Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I guess you could say that I think it’s important for managers to learn and use coaching skills as part of their leadership tool kit. Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”. Like a lot of things in life and in leadership, coaching others well isn’t easy and it isn’t quick.

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Thin Difference

JULY 30, 2019

I’ve read some great books on parenting strategy. But at the end of the day, a screaming four year old who refuses to follow calmly communicated instructions has a way of demolishing hours and hours of book reading and parenting strategy. The Snare of Short-Term Results. That one is definitely correct. I asked politely.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

He has written at least a dozen books on leadership that I am aware of. The Power of Positive Leadership summarizes much of his thinking and provides a great introduction to all of his other work. Positive leadership is grounded in reality. Positive leadership is not about fake positivity.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He did both. It is a process.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Welcome to the October 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. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture shared Engage in Change. Communication.

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CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

2 - Have a list of "instant" tasks and small items that can be knocked off when you have a few moments. ++ On the weekend, I read Profit from the Positive - Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business by Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin. It is a positive book that serves as a valuable reminder.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 14, 2016

Gwynne’s book jacket endorsement of Sebastian Junger’s newest book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. As one who has written more than his fair share of book blurbs, I can attest that when it comes to insight I typically look inside a book rather than to its back jacket. Not bad advice from a book jacket.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. The technical term for this cognitive process is asymmetric effect with a negative bias. This doesn’t just happen.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

This is a guest post by best-selling author and speaker, Jon Gordon about the value of developing positive relationships with the people you lead. I’ve had many managers approach me and tell me that my books helped them realize they needed to focus less on rules and invest more in their work relationships. You are a hiker.”

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

In tangible terms, a project initially forecast to span 70 years and cost taxpayers $36 billion was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $29 billion dollars under budget.a It was nothing short of altering awful to astonishing. Now I know the definitions and variations of leadership abound.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 13, 2010

Exchanging the negative habits for the positive ones Unlike these task habits, you may have behavioral habits that require your awareness and action in order to help you to become the best leader that you can be. The next step is to actively work to replace those negative behavioral habits with some positive ones.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

The decision to become an entrepreneur comes with many responsibilities, challenges, and positive or negative financial consequences, depending on how well your planning and execution did. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership. This strategy can be implemented by storytelling.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When it comes to improving the way we lead, there’s a number of approaches that have been championed by both leadership experts and researchers looking into understanding what makes someone a successful leader. One example of this is the idea that we need to be “more authentic” in our leadership.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. After reading the book, I reached out to the authors to talk more about their work and findings. . The Infinite Leader.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 30, 2020

If you’re rating the strength of your network by the number of friends you have on social media, it’s time for a lesson in leadership networking. Leadership networking is about developing and using your networks in a way that builds relationships and strengthens alliances in service of your organization’s work and goals.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. It actually builds on the ideas and thinking presented in his classic book written with Bob Sutton, The Knowing Doing Gap over a decade ago. It’s not surprising that students of leadership often become disillusioned upon entering the workplace.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. Social mastery needs some elaboration: It has to do with competency in terms of being able to anticipate others’ behavior, reacting appropriately to this behavior and the ability to influence others.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

1:24 Jim shares about his book and how it’s important not to only know and have the tools for effective leadership, but how at work to use them. 5:30 Jim shares about a study done with some of his students about people they admire for short and long term. ” Also, think about longer-term horizons.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. They are letting short-term financial objectives become the North Star in an effort to keep the lights on. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 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. Eileen McDargh contributed Cracking the Leadership Code: The Secret to Resilient Leaders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership probably isn’t for you. While it might help in the short-term, the pursuit of approval is a guarantee of long-term failure. In life, but especially in leadership positions, we all face fears. Prepare to be Hated. Conquer Your Fears.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

According to Joseph Grenny, author of the book Crucial Conversations , one of the costliest barriers to organization performance is unresolved crucial conversations. Avoidance is the best short-term strategy to escape conflict, and the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering.” — Brendon Burchard . Conflict Avoiders.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

T HE BOTTOM LINE is that there is no “good leadership” without ethical thinking. The thinking that powers leadership choices must be grounded in ethical values or the impact on important constituents will be overlooked. This book helps leaders “see” the ethical impact of their choices through 7 Lenses of Ethical Responsibility.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Your communication will be limited because you don’t want to give an advantage to the other side by providing information; your actions will continuously favor your side, your flexibility in being able to shift from your positions to needs will diminish, and you won’t be building trust. You’ll win, and the other party will lose.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

Variations on that theme were common reasons shared by a group of “corporate refugees,” people sharing why we’d left the economic security of executive positions for the freedom (and economic insecurity) of freelance work. People didn’t buy 62 million books on how to improve the bottom line.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

” At a time when leadership was often an aspiration of those who wanted recognition and power, Greenleaf’s ideas were revolutionary. Servant leadership is more relevant and applicable than ever. Think of the following ideas as primary but not exhaustive, and feel free to share your insights about servant leadership. 1.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

T AKING ON A POSITION of leadership comes with assuming risk, encountering organizational challenges, and being a moral role model for an organization. Three attributes that are critical to taking on the mantle of leadership are decision-making, resiliency, and character. Character is the foundation of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. While things didn’t always work out in the short-term the way they hoped, in the long-term they were successful. But inspirational leadership goes deeper.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

By overlooking this crucial step, teams may only address the symptoms of the problem, leading to ineffective or short-term solutions Successful team leaders look beyond symptoms and define problems clearly before seeking solutions.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 30, 2017

From growing a successful start-up, to writing a book and speaking internationally about workplace culture, to making a solid attempt at being a decent wife and mother of three kids; I require an enormous amount of mental bandwidth. Take two minutes as you walk into work and analyze it with a filter of positivity. The P.E.R.S.I.S.T.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

As of this writing it had been read more than 260,000 times, had more than 5,000 Facebook shares, and more than 3,000 ReTweets – it clearly struck a chord with the leadership community. The magnitude of this crisis can range from a distorted, diluted, destructive, and in some cases deranged form of what they inaccurately define as leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. Social mastery needs some elaboration: It has to do with competency in terms of being able to anticipate others’ behavior, reacting appropriately to this behavior and the ability to influence others.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2024

“Walk past any airport bookstore and you’ll find countless books about what it means to be a leader or a CEO, or how to nail your first 90 days as a general executive,” says author Ty Wiggins. These 10 components inform the chapters within the book. Get the message right: what you say, and how you say it, sets the whole tone.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 4, 2023

Today's FLASHBACK to earlier in the year: It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, we’ve worked with a lot of CEOs and others in senior leadership positions, and I’m often asked what the very best corporate leaders have in common when building their teams. They’re basically in damage control mode, focused only on the short term. The following is a guest piece by CEO David Mattson.

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