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Three Steps to Update Your Leadership Operating System for 2021

Lead Change Blog

With 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to consider upgrading your LOS—Leadership Operating System. Your LOS is a collection of the leadership traits, styles, techniques, and strategies you use to lead and manage people, and it’s imperative to make sure your LOS is up to date if you want to maximize your effectiveness.

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August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Staying Engaged with Virtual Teams.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

N2Growth and Stanford Graduate Graduate School of Business are pleased to congratulate those individuals recognized on the 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO List. Leaders25 2020 Top CHRO Awards. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. The Blueprint : 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights by Doug Conant. We put out fires.

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Leading Thoughts for February 13, 2020

Leading Blog

Rachel Botsman discussing trust issues that revolve not just around trust and technology, but trust issues around size: “I think so much of what we need in our lives are smaller systems, where you can really serve people’s best interests. Source: 6 Things 2020 Holds for Us According to An Expert. Source: The Age of Uncertainty. * * *.

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Leading Thoughts for March 5, 2020

Leading Blog

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. As soon as a change agent introduces a variation to that system, he or she will quickly learn about the scripts that are holding that system together.

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Leading Thoughts for October 15, 2020

Leading Blog

Fritjof Capra on making change in a living organization: “A machine can be controlled; a living system, according to the systemic understanding of life, can only be disturbed. Working with the processes inherent in living systems means that we do not need to spend a lot of energy to move an organization.

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