N2Growth Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
Over the years, I have always enjoyed reading articles about some of the great sports coaches. While I’m not a sports fan myself, I find the methods of coaches who consistently produce championship teams very helpful in understanding how to … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 20, 2011
Once a target is set in a business, for most leaders it’s a natural tendency to jump right into the business of hitting it – in other words, massing the effort and “push&# needed to achieve what Jim Collins ( “Good to Great&# ) called the “ Flywheel Effect “ I’ve always liked the flywheel analogy, because it’s a great mental image of how a business gets from Point A to Point B.
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 23, 2011
Employee Engagement and Connection from David Zinger on Vimeo. Yesterday David Zinger and I held a webinar on Employee Engagement and Connection. You can see a recording of the webinar above and here is a link to the slides used during the webinar. The webinar was hosted by the Employee Engagement Network , a 3,500 member online community founded by David.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 28, 2011
In times of change there is the tendency to either stick doggedly to what has always worked in the past or to throw it all out and start new. Neither extreme is the answer. Heritage and innovation is a tension that needs to be managed— thoughtfully. Our default thinking is to view the world in terms of what has worked before so we often fail to address the changes going on around us.
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Lead Change Blog
MARCH 26, 2011
The success of any organization be it a business, non-profit, educational institution or government, depends on its people. All the fancy strategies, creations and technology mean absolutely nothing without people to make it happen. In fact, people have to develop … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 27, 2011
About 6 years ago I was approached by one of my field managers about a new “callback&# program he wanted to launch in one of our cable television service areas. He wanted to have “a real person&# call a customer within 7 days of a new service installation, and have a conversation about that installation. He emphasized “conversation&# , because he wanted this to be more than just a survey call where a bunch of “check the box&# questions are asked.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 11, 2011
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Principles for Building a Strong Network. It proved to be pretty popular and I've been practicing and coaching on those principles ever since. Today, Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Leading Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
Apple is on a roll and we want to know how Steve Jobs does it. The Steve Jobs way is, in a word, passion. Passion drives his perseverance and momentum through setbacks. Passion obliges his attention to detail. Passion necessitates his intense focus. Passion fuels his outbursts. Passion compels him to encourage those around him. Passion urges him to compete with himself.
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Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 21, 2011
A few days ago, one of my daughters shared an interesting story about a recent event that happened at her school. My daughter and a few of her friends had noticed that Peter*, the school’s custodian, wasn’t out in the hallway greeting the kids like he usually did every morning. They went to their teacher to ask her if she had seen Peter and she told them that he no longer worked at their school.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 29, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I’ve always said that if you want to learn about leadership talk to someone who has actually led something. James (Jim) Quigley, Global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is just such a leader, and the “something&# he leads is a global professional services juggernaut with more than $26 Billion in revenue, and 170,000 people located in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 13, 2011
Is there ever a good reason for letting poor performance drag on? This post lists 13 excuses managers sometimes lean on to postpone or offload the responsibility for confronting bad behavior. Are these 13 reasons valid—or simply adult versions of “the dog ate my homework”? Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 6, 2011
For 15 years I worked for a man named Bill Bresnan. He was a cable television pioneer and one of the legends in the industry, having built his first cable system in 1958, and quickly rising to the top in the early 70′s as the CEO of TelePrompter. He later started his own cable company, Bresnan Communications, in 1984, and continued to operate cable systems both internationally and domestically until his too-early passing in 2009.
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Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 13, 2011
The New York Times has had a number of great articles related to connection and how it leads to success at work and in life. In an article about what Google discovered from Project Oxygen, a rigorous study of its successful managers, Laszlo Bock, the leader of the study stated: “In the Google context, we’d always believed that to be a manager, particularly on the engineering side, you need to be as deep or deeper a technical expert than the people who work for you…It turns out that
Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology enables velocity—the speed of getting product
The Recovering Engineer
MARCH 26, 2011
The diagram above shows a simplified model for better understanding what drives behavior. Since people often spend their lives studying and understanding what really drives our behavior, I am pretty confident that I cannot hope to fully cover the topic in this short post. I can provide a quick overview you can use to diagnose what’s happening in your interactions with other people and how you might be able to modify your approaches to get better results, have more fun, experience more sati
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 10, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leadi
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
MARCH 14, 2011
We are a hockey family. That’s for sure, and most of the time we are knee deep in it. Yes, for eight months out of the year our time is devoted to coordinating the crazy hockey schedule while still making … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 16, 2011
As leaders, we utter a lot of words, and in doing so, we trust that those who follow us will process them in just the way we intended. That can be quite difficult to do, given today’s short attention spans, and the usual times we do our talking. Take first thing in the morning, for example. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stared into everyone’s morning “fog&# and tried to get a message across (sometimes I was just better off declaring “time for coffee&# a
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 29, 2011
One of the relief organizations my wife and I support is World Vision. These people are AMAZING and they do remarkable work that Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times raved about in a recent column he wrote. What I love about World Vision is that they are a force for connection. They connect their employees, volunteers and donors with people in desperate need around the world.
Leading Blog
MARCH 21, 2011
Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. In What’s Holding You Back? he writes that we need gutsy leaders that “make sure that their organization has a simple, understandable, clear game plan for the future,” a culture that is “curious, even paranoid about the future, to keep people always looking for new ways to help the company grow and prosper,”
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Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 14, 2011
Last week, Mike Myatt wrote an interesting post on the differences between flattery and praise. After reading his piece, I got to thinking about this subject in terms of how leaders communicate and guide their teams, and the impact these comments can have on their employees. Perhaps the best known story regarding the downsides of flattery is Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”, where a fox comes upon a crow perched on a tree branch, holding a piece of cheese in its beak.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 27, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. What if you could improve your leadership effectiveness in only 5 days? No really – what if? What if there were no costs, no strings attached, no hidden agendas, no complex curriculum, but just a simple set of instructions for you to follow over the next 5 days that will change your world as a leader?
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 22, 2011
Greetings Leaders! I wake up some mornings, read the headlines and shake my head in bewilderment. War, Budget Crisis, Market Meltdown, Real Estate Crash, Poverty and Scandals. I see these headlines play out almost everyday and often feel a wave … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 3, 2011
It’s time. It’s time to merge two worlds together. The world of “Terry Starbucker&# the blogger, Social Media, and SOBCon person, and the world of the other Terry – the one who came up with Terry Starbucker in the first place. Starbucker started out as no more than a screen name on a Blogger page back on December 25, 2005 (named after a certain brand of coffee).
Leading Blog
MARCH 10, 2011
A society that doesn’t train their children to think critically, to be aware of those around them, and to serve, must create more rules and regulations than can be accounted for. There will never be enough rules—there are too many variables—especially when people begin to direct their creativity in dysfunctional ways. The challenge is to develop sound minds.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
Every so often, a word or phrase will pick up so much buzz that everyone starts talking about it at once. This week, the catch phrase “no fly zone” has achieved that status. As the Libyan dictator. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 13, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. All sizzle and no steak is not a formula for leadership success. If your organization looks good, but lacks substance, then I would submit this unfortunate condition is a reflection of your leadership team. Great leadership isn’t meant to be proprietary – it’s not exclusive, but inclusive.
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