Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Why Business Acumen Capacity Is Essential for Scaling Seeing Around Corners : Scaling businesses operate in a VUCA world ( V olatility, U ncertainty, C omplex, A mbiguity). For example, recognizing how a surge in customer demand might stress operational systems allows leaders to act preemptively, rather than reactively.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2024

In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67 percent of respondents said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” When your team is under stress, particularly if some knucklehead told them to “do more with less,” you can’t say “thank you” and “I see you” too much. The post Overwhelmed at Work?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In our research for Courageous Cultures , 67 percent of respondents said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” When your team is under stress, particularly if some knucklehead told them to “do more with less,” you can’t say “thank you” and “I see you” too much.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This puts them in a tricky position, managing their own stress and uncertainty while guiding their teams through new directives. A study by the University of South Africa looked at a major bank to see how middle managers handle stress during corporate restructuring and what strategies they use to cope.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Stress is increasing today as the world economy becomes more competitive and the explosion of information overwhelms individuals. Human connection in the form of conversation and relational support provides psychological resources to cope with stress. The master chiefs weren’t used to meeting with the Chief of Naval Operations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Operation. Where do you go when you’re stressed? The process of finding a name will help you get to root cause and brings some levity to the scene. Name Your Anger. What’s really ticking you off? Name that frustration. Naming your anger helps you sift through the source. Name Your Trigger Response.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Controlling leaders operate in a world of addition and subtraction, while the calculus of a leader who understands surrender is built on exponential multiplication.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As Polly Barnes, Operating Partner at EQT Ventures , notes, After their first big venture round, its no longer just about the meits about the we. The Leadership Challenge of Scaling One of the most significant transitions founders face is moving from hands-on leadership to delegating responsibilities.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

John Mattone on getting it right: “Leaders generally derail not because of a character flaw but rather because they respond immaturely to mounting stress and change.” Source: Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential II.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2014

As if you weren’t already stressed enough about the interview, now you realize it’s 3 against one. One of the reasons for a panel interview is to see how you operate in a group setting. There’s strength in numbers, and the numbers are on their side. First, relax. They’re not doing this to intimidate you.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

At least three things seem to be critical for executive leaders and their leadership teams in a BANI operating environment: agility, seamless, no drama collaboration, setting the early warning radar system to high. Still, the turbulence that BANI brings feels like a new order of magnitude. Take care of yourself and your team.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“Not only do people experience stress with multitasking, but their faces may also express unpleasant emotions and that can have negative consequences for the entire office culture,” the researchers explain. The post How Multitasking Stresses Us Out first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. ” Changing mood. .

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

She described how the business worked to every employee, stressing the importance of little things like keeping the sidewalk clean so they saw the business with her eyes and made good decisions in her absence. Before it was a big chain, there was one owner with one store who was very attuned to customer needs.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2021

But although it’s important to be driven, motivated, and to have the right level of work ethic in order to thrive and excel at your career of choice, excessive stress is potentially deeply damaging, both in a personal and professional context. Get the right tools for the job, that can help you to streamline your operation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. A few years ago, Ed Whitacre took over as CEO at General Motors even though he had limited experience in the automotive industry. Rookie leaders face a different challenge.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It’s no secret that most of us – no matter which candidate we’re voting for – are feeling a lot of anxiety and stress around what might happen this week. When people are that scared and stressed, they’re in fight or flight hyper-drive. First, there’s awareness which operates in two dimensions – external and internal.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

If “It ain’t broke, don’t fix it” feels comfortable, experimenting with a well-run pilot can go a long way in upping your managerial courage while managing your stress. 67% of the employees in our courageous cultures research said their manager operates around the notion of “This is the way we’ve always done it.”

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Research from Aston University believes that the period may have some important lessons for society, and for the rain industry, to ensure that traveling by train becomes less stressful in the future. The post Learning From Covid Could Make Commuting By Rail Less Stressful first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2022

“AI can help SMEs to adapt to unprecedented conditions, meaning they can leverage technology to meet new types of demand, move at speed to pivot business operations, boost efficiency and reduce their business risks.” ” The post How AI Helped SMEs Buffer The Stresses Of Covid first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Larry Senn, father of corporate culture and author of The Mood Elevator , provides an operating manual to keep you out of the emotional basement. Want to have more success with less stress, healthier relationships, greater personal productivity, and a better quality of life?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But it is vital to build this habit of communication so that in more pressing and stressful situations you don’t revert to a more toxic, interpretation-as-fact style in the midst of an amygdala hijack. How do others see it?”. It might feel silly to use this language for something that seems relatively small.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The demands of a “do more with less” culture and a 24/7, smart phone enabled operating environment have left too many people teetering on the brink of a caffeine-addicted, sleep-deprived, stressed-out existence. Their stress hormones and blood pressure are too high and their immune and digestive systems don’t operate at healthy levels.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Your team must operate in an environment of psychological safety. Once you have a solution, use a premortem to stress test it. Using decision trees to map out solution processes and premortems to stress test them give you the best likelihood of success. There are two requirements for productive, robust discussions.

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David A Fields

MARCH 17, 2020

You’re swimming in a vast sea of stressful news and, given today’s reality, you’re well within your rights to feel anxious, nervous and uncertain about how your consulting firm should proceed.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There, at an annual budget meeting with the entire operations management group in attendance, an important decision was made. Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. “Will you follow me??”

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The seven universal laws show us how energy operates on a daily basis in our lives. They put their foot to the pedal, working day in and day out, increasing stress levels and never resting and recuperating. Since everything in the world is interconnected, whatever you do has an impact on someone else.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 16, 2018

Reduced Stress. Prolonged exposure to stress in the workplace can lead to health conditions, such as heart disease. Employees get stressed less when they can see their kids or work in their own private space rather than be suffocated in a 4×4 cubicle and having to deal with office politics and drama with coworkers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

You want both—intelligence and control—but in the stressful moments, control matters, a lot.”. In stressful circumstances, as leaders, we need “to be the person to pull others up, set the right tone, and keep everyone else on track.” “The smartest SEAL isn’t the one with the greatest raw intelligence.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Listening is actually being alert to the whole ecosystem in which you operate.” The particular challenge of leading in a crisis is to bring some predictability to moments of intense unpredictability and stress, when so much is on the line, including your own and your organization’s reputation.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Operations Before Experiences. It’s about handling operational inefficiencies across people, processes, and technology to produce better outcomes. . Remote work has increased the stresses of managing work-life balance. Such partnerships can provide endorsement for the brand. Diversity and Inclusion.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

In the long run, sustained lack of autonomy is an ongoing source of stress, which in itself can habitually lead the brain to be more reactive than reflective. The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating. Finally, stressing the “why” to employees helps companies deploy the cognitive power of altruism.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2024

These qualities collectively enable them to drive significant change and achieve the best results, even in the most complex and stressful business situations. How to Utilize Interim Management for Maximum Business Continuity Modern businesses operate in a constantly changing environment, requiring new agility and adaptability levels.

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