Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 5, 2018

I first heard the term “servant leadership” in high school. Since then, I’ve seen and heard it referenced over and over again in books, presentations and casual business conversations. Many leaders want to grow in servant leadership. Without a subject, servant leadership is simply a sentiment and not an action.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Individuals or partners develop a plan and iterate as new information arises. Models are developed, scrutinized, and refined. Probably not: we'll encounter them no matter the breadth of our collective intelligence and experience, despite the models we develop, and regardless of the plans we base on those models.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

You could change it again to, “How can we develop the right talent?” Now we are looking at leadership opportunities that might not have been previously considered. Before investing in developing solutions and strategies to your problems, first make sure you are moving in the right direction. 360-degree feedback was too specific.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. In them he makes a compelling case that most leadership training has failed to produce effective leaders and that the poor state of the vast majority of workplace cultures today is harming the health of people. Below I explain why.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. Leadership development became my one big thing. These days, I proudly and passionately embrace my leadership hedgehog –- are you doing the same?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2020

Journaling can be one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective parts of your personal leadership development. Most effective because your journal can be the centerpiece of your leadership development. Plus, a good journaling habit makes all the other parts of leadership development work better.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I N HIS BOOK Thank You for Being Late , author and award-winning journalist Tom Friedman argues that to understand the twenty-first century, you must realize that “the planet’s three largest forces”—technology, globalization, and climate change—are accelerating all at once. As a business leader, you already get that.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

When transitioning to scaling, avoid analysis paralysis at all costs. Her new book The AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons from Real World AI Deployments made it to the bestseller list in less than one month. As leaders, being decisive is paramount.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Max McKeown has created a strategy reference work – The Strategy Book – to guide you to the answers. The Strategy Toolkit at the end of the book is not just another nice add-on. It is worth as much as the rest of the book. How should changes be made? How shall we measure progress? Well thought out and helpful.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Consultants love a gap-closing program almost as much as they love a SWOT analysis. Who : Leadership trust - Does leadership trust its employees to take risks without fear of being punished? His new book is Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation (Amplify Publishing, Oct.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2019

A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings. This is different.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Conduct your “forensic implementation analysis” to examine these five dynamic forces : 1. He has published 60 books, many of which have been on the curricula at top business schools. His new book is Sentient Strategy: How to Create Market-Dominating Strategies in Turbulent Economies.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The higher the stakes, the more systematic analysis and preparation will be needed. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company). Sufficient preparation can more than double the effectiveness of a challenging +influence attempt.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Each of these Moments offers a context specific, road tested coaching tip that you can use to increase your leadership effectiveness or that of leaders you’re coaching. Each of these Moments offers a context specific, road tested coaching tip that you can use to increase your leadership effectiveness or that of leaders you’re coaching.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 28, 2014

The Top 20 Leadership Books: What To Give First To A New Manager. Eighteen months ago, I posted the question “What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager?” within the discussion forum for the LinkedIn group Linked 2 Leadership. Some people suggested more than one book.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This requires not only the ability to drill down into details, but to look across the horizon and make right-brained connections, say leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren in The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century. They must learn to join them together. "We

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Better yet, the most important behaviors leaders can do to develop and maintain motivated, engaged employees tend to have little or no cost, but rather are a function of the daily interactions that managers have with employees pertaining to work in the context of each employees’ jobs. . Bob Nelson, Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

Resilience is what Brent Gleeson’s book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life is all about. We can’t develop psychological resilience without experiencing emotional pain and suffering.” One simple but effective model Gleeson offers for this is the Five-Step Root Cause Analysis. Develop self-control.

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 30, 2017

Or ever tried to remember the specifics of a model (like, what does SWOT analysis stand for)? The post The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Or wished you had a tool to help you with […].

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 8, 2024

Speaking about his new book, The Generous Leader , author Joe Davis says, “This book is about the ways in which you can become a generous leader to be part of something bigger than yourself.” Generous Development : Validate strengths and success, identify expansive opportunities. Ask thoughtful questions. Ask “why” often.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In the book they apply the process to individual problems such as, “Should I put solar panels on my roof?,” “What career should I choose?,” Rushing into analysis with a vague problem statement is a clear formula for long hours and frustrated clients.”. How do you disaggregate the issues and develop hypotheses to be explored?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 19, 2016

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? The top 20 percenters gain developmental insight from numerous sources, however, I find there are three primary categories of executive development: outside experience, training, and coaching. Simply developing them, however, is not enough.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

A book I recently read does a great job of helping to answer those questions. [In The book tells the story of a fictitious tech startup, DecisionTech. While Lencioni doesn’t return to this approach later in the book, what Kathryn does is fundamental to her ability to lead her team from dysfunction to achievement.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

… We’ve long defined leadership as an action, not a position. Regardless of their position power, strong leaders develop their persuasion power. ” Here are questions to ask yourself and ways to strengthen your outward and upward leadership: Do you know what keeps those above you in the organization awake at night?

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a timeless personal and leadership principle I call “ spirit and meaning.” Dead Leader Walking: Soulless, Loveless, and Meaningless In his book, The Greatest Miracle in the World , Og Mandino spins a tale of his encounters with Simon Potter, a humble and learned wise man. They can only be developed from the inside out.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

He simply had what the great leadership and business writer Tom Peters calls (in his great book “ In Search of Excellence” ) a “ bias towards action “. How do he and other great leaders develop this seemingly uncanny ability to make the right decisions so quickly? Decision made. Then, there’s the third element, the intangible.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. They require careful analysis, not gut feeling or simplistic platitudes. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Our perceptions of leadership and who can become a leader often have distinctly cultural roots. The hypothesis being tested was that the leadership narrative used by leaders is rooted in their cultural heritage. Cultural heritage. It’s a finding the author believes could have a number of applications.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For the third part of this month-long series celebrating the release of my first leadership book (which will be available in bookstores and online retailers next Thursday, September 25th), “ Leadership Vertigo ”, co-written with S. Honesty is selected more often than any other leadership characteristic. Forward-Looking.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Businessman and former ambassador Donald Blinken explains the motivation behind this book in the foreword: This book was born out of Bob Dilenschneider’s concern about how demoralizing it is for many young people to consider their futures.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Guest post By Brian Gast : What’s your leadership capacity? It took getting fired to wake up and realize that I was not going to sustain effective leadership by relying on an MBA and my natural talent. Such conditions test your leadership capacity. Executive Development and the Quadrant Model. Then things got tough.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 29, 2016

While there is perpetual discussion deliberating what leadership is all about, this book is predicated on the simple assumption that if you cannot move your agenda, you are not a leader," declares author Samuel B. In the final analysis, leadership is about getting things done. Can't Get Enough Leadership , .

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2023

Put simply, is a great leader created by having suitable access to professional learning and development that boosts their leadership skillset, or are they simply destined to be great leaders because of innate personality and intellectual traits?

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

Just like a key needs the right grooves to unlock a door, your leadership approach needs to adapt to different personalities to achieve truly productive communication. Their leadership skills inspire others to achieve goals. Ss bring stability and accuracy, and Cs contribute thoroughness and analysis.

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