Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each individual must take their own unique mixture of real-world experience and personal talents to forge their own leadership style.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It requires having a deep understanding of human connections, of bonds, and of ways to break down barriers. Design programs that not only do good in the community but improve motivation and communication within the office. Create policies that promote energy efficiency, reduce waste and water conservation.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying “The best bosses revel in helping others succeed” Mark Stelzner presents Two Easy (And Legal) Ways to Gather Competitive Intel posted at Inflexion Point.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On! The fried clams won. I've had readers ask "Why so many? posted at TanveerNaseer.com.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. These were coupled with Frederick Wilson Taylor’s popular scientific management theory that focused on financial compensation and the concept that workers’ motivation resulted from payment for volume-based repetitive task work. This is an opportune evolution.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Multiple options can linger, sapping an organization’s energy and killing a sense of completion. Reality can be distorted as both sides spiral into an us versus them mentality, inefficiency and stress surge, and bonds may be irreparably weakened. And all of this leads to a lack of feeling motivated.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The process must always begin with an honest and open dialogue directed toward building stronger bonds. This approach will build strong bonds and workplace transparency. Leadership requires openness and sharing. When encouragement is given for little effort, workers are motivated to put in more energy and efforts.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. It takes time and shared experiences for people to bond with one another. This causes team members to step on each other’s toes and question each other’s motives.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

When we over-rely on electronic communication such as email, we are unable to discern sincerity and hence we are uncertain of the other person’s motives. Once we understand this, we can create the conditions that allow members of our organizations to bond. Negative energy had sucked all the air out of their relationships.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Most businesses spend more time and energy trying to find new customers than retaining and making their current ones happy. A Gallup survey showed a customer who is “emotionally connected” to your place of business is likely to spend 46% more money than a customer who is merely “satisfied” but not emotionally bonded.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 19, 2011

At the heart of building community is developing a bond of connection among the members of a group. If it’s charged, we are energized; if not, we become drained and lose energy. As such, we rely on the people around us to charge our recognition battery.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is a fundamental human motivation and is incredibly powerful. We work best as humans (as well as employees) when we have frequent interactions with people with whom we have an ongoing bond. On a daily basis they could see, feel and even smell the bigger picture of which they were contributing to. We’re saying do!

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Now when it comes to using storytelling to help describe our vision or change initiative, the common tendency is to frame our story within the hero on a quest narrative, given how it’s the decisions and choices we make through our leadership that ultimately impact whether we collectively succeed or fail.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The energy, collaboration, and drive can fade as the staff grows, individuals separate into discrete silos, and workers in specialized functions grow disconnected from the larger purpose. .” This matters for companies of all sizes, but younger startups face a unique challenge that established firms can learn from.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

At some point, every leader has dealt with a person — or, worse, a group of people — who has lost motivation. In order to get at the crux of the problem, it’s crucial to understand that as humans we want to feel motivated and to find meaning in the things that we do. Brandon Lyon/Getty Images. We feel more alive.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

They had 120 restaurants at that point and they made a point to arrange groups with people from different states, letting them all bond as they labored together in the hot sun, proud that they were making a difference. . Not only is it helpful, but it ’ s essential: I believe inspiration fuels our motivation and gives us that ‘extra oomph.’

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to David Grossman of The Grossman Group great leaders don’t just manage employees; they make sure employees are motivated, engaged and inspired when coming to work. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership shares the most important single thing you can do to create connections and start conversations. Follow Amanda.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Have you noticed that in dangerous jobs, good bosses tend to have deep bonds with their workers? But you need to motivate your people to get things done. Do you have that kind of bond? Let's look at some of the reasons impersonal leadership fails. As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. It was he who encouraged your own leadership qualities, because your success ultimately honored him. Each entertainment niche may not be your ‘cup of tea,’ but relating to others will create common bonds and exhibits leadership.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 87

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. They are self-motivators. This was a precarious time.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

What was it that motivated and fueled you to grow, learn, and improve during these times? Owning this realization unleashes positive motivation—because deep down we know that things that are important shouldn’t always come easy. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For women with leadership ambitions, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. At the center is managing your mental energy: How to gain it, maintain it, and not drain it. Part of the answer lies in realizing that not all sources of energy are equal. tomas robertson/unsplash. But what happens after the promotion?

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Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Drexler: Now for the flip side, of course people and institutions in most cases are motivated by more than just financial returns.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. More importantly, the CMO then needs to motivate and help drive the required changes through the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

The connection between leadership and art has been made many times over, usually as a way to single out certain properties of the arts that carry over to leadership, such as a jazz musician's ability to create through improvisation. Moreover, they challenge, excite, comfort, and motivate. Human significance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

If you have room in your head for only one nugget of leadership wisdom, make it this one: the most powerfully motivating condition people experience at work is making progress at something that is personally meaningful. If there’s anything an effective, resonant coaching conversation produces, it’s positive energy.

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Management Learning-by-Doing Workshop Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

It is a promise of transformation — that a stint at the organization will change your substance and value, not just your leadership style, in ways that will outlast your tenure in it. In Search of Portable Leadership. The pursuit of portability (cloaked as leadership) took two different forms.

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