Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Art summarizes: “ The road to career success runs through a nearly endless string of challenging conversations. Creativity/Inspiration.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2022

In true movie fashion, George joyfully returns to his real life, and grateful friends and family resolve the financial crisis. “What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn’t just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

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 He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ).

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

A cultural lobotomy' is a term that authors Sue Bradley and Mike Fitzsimons use to describe a process that encourages us to become either logical or creative but not both. Mass production depends on and values the logical and managerial, as opposed to the creative and emotional capabilities of our brain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

The Center for Creative Leadership is known for its “ 70-20-10 ” model of leadership development. What training staff was left was charged with trying to convince the remaining employees that the company 40 hour training commitment was really a 40 hour development commitment. But so is training.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

He writes in business, tech, and fashion as well as creative fiction. Don’t be afraid of what’s going to happen if it turns out that there’s a major problem; the sooner the better and the easier to help. About the Author. Russell Ridgeway is an American writer based in Budapest, Hungary.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you are the owner of a women’s clothing line or the Editor in Chief of a woman’s fashion publication and you are interested in getting on The Early Show to discuss spring and summer fashion trends, tailor your pitch to meet the news of that specific audience – (educated, sophisticated, female oriented).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Try smiling more often — it takes less muscles and studies have shown that it makes you feel happier and gets the happy hormones flowing!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Stephen Curry has built his NBA career on taking shots that others don’t: three-pointers from a crazy distance. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. However, many people don’t know what assuming market risk looks like when applied to their career. Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." is a leadership, career, and marketing expert and coach.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Labeling something as Best Practices is not a substitute for wisdom, discernment, discretion, subject matter expertise, intellect, creativity or any of the other qualities I value in an advisor. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

Early in my career I worked for a company where the CEO loved to have meetings. Creativity and innovation are stimulated by structure, not stifled by it. You should have the discipline to use your facilities in an uninterrupted fashion. Meetings were held ad-nauseum about virtually every topic under the sun.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

At some point in your career, you will be asking for a letter of recommendation. If you’re just getting into the career world, you can ask a professor, but keep in mind that if your class was large, he or she might not remember you. It might seem a little old fashioned, but many people still prefer talking over text or email.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. I’m not referring to the passing of our own family members, friends and coworkers, but the tragic deaths of the celebrities, socialites and business moguls that we’ve known and loved (or not). The brilliant writer, J.D.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

A person like Juliet (not her real name), for example, who described a stressful stretch of her career as “disgustingly exciting.” Sue Ashford, Amy Wrzesniewski, and I have collected many such stories in the past few years, for a study of knowledge and creative workers who made independence work for them.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. If those in your network are enhancing your professional circle, and exposing you to new opportunities and new ways of thinking, keep in contact on a regular basis.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They have traveled the farthest on the path of change, starting in business more than 50 years ago under leaders who taught them, “Because I said so,” now heading into the sunset of their careers as valuable mentors for next-gen leaders asking, “How can I help you?”. And if leaders were to continually develop and deploy their EQi-2.0

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2015

In yet another study, researchers found that within those areas of our brain that deal with emotions, there’s a neurological circuit that’s involved in playfulness and when this circuit is activated, we’re able to discover creative combinations between disparate items.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I had a delightful conversation with Jocelyn Glei, Editor-in-Chief of 99U.com about the first book “Managing Your Day to Day” in their book series aimed at educating creative professionals. Maximize Your Potential | How do you build a great creative career. About Jocelyn Glei. Three Takeaways from Book #1.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Understand your employees are part of the solution, not the problem One thing that is clear in these instances where people end up quitting in such a dramatic fashion is that the employer in question treats their employees more like liabilities rather than assets that are vital to their organization’s survival.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The companies that attempt to do talent management in a sophisticated way use old-fashioned models from the 1950s that assume we know with great certainty what the demands will be in the future. There are many ways to adapt to this problem, but perhaps the most creative is to find ways to get employees to share the costs of development.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Asking tough questions has become a hallmark of AT&T research culture and has helped to establish Bell Laboratories as one of the great creative institutions in America. The best firms are diligent about uncommon things — for example, asking creative questions. Too often, schools turn diligence into drudgery.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions. " says Dr. Atul Gawande, author of the book “The Checklist Manifesto” The Problem with Checklists Checklists mean standardization – and often standardization is blamed for killing creativity. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. It is emphathy that enables leaders to understand both their teams and their customers, and foster an atmosphere of greater creativity and problem-solving. Deb Costello I love this post!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. Not that the eight steps makes it sounds easy, but it gives the impression that the information is organized in an easy to understand fashion.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

You will be helping your talent destroy their careers while you destroy their faith in your company. When your people are afraid to try new things, make a mistake now and then, despite the best of intentions, fear precludes creativity and freedom. Yet bad things happen in companies. It’s just a fact of life.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. The entertainment industry is the best at being flexible, spotting new trends, changing with the times, packaging creative concepts and leading cultural charges. The take-back for business is to grow in consistent fashion, sustaining the down times with realistic activities.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1]

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 13, 2010

They seem to be everywhere these days, but after watching Anna Wintour of Vogue in the fascinating movie The September Issue , I began to wonder if there were any career benefits to working for an abusive boss. Certainly, Wintour has been a star performer for Vogue and carries a major stick in the world of fashion.

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