Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The tensions of returning to the office and figuring out the most effective permanent post-pandemic work arrangements are the topic of my newest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. Why Are So Many Leaders Wary of Remote Work?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. Five Frequencies prescribes more than 20 practical Signal Boosts for turning culture into competitive advantage. 5 Leadership Frequencies. But it’s not sustainable.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Michael Bungay Stanier. This month, we are mixing things up!

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If we can harness the untapped potential buried deep within the hearts of our people, we can turn engagement from a liability into real, sustainable competitive advantage and usher in gains in productivity unseen since the industrial revolution! Mark started his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member back in 1977.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 15, 2014

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Several years ago I was working with a business owner who had become stuck because of the way the company structure was set up. Time ticked away and they started to loose their competitive advantage. Beth Armknecht Miller career advice coaching'

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I recently spoke with Stan, thought leader, columnist, and business leader about his new book Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success. The title of your book is Be Different! It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. Different in what way?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read. That reinvention led him to that 1973 hospital security director job.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 21, 2015

It’s ironic that successful self-leadership has more to do with others and less to do with self. My hope is that they will help you be more successful over your career and journey in life. The first surprise about self-leadership is that working for money, power and fame is, ultimately, an unfulfilling pursuit.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. Her new book is The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations—Great Results. Where are we going? Do you see me?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. Thomas Stewart. How can this be?

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2017

She is an example of a leader who communicates an inspiring vision and lives it, as can be seen throughout her remarkable career. Undeterred, she read books and sought advice from experts, eventually becoming an expert herself and going on to counsel scores of veterans and their wives. Throughout her career Ms.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. Losing this is essentially losing one of the company’s most sacred competitive advantages. Through the lens of Disney, the reader learns the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Some statistics show even higher failure rates.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2015

Another moment of truth in Puyol’s career came when he stopped two teammates from excessive celebrating following a goal. With a mop of curly hair, polite demeanor, and introverted personality (he described book reading as one of his favorite forms of relaxation), Puyol did not fit the stereotype of a footballer, much less a leader.

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QAspire

JUNE 22, 2015

Most people ascend to leadership positions based on their areas of natural strengths. Authors Thuy Sindell and Milo Sindell calls this space as “ Hidden Strengths ” in their new book by the same name. And according to authors, our focusing on our hidden strengths provide a very fertile ground for our leadership and professional growth.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It's easy for executives to get caught up with meeting targets and lose sight of the leadership skills they need to motivate teams. In the new book, LEADING WITH EDGE , author Jose R. Source: Leading with Edge: Activate Your Competitive Advantage Through Personal Insight. Modeling and driving expectations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 13, 2017

They help employees harness their natural abilities, guide the development of their skills, and support them along an internal career path. Even when there’s a career path for them, talented employees can’t advance in their own company; they can’t step up because there’s simply no one available to take their place.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Outsmart the competition by being an explainer.” Jennifer V.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. World-class competitors can do it.

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LDRLB

JUNE 8, 2010

So when the people behind Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness offered me a review copy, I was a little hesitant. The book is half-biography of Tony and half a biography of Zappos. It traces Tony’s career from before LinkExchange to Zappos marriage with Amazon.com a few years ago.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 26, 2018

Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. People, not companies, generate value, so why isn't talent at the center of every company's strategy?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2019

“Brand helps us engage customers and employees, unleash our competitive advantage, and fuel enduring growth,” explains Lindsay Pedersen, author of the new book, Forging An Iron Clad Brand: A Leader’s Guide.” “And In her book, Pedersen deconstructs what band is and why it is indispensable for leaders. Tell stories.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 16, 2014

Cash flow, receivables, intellectual property, brands, careers everything flows from the idea. Recent studies on leadership have found that the #1 ranked, most valued skill in leaders is strategic thinking. . Recent studies on leadership have found that the #1 ranked, most valued skill in leaders is strategic thinking. .

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. Young women today are entering the workforce better prepared and more ambitious than ever, with more education and higher career aspirations than men. Rethinking Leadership. When McKinsey & Co.

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QAspire

MAY 24, 2017

In his book “ Poke the Box ” Seth Godin wrote, “The world is changing too fast. In a future that is increasingly getting automated, it is this spark of initiative that is and would remain our real competitive advantage. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.”.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 3, 2017

households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership. That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. It is impossible to build leadership if your team doesn’t believe you care about them or the mission you are on.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At a critical junction in the American Revolution, George Washington used superior leadership to turn the tables on a stronger competitor – and so can you. But in my experience, effective leadership can level the playing field. Effective leadership turns the tables. And I think George Washington would agree.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In terms of the impact of our work, it’s been incredibly gratifying to meet and hear from leaders and working people who have changed the way they hire, onboard, lead, assess, mentor, support and communicate with their teammates after working with us directly or reading my books and article. Sometimes one new thought or “aha!”

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 10, 2013

moment" that often radically redefines business and the competitive advantage. The Art of Insight is a new book that teaches readers how to have more "Aha! Sustained Leadership. Books Business Coaching Career Memes Personal Coaching Personal Life Self-Awareness Skills Success Tips What is'

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