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How to Carve Out a Great Team Culture in a Fast Growing, Changing Company?

Let's Grow Leaders

Team Culture: Create real clarity — get surgical about what you’re really asking people to do Create clarity and get surgically specific about the MIT (most important thing – one of our 6 core competencies of leadership ). Be sure your team has a shared understanding of what success looks like.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Key here is to figure out what are the core competencies of the organization — those that can’t be let go without it ceasing to be a viable enterprise. Sometimes, however, an organization discover a core competence after it has outsourced it. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. Structuring in Sevens.

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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success

Let's Grow Leaders

And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) There are several areas of your leadership and work where you can invest to give yourself the best chance at that bigger responsibility: your knowledge and wisdom, the results you achieve now, relationships you build, and opportunities to speak up.

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Book Review: Managing the Millennials

LDRLB

Leading/managing Millennials is fast becoming a lucrative niche-field for writers and consultants to help companies with. Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja and Craig Rusch wrote “ Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today’s Workforce ” and in my opinion, it’s one of the best books on the subject.

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3 Strategies to Prepare Your Millennials for Their Leadership Roles

Leading Blog

M ANY EXPERIENCED LEADERS predict a skill and experience crisis at the management level due to the vast numbers of retiring Baby Boomers. Consider these three action steps as you prioritize Millennial leadership development. And, is there something I care deeply about all the time at a core level?”

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Values are Worthless Without These Four Things

Great Leadership By Dan

Without a focus in your values, a clear definition of each value, and integrating your values into your hiring and performance management system, your values will remain hollow words. One technique I recommend is from the book Traction , by Gino Wickman. Too often I see managers focused on goals and results i.e. what needs to get done.

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Transcending Skill (A Mastering Leadership Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. In his book, Playing to Win, Larry Wilson distinguished between two games.

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