Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Heres the deal with AI: AI isnt a new search engine; its a probability machine, Dan explains. Related Content: Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Can Replace Check out my new keynote: Innovative Minds in a Digital World: Fostering a Fearless, Tech-Driven Culture The post AI for Leaders: Can I Trust AI as a Resource?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

So why does maintaining practices that yield a high-performance state of mind matter so much for leadership? Indeed, executives often see themselves as industry or functional domain expertswhether in tech, health sciences, finance, or as an engineer, designer, or head of operations. They Eat Right Dont forget about nutrition.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. New thinking will not likely come from those who want to protect their creation, but from those who want to engineer a new creation. Think next chapter vs last book.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Your team’s watching.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Success Is a Pitfall Past success kills innovation. To innovate, you need to let go of those things. Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret Innovation means discovering, not inventing. How to Engineer a Hot Streak Science tells us that you are likely to experience a hot streak after a period of intense exploration.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Leadership requires passion. The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. It’s about how Google goes about doing what it does do—day to day.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation No one likes to fail. Failure is the engine of innovation. Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation failure lead practice success' Failure feels like losing.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. They hire engineers not only for their general skills but also their vision of the future. 3) Remember that the leadership skills can be taught.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? By listening to this episode, you will: Learn how to create the conditions for employees to engage, innovate, and grow naturally.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. It's a good time to innovate. * * * Peter H. The moral of the story: discovery is thrilling, but a good idea is just the beginning.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Through his leadership, the church has become a force to be reckoned with. How do we create a culture of innovation? At one point in church history, the church was the innovators. Now, the church has lost it’s innovation. Apple, Facebook, GoPro… These shouldn’t be the organizations that are innovative.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Good business processes serve as the central nervous system for your organization providing a framework for every action, decision, activity or innovation to flow from and through. Process by default will never provide the benefits of good process engineering by design.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Leadership implies that someone is being led. Interwoven sentience is the path of innovation, creativity and sustainability for the organization. Source: Faisal Hoque: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. .

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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. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Art Petty of Art Petty provided Leadership Power-Up: Make Time to Think Deeply.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. In addition to his PhD in neuroscience, Shirzad also holds a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford, where he lectures.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. In addition to his PhD in neuroscience, Shirzad also holds a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford, where he lectures.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2021

0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy-good price. 2:53 – How engineers plan for things to break to avoid more damage and minimize time to repair. Leading When Things Break. Why do they break at all?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of Human Resources Leadership In this ever-changing business landscape, the role of human resources (HR) leadership continues to evolve and adapt to meet the demands of a dynamic workforce. Moreover, HR leaders must have a keen eye for emerging talent coupled with attracting and retaining top performers.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 18, 2025

At the heart of the colleges engineering programmes is David Harrison CMgr FCMI, higher education curriculum lead for engineering, whose extensive career as an engineer and manager has shaped the way the college delivers its programmes. I was that classic accidental manager, he recalls.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. It was an early lesson in cross cultural leadership, and I am so grateful for Jack having that conversation with me.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team's Engine More Powerful by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. 3 hallmarks of effective leadership communication. See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

as a engineer? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge. Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Organization Development coaching create-learning team building and leadership quotes Team Building' How do I approach team building ; as a scientist?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Moore In a prior post, written during the tech boom, I outlined how established enterprises could re-engineer their approach to managing innovation in order to catch the next wave before it caught them. GUEST POST from Geoffrey A.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. Form an innovation team. In 1943, Lockheed Martin commissioned an engineer to create an experimental team to begin work on a secret fighter jet for the U.S. Provide an innovation budget.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2021

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

Transformation is the natural byproduct of this type of leadership. Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree. Integrating these two disciplines can mean more precise medical procedures and other innovations.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2014

If you ever wondered about the power of innovation to radically change lives, wonder no more. Anish Sarma , a volunteer at SpeakYourMind Foundation (SYMF) and research engineer at Braingate , tells us. For Whom Do We Innovate? As an engineer, I''m as enthusiastic about innovation as anyone.

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