Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Posted in Leadership Development [link] Mary C. Schaefer, speaker, coach, trainer and consultant is this week’s contributing author on SmartBlog for Leadership. Click on the title above to read her insightful post about leading with your ears not your lips. Why true leadership involves less talking and more listening.
Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle, from his new book, Getting Ahead: Success at work starts with positive perceptions. If your boss and co-workers have a negative image of you, it's a pretty good bet you won't be getting a promotion anytime soon. That's why it is so important to take charge of the way you are perceived in your organization.
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Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Posted in Leadership Development What we love in childhood often comes back to us with an “ah-ha!” weaving a tighter pattern when we look back over the tapestry of our life and finally see where that pretty colorful thread we once played with has lead us in maturity. Reflective leaders usually have many such stories at play in their [.] Speak Your Truth To Power.
Tanveer Naseer
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Imagine working for an organization where one of the senior managers insists on yelling at his employees because he believes it’s the surest way to garner the respect of those he leads and now, the front-line managers are beginning to follow his example by yelling at their team members. Or what about working for a company president whose driven to attract the best talent under the guise of needing their help to make his organization more innovative, only to turn around and demand that they
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Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 4, 2011
It’s my sister Paula’s birthday. Several years ago I wrote a post on her birthday, and later I wrote a post about ways to celebrate your birthday. I reprise and update them today, as a way to tell my little Sis happy birthday, and give us all something to think about. Happy [.].
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 4, 2011
“A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows what people cannot do, but never sees what they can do, will undermine the spirit of the organization,” Peter Drucker. John Zenger, co-author of the HBR article, Making [.].
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Here’s a question I have been mulling over for awhile. I don’t have the answer and am hoping your responses will help provide some clarity. In the 1980’s and 90’s there was great interest in the topic of vision. Countless books, articles, and studies addressed the topic. However, in this current decade, I’ve noticed a ho-hum attitude about it and I’m curious why.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 4, 2011
This week, DegreeJungle.com released its list of the top 45 blogs for business majors , and WomenOnBusiness.com ranked 27th on the list! The WomenOnBusiness.com blog is in good company on this list. Instead of rehashing a list of the most popular blogs that appear on these kinds of lists again and again, the DegreeJungle.com list includes a wider variety of business blogs written by diverse bloggers with an even broader array of experiences, expertise, and knowledge.
Tony Mayo
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Years ago, while I was establishing myself in a new executive coaching practice, I supported my family by working as a part-time, outsourced CFO. Here is a reminiscence of a deep learning I earned during one of those accounting gigs. I sought help from my own coach with the very difficult [.].
Women on Business
OCTOBER 4, 2011
One thing women are good at dealing with is change, especially women business owners and entrepreneurs. We adapt, change and morph with the times. It’s how women and women-owned businesses still thrive. A Citibank survey shows that women still have hope that their own personal financial situation will change for the better, despite what is going on with most of the economic world.
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Tony Mayo
OCTOBER 4, 2011
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Here is the October, 2011 New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Business Books list. As I regularly note, there are some “long-time” titles on this list (Drive; Delivering Happiness; 4-Hour Workweek; Strenghts-Based Leadership). But there are some new titles this month. The new Friedman and Maddelbaum book, That Used to Be Us, is number one.
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Could you change your behavior - when change really mattered? When it mattered most? Yes, you say? Try again. Yes? You're probably deluding yourself. That's what the experts say. They say that you wouldn't change. Here are the odds that the experts are laying down, their scientifically studied odds: 9:1. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?
LDRLB
OCTOBER 4, 2011
This is guest post from Bob Lieberman. Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].
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Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Could you change your behavior - when change really mattered? When it mattered most? Yes, you say? Try again. Yes? You're probably deluding yourself. That's what the experts say. They say that you wouldn't change. Here are the odds that the experts are laying down, their scientifically studied odds: 9:1. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?
Building Personal Strength
OCTOBER 4, 2011
There are five people/communication skills that are so important to parenting a teenager that the failure to use any one of them - even just once - can cause problems in a relationship. My research of the literature has taught me that there are actually nearly 100 different people skills. In ProStar Coach , we focus on two dozen of them. In my free coaching ebook , we focus on eight people skills.
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive.
LDRLB
OCTOBER 4, 2011
'This is guest post from Bob Lieberman. Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].
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Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Join Strategy Execution Advisors (a Six Disciplines Partner) for their latest webinar: Date: Friday, October 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT. Organizations spend thousands of dollars on time planning, communicating and reporting progress on plans; unfortunately most underperform. Join us for a 60-minute complimentary webinar where you'll learn: What is a planning calendar and how can I benefit by using one in my organization?
Chris Brady
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Stone steps great my weary feet once again, while the sun keeps up its constant beaming from above, pounding on my hat and searing my skin. The bag on my back, though small, irritates me from long. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive.
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 4, 2011
I agree with Albert Einstein that it is important to “make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” One of the best exercises for learning how to do that is what Mike Figliuolo introduces in his new book, One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, published by Jossey-Bass (October, 2011). [.].
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Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Join Strategy Execution Advisors (a Six Disciplines Partner) for their latest webinar: Date: Friday, October 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT. Organizations spend thousands of dollars on time planning, communicating and reporting progress on plans; unfortunately most underperform. Join us for a 60-minute complimentary webinar where you'll learn: What is a planning calendar and how can I benefit by using one in my organization?
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Here is an excerpt from an especially insightful article written by Nancy Koehn. It is part of The Washington Post‘s recent On Leadership roundtable exploring Tim Cook’s succession of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, and how to follow in the footsteps of an icon. At the conclusion of the excerpt, I provide links to [.].
Management Excellence
OCTOBER 4, 2011
The rolling launch of Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development continues, and I’m interested in talking to readers and their teams about all things leadership.
Chartered Management Institute
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Ethical behaviour has been in the news again today. It was based on new research by Management Today and the ILM reporting that managers increasingly put profits before ethics.
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Management Craft
OCTOBER 4, 2011
My pal, Alexandra Levit, has a cool new book out about myths called, Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success (great title BTW). I asked her if she would share a post about the book with my readers and here it is. These are important and I would encourage you to pick up the book for anyone who is at a career crossroad/restart/start.
Chartered Management Institute
OCTOBER 4, 2011
No single thing in the last 15 years professionally as been more important to my life than blogging - Tom Peters. This was taken from a video featuring Tom Peters and Seth Godin. I'll embed it at the end of this blog if you want to watch, but for now I'd like to hand over to CMI Ambassador Colin Millar. Colin has recently dipped his toe into the blogosphere and is now a fully fledged convert.
Management Excellence
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Creativity is at a premium in our world, and subjecting our teams and audiences to mind and rear-numbing marches through an endless stream of slides is the best way I know to stifle creativity. There's got to be a better way! Val Gee and Sarah Gee in their recent book, Business Improv, offer both hope and some practical solutions to the aforementioned painful march through training sessions and internal meetings.
Chartered Management Institute
OCTOBER 4, 2011
This is a very practical book, useful, and perhaps indispensable, to managers at all levels. The narrative leads the reader clearly through the theoretical and research background to the detailed guidance on how to develop positive management approaches to reduce or eliminate stress from the organisation. Review by David Stephens FCMI.
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