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MARCH 30, 2021

The first Olympic 26.2-mile marathon, back in 1896, was won in just under three hours. Roughly a century and a quarter later, the record now stands at a blazing-fast 2 hours. By 2050, will we see a record of 1.1 hours? Is it possible? Is it significant? And, more importantly, why are we so focused on it? Running a marathon is impressive, but not at the cost of losing your bodily functions, endangering your organs, or dropping dead.

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MARCH 31, 2021

There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: talent wins! But how do you attract the best people? What do they really want? Based on his rigorous and extensive research, Mark Miller learned that top performers are looking for very different things than solid contributors. Listen in to an hour-long discussion with Mark Miller, author of Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People.

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MARCH 26, 2021

Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Due to neuroscience research, we understand that change often triggers a threat response in the brain. Change means uncertainty, which is an uncomfortable state for many. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change. Job insecurity.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Are you a High-Creative leader, capable of rapidly growing your organization while simultaneously transforming it into a more agile, innovative, adaptive, and engaging workplace? Or are you a High-Reactive leader, who practices leadership that cancels itself out and seriously limits scale? Bob Anderson and Bill Adams’ book, Scaling Leadership , provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Power. The word itself evokes a reaction. What thoughts or feelings do you have when you think of power? Perhaps you picture an organizational chart where the boxes at the top are imbued with more power than those below. Maybe you imagine an iron fist, representative of a person who rules over others with absolute authority. Or perhaps the word power conjures up feelings of nervousness, anxiety, or fear, based on negative experiences you’ve had in the past.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Interested in learning more about organizational studies? Jim MacQueen, the author of The Flow of Organizational Culture , shares how new thinking and theory can help organizational leaders to navigate to a stronger organizational culture. His book presents a new approach to organizational culture based on the ontologies of process metaphysics, complexity theory, and social constructionism.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spoken-word poet and filmmaker Tomos Roberts struck a chord this year. With over 60 million views, he unmistakably drew the heart of humanity into the plot of his reflective children’s bedtime story, The Great Realisation [sic]. Tom’s pre-reminiscent tale paints a portrait of a spuriously progressing world with blinders on that needed a global virus to heal from its own undoing.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Leadership comes from a place that troubles your heart.”. I read these words years ago in an article and have never forgotten them. The article was about Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, affectionately called Dr. V. In 1976, he founded the Aravind Eye Hospital for the purpose of performing cataract surgery because cataracts are India’s leading form of blindness.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Working together includes talking, sharing ideas, debating issues, collaborating, making decisions, establishing goals, providing feedback, and celebrating success. Teams, like personal relationships, go through stages. Teams don’t become great performers overnight.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Of all the skills leaders need to be successful, active listening may be the most overlooked and underrated. Active listening has become even more vital during the global pandemic, as many organizations work in a remote environment. As a result, substantial communication has shifted to virtual platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. While meeting virtually may be the next best thing to being in person, it is not the same.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Your financial and emotional health are linked to how functional, or dysfunctional, your company is. If you’re feeling stuck, frustrated, or haven’t seen growth in your company, you may need to realign YOUR company whether you own, lead or work in it. Alex Vorobieff, author of Transform Your Company , shares how to discover the hidden force pulling companies into dysfunction and creating frustration.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Throw in the massive disruption caused by the current pandemic, and change aplenty abounds! So, responding in an agile and flexible fashion to that world requires clarity, more than ever before, is vital. However, how do you get better at that in the face of increasing complexity? Because it is how good you are going to be, that matters.

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JULY 22, 2020

Face is the new social currency of our time. Face represents one’s self-esteem, self-worth, identity, reputation, status, pride, and dignity. The more face you have, the easier and faster you can get things done. “Saving face” is a universal concept that enables you to connect with people, break down barriers, and build trust and long-term relationships.

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JUNE 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt our work lives. As a result, companies worldwide are shifting their employees to a virtual setup. However, there are those who have not considered the potential problems that can arise due to this change. Pete, one of my coaching clients, experienced this a few months before the pandemic hit. As a mid-level manager in the software engineering unit of a startup of 400 employees doing Electronic Health Records (EHRs), he was given the task of shifting

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JUNE 15, 2020

I am a BNI Director Consultant for Champions Chapter in Sedgefield, County Durham, UK, and I regularly reflect on what we do and how we might improve things. At last week’s chapter meeting, I shared some learning from the first ten weeks of virtual meetings during the current lockdown, now the immediate impact of COVID-19 has lessened. I also noted we were moving through the change curve – based on the Kubler-Ross model – at differing paces.

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MAY 22, 2020

Why doesn’t the training stick? We asked ourselves that question many times. Full of hope and possibility, we’d send employees to leadership development sessions, anticipating that they’d grow into their potential. A few did; most didn’t. One day, Amy, our L&D director, had another of her glorious eureka moments—the company’s existing systems and processes were inhibiting new behaviors promoted in training from taking root.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Before the virus, there was traffic on our street all day long. People were going and coming to the college, the corporate headquarters, the plant, and downtown businesses. There’s almost no traffic now. It’s blessedly, but eerily, quiet. For most of us, life and work changed almost in the blink of an eye. It’s the Time of the Coronavirus.

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MARCH 30, 2020

We are living in a time where “taking responsibility” is the term of the day. Actually, social distancing may get the prize for being the term of the day—but the question of personal responsibility must be a close second. People are asking who could have spoken up and stopped the spread of the coronavirus beyond China. Now that the coronavirus is here in the US, the questions have exploded.

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MARCH 31, 2020

We are social creatures that thrive with connections with others, seeking to exchanges ideas, conversation, and special moments. Heat maps visually display the spread of COVID-19 across the globe. It is this image that truly represents or connection with each other. Is it not ironic that a virus is forcing us to separate from our connectedness? Social distancing is a term I have not heard of until the current events.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

“We need to get rid of rules – real and imagined – and encourage independent thinking.”. –Howard Behar, Starbucks. Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. There is an unprecedented need to effectively delegate to get everything done; however, there is a spectrum to delegation.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

When Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller collaborated on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do , they created a story line based on simple insights that had the potential to make a major impact on those who read—and applied—the principles. In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Welcome to the January 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. Communication. Mary Schaefer of BizCatalyst 360 shared Employee Feedback: It’s More Than Words – Part 2. Mary summarizes: “As leaders, when we are connected to our noble intentions to support what employees are capable of, even their capacity for trying, we elevate the often-avo

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JANUARY 8, 2020

You’re operating your business in a time when something is happening that is so momentous it has never happened before. Jim Blasingame identifies it as an epochal marketplace shift that’s causing the 10,000-year-old Age of the Seller to be replaced by the Age of the Customer. Jim is one of the world’s leading experts on small business and entrepreneurship.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

Now is the time of year when packages are delivered to homes all over the world. Children eagerly anticipate Santa delivering a bag full of toys and envision them nestled under a warm glowing tree. But that is not the kind of delivery I am talking about. I’ve shared with many audiences, and in my writings, how Louie behaves when anyone enters my home—he’s not very nice.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

It can be hard for managers to know if their employee is simply unproductive and disengaged, or if they’re having a burnout. Burnout is the enemy of productivity and stems from different causes, including too much work and stress, exhaustion of repetitive tasks, and lack of challenges at work. No matter what the root cause is, burnout drains employees of energy and lowers their productivity drastically.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

It’s been said that there are two types of leaders: those who have been humbled, and those who are about to be. Humility is often a result of humiliation. Leaders learn their most powerful and enduring lessons by facing hardship, enduring setbacks, and making blunders, Bill Treasurer and Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling authors and two of the world’s most respected leadership thinkers, share how to benefit from your leadership mess-ups and failures so you can become a more grounded, authentic, an

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JUNE 25, 2019

There have been a lot of great blogs, podcasts, and discussions recently about mindfulness. Although there are many definitions of “mindfulness,” I am fond of this one from Webster: The practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis. I’ve given much thought to this subject, especially while watching my rescue dog, Louie, settle in and enjoy life with us.

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MAY 20, 2019

Great leaders are those people that can view any situation through multiple lenses, and so find different perspectives that can yield different results. I’m sure many of you will be familiar with the three positions of perspective. This is an NLP phenomenon that, in essence, states that there at least three viewpoints through which you can look at any situation.

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APRIL 15, 2019

“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” — Stephen Covey. I remember a short story with a beautiful message on relationships. A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. Father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, “Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don’t fall into the river.” The little girl said, “No, Dad.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Scaling Leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale. Lead Change recently spoke with the authors, Bill Adams and Bob Anderson, to dig deeper into their latest book. What compelled you to write Scaling Leadership ? We have about 1.5 million 360 rater surveys in our global database.

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MARCH 26, 2019

As a business coach and people developer, I address the needs of my clients during an initial in-depth discussion. I have one of these coming up soon on 25th January, with a new client for whom I have not worked before. I was recommended to them by a colleague of theirs who knows and trusts how I work. In that initial session, I will help them to ascertain whether the issues they perceive they have are, indeed, the ones they need to address.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Not everyone agrees on what the ideal workplace temperature is. Crank up the thermostat too high and half your employees will be sweating, but set it too low and the other half of employees will spend more time shivering than working. According to one 2014 study , office workers in the UK waste 2 percent of their work hours fighting over control of the thermostat, amounting to a whopping £13 billion a year in wasted productivity.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome to the February Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Communication. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership shared Things We Don’t Say Often Enough. Wally states: “We talk a lot, but there are some things we just don’t say often enough.” You can find Wally on Twitter at @WallyBock.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”. Isaac Newton said that in the 17 th century, and the idea is even older than that. Other people have helped you become what you are today. They’re part of your heritage, your leadership heritage. If you take the time to reflect on your leadership heritage, you will become a better leader.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Darryl has a hard time seeing the new year as a blank slate opportunity for tackling issues at work. His employer went through substantial changes during the year—new ownership, new management team, new way of leading—and now wants leaders who are multi-dimensional. Because Darryl’s performance isn’t in line with their expectations, his boss told him future promotions were unlikely as long as he remained too competitive, too logical, too judgmental, too focused on results and tradition.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Two months ago, I created my third personal development program called Journey From Within. The purpose of the program is to help people understand their learning patterns, revisit their journey, and help them find ways to better themselves. When I think of this program, Maya Angelou’s quote comes to mind. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Every decision at the right level. Don’t forget the rider! In a previous post , I explained why you should trust the competence of your colleagues. In this post, I go a step further and discuss stepped decision-making, or delegating responsibility for a certain task, role, or function to the lowest possible hierarchical level in the organization. Let’s start with what typically goes wrong: Scenario 1: The leader is too scared to make decisions and waits until consensus is reached within the team

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