General Leadership

MARCH 25, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire. Leadership is not about having the right answers, it is the ability to ask the correct questions. It is a compilation of lived and learned experiences, the experiential education which bounds your way of thinking and does not define a rulebook.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2016

I was blown away by an email I received from a woman who recently read Winning Well. I was touched on so many levels… by her brave journey toward authenticity in the workplace, by her clear sense of confident humility, by her gratitude for accepting leaders and an inclusive workplace, and quite frankly by the fact that there are Winning Well CEOs out there looking for other Winning Well leaders who have the ability to value competence and confidence over all the other crap that gets i

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2016

On paper, and in your head, you have the best team in the world – and yet, things are not clicking. You feel like you have the “ right people on the bus “, but right now, it’s just a bus going to nowhere. What to do? First off, you are not alone – this is a classic dilemma that has spawned a ton of books, studies, white papers, seminars, webinars and head scratching that have attempted to discern the core issues and solutions.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Leaders are difference makers. They are catalysts who make positive things happen with available people, ideas, and resources. Which is why the world judges leaders first on what they actually accomplish, not the quality of their ideas or the strength of their vision. Strategy is important, innovation is important. But in the long run, a leader has to be somebody who knows how to get things done.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 13, 2016

Social intelligence is being aware of your own motives as well as the feelings of others, knowing what to do to fit into different social situations, and knowing what makes other people tick. Social Intelligence in Leadership. Oftentimes people are promoted into leadership positions because they’ve been successful as individual contributors. What makes them successful in an individual role, however, may be insufficient to ensure their success as a leader.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 9, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton When we reach a certain level of accomplishment as leaders, it is easy to think we can slide into neutral.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2016

Her call touched me deeply. She was trying so hard… to establish the right vision, to key in on the important behaviors, to scaffold and develop…and her team just wasn’t listening. Perhaps you’ve been there too. You’ve got vision. You care deeply. You teach. You repeat yourself. But no one seems to “get it”? Here are ten questions worth asking when you hit that wall– when your team is just not listening.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 20, 2016

Leadership is a balancing act. Imagine the tightrope walker at the circus, precariously navigating from one side of the big top to the other. If the walker puts too much weight on one side or the other, they’ll take a big fall. And so it is for those who lead, and what’s more, it requires a deft sense of self-awareness and guile- and just a bit of schizophrenia.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2016

Certain aspects of thinking and behaving like a good leader can be tough for many on the leadership development path. Our brain doesn’t develop neuropathways at the flip of a switch. New habits may takes months, if not years, to become second nature. The best of leaders who grasp concepts like influence, vision, listening, and delegating with relative ease arrive there through hard work and practice.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 2, 2016

Most organization and team cultures today focus on racing to identify actionable solutions. The most effective leaders, however, take time to ask questions that get people to share their thoughts and feelings en route to identifying actionable solutions. Over the years I’ve come to believe that rushing to a solution is often unwise and that the journey is as valuable as the destination.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 30, 2016

Linda Fisher Thornton If you are in the Richmond, Virginia area, please join me for a Book Talk on April 7th at the Tuckahoe Library.

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General Leadership

MARCH 16, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leaders who see their role as serving others leave the most lasting legacy.” James Kouzes and Barry Posner. This blog post came to me after recently seeing numerous online headlines about our 44 th President seeking to establish his legacy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2016

Have you ever looked at your to do list and just laughed? You think, “oh right, that’s not happening,” and then moments later, you realize that none of the tasks on your list are really an option. Perhaps that’s the point that your nervous laughter turns to tears. That’s the wall I hit this week. I’ve had a number of serious personal challenges that require an intense investment of emotion and time, some stuff I wouldn’t have chosen, and certainly not at

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 22, 2016

What’s sabotaging your growth? Driving profitable growth is at the top of every leader’s priority list. Yet, according to Bain and Company, only 10% succeed in achieving sustainable profitable growth. While growth is the life-blood of every business, at some point, your company will experience the double edge sword of growth. Either your company will grow faster than your internal capacity to handle it.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2016

Not all forms of Rewards & Recognition (R&R) are created equal. In actuality, as human beings we aren’t profoundly motivated by the tangible reward or recognition itself. It’s about the meaning behind the reward. In fact, an international employee survey by Make Their Day! found that almost 60 percent of the most meaningful recognition is free.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 7, 2016

I n Disney’s latest family friendly movie Zootopia, we see a strange world. A world where animals, both predators and prey, get along. The animals live together in a happy society. They thrive by working with one another. Then something changes… Having seen previews for this movie, my wife was excited. She wanted to see the animated animals and watch the new Disney movie.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 2, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week I am honored to share with you an Expert Interview that I did for the John Mattone Blog at JohnMattone.com. This interview explores my business journey and includes advice for leaders about learning and applying ethical leadership. It addresses issues that concern leaders including: qualities of ethical leaders the multidimensional nature of ethical leadership learning ethical thinking identifying ethical leaders measuring leadership success.

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General Leadership

MARCH 18, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” Friedrich Nitzsche. Being a leader can be tiring. After all, you have your team relying on you to be there for them to answer questions, provide direction, and make things happen.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2016

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival, in keeping with the seasonal turn toward spring, is all about fresh insights for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Our thanks as well to the Brainy Quote site for being a great source of quotations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Definition of Creativity. Creativity is thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things. Why Creativity Matters. Creativity is essential for innovation. Exercising creativity to continuously improve by finding new and better ways of serving clients is something we must always strive to do. An organization that settles for the status quo will never be a great organization.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 16, 2016

A Small Story. In 7th grade, my class went on an overnight field trip to a place called Bradford Woods for a “team building retreat.” Throughout the trip, we partook in various team building exercises that included obstacle courses, puzzles, and relay races. I remember one activity that involved balancing multiple people on a square-shaped plank on top of a ball with the goal of keeping all four corners off the ground for ten consecutive seconds.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 4, 2016

W hile I’ve always loved learning, I’ve often failed to invest in myself. This lack of investment in myself is sad, looking back on it. There are so many missed opportunities to grow. I dismissed the mentions of conferences as silly. I threw away audio recordings that were meant for growth. I sucked as a young leader. Why I Didn’t Invest In Myself.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 23, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethics and detachment don't mix well. In fact, combining high ethical expectations with an aloof stance can lead to trouble.

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General Leadership

MARCH 11, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox). Always do everything you ask of those you command. – General George S. Patton. When I was an instructor at the Air Force’s Officer Training School, I noticed the uncanny way the groups of officer trainees we led became mirrors of their Flight Commander.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 23, 2016

Throughout our new book, Winning Well (available now!), David and I talk consistently about the importance of confidence AND humility, results AND relationships. So many of the managers we work with tell us that the hardest part to master is confidence. Even those highly successful managers who appear to be Winning Well and making a difference will often take us aside and admit that they sometimes feel like a fake.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2016

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. These practices include, but are not limited to: the “customer first” mentality, non-compete agreements, email, standard vacation policy, office design, annual performance appraisals, and even the need for managers.

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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

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2016

Political season is upon us. As I watch debate after debate, I find myself asking one simple question: What happened to civility in leadership? Many years ago, a colleague and I were asked to create a training program to help employees – i.e. future leaders – act “more professional.” As we attempted to meet this daunting request, we made an interesting discovery.

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Women on Business

MARCH 31, 2016

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Leading in Context

MARCH 16, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Sarah Hood included some of my advice to HR Managers about CSR in her feature article about Corporate Social Responsibility in the March/April 2016 Edition of HR Professional Magazine. In it she explores the role of the HR professional in supporting and advancing an organization's CSR efforts.

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General Leadership

MARCH 21, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” Isaac Asimov. Benjamin Franklin said, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes”. I offer a third constant, and that is change.

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