The Practical Leader

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit , organization consultants and professors, Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal (co-authors of the classic Corporate Cultures – the 1982 book that popularized the idea of organizational culture) conclude, “The signs point toward spirit and soul as the essence of leadership.”

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joan’s voice broke with emotion as she talked about her growing health problems and the steep price her family has been paying for her “successful career.” In Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , Simon Sinek writes, “The drive to win is not, per se, a bad thing. Joan angrily retorted.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Art summarizes: “ The road to career success runs through a nearly endless string of challenging conversations. Learn to survive and thrive in the most difficult of communication circumstances and watch your career grow. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Optimistic People.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee. Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2016

VIDEO: Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace. What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part One) by @scott_mautz. Rereading Great Business Books from @wallybock. Here are a selection of tweets from December 2016 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn. via @HBSWK.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

I experienced this personally in my corporate career. As Simon Sinek has said, Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse. The leadership part HAS to come first. EVERY time. How can a leader put leadership first?

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 30, 2015

In the coming weeks before the launch of my next book, “No Cape Needed: The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Steps to Improve How You Communicate by Leaps and Bounds,” we will publish a few leadership advice pieces that are featured throughout the book.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2022

A classic example is Harvard Business School academic Ranjay Gulati’s latest book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , which argues that when we tap into our passions and purpose we’re able to achieve things that might otherwise have completely overwhelmed us.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

Who wouldn’t want to pick up a book and glean the insights from those who have gone before us? Tallying up the books, the total came to 34 books read. Today, I want to share with you the books that impacted my life and a leadership lesson I took away from each book. Physical Books. Are you ready?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Four Advantages of Leveraging a Cross-Functional Team. Simon Teague of New Level Results contributed Well Being In The Workplace. ” Find Simon on Twitter at @ simonte. How could you create the conditions for constructive dialogue?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2018

Guest post from Glain Roberts-McCabe: This year, I published my first book. When I was trying to think of a book title, I reached out to our community of ambitious leaders for advice. We lose track of our higher purpose (our ‘why’ as Simon Sinek would say) and forget about the impact we can make on those around us.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. I continually dust off old chestnuts and reapply them for clients, in my books, through my speeches and in sharing with mentees. It’s all about evolving.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” -Simon Sinek. At 2pm EST I’Il be on Faces of Success Radio talking about David Dye’s and my upcoming book, Winning Well (click on the image to enlarge). Such circumstances can hurt or help your career. 6 Ways to Get Your Employees to See the Big Picture.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

After the publication of their first book, Extreme Ownership , many people latched on to the aggressive implications of the word “extreme” and missed the more nuanced balance that a leader must have. This Is Day One : A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters by Drew Dudley (Hachette Books, 2018) This is Day One is about choosing to lead.

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Decker Communication

MAY 1, 2019

You may have heard of it, but Simon Sinek’s TED talk and book, Start with Why , lay out how every successful business and every inspiring leader has a strong why behind what they do. As you navigate your career, start to develop your own personal brand story. Think of it as a value proposition.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! Book your place here!

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2015

Simon & Garfunkel. Be Content, Embrace The Difference Between Needs & Wants – We all have this ideal in our brains of how we want our career, our family and our life to go. Growing as a leader means more than attending conferences and reading books. Be Accepting, Listen Well – Even to the hard stuff.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it? Over the past few weeks I’ve been asking clients and other professionals their “why.” Many times it doesn’t seem clearly defined.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In it, Les reveals 10 books that made him think in 2010. Like Les’ list, these are the books that made me think the most this past year. Groysberg book expands on his original studies and reveals that star performance should most often be grown, not acquired. Leadership book review'

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog contributed Seven Ways To Sell Your Ideas to Management. In this post, she shared a recent book club review and connected that review with how to create more positive interactions at work. ” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys. Outsmart the competition by being an explainer.”

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet – Video Review Simon Young at iJump reviews my book “#QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project” and other books in Thinkaha Series. You can also watch this video at iJump TV website. RSS feed for comments on this post.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Is career development fostering engagement ? I am especially excited to hear Simon Sinek’s luncheon keynote “Start with Why.” ” This is the title of his bestselling book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, that followed his TEDx, “Talk about Why.”

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 30, 2018

I’ve been there with my career and this leadership blog. Do you remember the book Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek? My friend David Rendall has a book called Freak Factor. In his book, he talks about the weaknesses we see in ourselves and how we try to overcome our weaknesses.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 31, 2016

Many of these people have put their heart and soul into their dream and can be cut down in a one liner by Mr. Wonderful – the Simon Cowell of “Shark Tank.” You can learn more about whether or not you lead with psychological swagger by reading more on success in my new book, Simple is the New Smart. Rob Fazio, Ph.D.,

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CO2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Left-Siders by Simon Sinek ( blog ). When they are young in their careers, we walk out of meetings with them and think they are weirdos. When they are advanced in their careers, we walk out of meetings with them and think they are geniuses. ” - Simon Sinek. The world is a bell curve. You know who you are.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? But this post isn’t all about me and only my advice.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

History is replete with good lives and moderately successful careers blocked from greatness by well-disguised counterfeits. He is the author of two books published by Simon & Schuster and Wiley in 24 languages and over 50 countries. You can download a FREE copy of his latest book, “Catalyst”, at this link.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.) This means people feel “safe” offering different opinions, ideas, suggestions and, as outlined in the research and findings in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, engaging in “vigorous intellectual debate.” They are more engaged. instead of increasing it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In his book Start with Why?, Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. But first, ask yourself why you want to make a career out of your hobby? And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever!

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Coaching Tip

MAY 9, 2017

Simon Reynolds: Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them . When 'desire' surfaces, the others take the lead in the conversation while you provide the evidence necessary to justify the concept you are selling. .

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QAspire

JANUARY 31, 2010

Posts at QAspire Blog : I started 2010 blogging with a review of Nicholas Bate’s book Instant MBA. Clark is one of the finest books I have read on essence of leadership. I posted a review of the book. Simon Young at iJump posted a video review of my book #QUALITYtweet. I wrote earlier about “ toxic leadership ”.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. Jeroen De Flander helps you to improve your strategy execution skills in his new book, The Execution Shortcut.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 15, 2012

Simon Reynolds: Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them . When 'desire' surfaces, the others take the lead in the conversation while you provide the evidence necessary to justify the concept you are selling. .

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2015

Over the past decade or so, there have been numerous studies and books that have helped us to better appreciate the emotional nature of successful leadership, a fact that has helped to bring about a transformation in leadership attitudes from the old command-and-control approach to one that’s more outward-focused and collaborative.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Hess Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth—personally or organizationally—should read. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Best Leadership Books of 2012. Best Leadership Books of 2011. Blog Post ).

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 5, 2010

King’s been past his expiry date for a few years now (sorry, but when you’re interviewing guests and calling them by the wrong names or spending ¼ of your show pedaling your book, it’s time to go). and Piers Morgan got compared to the acid tongued Simon Cowell. Isn’t it time you took control of your career options? Great smile?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

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