Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 9, 2018
“I’m sick of this crap! Why can’t they just figure this out?” Scott was CEO of an engineering firm that produced communications hardware and software for industries around the globe. He had worked hard with his board and senior leadership team to […].
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 8, 2018
“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.” – Mark Twain. Managers no longer try to have a conversation with their people. While social media has proven itself to be very beneficial in some areas of communication, I believe it has also to some extent has sabotaged in-person communication.
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Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 9, 2018
With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. For myself, the start of a New Year also presents a unique opportunity to look back on the past 52 weeks to see which of my writings resonated the most with my readers. It’s an interesting exercise because it not only lets me know what ideas and topics garner the most interest and engagement from my audience, but
Women on Business
JANUARY 10, 2018
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 11, 2018
Dear Karin & David, What do you do with a boss who makes it impossible to focus? We agree on a direction and three days later he has seventeen new ideas, dumps them on us, and the managers are expected to somehow […].
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 9, 2018
Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! The themes for this month are… Let’s get started! Productivity. Neal Burgis of Burgis Successful Solutions submitted Great Leaders Simplify Complexity. Neal recaps, “No one enjoys struggling with individual complexity – When processes, rules, and procedures were first put in place most likely they were meant to change with the times, but no one did.
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Leading in Context
JANUARY 10, 2018
By Linda Fisher Thornton When we think about leadership in the "here and now" we tend to think about what will be most effective in the short run. When we think about our leadership over decades, though. we can turn our attention to the longer-term impact we have on others - our positive legacy. .
Rich Gee Group
JANUARY 8, 2018
The new year is a time of inspiration and new beginnings. Here are some proven methods to make 2018 your best year ever — these are the tenets I share with my clients to help them knock it out of the park every month. 1. Decide to be successful. That’s the first step — most people are afraid of success, not failure. They feel that their lives will change drastically and become unmanageable.
Women on Business
JANUARY 9, 2018
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Leading Blog
JANUARY 10, 2018
W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish? The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At some point, over half of us will get fired or demoted—or our careers will flat-line, and we won’t reach our innate potential. In The Right—and Wrong—Stuff , Carter Cast shares with us the turning point in his career at PepsiCo.
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Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 8, 2018
A Reel Leadership Article Hollywood once again takes you back to the 1940’s… Adolf Hitler has risen to power. The European nations are in turmoil. And Dunkirk is in danger. Darkest Hours tells the story of Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) as he tries to navigate the political quagmire of parliament and his political enemies. Over a number of days, we see Churchill’s struggle as he has to make tough decision after tough decision.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JANUARY 6, 2018
I hope you're sitting down because Home Depot is upping its home decor game in a major way. While rumors swirl about Amazon's potential acquisition of Target , the hardware and home improvement giant has, shall we say, put a ring on their intended. They recently announced their purchase of the online arm of decor and textile retailer, The Company Store.
Women on Business
JANUARY 12, 2018
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Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 12, 2018
Be Proactive. One of the most surprising findings from our research into attracting Top Talent was the fact even organizations who were well on their way to creating their own Talent Magnet were often unaware of their need to actually Tell the Story. This lack of focus on getting the word usually stemmed from a few root causes: The leader didn’t understand the power of sharing their employee promise.
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Career Advancement
JANUARY 8, 2018
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” ~Colin Powell~. Maura wants to expand her influence in her company , but she’s realizing some major barriers have existed there for years. “Maybe I should just find a new job in a company with a different culture,” she said to a trusted colleague over coffee.
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 8, 2018
Engage in behaviors that have high return on energy, ROE. Stinky things you tolerate – but should confront – suck the life out of you. Law of the skunk: deal with stink.
Women on Business
JANUARY 6, 2018
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Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 10, 2018
Going into the holidays, I’d never have guessed that collard greens and black-eyed peas would serve up a leadership “aha” moment. I don’t think my table mate did either. Over dessert, my table mate remarked that she still had a nasty taste in her mouth from “that awful green dish that had been forced on her.”. “Is this your first experience eating collard greens?”.
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.
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 10, 2018
I’m sure quite a few of you were in diapers as I was immersed as a teen in this 1970’s commercial about Enjoli perfume. This sexy suburbanite sang a jazzy song about the many roles she successfully played in society—a corporate executive, a gourmet cook, an involved mother and the commercial culminated as she sang to her husband, “And I’ll never let you forget you’re a man.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JANUARY 8, 2018
I just started reading John Bell’s new novel The Circumstantial Enemy and am having a hard time putting it down. Fortunately I’m traveling tomorrow and will have time to finish it on the plane. Can’t wait! I know John Bell as a leadership expert. By the age of 47, John had turned a bankrupt company […]. The post From CEO to Novelist: A Case Study of Radical Career Change appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
Women on Business
JANUARY 11, 2018
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Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 11, 2018
The following excerpt is from Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose by Rick Alexander. It has gone largely unremarked that 35 states introduced a new corporate governance model in the past decade. Yet the introduction of the “benefit corporation” gives leaders an opportunity to remake our business culture, and perhaps save the planet from our very human short-term bias.
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Leadership Freak
JANUARY 9, 2018
The greatest crisis in organizational life is an energy crisis within. How to spot a bloodsucking leech: #1. Leeches always need more. The people you give the most, need the most.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JANUARY 10, 2018
Two days ago I published an interview with John Bell, former CEO of Nabob (acquired by Kraft) and recently published novelist, about his radical career change. During that interview I asked John if he would be willing to write a guest post for current leaders about what he had learned from writing a novel that […]. The post 5 Things I Learned Writing a Novel That I Wish I’d Known as a CEO appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 12, 2018
Meetings… Is there a bigger bane to a leader than a meeting that runs on and on and on? I think not. Meetings have become a productivity nightmare. You wrangle in multiple team members, hold them hostage in a room for half an hour or longer, and then try to figure out a reason for the meeting. Read until the end to get your free PDF checklist for more productive meetings.
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 11, 2018
Guest post from Dr. Kumar Mehta: Every leader wants to consistently create mind-blowing products and offerings that customers love and line up for. They know that if they don’t innovate, they will be left behind, the world’s simply moving way too fast. They are looking to institutionalize the innovation process. This means building a culture where innovation happens every day.
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Leadership Freak
JANUARY 12, 2018
Reject the thought that you’re self-aware. Odds are you don’t see yourself and you don’t see yourself as others see you either.
Rich Gee Group
JANUARY 12, 2018
The newest episode of Two Heads podcast, “ Kick It Back Old School: Collateral With A Twist ,” has just launched on iTunes. Listen today! About Two Heads. Rich has teamed up with BJ Flagg, president and Founder of Nurenu, Inc. to bring you a weekly podcast, “Two Heads: Brand Marketing & Strategic Coaching for Today’s Marketplace.”. Click here to subscribe to their channel and get listening today.
CoachStation
JANUARY 7, 2018
There is little doubt that being a leader offers many challenges and rewards. Being close to those you lead via proximity and emotionally provides the opportunity to meet the challenges and feel the benefits and rewards. . Leaders who are present and accessible concentrate on more than simply having an ‘open-door policy’ They build relationships and understand their employees as individual people.
Nathan Magnuson
JANUARY 8, 2018
If you have goal to grow as a leader, you’re on the right track. If you have a plan of how to do it, you’re doing even better. But where have you put your focus? Many leaders choose to focus their development energy on areas they think (or have been told) are their weak areas. But is that really the best strategy? If you’re going to invest the effort into becoming a stronger leader, it pays to make sure your focus is in the right place.
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