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Every Day An Idea

Lead Change Blog

When I began coordinating content for the Lead Change Group in 2014, the idea of soliciting, editing and publishing a different piece of leadership material every weekday was a little daunting. Sometimes, what sounded like a valid leadership idea does not turn out to be a good fit for your community. I was new to the community.

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The Six-Question Process

Marshall Goldsmith

The Six-Question Process for coaching is an approach that I have seen work consistently well with executives. This process has produced measurable change in effectiveness (as evaluated by direct reports) with four CEOs that I have personally coached. The Six-Question Process. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. Your great manufacturing process is driving your employees away. He abandoned the traditional hand-building process that involved each worker performing a number of different tasks to put a car together.

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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Taking Charge of a Team? Avoid These 4 Mistakes

QAspire

Joining a team in leadership position is an opportunity to gain team’s respect and support. Yes, there are issues in this team, processes are not optimized and there is some resistance. Try directing this energy instead into constructive initiatives that leave people feel more valued. Worst, they criticize and/or threaten.

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From Good to Great

Marshall Goldsmith

They communicate with confidence – one of the “top 10″ elements of effective leadership. Since successful people have a high need for self-determination, they (not a coach) must own the behavioral change process. When the process is confidential, people tend to focus on what they need to improve.

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First Engage Yourself: 7 Ways to Increase Your Own Engagement and Satisfaction

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The results of The 2012 Towers Watson Global Workforce Study indicate that 43% of the global workforce is either detached or actively disengaged. Consider the difference in engagement between the construction worker who saw his job as laying bricks and the worker who saw his job as building a cathedral. But the news is not good.

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