Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Now she found herself at an interesting juncture in her career: She was thriving in her role, and she felt certain that new opportunities were bound to open up soon. Applying the PVI Model in Your Career. ” ~ Ken Blanchard.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 15, 2014

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Several years ago I was working with a business owner who had become stuck because of the way the company structure was set up. Time ticked away and they started to loose their competitive advantage. Beth Armknecht Miller career advice coaching'

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Lead from Within

APRIL 6, 2023

Lead From Within: Leaders need to accept that by attracting and retaining a strong team of employees it gives that company a key competitive advantage—your people are an asset your competition does not have. #1 But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Has this been useful?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. So let’s say you’ve won over a CEO and the executive team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. Learn more at MarilynGist.com. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If we can harness the untapped potential buried deep within the hearts of our people, we can turn engagement from a liability into real, sustainable competitive advantage and usher in gains in productivity unseen since the industrial revolution! Mark started his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member back in 1977.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

She shared that she was given the option of working with an executive coach when she became a supervisor at Mayo Clinic. Later, when she moved to another healthcare organization that didn’t provide executive coaching, she hired her own coach out of her pocket and continued to work on her leadership practices, including in the operating room.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. Five Frequencies prescribes more than 20 practical Signal Boosts for turning culture into competitive advantage. 5 Leadership Frequencies. 5 Leadership Frequencies.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. The HR Digest: What’s the key lesson you want HR Leaders to take away from your work?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

He wanted to make a change and ignite a new career fueled by passion. If you’re looking at starting or restarting a career, here are some things to keep in mind: Passion can change. Focus your career on something that will give you a comfortable level of stability or make a difference in the world–or both.

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Sports Competitive Advantage Career Follow-up 122

Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. Evaluative people can execute and sustain ventures. Former Disney Parks and Resorts executive, Lee Cockerell, often says that feedback is a gift. Losing this is essentially losing one of the company’s most sacred competitive advantages.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

Being known as an organization where the best people want to work isn’t just an HR issue—it brings a serious competitive advantage when the best people want to be part of your team. They fall into six critical areas: Great leadership. When you get leadership right, you get the right people. Great jobs.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 26, 2018

Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. With this playbook, the authors aim to help executives deploy human capital as effectively as they deploy financial capital. Energize the board. Reinvent HR.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. The same is true of some executives.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years. Our employees embraced our values and so too did our executive leadership. Change is inevitable in any company.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink. Jennifer V.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It's easy for executives to get caught up with meeting targets and lose sight of the leadership skills they need to motivate teams. Source: Leading with Edge: Activate Your Competitive Advantage Through Personal Insight. In the new book, LEADING WITH EDGE , author Jose R. Modeling and driving expectations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Over my career I’ve seen this scenario several times. Her leadership helped save it. Stated another way, these leadership behaviors create a team that pulls together and protects the culture from spiraling down into a dog-eat-dog environment. Mulcahy spent her career at Xerox and had the credibility to communicate this message.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. Young women today are entering the workforce better prepared and more ambitious than ever, with more education and higher career aspirations than men. Rethinking Leadership. When McKinsey & Co.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. All slogans and no action. Temptation of instant gratification.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Negative thinkers have a competitive advantage in the face of difficulties. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Power Competitive Advantage Planning Succession 136

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

It’s hard to find an executive who doesn’t believe that his or her people are significant assets and a competitive advantage for the company. 2,500+ Expert Contributor management and leadership articles. Why then are so few employees involved in the strategic planning process?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2012

Is it the ability to recognize sources of sustainable competitive advantage? And then, drive execution accordingly? Rather, succession planning and talent management must pertain to all leadership levels. Without talent management at all leadership levels, it is virtually impossible to have a meaningful succession plan.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Those are: Lukewarm leadership buy-in. All slogans and no action. Temptation of instant gratification.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. Before we asked employees for their input, the executive team had agreed to address whatever issues were reported as high priorities, and they did. Yes, there are so many. 3) Deliver what employees want.

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Women on Business

JUNE 2, 2011

I gave a presentation yesterday to the Executive Women’s Roundtable in Northern Virginia titled, “Using The Art of War to Find Your Competitive Advantage.” She looked me squarely in the eyes and said something she either was realizing for the first time, or had just come to terms with: “I think that sums up my entire career.”.

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Strategic Planners, at the outset, are disadvantaged by the definition of their role.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 16, 2014

Cash flow, receivables, intellectual property, brands, careers everything flows from the idea. Recent studies on leadership have found that the #1 ranked, most valued skill in leaders is strategic thinking. . Elevate shows executives how to combine strategy and innovation to form a truly competitive advantage.".

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