Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 11, 2019

In business, today we seem to focus more on the exciting parts of our work—innovation and creativity—and less on the day-to-day requirements of leadership. Manage conflict. When there is conflict—and there is always conflict—make sure not to ignore it but to address it and manage it. People look up to leaders.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. As I travel the country, I find one consistent theme: most executives, managers, and employees are “unaimed,” meaning they don’t know their company’s top goals or how they contribute to those goals.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2024

In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It comes up with answers. It innovates.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Ryan Gottfredson has created a comprehensive and research-based guide, Success Mindsets, that is designed to awaken readers to: the power of mindsets, the four mindsets they need to have to be successful, and the mindsets they currently possess through personal mindset assessment. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. Control is about power – not leadership. Surrender: fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibilities. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We have all heard the saying that “knowledge is power&# we’ve all also heard the refinement of that saying which states that “the application of knowledge is power&#. Whatever toolset you select must be easy to use so that it is viewed by employees as something that makes their job easier, not more difficult.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager. These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. They understand that “we” is more powerful than “me.”

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It’s a structure that stifles creativity, innovation and motivation. Many companies can’t properly manage their resources or their people. Do what you can within your own team to make sure resources and people are well managed. At the bottom line, building a great team requires strategy. Lack of resources and talent.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. This includes understanding market trends, anticipating risks, and crafting effective risk management strategies.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2019

That’s brand management in many companies. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture. Imagine your high-performance workplace with a powerful, high-trust culture aligned with brand management. That culture ripples out from the leaders.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. That’s a decision for the higher-ups.” Challenging these clichés requires strategies that recognize their power and actively counteract their suppressive nature. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2023

This approach can improve communication, enable agility, and foster innovation. Additionally, it can help organizations tap into more talent and foster collaboration and innovation. Flattening Organizations: Flattening structures is a popular trend among many industries. It involves reducing hierarchy and empowering employees.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Encourage stepping out of the box: Creativity and innovation are essential for any business to succeed. As a leader, this means encouraging your employees to think creatively and come up with new ideas by providing them with the tools and resources they need to explore different solutions and approaches.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When leaders give up their perceptions of power and start focusing on the greater good, a culture of collaboration is born. It’s a mindset that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation—all of which lead to a healthy bottom line. Collaboration is an integral part of an organization’s culture.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 1, 2023

In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It comes up with answers. It innovates.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Human resource departments are instilling D&I training for hiring managers and discussing their role in hiring diverse employees and creating a culture of inclusion. The second step is up to companies – companies also need to focus on retaining diverse talent, which can be difficult.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It comes up with answers. It innovates.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Creating good jobs In The Case for Good Jobs , MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton suggests this should be the wake-up call employers need to ensure that they’re providing good jobs to people so that they’re both better able to attract but also retain the people they will be increasingly hard-pressed to recruit.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. So, what if you created a collection of powerful YouTube videos on your area everyone could not wait to see?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 10, 2020

Doing so also provides us with insight into how we can adjust our own communication styles to be more effective, and it helps us get to the bottom of why we seem to butt heads with certain people, while having better synergy with others. What tasks make them light up?”. ” -Alissa Carpenter. What energizes them?”.

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LDRLB

JULY 21, 2014

As an educator, Dean is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. In this interview, we discuss how to leverage the entire organization and benefit from the power of bottom-up ideas. Innovation Leadership burkus innovation Podcast schroeder'

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2019

His employer went through substantial changes during the year—new ownership, new management team, new way of leading—and now wants leaders who are multi-dimensional. In these right-versus-wrong-hurry-up-and-get-things-done days, curiosity has fallen into disuse. Maintain the best of the old while embracing innovation.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 10, 2018

For larger and mature companies, the hard part seems to be giving up the familiar space that isn’t working so well anymore, so that you can focus on a new segment or opportunity. Bell, an experienced business expert, who highlights the power of strategic sacrifice in today’s complex business world.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. In a study by PwC, 72% of business leaders said AI can enable workers to focus on meaningful work , while 34% of business leaders said AI can help free up time for more meaningful, valuable work.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. Control is about power – not leadership. Surrender fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibility. ” Thoughts?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2022

In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It comes up with answers. It innovates.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It’s also noticeable that in Google’s famous Project Oxygen a few years ago, they found that of the eight skills associated with Google employees’ jobs, STEM skills were bottom of the pile in terms of importance. Supporting innovation.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

There are no quick fixes; it takes hard work and the refusal to give up. Here are some powerful things you can do. Avoid power trips. Now that you’ve earned your place as a leader, it’s easy to let the power get to you. Show others what’s most important to you by identifying the priority areas to improve the bottom line.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 5, 2018

Improving quality and safety requires a mindset that acknowledges the necessity of day-to-day continuous effort and realizes that losing focus is all that is required for mistakes and accidents to pop up like weeds. The Bottom Line. Theory C: A New Theory of Management. Teams must work together to maximize quality and safety.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

Guest post from Kathy Kolbe: “I’m a strategist,” Hank tells his management team. We’ve worked with four-star generals who describe their leadership method this way: “I give my people the bottom line of what’s gotta happen. He also knew when and how to count on the traditionalists on his management team.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Collaborative leaders create communities where people unite around a common purpose and values, working collaboratively to accomplish a shared vision that makes a powerful and positive impact. They also flatten compensation structures so the difference in pay-scale between the top and bottom is not astronomical. How do they do this?

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Nowhere is this exchange more evident than in the data annotation industry, where people from around the world help to prepare and tidy up the data used by the tech giants to train the algorithms upon which their fortunes increasingly rest. The hidden bedrock of AI. As such employees often have career opportunities within the company.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

This comment was interesting regarding our need to tolerate ambiguity: Being in clarity allows space where we wait for what we don’t quite understand to emerge, which keeps energy available and flowing rather than being boxed in, covered up, or mistakenly shelved through what’s already known. Direction: What are our values? Why do we exist?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity.

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