Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ordinary leaders seek to manage the immediate; great ones attempt to raise their society to their visions.” Source: Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These are also crucial because it can be difficult for an employee to open up about issues with the manager when speaking to that manager. Source: Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Fine is not fine.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ Source: Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Idea people are more comfortable with risk. I’m a big believer in the power of assessments.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Most of us struggle to manage ourselves: our subconscious drivers, our relationships, our emotions, our mental health, our habits. Source: The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Niccolò Machiavelli on resistance to change: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. Source: The Crisis We Face: Automation and the Cold War * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What matters now, more than ever, is that managers embrace the responsibilities of stewardship. If you’re a manager or an executive, your stewardship obligations extend far beyond yourself and your family. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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Leading Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Marc and Samantha Hurwitz on the importance of followership on management performance as you move up the organizational ladder: “There is a lot less forgiveness for poor followership at the middle-manager level because much more of the job is about building partnerships, setting an example, and working in the larger organizational context.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2016

It is hard to let go of the thinking behind some of the management tools we still use today. David Burkus reports on a number of seemingly radical management ideas in Under New Management. As an artifact of the industrial age when managers needed to ensure that all shifts were covered, strict vacation policies were a necessity.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Former NASA engineer-project manager and launch director at SpaceX John Muratore on the importance of purpose: “Tom Holloway, a very famous Program Manager, and head of Flight Directors for a long time, told me something very interesting. He said, ‘People ask us what our greatest resource is, and we always say, ‘our people.’

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Coupled with management , the term offers a way to describe a way of managing designed to help managers keep pace with accelerating change. In general, Wiki Management is about removing inflated ego from the practice of leadership and about breaking down the barriers that define most hierarchies.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. In a similar manner, some leaders can be accused of hubris, show contempt for criticism from others and become capable of inflicting damage on their organizations.”.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

Billboard Magazine interviewed Creative Artists Agency Managing Partner Rob Light on the occasion of their 35th Anniversary. I’ll share a couple of his responses: You began working at CAA when you were in your mid-20s. What did you learn from CAA founder Mike Ovitz? Mike was so prepared, so smart, so strategic. Nothing was haphazard.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Crisis management consultant James Lukaszewski on integrity: “Each scenario begins with and is made worse by breakdowns in integrity. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. And too often, people forget to question the validity of their questions, finding comfort instead in the correctness of their answers.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Source: Speech, Managing Your Career: The Ultimate Solo Flight. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. To do that, we must be prepared to do battle from time to time with the internal bureaucracy in our organizations. Source: The Artist’s Way. * * *.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

J OSEPH BADARACCO PROVIDES A WAY to resolve the inevitable gray areas we will all face from time to time in Managing in the Gray. The question asks managers if they are prepared to do what is necessary in this world—to serve the interests of people who depend on them and also protect themselves and advance their own objectives.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

On the flip side, managers who lack gratitude suffer, first and foremost, from a problem of cognition—a failure to perceive how hard their people are trying to do good work—and, if they’re encountering problems, what they are. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In "Managers, can you hear me now?" Managers Fail to Build Trust and Integrity. Trust always begins with the manager. As the manager, you are the force that keeps your team focused on results. Managers are the first to get bored with their message. Consensus managers seldom survive long in their jobs.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Anne Loehr and Jezra Kaye, authors of Managing the Unmanageable , say that these “unmanageable” people are costing companies a fortune. Perceiving the difference is the task of leaders, managers, and coaches. Managing the Unmanageable is written to help you do just that. She’s unreliable. He’s an egomaniac. She’s self-absorbed.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The entire management literature fails to understand this. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Source: Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think. Robert Quinn on real leadership: “Leadership is not about results.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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AUGUST 12, 2021

We will be better equipped to manage our emotions after even a few small actions.”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. By the same token, if we are overwhelmed by the size or difficulty of any task, taking some action toward the solution will mellow the overwhelm. Source: Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Blog Post ). instead of adversaries. The Power of Bad : How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

East Rock Capital co-founder Graham Duncan on taking responsibility for your life: “One great portfolio manager I know told the story of being driven somewhere by an analyst on a rainy night when a truck swerved and almost ran them off the road. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Source: The Playing Field. * * *.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2021

They also managed with empathy. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Power Moms from all generations reported to me that they had become better bosses by raising families. Tapping skills honed as time-starved parents, they set priorities well, multitasked, and delegated effectively.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Paul Zak on how fear-based leadership undermines our goals and dumbs us down: “The science shows that fear-based management is a losing proposition because people acclimate to fear quickly. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Source: Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust. My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.” Many find spending time with their manager to be the worst time of their day. Remove abusive managers. What can leaders do?

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Leading Blog

MAY 27, 2021

Managers who do not allow time for exploration or do not schedule in incubation periods are unwittingly standing in the way of the creative process.”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In either case, people feel overcontrolled and unfulfilled—which invariably damages motivation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2020

Management professor and social philosopher Charles Handy on the inevitability of paradox: “We need a new way of thinking about our problems and our futures. My suggestion is the management of paradox, an idea which is itself a paradox, in that paradox can only be “managed” in the sense of coping with.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Above all, if you want to achieve top performance as a manager and a leader, you’ve got to forget the folklore about genius that makes many people think they cannot take a scientific approach to developing expertise. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. The biggest challenge most leaders and managers face is deciding what to do when confronted with a new situation. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Michael Lindsay observed that the best leaders have shown excellent management of the transitional events in their lives: “The challenge with life is that we have to live it moving forward, but we only really understand it looking back. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Make sure that the first person you are managing every day is yourself. Adapted from It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss by Bruce Tulgan. Take good care of yourself outside of work so that you can bring your best self to work every day. Arrive a little early to work and stay a little late. Keep your confidences.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

We needed to manage through ego and conflict. But the thing is this—ego and conflict can be healthy if managed and controlled. Managed and controlled, ego and conflict are energy and a source of winning ideas and inspiration. When they are not controlled, they become a monster that eats your group from within.

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