Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The MBA has become a touchy subject with a lot of young entrepreneurs figuring out the next step in life. This article may have put it best, theorizing that the MBA is “losing its magic.” Specifically, the reference was to the notion that an advanced degree in business would (magically) lead to better career opportunities; the more you study, the more you eventually earn.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Leading today isn’t easy. Changes abound. We work virtually. We work globally. Our hierarchies are flatter. Our environments are more collaborative. On top of that, there are so many different models of leadership out there. We need the right balance between authority vs. autonomy, consensus vs. direct decision-making, and friendly vs. firm. Whether you’re new to management or a veteran leader, it can be overwhelming for many to think about all the different ways they can lead.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A few things have happened recently that increase performance pressure on character-based leaders who are dedicated to doing what’s right: The Oxford Dictionary announced the word post-truth as its 2016 word of the year. Post-truth relates to or denotes “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I was sitting in a colleague’s office. I could hear a person on the other end of his phone from across the room, several feet away. It was tense. You could tell my colleague was pacifying an angry somebody. We had gone through a downsizing event. I had facilitated the process for my part of the organization. The person on the other end of the phone was a director from a different part of the company altogether.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

How to get more work done without really trying. Now there’s a topic I could put my bookmark in! Perusing the bookshelves at my local Barnes & Noble, I pulled out a shiny red-covered book and stared at the imprint in the yellow circle cutout. “Stop the busywork, and start the work that matters.” To be fair, I feel like I must give credit to the book title, Do More Great Work , but this is not a review of the book.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Lead Change Group is grateful to Development Dimensions International (DDI) for hosting the December 2016 Leadership Development Carnival. DDI’s Rich Wellins, Ph.D., referred to the December carnival as “an array of insights that should help deepen your thinking about what it takes to grow effective leaders.” We concur. Please visit the full carnival post here to read all of this month’s posts.

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