Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 21, 2025
Practical Ways to Summon a Bit More Personal Courage You want more personal courage. You want to take that bold step, make the big decision, or speak up when it matters. But then fear creeps in. What if it goes wrong? What if you fail? What if people judge you? If that sounds familiar, youre in good company Fear is natural. Its wired into your brain to keep you safe.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 24, 2025
Identifying and promoting leaders is one of the most consequential decisions an organization can make. However, many organizations make the mistake of equating high performance with leadership potential. Effective leadership requires a unique set of skills, including emotional intelligence, adaptability, and the ability to inspire others. This article explores how organizations can distinguish between performance and leadership potential and adopt structured approaches to identify the right cand
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Leading Blog
MARCH 21, 2025
I N MY early managerial days, I would often ask my bosses and peers how they learned the skill of delivering bad news. Almost always, their answer was: You will learn it over time, There is no compression algorithm for experience, or some variation of needing to put in the time. Granted, experience is one of the best teachers, but I have discovered there are tactics that can be learned so you dont have to navigate without help.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 25, 2025
Anyone who has ever flown in the exit row knows the drill. Just before takeoff, the flight attendant stands in the aisle, asks everyone to take their ear buds out, and make eye contact as the attendant asks, Are you aware that youre sitting in an exit row and are you willing and able to assist in an emergency, including opening the exit door and assisting other passengers?
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Rich Gee Group
MARCH 18, 2025
Listen to the interview. Today, I'm fired up to talk about leadership - specifically, the insane power of saying "YES" way more than you say "NO." But before we dive into that, let's rewind to a movie that nails this vibe: Yes Man with Jim Carrey. In Yes Man , Jim Carrey plays Carl, a dude who's basically allergic to life. He's saying "no" to everything - opportunities, fun, you name it.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
Stop Fooling Yourself If you expect to scale your business model, nothing and I mean NOTHING matters more than having a mission, vision, values (purpose) coupled with the right people doing the right things right. Hope is not a strategy. Your hiring process is broken. You believe you are good at picking talent, but the frank truth is your gut instincts are literally costing you millions.
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Leading in Context
MARCH 12, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton The first post in this series,The Missing Domain: Ethical ThinkingexploredWHYleaders need to fill the gap and help people develop ethical thinking. This post will begin to unravelHOWto do that.
Leading Blog
MARCH 20, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Writer and theologian C.S. Lewis on what why small choices matter: Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 12, 2025
I first heard of the BANI framework a few weeks ago when I ran an updated post on leading in an age of non-stop VUCA and a reader left a comment on LinkedIn that the world isnt so much VUCA now as it is BANI brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. Yeah, that feels about right. I dont necessarily think that VUCA and BANI are mutually exclusive; rather I think they complement each other and can provide a lot of guidance for executive leaders pondering how to navigate uncharted waters.
Rich Gee Group
MARCH 25, 2025
One book that punched me in the gut this past year? Meditations For Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. My godson, Will, gave it to me, and I voraciously tore through it in two days. Its short, powerful, and cuts right to the bone. Burkeman has this uncanny ability to make you stop, breathe, and realize that youre not here to do everything - youre here to do what matters.
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HR Digest
MARCH 17, 2025
Amazon layoffs have been simmering since last quarter, but 2025 might crank the heat to a boil. If whispers from late 2024 hold true, were staring down the barrel of a massive managerial purge, up to 14,000 job cuts by the end of March 2025. Welcome to the latest chapter of tech layoffs in 2025 , where even the biggest players arent immune. Amazon is no stranger to job cuts in recent years.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 28, 2025
Episode 296: Are you running meetings that drive real resultsor just draining everyone’s time and energy? Lets be honest: no one hates meetingsthey hate the ones that feel pointless. If your teams meetings often end with vague action items, low engagement, or zero follow-through, its not just frustratingits hurting your leadership credibility.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 11, 2025
Luck Is Not a Strategy Success in business is often attributed to a combination of skill, strategy, and timing. However, there is an uncomfortable question that every founder and CEO must ask at some point: Are we successful because we are truly good at what we do, or have we simply been lucky? The answer lies in what you do with luck. Every company encounters moments of fortuneboth good and bad.
Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson on leading together: The dark truth of success is that if we make it all about ourselves, our own egos, our individual performance, it eventually breaks down. It wont have staying power.
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Leadership Freak
MARCH 27, 2025
Radical listening is the heart of leadership. How many aspects of leadership are made worse by listening? Not many. Ive been learning to listen all my life. If you think listening is easy, you arent doing it.
Rich Gee Group
MARCH 11, 2025
Listen to the interview. When Bill Gates was propelling Microsoft to global success, he scheduled his calendar in five-minute increments - every second was prime real estate. But behind this frenetic pace stood his Executive Assistant, managing a constant stream of emails, calls, and logistical details that could bury any top executive. Without that support, Gates would have spent a huge slice of his mental energy on daily firefighting instead of transforming the software world.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 24, 2025
GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1980 Harvard professor Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which recommended that firms create advantage by driving efficiencies throughout the value chain and mastering competitive forces by maximizing bargaining power. These concepts drove corporate thinking for decades.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 21, 2025
Episode 295: How can you build a high trust culture that empowers your team to solve problems faster, innovate more, and reduce stress? In this episode, we explore the power of a high trust culture and how it can completely transform your teams ability to collaborate and solve problems effectively. If youve been facing challenges with getting your team to share ideas, open up, or work together seamlessly, this episode will give you proven strategies to overcome those hurdles and build the trust
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.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 19, 2025
"Why was this not brought to my attention sooner?" Recently a Client I have contact with once every year or two called me and said, "Chris, I believe I have a problem." He then proceeded to share with me that during a recent team meeting he was made aware of a potential risk - a potentially significant issue had presented itself. He was particularly concerned because this situation had progressed further than it should have.
Leading Blog
MARCH 1, 2025
H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2025 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. You're the Boss : Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) by Sabina Nawaz as our job expands, the added pressure to perform corrupts our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 11, 2025
You could be a bad leader for doing the right thing! Servant leadership doesnt win popularity contests in authoritarian environments. Showing up as a humble leader in a dysfunctional culture makes you the problem. Here are seven ways to be a "bad leader" in a good way.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
MARCH 18, 2025
If you seek a prosperous life, learning is paramount. Yet, we frequently disregard opportunities available to us. The reality is that you have numerous chances to learn, including formal classroom settings, books and podcasts, on-the-job training, and valuable insights shared by family, friends, and colleagues. However, there are many other occasions when a lesson could take place, but we tend to overlook them.
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Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.
HR Digest
MARCH 3, 2025
Social Security Fairness Act Updates: Retroactive payments are coming. Heres what to expect. For decades, teachers, firefighters, postal workers, and millions of public servants worked with non-covered pensions, leaving many to scrape by on less than they earned. Now, with the Social Security Fairness Act signed into law on January 5, 2025 , those cuts are history.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 27, 2025
Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If youve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, oryes, it happensbeen let go over Zoom, youre not alone. One of the most common complaints I hear about difficult conversations is where they are held. We talk a lot about what to say in a difficult conversation, and how to say itbut we dont talk enough about where that conversation should happen.
Anese Cavanaugh
MARCH 10, 2025
When you think about leadership, what comes to mind? Do you picture someone leading a cause, marching ahead with a clear vision, tackling challenges with focus and determination? Or perhaps you envision a leader setting the course, bringing people along, taking risks, and empowering others? These images are common representations of leadership but they aren't the whole picture.
Leading Blog
MARCH 27, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Bob Rosen on uncertainty: Uncertainty can become our undoing if we are not open to whats around the corner, whether new ideas and experiences or the latest resentments or disappointments. During a state of uncertainty, we must learn to be comfortable with being vulnerable.
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver
Leadership Freak
MARCH 14, 2025
Show people they matter before they close their heart. An open heart strives to grow, enjoys being coached, and welcomes honest feedback. Feeling significant fuels motivation. Genuine interest in team members energizes engagement. But when people feel devalued, they focus on daily minimum requirements. How to use a 6-panel storyboard.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 24, 2025
The 29 profiles you will read in Robert L. Dilenschneiders new book, Character , are about people who are exceptional exemplars of character. Theyre inspirational because they used their abilities at their highest levels to work for causes they believed in. Because of character, they influenced the world for good. The dictionary defines character as the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual, the distinctive nature of something, the quality of being individual in an interesting
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 17, 2025
GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, it’s the perfect occasion to shine a spotlight on the influential contributions Ireland has made to the world of innovation. From literary advances to technological marvels, Ireland’s creative spirit is visible across various domains.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 10, 2025
In Times of Chaos and Low Morale, Lead Yourself First You love your work. Youve dedicated so many years to serving your people, the mission, and making a difference. But now, everythings changed. Day after day, you face a new set of decisions that make little sense. If anything, they seem to oppose the very work youve committed your life to. Your team is suffering.
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