The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 13, 2025

Trust is vital to a healthy workplace and breeds innovation, productivity and engagement while decreasing attrition and stress. Both offerings teach the importance of connection and relationships in goal achievement, talent retention and increased motivation.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

Competitive advantage today requires cutting edge innovation, distinctive service, and lightning fast responsiveness. Since personal power is already present in every employee, empowerment is not a gift given by the leader. The job of the leader is to release power. Servant denotes compliance, partner denotes community.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. “We found that the simple presence of women on top management teams results in companies adopting progressive environmental standards, particularly when women executives have personal power, are members of corporate social responsibility committees, and work in gender-egalitarian countries,” the researchers explain.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Our Self Leadership course teaches five points of power you can use to help your people succeed: Position Power: Having the title or authority to make certain decisions. Task Power: Having control over a task or particular job. Relationship Power: Being connected or friendly with other people who have power.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Blanchard Servant Leader 137

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 1, 2022

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our last blog, we described how people’s personal power is diminished when they don’t take personal responsibility for the impact of their behaviors and actions and the results they cause. Where many people are … Continue reading →

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2024

Personalization Powered by AI Personalization has been a buzzword in e-commerce for some time, but in 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking it to new heights. AI algorithms analyze vast amounts of customer data to provide hyper-personalized shopping experiences.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. High performing leaders score in the healthy range of Power – neither overly strong nor weak. Too weak and the leader shrinks from being in charge and their own personal power. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 16, 2024

“Eventually, that can help you gain some personal power. It’s a very convenient way to reduce negative feelings toward your own workplace, which can help you more in the long run.”

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s mindset, attitude, personal power and congruent physiology/tonality all wrapped up in one. Owning your space is absolutely crucial to become a powerful, influential leader. It meant utilizing the entire stage – not just one area – to move and connect with my audience. Owning your space is not physical nor visual.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Once this style of working is embedded in the organization’s culture, innovative solutions can flourish and better address the climate challenges of today and tomorrow. Influence is built by increasing aspects of personal power like living authentically, leveraging relationships and sharing industry knowledge.

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Quality Long-term Short-term Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

The combination of digitization with globalization and consumer demands for personalized products will complicate the usual processes and relationships. Competitors will be recast as allies, as rival companies will have to work together to achieve more complex technical innovations.

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Co-Opetition McClelland Leadership Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. You are not seen for who you really are, though each of us is a distinct constellation of interests, passions, histories, visions and hopes. And you do not see others.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers. Companies should be as intentional about culture as they are about strategy and business model innovation. Team behavior. Leadership behavior.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Relatedly, supervisors who reported higher levels of empowerment were seen by their subordinates as more innovative, upward influencing, and inspirational. Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 13, 2010

[This post is adapted from my submission into the M-Prize, the world’s first management innovation award. This sudden infusion of power creates more problems. Power eventually produces pricks. Consider the “cookie experiment,” where researchers assembled teams of three and randomly gave on person power to supervise.

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