Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. Detert defines workplace courage as “taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand for a principle, a cause, or a group of others, despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Raise your hand if you have ever experienced burnout during your career? In other words, these responses, whether they’re positive or negative, constructive, or destructive, worked to alleviate our stress. Question: The book's servant leadership teachings are particularly interesting. I sense many raised hands.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 2, 2023

They almost always involve the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power. And I have probably been guilty of many of these in my career. Listen to wisdom, even constructive criticism, but don’t fall victim to people who resist every change. This has always seemed like cowardly leadership to me.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 2, 2019

There are some things in leadership I could almost say I despise. Those things are almost always the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power – or the way other people respond to any attempt at good leadership. And I have probably been guilty of many of these in my career.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Trust is something that the highly successful leader constructs over time and then nurtures over the course of any relationship. Your relationships will be more rewarding, you will be better able to resist negative influences, and you will build self-respect. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Related articles.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. In most companies today, employees are under constant pressure to do more with less.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The ones who resist making those decisions – who won’t cannibalize their own hero product or won’t terminate the toxic star employee – tend to be insecure and driven by ego or other impure motives. The sooner we accept that fact, the happier we will be, and construct a life built upon a commitment to perpetual growth – and burning more boats!

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2016

Their default wiring might mean they are resistant to teaching or change because they don’t take constructive criticism seriously enough. “I want to learn from your feedback” image courtesy of Amy Kay Watson and Career Leadership Alignment. I was also wired to recover more slowly from those hard hits.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 30, 2020

Acknowledge your feelings and take constructive action for what’s within your control. Question : As we advance in our careers, the focus is less on us, and more about what we can do for others. Su : As we advance in our careers, the focus is less on us and begins to shift to being more about what we can do for others.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Employees simply must be able to make sense of and assign personal significance and meaning to the changes taking place, or their sense of certainty is compromised and they will resist the changes in the short term, and spiral downward in the longer term. Involve Them in the Construction of Change. Equip Them for Change. 1 Heine, S.J.,

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Acknowledge your feelings and take constructive action for what’s within your control. Question : As we advance in our careers, the focus is less on us, and more about what we can do for others. Su : As we advance in our careers, the focus is less on us and begins to shift to being more about what we can do for others.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

They tend to resist negative judgment. In theory, constructive feedback is supposed to “focus on the performance, not the person”. The items “provides developmental feedback in a timely manner” and “encourages and accepts constructive criticism” always score near the bottom on co-worker satisfaction with leaders.

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LDRLB

MARCH 7, 2011

Looking at the products and companies he has been involved with, It’s no surprise that his writing career would eventually lead to a book on how to enchant others. We’re focused on leadership, and luckily, Guy has some answers for us. Leadership book review kawasaki' Enchantment is just that.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

But, by all means, resist the temptation to simply take employees’ self-evaluation, change a few words and adopt it as your own. Consider employee career aspirations and include development plans. If the employee’s performance is generally good, include some elements that will help them progress toward the next step in their career.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2014

But, by all means, resist the temptation to simply take employees’ self-evaluation, change a few words and adopt it as your own. Consider employee career aspirations and include development plans. If the employee’s performance is generally good, include some elements that will help them progress toward the next step in their career.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. The findings contradicted many key assumptions within Lego, notably the preconception that girls were not really into construction games. Image Credit: Sergey Turkin.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2024

Ury, who has a storied career that includes co-authoring the seminal book Getting to Yes , which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, is also a co-founder of Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation. Leadership is not just about steering the ship but also about navigating the storms of conflict with a vision for peace and progress.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In fact, it may be met with resistance or rejected out of hand. The Frustration of Trying to Help Someone Who Resists It So, here’s the bigger problem… Even though they refuse help or are unwilling to embrace change, they still want all the trappings of success — despite the fact that it hasn’t been earned. Know your expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. Recent research does not support this idea.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Having said all that, I think it important to say too, that casual conversations can go from being constructive and helpful to divisive and destructive if you’re not careful. Resist, at all costs, any temptation to participate in idle gossip or rumour mongering. What is your experience with it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” “People will absolutely ask you” about why you originally resigned, so it’s wise to construct a narrative that answers their questions, Watkins says.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall. Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

An executive I work with recently stepped into the biggest challenge of her career. Resist the temptation to emotionally distance yourself. They were eager to offer their support, and even more eager to be seen as key players in the future she was constructing. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. From which stakeholders have you received the most resistance to your sustainability agenda? we have a responsibility to lead. We need both.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We have the benefit of rich data thanks to the more than seventy thousand individuals who have completed the Leadership Practices Inventory , our thirty-item behavioral assessment, over the years. The point of this tool is to help individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies and act on their discoveries.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. When you do sell, do it properly, and for the right reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” ’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. To resist the urge to self-censor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2018

Next, look beyond the simple stereotypes for clues as to why they might be challenging your leadership. If you feel resistance from them, instead of getting frustrated, try empathizing. It’s also possible that their resistance isn’t about your leadership at all. That’s not easy to accept.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

” Resist the urge to say something like “It’s not up to me” or “I can’t decide that,” which undermines your authority. “Don’t look angry, resistant, or irritated, even if you feel that way,” adds Dillon. “Think about the individual’s career trajectory.

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