Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2015

Leaders work on a spectrum of effectiveness and the continuum varies with the ups and downs of your work’s natural rhythms. When you are in a good place, with available margin to deal with your load, you take a balanced approach to meeting your demands, use your strengths wisely, and sustain the capacity to manage well against the challenges of the day.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2015

This is a post by Dr. Greg Wells author of Superbodies: Peak Performance Secrets From the World's Best Athletes Wells is a scientist who specializes in extreme human physiology, draws the parallels between elite athletes and top executives to help business leaders perform at the highest level, even when under the most extreme circumstances. An athlete steps up to the starting blocks in the Olympic stadium.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2015

Bernard Roth, one of the founders of the multi-disciplinary d.school at Stanford University, has written a book titled, The Achievement Habit. However, it is much more than the title might let on. It’s about how you can achieve your goals more fully and faster by expanding your limited view of reality. It’s about design thinking applied to every aspect of your life.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Herb Greenberg, who lost his sight at age 10, developed a test to help companies assess potential employees’ abilities. He leveraged that into the global management-consulting firm, Caliper, in 1961. From What You Aren't Seeing : The Inspiring Story of Herb Greenberg we have the following lessons: Leading starts with being clear about what you are willing to accept and what you need to fight for.

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JULY 3, 2015

A culture that connects people would seem to be a high priority to leaders. Building a sense of community would seem to be a necessary first step before a leader does anything else. But a connection culture is not a common as you might expect. Perhaps this largely because our human nature still leads us to believe that we can always default to command and control when we have to.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

N O MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, our environment affects us in powerful, insidious, and mysterious ways. Our environment triggers behaviors or responses in us. Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. He illuminates an aspect of self-awareness that is so vital to a leader’s success.

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Leading Blog

JULY 8, 2015

The Front-Line Leader by Chris Van Gorder is about leading with not over employees. To be effective as a leader you have to connect with people. You must get to know them—really know them. Van Gorder has carried with him lessons he learned as a security guard and a police officer to lead Scripps Health from near bankruptcy to a dominate market position.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

'Leadership doesn’t make you better than anyone else, it make you more responsible. As a leader you are more than an individual contributor. Leaders think about the context—the big picture—not just their function. Focused on the outcome, they do whatever needs to be done to move the organization forward. They do whatever they can to facilitate the work of others.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2015

Orchestral conductor Itay Talgam writes in The Ignorant Maestro , that “the greatest leaders not only embrace ignorance but are convinced it is an essential choice on their part, allowing their people to reach upper floors that haven’t even been built yet.”. In short, your willingness to let go of knowing—the conscious decision to be ignorant, to not know the answers, not even try to predict them—and embrace the unknown will be the crucial tipping point in making you the best leader you can be.

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AUGUST 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Humans Are Underrated : What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin. Unthinkable : The Culture and Politics of Getting Innovation Wrong by Tom Hopkins. Louder than Words : Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice by Todd Henry. Leading Continuous Change : Navigating Churn in the Real World by Bill Pasmore.

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MAY 8, 2015

With exam season upon us in the northern hemisphere, experimental psychologist Tom Stafford has offered some lessons for learning better. He and his colleague Mike Dewar, studied how people learn to play an online game. “Computer games provide a great way to study learning: they are something people spend many hours practicing, and they automatically record every action people take as they practice.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

'The Lean CEO by Jacon Stoller gets to the thinking behind why Lean management works. I think "Lean" is a poor moniker to give the approach. It tends to make people think of cost-cutting or how to get the most work out of the fewest number of people. It sounds like a manufacturing thing. But that is misleading. It is a holistic approach to management.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

'Jim Kouzes writes in the foreword of The Hidden Leader that “Our images of who’s a leader and who’s not are all mixed up in our preconceived notions about what leadership is and isn’t.” Well put. That is the issue. He goes on to say that “hidden leaders are those people in your organization who share the belief that what they do matters.” And they are all around us.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. It actually builds on the ideas and thinking presented in his classic book written with Bob Sutton, The Knowing Doing Gap over a decade ago. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? Pfeffer believes that the answer is to be found in the systemic processes that produce leaders who often behave differently from what most people might like or expect.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As we navigate through life, we must be able to cooperate and compete. Knowing what to do when is very important to getting where you want to go and to where you want to go next time. In Friend and Foe , authors Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer, state that all of our relationships are both cooperative and competitive and we get more out of life when we learn to find the right balance between acting as a friend and acting as a foe.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2015

by Jacob Stoller. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get,” said Warren Buffett, adeptly observing that value is more than just a notion of what something is worth. Customer value that is based on substance as opposed to perceptions is widely pursued by organizations that aspire to greatness, and is also a fundamental building block of the Lean management system.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2015

Command and control is a leadership style that is in many ways our default leadership position. It’s very human. Leadership that serves is far more demanding of a leader. The demands drive us back into our old styles of leadership. It’s the daily grind that derails our best intentions. Cheryl Bachelder became the CEO of the ailing Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in 2007.

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JULY 10, 2015

Only about 10% of us are running at full power! Power Score is designed to help you determine why you might not be performing at your best. Your Power Score (P x W x R) is based on three questions you should be asking yourself and your team: Do we have the right priorities ? Do we have the right who ? Do we have the right relationships ? “The key to great leadership is to have the right priorities, the right people on your team, and the right relationships that achieve results.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September. 5 Gears : How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer. What You Really Need to Lead : The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June. Holacracy : The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by Brian J. Robertson. Invisibles : Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workplace by David Zweig. Let the Elephants Run : Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything by David Usher. The Disciplined Leader : Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters by John Manning.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2015

'There has always been a call for responsible leaders, but perhaps we just hear the call more clearly today. In The Responsible Leader , author Tim Richardson begins with a well-written overview of how we got where we are in our leadership understanding and the forces that are shaping our leadership context today. It points to the need for more responsible leadership.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Brian Dodd says he doesn’t like meetings but he loves strategy sessions because they are about movement and focus on accomplishment, not activity. They “make you glad you are a leader.” I presume he would agree with authors Steven Krupp and Paul Schoemaker. They say the number one business challenge for winning the long game is for leaders to become more strategic.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'The most common problem that modern professionals face is a lack of risk tolerance and a resistance to change. Scott Steinberg writes in Make Change Work for You , Scott Steinberg offers ten rules that successful people follow to future-proof themselves. But underlying it all is how we deal with fear. We need to find a quick way to neutralize its negative influences, find courage, and take positive action.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

'Self-made billionaires think differently than most of us do. Most of us think like what authors John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen call Performers because their success is tracked through performance. They excel at optimizing within known systems. They strive to excel in well-defined areas, and are important to any organization – in fact, they are important to the self-made billionaire.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. Entitlement Cure : Finding Success In Doing Hard Things the Right Way by John Townsend. Everybody Matters : The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia. Collaboration Begins with You : Be a Silo Buster by Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley and Eunice Parisi-Carew.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

'During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2015

“There are few things in the world that will change someone’s opinion of you as quickly as generosity” says Jon Acuff in Do Over. You will go to bat for people who have shown you generosity. Your employees will work harder. Your clients will return more often. When you are down, people will look for opportunities to pick you up. Fear will tighten your belt.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra. The Hidden Leader : Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company by Scott K. Edinger and Laurie Sain. The Creator''s Code : The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs by Amy Wilkinson. Performing Under Pressure : The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most by Hendrie Weisinger and J.

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MARCH 1, 2015

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out : A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs by Gerald F. Davis and Christopher J. White. Captivology : The Science of Capturing People''s Attention by Ben Parr. Road to Power : How GM''s Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling by Laura Colby.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

'Thomas Plummer is a coach to the fitness industry. In a Facebook post he advised fitness professionals: The mindset of survival that keeps you alive in tough times is also what will kill your business during good times. Keeping a struggling business alive during tough markets is a skill that drains the life out of you. Everyday you fight for pennies, do the work of many and learn the techniques necessary to keep going when others are failing.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Black Box Thinking : Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do by Matthew Syed. Why Should Anyone Work Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. It's My Pleasure : The Impact of Extraordinary Talent and a Compelling Culture by Dee Ann Turner.

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JULY 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July. Team Genius : The New Science of High-Performing Organizations by Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone. Intelligent Disobedience : Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff. The Achievement Habit : Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth.

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MAY 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. Connection Culture : The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work by Michael Lee Stallard with Jason Pankau and Katharine P Stallard. The Hard Hat : 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate by Jon Gordon. People Over Profit : Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

'Typically we look at a constraint as a negative. A problem to be solved. But what if a constraint was the gift that opened up previously unimagined possibilities? What if a constraint was the gift that took you to the next level? Authors Adam Morgan and Mark Barden remind us in A Beautiful Constraint that Google’s home page is as simple as it is because that was the limit of Larry Page’s coding ability at the time.

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APRIL 1, 2015

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April. Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel. Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock. Getting There : A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal. Players First : Coaching from the Inside Out by John Calipari and Michael Sokolove.

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JULY 31, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2015 that you might have missed: At the Intersection of Must And Want We Find Ourselves by @LollyDaskal. 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn. Disrupting beliefs : A new approach to business-model innovation from @McKQuarterly. 30 People You Want On Your Team by @BrianKDodd.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

'Investor and entrepreneur Paul Kedrosky wrote in What Should We Be Worried About? by John Brockman: "Writer William Gibson once famously said that ''The future is already here—it''s just not very evenly distributed.'' I worry more that the past is here—it''s just so evenly distributed that we can''t get to the future. " What we know has a bearing on what we learn.

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