for – shame on Yahoo’s board for botching the selection process – again.
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 11, 2013
John Sexton, the president of New York University, is been aggressively expanding NYU at home and abroad. Now the faculty of NYU’s largest school, Arts and Sciences, have scheduled a no-confidence vote on Sexton. An article in yesterday’s New York Times entitled “ A Test of Leadership at NYU ,” described the no-confidence vote as coming about because dissident faculty felt Sexton was acting like a maverick CEO.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 20, 2013
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership What Does It Mean? You could see it from the road… The image of a lizard chipped into the stone’s desert varnish. It’s nearly three feet long, over 1,000 years old, and probably took the artist several months to complete. Standing on that hot windswept ledge with my wife and daughter in the Utah desert, [.].
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 3, 2013
I’ve written several times about one of my favorite leadership lessons, “A Short Course in Human Relations” (click on image at left for a PDF of the slide). Today my thoughts are focused on one part of that lesson, the “6 most important words”, triggered by the recent firing of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. “I admit, I made a mistake” Mason publicly admitted his failure when he published his resignation note on Twitter ( and also threw in, for good measure
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Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 22, 2013
Guest post from Mark Miller : Have you ever been on a great team? I’ve come to realize over the years not everyone can say yes. As I think about my own experience, I realize I’ve been on scores, if not hundreds of teams; unfortunately, the majority have not lived up to their potential. The more I study the topic, the more it feels like there’s a global pandemic of underperforming teams.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 8, 2013
You’ve got good people on the team, but they lack confidence. Which leadership traits should you rely on? “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves” - Eleanor Roosevelt You’ve worked hard to build a strong repetoire of leadership skills. How do you [.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 21, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Have you ever wondered why organizations tolerate dysfunctional leaders? The answer is dysfunction is so prevalent it’s often not even recognized as problematic. Many corporations just desire leaders to go along and get along more than they desire them to lead. It saddens me to articulate this next thought – corporate leadership is rapidly becoming an oxymoron.
Women on Business
MARCH 27, 2013
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Lead Change Blog
MARCH 28, 2013
Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership Team Dynamics Value Creation Workplace Issues When employees come to speak with you, do you put everything down, turn off your phone, and feel truly eager to hear their thoughts? Few managers actually do this on a daily basis, and as a result, they are like air traffic controllers without radar.
Modern Servant Leader
MARCH 14, 2013
You know that feeling: you just don’t feel right about a decision. Here’s a simple leadership test to validate the decision: does it seek to serve or control your stakeholders ? Naturally, you’d never seek to control control your customer, investor or employees, you say. But wait, there are nuances to these differences that may surprise you.
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 14, 2013
Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. Maybe it was the message or maybe it was that I had 5 hours to think about it as I hiked up Half Dome later that morning, but 25 years later I can still recall it clearly. The reverend’s message was that if you find yourself in a position where you have the opportunity to help another person recognize their own limiting behavior, and make
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 15, 2013
I am delighted and humbled by the response to the Frontline Festival. I asked my friends and colleagues to share their best advice for frontline leaders. Wow! Read these posts and you will emerge stronger. Perhaps read one a day, you’ve got enough for a month. I am pleased to share their gifts with you. [.] The post Frontline Festival: A Leadership Carnival for Frontline Leaders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 14, 2013
Clarity Matters. While clarity and brevity may have become a lost art, understanding the importance of clear, lucid, and straight-forward communication is nonetheless critical to your success as a leader. In today’s column I’ll reveal (clearly and briefly) the tricks of those who practice what I call “the black art of confusion” propagated by the ruse of ambiguity.
Women on Business
MARCH 21, 2013
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Lead Change Blog
MARCH 22, 2013
Posted in Leadership Development “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion” – Dale Carnegie Although we would like to think conflict is avoidable in the workforce, it undoubtedly arises from time to time. Our first reaction may be to see it as something negative, but we must recognize that conflict is a [.].
Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 12, 2013
The following is a guest piece by author Judith W. Umlas. Some of you may remember and be familiar with Servant Leadership, which started in the 1980’s and is still practiced by such corporate giants as Southwest Airlines, Aflac and many others. The ground-breaking concept was that leaders should serve their people first and help meet their needs. But many people feel put off by this concept.
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Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 20, 2013
Mistakes happens. I've made them, you've made them, we've all made them. As a manager, you're not only responsible for your own dumb mistakes, you're responsible for every one of the mistakes that each of your employee's make. Given all of these mistakes, there's a lot of potential opportunities to practice how you respond. You have two choices: You can lose your temper, yell, scream, embarrass and punish the employee.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 5, 2013
“If you want them to understand and catch your passion, you’ve got to give them more than the facts. Tell them the story behind your own excitement, and they’ll begin to latch onto your vision” -Jeremy Kingsley, Inspired People Produce Results I’m assuming if you’re reading this post you’re passionate about leadership or the vision [.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 7, 2013
A lot of my clients work in Washington, DC. They’re either executives in Federal agencies or executives in companies that do a lot of business with Federal agencies. Right now, they’re all talking about sequestration – that wonderful process in which Congress mandates across the board budget cuts without any guidance about how to implement those cuts.
Women on Business
MARCH 30, 2013
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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
MARCH 5, 2013
Posted in Leadership Development Leadership isn’t a solo endeavor. If you go it alone: You will not have anyone to support you in challenging times. You will not have anyone to challenge you in troubling times. You will not have meaningful conversations. You will become stale in your ways. You will become moldy in your ideas. You will become [.].
Leadership Freak
MARCH 24, 2013
One bad experience outweighs one good. A gallon of bad weighs more than a gallon of good. Setbacks nag; success whispers. You overemphasize what went wrong and minimize what went right. Down is easier than up. Small setbacks increase frustration more than small successes enhance satisfaction. One negative defeats one positive. It’s worse! One negative [.].
Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 26, 2013
There’s been a lot discussion lately on the merits of telecommuting, in terms of fostering teamwork and innovation among disparate employees in an organization. While there’s certainly been a number of valid points made on both sides of this issue, one fundamental problem with this on-going discussion is the focus on how we work without any evaluation of how these strategies address the issue of why we work.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 7, 2013
Are you good at angry? Or, do you waste your “mads?” Angry informs. Angry teaches. Mad makes us care. Unless it doesn’t. Use anger to fuel passions and accomplish change. Don’t respond with frustration, outbursts, or retaliation. All you’ll have then is embarrassment, regrets and apologies. When you are really ticked off, don’t just get [.
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