Career Advancement

JUNE 10, 2019

Joyce, a manager at a fast-growing IT firm, had been tasked with finding the perfect motivational speaker for her company’s training seminar. If, like Joyce, you’re wondering how to book the right motivational speaker, you’re not alone. Locating and booking a speaker can be overwhelming. Gina Greenlee.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : There’s a LOT of advice out there on leadership and management – almost as much as you’ll find on dating, careers, and how to raise your kids. However, I’d recommend running away as far as you can from the following pearls of leadership & management wisdom: 1.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the past month, I’ve been running two or three online sessions a week with groups of leaders to provide them with some reference points and space to think about how to lead in our current environment. Leadership is always challenging. It’s more so during a pandemic when work routines and business plans are completely disrupted.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2017

These are all reference books, and a reference book is only used when you need to use it as a source to make a point. The definition reads, “ a book intended to be consulted for information on specific matters rather than read from beginning to end. As a book of inspiration to post on social media.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2018

With employee disengagement remaining at very high levels in America and globally, and growth in significant new scientific findings that shed light on conditions necessary for human flourishing, it’s time to reconsider management theory and our approach to maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations. Now is the Time.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Welcome to the May 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Steve DiGioia contributed Every Great Leader Has an Experience Book. Communication.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Max McKeown has created a strategy reference work – The Strategy Book – to guide you to the answers. The Strategy Toolkit at the end of the book is not just another nice add-on. It is worth as much as the rest of the book. Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2023

If you’re an HR professional looking to enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, or stay up-to-date with the latest trends in the field, reading the best HR books is an excellent way to achieve your goals. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned HR manager, these books are must-reads that will empower you to excel in your role.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If this premise and the figures above are accepted it would suggest that only 10% of team leaders are high performing, enabling their teams, whilst 40% of leaders are failing in their leadership tasks, whilst the remaining 50% are barely holding in there! This is what is referred to as the inverted hierarchy. Sounds complicated?

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The concept of referent group can be a useful tool for understanding many differences in organizations, both on a global and local scale. A referent group can be defined as any group that people see as a source for their identity. Our referent groups define a large part of who we are. This may vary with age.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. In them he makes a compelling case that most leadership training has failed to produce effective leaders and that the poor state of the vast majority of workplace cultures today is harming the health of people. Below I explain why.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 20, 2012

Every leader should have immediate access to these two leadership references guides by placing them on their office bookcase and downloading them to their laptop, tablet, eReader, or smartphone. . One of the primary tasks of leadership is to get results--ideally, exceptional results. Turnarounds: Early Stage and Rebirths.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2020

In the context of my new book, Influencers & Revolutionaries , the issues concerned have been epitomised by Greta Thunberg’s call for systematic change in her speeches at the UN, and via the global protests organised by the Extinction Rebellion movement.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is an excerpt from Management Productivity Multipliers by Gerald Kraines, MD. Where Managerial Leadership Begins. This is the backdrop for understanding the purpose and role of managerial leadership: setting direction (i.e., “Leadership at its core is about exerting leverage.” to execute on that goal.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. His new book is Building a Better Organization.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Lead Change Group has always been about instigating a personal, individual leadership revolution. You volunteer your leadership. He has years of real-life experience as a boss, and references to back it up. He’s also a writer, coach and consultant on management and leadership. Look at them, not a screen.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 2024

Forbes named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. The vast majority of activities referred to as strategy are actually planning. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2022

Forbes recently named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. The vast majority of activities referred to as strategy are actually planning. Question: What is the most important thing you hope readers will take away from your book?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Ronni Hendel of Insight Out Leadership shared The Doing and Being of Difficult Conversations. Communication.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2014

Tim Irwin says “leadership failures rarely reflect a problem with the leader’s competence. Great leadership is not a technique. Management is positional; leadership is personal.”. Successful leadership depends on growing and protecting our core. This is not surprising because we lead from our core.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2023

Forbes named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. The vast majority of activities referred to as strategy are actually planning. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 19, 2019

When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. Once uncovered it can be managed in some way. Leadership Blindspots has a Leadership Blindspot Survey in the appendix of the book. Personal Development'

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Successful management is the result of understanding and accepting your own humanity. In a 2012 study of 361 top-level executives from 53 countries, by the Center of Creative Leadership, 19% of respondents stated that leaders are born to lead, while 52% believed that leaders are created; 29% said that both factors are equally important.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The book has been around for about ten years and it’s become a go to resource for anyone charged with developing senior leaders. In the video review, I walk through the simple yet resonant model of career path transitions that the authors Charan, Drotter and Noel outline in the book. Your comment has not yet been posted. Click Here.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Fortunately, Marc Effron and Miriam Ort are here to save us from ourselves with their book, One Page Talent Management. I like their book a lot because their process of applying some basic design principles to common processes is one that has application far beyond the realm of talent management and human resources.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 21, 2018

Whether at the helm of a digital startup, a management consultancy, a dental group, or an insurance agency, no business leader can afford to remain complacent or, worse, passive. In VIOLENT LEADERSHIP , Middleton shares his aggressive leadership style for our turbulent times. Cultural diversity. Political policies and mandates.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 12, 2014

It is mindset and beliefs , as much as skills, which differentiate great leaders from merely good managers. Leadership reference guides give you a framework for observing and learning from the experiences you go through. These handbooks are to be used to create your own leadership DNA. Leadership Development Paradox.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

I just completed a wonderful new guide for managers and leaders titled Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results — Without Losing Your Soul by two friends from Lead Change, Karin Hurt and David Dye. Karin and David are accomplished leaders, speakers and authors and were before already accomplished having written the book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to the same study , expenditures on leadership development programs have decreased by about 10%. Leadership development is the most ignored aspect for several reasons. Organizations in the United States spend over $170 billion on leadership based-training programs, but those funds are not utilized to their full potential.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Greg McKeown most famously wrote about priority in his book Essentialism. But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. His leadership team identified customer service as the senior leadership team’s—and therefore the division’s—top priority.

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HR Digest

APRIL 26, 2021

As far as possible, extend a helping hand in giving a fair reference, severance pay if eligible, some leads, or possible openings that you are aware of. However badly a team member performs, he or she needs a face-to-face interview with the manager or supervisor. This avoidance and bad management. are answered.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2014

When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book.

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