Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. Going on Offense analyzes these cases and offers a practical playbook for companies and individuals looking to transform into a winning mindset.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! of Germane Consulting submitted How To Define Your Company Purpose. She shares: “This is the first of a two-part series on defining company purpose and vision. Follow MAPping Company Success on Twitter @OptionSanity. Anne Perschel, Ph.D. ,

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 6, 2015

There are four main reasons my MBA students give me for wanting to work for the big guys versus a smaller company: prestige, salary/benefits, room for upward mobility, and security. When I ask these candidates, “Why would you consider leaving (insert prestigious, high-paying, great benefits, relatively secure company name here)?”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

They need to develop managers and executives who lead with three core mental qualities: mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion. Is the displacement of early pioneering companies an inevitable fate in the modern economy? Yet leadership education, training, and development still fall far short. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Companies that fail to invest stagnate and fall behind. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

In Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek shares an insight he learned from Bob Chapman , Chairman and CEO of the Barry-Wehmiller Companies. Those parents then hand their children over to a company with the hope the leaders of that company will exercise the same love and care as they have. “It By offering them trust and empathy.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Just as I am writing this, I get notified of a new post from my friend Simon Terry who shares the theme of going with the flow and writes: Water flows and always finds its level. – Simon Terry. Conducted immersive visual thinking workshops in independent cohorts as well as within organizational context. “Of

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. How do we treat our customers?

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

– Simon Terry That sums it up perfectly. Conducted immersive visual thinking workshops in independent cohorts as well as within organizational context. “Of It’s the same way our dreams and desires push us along even when the circumstances are against us. We merely choose how we arrive there. Over to 2022 – Wishing you a glorious one!

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2022

A classic example is Harvard Business School academic Ranjay Gulati’s latest book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , which argues that when we tap into our passions and purpose we’re able to achieve things that might otherwise have completely overwhelmed us.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? You can learn more in FE News.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. What we start out as is different from what we progress into, both for companies and individuals. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. Resources being developed. It’s all about evolving.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2013

And often instead of saying hello to "Yes", we find "No" at the front of the line offering personnel conflicts, career disappointments and project derailments. For more information please visit [link] and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. All of the following titles cover an aspect of this need. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. It’s why the business exists.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Sarah is the former President and CEO of a wonderful company, Bottom Line Inc., With the sale of the company, she is now devoting her time to her passion — helping people feel and be their best. With the sale of the company, she is now devoting her time to her passion — helping people feel and be their best.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” While most companies explain that they make great products, Apple is unique in that they begin by telling the consumer “ why ” they make their products. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Many times it doesn’t seem clearly defined.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

“My job as a leader is to make sure that everybody in the company has great opportunities and they feel they are having meaningful impact to the good of society.” “You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good its people. ” –Simon Sinek. ” — Larry Page, Google.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Is career development fostering engagement ? She’s assembled a stellar line up of top experts and panelists from award-winning companies. I am especially excited to hear Simon Sinek’s luncheon keynote “Start with Why.” Simon’s inspiring keynote will get to the very heart of leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

People flirt with excessive arrogance or insecurity every so often, but rarely let either develop into full blown romance. History is replete with good lives and moderately successful careers blocked from greatness by well-disguised counterfeits. These patterns occurred, but were too extreme to be common.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. But first, ask yourself why you want to make a career out of your hobby? When you are your own company, you’re the source of your own success; make sure the journey is worth it. Your ‘Why’ Should Not Be Because You Hate Commuting. In his book Start with Why?, Conclusion.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. A Successful Career is a Marathon. Ideas to Grow Your Brand. Lidell, Buchanan.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. And an organization needs more heroes and fewer tourists, won’t you agree? Inflate budgets.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

To succeed, a leader must learn to balance their relationships, time, strategic efforts and personal development. Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders. Leaders are developed!

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 10, 2011

Instead we had Anne-Marie Renaud (VP Operations for Pepsico Foods Canada); Simon Jennings (President, Olive Media) and Jerome Dwight (former President & CEO of BNY Trust Company of Canada, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon). Always keep learning and growing. The real skills that get you promoted?… it’s all about strategy, baby.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. He had turned around private and public companies, quadrupled profits and quintupled revenue. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

Executive onboarding coaching (of the newly recruited or promoted executive can turnaround this high rate of failure) by helping the newly promoted or recruited executive develop the interpersonal skills necessary to succeed at the next level. Delivering a need-surfacing opening question like, "How well is _ working for your company?,"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

"Gut," replied Carnival CEO, Micky Arison , when I quizzed him, while interviewing him for a research project on CEO decision making, on how he arrived at the most important and fruitful decision of his career: the $5.45 He knows his own company inside and out and it accounts for half of the world's cruise ship business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples. But that would be a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Encouraged by evangelists like Simon Sinek , myriad firms like Nike, Adidas, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola are devoting real time and attention to explaining why they do. Ganz has developed a simple framework for those hoping to develop a narrative approach to their purpose-driven organizations: “ Self, Us, Now.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

” -Carly Simon. His career is marked by consistently helping individuals and teams and his company do better. Social engineering was developed in response to racial inequities in the justice system. Who is your favorite role model and which of the 7 roles do you think they exhibit particularly well? Translators.

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