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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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

So he was confident navigating the right turn at the bottom of the hill onto the street, like he’d done many times. On paper, it all works perfectly…but it gets messy when people show up. A group can slide into a relational or strategic snowdrift and, without help, and wind up spinning their wheels. Or so he thought.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Joel Answers: Let’s start by demystifying what leadership actually means. To many, leadership is an elusive role.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Bottom-line: There is no secret sauce. Don’t waste your time and energy trying to light a fire under flame-resistant people. So please, take it from me: no matter how incredibly smart you think you are, or how brilliant, disruptive or plain off-the-wall your new concept might be, every start-up team needs at least one good mentor.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. People get promoted for having good answers. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. How else could we think about this?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. People get promoted for having good answers. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. How else could we think about this?”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Ask questions because if you do what everyone else is doing, you will end up like everyone else. Losers brace for impact and wonder how to clean up the mess. You want energy. They gave it up. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Go back to the bottom and work your way up.” Insecurity.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 30, 2021

Your family takes time and energy to ensure that it is the healthiest and happiest relationship that it can be. Your workmates need the same time and energy to ensure that it is a healthy and functioning team. When a team is no longer functioning, it hurts the bottom line, the reputation of the company, and it can cripple a business.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JULY 10, 2020

We’ve worked with senior executives from all over the world at our Leadership at the Peak program. In this training, we help C-suite leaders become more “Fit to Lead” in every respect, including by focusing on the connection between health and leadership. 4 Components of Health and Leadership.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence and the Lead Change Group , is a monthly publication of thought leadership from some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership. Check out Top Gun Rules and follow Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership. Team Building. Follow Henry on Twitter.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. The Leadership File And The Spreadsheet Assassin. I had a precious few hours without phone calls or meetings to catch up on some paperwork.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 12, 2018

Every organization needs strong leadership at the top—but that’s not enough. When you have people with leadership potential in roles where they can make important decisions, achieve goals, reach targets and feed the bottom line, you’ll have a thriving and strong organization. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Communicate often.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 13, 2023

Leading a team can be a challenging task, especially when that team is made up of individuals with a mix of personality types. While these terms are often used to describe how people interact with the world around them, they can also have a significant impact on how people respond to leadership and communication styles.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

In reflecting on my 18 years as a professional resource in strategy, culture and leadership, I want to share 10 exceptional strategies executives can follow and implement to help survive the challenges of growing a healthy and sustainable organization: Have a good partner. Lock up a good partner who thrives on being the best no.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 21, 2022

Welcome to my round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: 10 Failproof Employee Engagement Ideas By Roxi Bahar Hewertson via SHRM ( @SHRM ) Employee engagement should be top of mind for every leader and communicator.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. ” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment. I wanted to talk about leadership. This is where I’m going!!” “Will you follow me??”

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In a seven-year study, Tabrizi found that companies that focus their energy on building a supportive, purpose-driven culture that keeps people on edge, and boldly adapts to new environments are the companies that truly excel. And now he’s written, Going on the Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2016

As I pulled up to Sam’s office, I knew he’d be unhappy with my recommendation–which involved a serious look in the mirror at his own leadership behaviors. ” “Sam, I’ve got a whole list of something elses–actions that I know will improve the bottom line. And then shut up.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This lack of understanding about engagement — enthusiasm, effort and enjoyment at work — will eventually affect the bottom line and make the leader look ineffective. They feel employees’ enthusiasm and energy — or lack thereof — and recognize the bad results of an organization with overall morale problems. Employee engagement matters.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As the son of such a man myself, I can imagine the energy—and family support—it took to accomplish what Irineu did. According to a retrospective on his life published in The Independent , Marinho “insisted on working his way up from the bottom, learning all aspects of the business.” Moreover, he was humble about it.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leadership is Contagious. How you interact with others, how you show up, how you operate all impact others around you. Your self-care is your superpower, cultivate the heck out of it – love yourself up.” You can also work your way backwards: not getting the result you wish, which component can you love up?

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Power Self-aware Leadership Energy 87

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. Typically, Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 26, 2022

Amp It Up , by Frank Slootman , shows you how to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. The bottom line is that great execution can make a moderately successful strategy go a long way, but poor execution will fail even the most brilliant strategy. Your company organization should run on influence, not rank and title.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Sylvia Lafair, PhD, is the President of Creative Energy Options (CEO). The post 055: How Pattern-Aware Leadership Drives Change | with Sylvia Lafair, PhD appeared first on Engaging Leader. Sylvia Lafair, PhD, is the President of Creative Energy Options (CEO). Engaging Leader™ Self-leadership Team leadership'

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

They want to resume regularly walking the floors, surrounded by the energy of staff working. What about the specific challenges these resistant leaders brought up related to working from home, ranging from burnout to deteriorating culture and so on? The post How Come So Many Smart Leaders Screw Up the Return to the Office?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. ” Values-based leadership. . ” Values-based leadership. An overwhelming 77.5% Local partnerships. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. Yet over the years I have learned that leadership culture has changed. Among respondents in more senior roles, the percentage shot up to 88 percent.¹.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Business Sergeant’s Field Manual: Military Grade Business Execution Without the Yelling and Push-ups. If we all have a shared vision that we’re moving towards together, a healthy leadership team will be able to call each other out without anyone taking it personally. Ranked #9 on Inc.’s

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QAspire

MARCH 11, 2014

Supervisors commanded and controlled others and leadership was often equated with “taking power”. Mary Parker Follett defined management as “ the art of getting things done through people ” and collaborative leadership embodies and extends this belief. When required, they collaborated in person.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Leadership of Grace. . John Baldoni is one of the world’s prominent experts on leadership. He is one of the most generous, kind, and intelligent leadership coaches and teachers that I have met. You’re one of my go-to experts on all things: leadership with countless books, articles, and videos for those at any level.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? There's a sea of poor advice to wade through looking for those leadership pearls of wisdom , especially with the popularity of blogging and the ease of self-publishing. Leadership books aren't a magic cure-all that turns you into a great leader overnight.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Done right, “no” can help you build better relationships and free you up to do the things that are important to you. Trying to say yes to everything is likely to leave you trapped with no time or energy for yourself–and unable to give your best to any of your commitments. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. Here’s another thing we all know: Because our people are free moral agents, they will not robotically assent and bring their energy to bear on the situation. It stats with leadership.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army leaders would stack up against industry leaders.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman. Connection.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 108

Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

When procrastination sets in and things start to pile up, it’s time to commit to a change. If anything is going to happen, it is up to you. The timing is up to you too, so choose to make it happen now. Success comes to those who have positive energy. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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