Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

'How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about. It’s about how Google goes about doing what it does do—day to day.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'Your leadership effectiveness is a direct result of the level of intention with which you operate. In Leading With Intention , author Mindy Hall says leading with intention means “consciously deciding to lead by design rather than by default; being mindful of who it is you want to be and then living into that picture twenty-four hours a day. It is about seeing opportunities every day, in every interaction, to shape the tone, the experience, and the outcome of those interactions.”.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

'Leaders with moxie are leaders that have what it takes to lead others in tough circumstances. They are tough on the outside but soft on the inside. When knocked down they know how to get back up and they can bring others with them because they are likeable. John Baldoni, author of MOXIE , says that “Leadership post-crash is not really any different from leadership pre-crash, except for one thing: resilience.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

'Are your new employees loose canons or heat-seeking missiles? In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Strategies can grow stale and innovation can stop. Being new, naïve, and even clueless, can be an asset. Rookies – people of any age who are new to a task – aren’t weighed down with old assumptions and are more likely to explore new possibilities.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

'Peter Thiel’s Zero to One is a quick and engaging read, but the ideas are not as quick to digest. Zero to One is based on the idea that progress can take two forms: horizontal or vertical progress. Horizontal progress is doing more of what works—going from zero to n. Vertical progress is doing something new—going from zero to one. Thiel explains it this way: "Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2014

'The Risk Advantage by Tom Panaggio is designed as a guide for those who are contemplating an entrepreneurial pursuit, are already engaged in building a business, or are currently working for someone else and want to inject their entrepreneurial ideas and attitude. “Those who understand where risk belongs in their lives,” says Panaggio, “will ultimately be successful.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Harvard professor Max Bazerman believes in the power of noticing. Sometimes we get so focused on what is right in front of us that we miss the critical information that would help us to make better decisions. The Power of Noticing guides us through what happens when our focus can prevent us from seeing the critical information we need to make better decisions.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2014

'Good leaders are healthy leaders. We can’t separate our leadership from who we are inside. “Your well-being, success, and organization depend, first and foremost on who you are. You need to examine the internal stuff—what goes on in your mind and heart—before doing anything,” writes Bob Rosen in Grounded. Faced with the speed of change today, staying aligned with who we are is very difficult making us feel stressed and defeated.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'This last summer, my son Mark attended a youth leadership conference for the first time. I attended the opening session with him in a room of about 300 kids that all seemed to know each other. Mark is a very personable and approachable young man but as a parent I naturally thought, “How is he going to get up and running in a group this size? He doesn’t know anyone.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Giving decisions to people closest to the action can transform any organization says Dennis Bakke in The Decision Maker. In a decision-maker organization, the leader leads by choosing a decision-maker based on their proximity, perspective, experience and wisdom. But since we are all human, the decision-maker must ask for advice. The advice process brings multiple perspectives together to guide a successful outcome.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2014

'If success for entrepreneurial success is to get your enterprise to the point where it is self-sustainable, then most people fail. But they don’t have to. Given the proper skills and insights, most entrepreneurs can become successful or what Derek Lidow calls entrepreneurial leaders. He discusses these ideas in Startup Leadership and is based on his popular course at Princeton University.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 12, 2014

'In a world of adaptive challenge smessy, open-ended, and ill-definedyour garden variety meeting isnt going to cut it. What you need is a strategic conversation. But these kinds of conversations dont just happenthey need to be designed. Moments of Impact by Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon will help you to do just that. A moment of impact is created at the intersection of design, strategy and conversation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

'Failure is how we learn. The problem is, argues Megan McArdle, we’re forgetting that truth. We are becoming too risk-averse and that is bad for our children, for our personal lives, for our companies, and for our country. While we tend to treat success as finite and failure as disaster, the reality is that in order to be successful, we must learn how to harness the power of failure.

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Leading Blog

MAY 2, 2014

'“People want to be led through change, not managed through it,” says Randy Pennington. Processes are an important left-brain activity, but people want to be led into the unknown which is a right-brain and often messy activity. Change leadership is a decidedly right-brained activity. When it comes to people, the shortest distance between two points isn’t necessarily a straight line.

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Leading Blog

MAY 14, 2014

'Sportswoman, polar explorer and author of On the Edge , Alison Levine, recently told Forbes about finishing well: Most of the deaths on Everest occur on the descent —after a climber reaches the top. The reason so many accidents happen on the descent is because people use everything they have—all of their energy reserves—to get to the top, and then they have nothing left in them to get themselves back down the mountain.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

'Blindspots. Those problems that are right in front of us that we fail to see. We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard. In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. An overpowering strength, in particular, usually has an associated blindspot.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The Innovators : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. MOXIE : The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership by John Baldoni. The Moment You Can''t Ignore : When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future by Malachi O''Connor and Barry Dornfeld.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2014

'Teachers are the builders of the future. In a book written for teachers, we find a valuable book for all leaders because leaders are teachers. Leaders are educators. In The Best Teacher in You , you will find the thinking and approaches behind highly effective teachers who accelerate learning and change lives. There are two kinds of change that individuals experience: incremental change and deep change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

'The Bleacher Report created this well done video: Cristiano Ronaldo—Greatness Awaits. It’s an inspiring look at what it takes to be excellent —at anything. The video concludes with: And legends aren’t born from mediocrity. They are born from excellence. They are born from being the best. From being the hardest working. Legends are born from failure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'Culture is the engine of any organization. It is the force behind everything that happens. It empowers behaviors that communicate who we are whether we like it or not. Getting it right is critical. How do we create a culture that brings out the best in people? Chris Edmonds says that it can be done by the creation of an organizational constitution.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

'Problems are always with us, but we don’t want to lead from problems. Lead from possibilities. Lead from the why. Lead with courage. Kathryn Cramer calls this Lead Positive. “When you think, speak, and act out of the positive side of the ledger, others feel more hopeful and confident about the future.”. Cramer has created a 3-step process for reframing what we see, say and do so that we operate more from a positive outlook than a negative one.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'This is a post by Scott Eblin. Scott is is the co-founder and president of The Eblin Group. He is the author of The Next Level and Overworked and Overwhelmed. On a summer Sunday night four years ago, I found myself standing in front of a roomful of about 80 corporate managers who probably didn’t want to be there. They had just finished the first week of a high-profile leadership development program in one of the world’s largest companies and week two was scheduled to start at 7:30 am the next m

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2014

'What undermines far too many leaders is that they don’t want feedback; they don’t like to be or feel they should be questioned. Unfortunately, this position takes them out of “leading” and into their own heads. They become focused on their own one-dimensional thoughts and agenda. As human beings, we easily deceive ourselves in ways that are completely unknown to us.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2014

'This is a post by David Dotlich, Chairman and CEO of Pivot Leadership. He is a co-author of The Unfinished Leader : Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems with Peter Cairo and Cade Cowan. To be a leader today in almost any organization means you are daily, if not hourly, bombarded with problems and challenges that don’t have clear-cut “right” answers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'This post is by Linda Fisher Thornton the author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. Our understanding of "ethical leadership" has not been clear enough to guide us through today’s complex ethical choices. We know from recent widespread ethical lapses in the business world that some leaders do not fully consider what will happen to others when they take actions that profit them and their businesses.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2014

'Change brings with it chaos and ambiguity. We want order. Ambiguity makes us uncomfortable so we want things ordered as soon as possible. But if we move too fast, we can miss out on the value that ambiguity brings. We need to embrace ambiguity until we have rung the last drop of value out of it. Ambiguity draws attention to what we don’t know. Ambiguity gives us space to unlearn.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2014

'Why do some leaders make an impact, while others flounder after initial success? Tim Irwin says “leadership failures rarely reflect a problem with the leader’s competence. Most often the fall occurs because of a breach of something inside the leader.” This is not surprising because we lead from our core. No matter how polished we become on the outside, eventually what is on the inside comes through.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September. The Virgin Way : Everything I Know About Leadership by Richard Branson. The Future of Work : Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization by Jacob Morgan. Smartcuts : How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

'If our questions are so unimaginative and predictable that Google can guess what we’re asking before we’re even three words in, says Warren Berger, then we aren’t asking the right questions. “It’s the questions Google cannot easily anticipate or even answer that we should be asking. Asking the right questions helps us figure out what matters, where opportunity lies, and how to achieve our goals.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 8, 2014

'Amplified Leadership by Dan Reiland is about developing leaders. While it is written with a church audience in mind, the principles and values work in other arenas as well. It deserves a wider audience. He places the development of leaders into a five-step process: Establish a Relationship, Engage a Follower, Embrace a Team, Coach an Apprentice, and finally, Mentor a New Leader.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

'James Murphy says American business has an execution problem. Why? Because we make things complex. “Complexity is the mortal enemy of good execution.” We tend to combat complexity with even more complexity. Simplicity is the SEALs answer to a complex world. In Courage to Execute , Murphy walks us through a simple process used by America’s elite military units that will improve an organization’s ability to execute and achieve goals.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2014

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. How Great Leaders Think : The Art of Reframing by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal. The Power of Noticing : What the Best Leaders See by Max Bazerman. The Organized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin. Destined to Lead : Executive Coaching and Lessons for Leadership Development by Karol M.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Fail Better : Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner by Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn. Napoleon : A Life by Andrew Roberts. The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership : Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders by M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas. Seven Disciplines of A Leader by Jeff Wolf.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'Barbara Kellerman has written about leaders (good and bad) and followers, but in Hard Times she turns her attention to the often overlooked context in which we lead. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. “More than ever,” writes Kellerman, “it is better—better in practice and better in theory—to focus less on the leader and more on the leadership system.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

'It all began with an e-mail from his daughter, Avery, with the subject line: "Is this okay to send?". Avery had gotten her first post-college job as an assistant to the co-executive producer to a new network daytime TV talk show. She wanted to ask her new boss for a later start date so she would have more time to “tie up loose ends.”. It was then her Dad, Ben Carpenter, realized that today’s young people don’t really know what is expected of them in the real world—the “big leagues”.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'A leader once told me, “We’re stuck.” It was an un-ignorable moment that reflected a cultural issue within the organization. In this case, it hinged around a destructive, persistent, self-perpetuating organizational belief about what leadership should look like that had plagued it for decades. Un-ignorable moments, write authors Malachi O’Connor and Barry Dornfeld, “typically occur when an organization is teetering on the brink of a cultural shift.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

'Reality and truth and hard for leaders to come by—especially if they think they are the repository of all truth. Leaders can easily get swept up in the “truth” perpetuated by the faithful that surround them. Like in Han Christian Anderson’s story, naked kings parade before followers too insecure and fearful to tell them they have no clothes on. These naked kings begin to believe that the world is a fixed landscape that they only truly understand.

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