The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

Often good performers are put into bad processes within systems that subvert rather than support them. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. “Turfdom” and political maneuvering. Local/department/team sub-optimization.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Importance of Effective Leadership in Business Schools Effective leadership is as crucial in an academic environment as in any organization, playing a vital role in shaping the institution’s culture and direction. First and foremost, a successful business dean should demonstrate real leadership capabilities.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Minal was never really into science fiction, but she ran out of shows to watch and found herself intrigued when Stacey Abrams, who is famously a Trekkie, said that Voyager was her favorite Star Trek show, even though Deep Space Nine is considered the political allegory. The definition and expectations of leadership have changed.

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Modern Servant Leader

AUGUST 29, 2023

Your first 90 days in a new leadership role are critical to your success. In a period when she should focus on learning the people, products, and processes, Ms. Instead, learn the people, products, and processes. Processes Workflows, planning, and even politics follow under this perspective.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. It explains how economics, history, national interests, cultural politics, and hubris collided, crumpling the legacy of arguably the most important foreign businessman ever to set foot in Japan. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. You may have a leadership dysfunction problem. Communication. Creativity/Inspiration.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here are some leadership strategies for creating a respectful workplace: Define your culture: Clearly communicate company values, mission, and expectations to employees. Show courtesy to others: Lead by example by treating employees with courtesy and politeness. Lead From Within: The true leader serves. Serves people.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Even at the smallest level of democracy—a simple political conversation with someone with whom you disagree—we need commitment. If you’re not committed to a deliberative process, it has no chance of transforming you. Democracy is all about the institutionalization of constant change. Both people have to come to the table in good faith.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pressures, grooming, and politics all create counter-pressures to authenticity. Every year, I take time out to work on my leadership credo. How to Build a Leadership Credo. This exercise pairs well with a discussion on leadership authenticity. Desired outcomes (“As a result of my leadership this year _”).

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

CEOs are only as strong as the teams they lead, so it’s vital that leadership teams not only feature the right individuals, but that those individuals work effectively together. It can help to ensure rapid decision-making but also runs the risk of being heavily disrupted by political wrangling.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

On this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with Sara Canady, leadership expert and author of Leadership Unchained. Read more in her article Leadership Expectations: How to Juggle the Demands of Empathy, Expectations, and Inclusion). Give some employees ownership in the discussion process. Provide proper training.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Understanding the Importance of a University President Search A university president or chancellor search is a critical process that carries some of the farthest-reaching implications for the future of an educational institution.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

This unique combination allows them to identify underlying issues, implement necessary changes, and drive innovation without being handicapped by internal politics or cultural biases. Most importantly, interim executives create exceptional value by blending traditional leadership norms with modern business dynamics.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With many expectations, including navigating complex strategic and organizational challenges fostering innovation and inspiring and galvanizing students and faculty alike, the stakes have never been higher when attracting and retaining exemplary leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I expected my organization to stabilize and save me in the process. Leadership instability feels more pervasive than ever right now. Along with scrambling to respond wisely to COVID-19 realities, even the best and brightest can’t predict how economic, political, and cultural winds will blow from day-to-day.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Principles, not process and procedures, provide the overarching guidance in any situation for making the right decisions and taking the best action. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. To do this, the author analyzes the process of creating a curriculum, preparing for an eighty-minute class, managing the fifteen minutes before class begins, and evaluating the nature of the teaching experience after the session concludes.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement. Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

C OVID19 is a health crisis; an economic crisis; a social crisis; a political crisis; and a geopolitical crisis. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership. It is a crisis dominated by unknowns and huge downsides. It is an existential crisis — life or death.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Much of our leadership is given to ensure our customers have the best CX – customer experience – or if you are in the tech industry, the best UX – user experience. In other words, how many of your employees are having the best LX – Leadership Experience? That’s where Leadership Experience emerges.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

Here are ten suggestions for booksreleased this year to inspire you and help grow your leadership. High Road Leadership : Bringing People Together in a World That Divides by John C. Maxwell, tackles the problem of our divided world in his latest book High Road Leadership. Create a summer reading plan.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. A post-mortem was conducted that pointed to a lack of organizational alignment, internal politics, and a lack of technical competence that hindered its ability to transform.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Living out their own code becomes critical to that process, especially in a political environment with really no code. Comey cast doubt on the FBI when he allowed himself to be drug into the political drama of the time. Compassion provides the necessary balance to what could be an otherwise harsh and cold process.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

By "mass customization", I'm referring to the the need to address very unique leadership development needs for an organization's top executives, while at the same time, doing it in a consistent, measurable, effective, and scalable way that yields a strong return on investment. CEO ownership and strong commitment at the top.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to the February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Diana explains: “The ability to delegate is a key leadership competency. Communication. Good question.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Distinct from the traditional approaches that circumscribe the COO’s responsibilities within the firm’s administrative and operational functions, the contemporary business landscape necessitates a more strategic involvement of the COO in a corporation’s key decision-making processes.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Enter political correctness. The official Earls’ word on the matter is this: “We have learned from participating in the human-rights complaint process that many persons with albinism are genuinely offended and feel that their dignity is negatively impacted by the use of the word ‘albino’ in our marketing.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. by Gino Wickman.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2020

James MacGregor Burns on the changing dynamic of political leadership: “American leadership went into decline after the revolution. They had offered a striking example of bold, collective—even transforming—leadership. Now they were expected to practice piecemeal, transactional leadership.”.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Welcome to the March 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! All it takes is making the most out of your leadership kick in the ass!” Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: Why Leaders Do What They Do. ” Find Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Alan Weiss on the fact that most fears are learned as are leadership behaviors, and we have to understand the causes: “We cannot create improved behavior contingently, that is, simply patching up leaks and putting on band-aids. Source: Fearless Leadership. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. These factors are redefining the shape of the global economic terrain.

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