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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. These are just a few examples.

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Preview Thursday: Let’s Stop Meeting Like This

Lead Change Blog

Changing meetings from time wasting to time valued, from energy sapping to energy producing, requires a different approach to designing, leading, and contributing in meetings. Identify the habits that work for and against energy-producing, time-valued meetings. The following is an excerpt from Let’s Stop Meeting Like This.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. As head of the U.S. Track Your Top Five. The post Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014 appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. I remember one Fidelity Investments program manager back in 2006 or 2007 who had multiple opportunities to watch me deliver one of my early workshops on leading at the next level.

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Robert Iger's 20 Leadership Lessons

Leading Blog

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. I still have that note in my desk, and I use it when talking to our executives about what to pursue and where to put their energy.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.

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Indy 500 Races Can Be Won or Lost in the Pit. How’s Your Pit Crew Doing?

Great Leadership By Dan

In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. Some had worked in my own life: better fitness, Covey’s Seven Habits, active vacations and better stress management, to name a few. What might that mean for how you manage? What a privilege! Increasingly, the pressures were taking a toll. That’s what happened here.

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