Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Success Mindsets : Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership by Ryan Gottfredson. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 32 titles. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. With 12,500 locations in the U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At a candid team meeting, someone asked his role, “I have been sent by corporate to be your manager.” We get overall leadership from Marc, which is all we need. It got me rethinking the true role of leadership. . Service leadership is about realness, not about roleness. A manager will just get in our way.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. The CCO works closely with executive teams to define the company’s commercial path, making pivotal decisions about brand positioning, market competition, and revenue growth.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For most organizations, 2020 was heavily tilted toward understanding – understanding COVID-19 and its impacts to daily life and business, causes and solutions to racial problems, and how to find certainty in uncertain circumstances. What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

Guest post from Alain Hunkins : Over the past two decades, I’ve worked with thousands of teams, and tens of thousands of leaders in twenty-five countries around the world. On the surface, each team and company’s situation and issues were unique. Great leaders operate using similar principles to guide their actions.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In February 2020, I accepted an assignment as the Interim CEO of a leading scientific professional society. The Board President and President-elect were looking to me to keep the 130-member staff engaged and calm until the new CEO came on board, ensuring that valued society programs continued to operate effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nevertheless, businesses that solve these challenges can benefit from increased flexibility, reduced operational costs, greater productivity, and an improved ability to scale. The first step towards this adaptability is to equip teams with the right tools to perform their tasks efficiently.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

When I talk about the ideas in my book, The Next Level , one of the first things I usually say is that the next level is any leadership situation which requires different results. The ideas I’m sharing in this post are the basics of a crisis leadership playbook that is something of a work in progress. When I was writing the 3 rd.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Business stakeholders—customers, investors, and team members—are now demanding more from the businesses they “work” with. A number of recent surveys from McKinsey research have identified three traits that are becoming leadership imperatives to respond to this growing demand for social accountability. Transparency. Cognitive Empathy.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. And since none of us operate in a vacuum, it means gathering my team around me so that I can model and create a space for their loss. Encourage your team—on an optional basis– to share in a similar fashion. Encourage team members to do the same.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

Strategic Resilience is the practice of thinking forward while leading through present turbulence – adapting to difficult operating circumstances while looking beyond current conditions to keep focused on the horizon. The context for Strategic Resilience is dynamic fluidity in the operating environment.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. Typically, Ms. Earlier, Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Another executive who works in a multinational Fortune 100 insurance company told me that they are working more hours than ever before just to carry the load of lost team members. This person is currently looking for a change, after serving their firm for over 11 years. It’s a win-win.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Only 17% have confidence that leadership will improve in the upcoming year. And after the 2020-21 Covid response, I doubt those statistics have changed much. Alain Hunkins, author of Cracking the Leadership Code , says “there is a path out of the muddle of mediocrity. Only 31% believe leaders communicate well.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Droves of women left the workforce in 2020. Offer flexibility and put trust in your team. Connect with Shaara on LinkedIn and at shaararoman.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. They are telling us in many ways that the status quo is not acceptable.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

To help you find the best resources amidst the endless maze of information, here are our top podcasts focusing on leadership strategy and development. Why Listen to Leadership Podcasts? These podcasts are a valuable resource for anyone looking to refine their leadership skills and strategies.

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Modern Servant Leader

MAY 8, 2020

The servant-leadership community lost another great example and shepherd this week. Ken Melrose, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Toro Company, passed away Sunday May 3, 2020. Ken was a passionate advocate for servant-leadership at Toro and beyond. Ken had his team take a different approach.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the United States, March 11, 2020 was the day the pandemic got real. I spent some one-on-one time last week with a group of leaders in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program who were calling in from the road for the first time in a year and a half. That’s going to continue to be especially true for leaders going forward.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2024

To help determine whether this degree is worth it for you, consider these five career opportunities: School Counseling As a graduate student in this area, you’ll develop a strong understanding of the policies, budgets, laws, and leadership strategies that are transforming modern educational institutions.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

here’s no shortage of leadership advice on the internet, but figuring out which resources are actually valuable can feel like information overload. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated 10 of our favorite leadership blogs and podcasts for 2022 on leadership strategy and development. Tanveer Naseer Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Another executive who works in a multinational Fortune 100 insurance company told me that they are working more hours than ever before just to carry the load of lost team members. This person is currently looking for a change, after serving their firm for over 11 years. It’s a win-win.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Many organizations today have a workforce that encompasses four (or even five) generations: 1996-TBD: Generation Z (aka New Silent generation, Generation 2020). Taking an individual’s age into consideration is just one of many factors that will influence your leadership style. Team lunches (no work talk allowed!),

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

People want to be treated with respect, they want to feel included as part of the team, and they want to have opportunities to learn and succeed. Since joining McDonald’s in 2020, I’ve been fortunate to have worked in multiple U.S. What do you see as the greatest leadership strength?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

W ITH the presidential election of 2020 upon us, here are some thoughts about the presidency: “Despite all of the trappings of power—the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue, Camp David, Air Force One, never having to sit in a traffic jam (ever!)—the the president is in charge of an entity over which he has fairly limited power.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. And you need leadership that has a longer time horizon so you can invest in relationships. Her new book, The Forever Transaction , was released in April 2020.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

There’s no ‘I’ in ‘Team’.” Encouraging a bottom-up approach, where employees collaboratively challenge such clichés and present data, anecdotes, or insights demonstrating new approaches’ value, can catalyze meaningful change (Martin, 2020). “It is what it is.” Think outside the box.” ironically) “Just follow the protocol.” Robinson, H.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 15, 2017

First, let me say that we’ve got a long way to go – Execution is one of three strategic priorities in our 2020 Plan for Operations. For us, virtually everything rises and falls on the point leader in each restaurant – we call them the Operator. They are an amazing group of business leaders, operating as independent franchisees.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JULY 1, 2021

It requires us to bring our A game every day, to every person, team, customer, challenge and situation. Getting real here, do we not all wish (occasionally) for a short-and-simple instruction guide of what to do and say for many of the leadership situations we encounter? Servant leadership has pointed the way to this.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

This is where we find ourselves now in April of 2020—a true crisis. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. A crisis management team needs to consist of three categories of people. A crisis calls for agile leadership. The Issue Front.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Even though we’re just a few days removed from 2020, the first work week of the new year represents a blank slate. Rather, I’m asking you to consider what your family, team, colleagues and other stakeholders need most from you this year and how you can consistently bring the best version of yourself to the table to meet those needs.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman. Connection.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

That has been my mantra for 2020 and beyond – go where the intuition takes you with a sense of wonder and surrender. For me, that looks like internalizing great ideas, having inspiring conversations, co-creating meaning through sketchnotes, helping people grow and enabling organizations/teams to be more effective. In Practice.

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