Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Art Petty of Art Petty provided Leadership Power-Up: Make Time to Think Deeply.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. every day.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion. And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. I’m super excited to put those things into practice and to continue to grow my leadership skills as a result. ” Your turn.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. But unless Winnie the Pooh and Tigger are on your team, shifting that perception of negativity will help you have more influence and contribute your expertise.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

When your team thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without losing your soul. Learning how to be a less negative leader is a critical skill to master and fast.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

One of our early engineers, Matt Cutts, recall how he would often see Urs Hölzle, the engineering executive who led the creation of Google’s data center infrastructure, pick up small bits of trash in the hallway as he walked through the office. Leadership requires passion. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 21, 2010

People with strong supportive traits are great at building relationships, easing tensions, helping others, and holding a team together. Consistently passive communication and conflict avoidance can create situations where conflicts go unresolved and continue to simmer under the surface until they explode and destroy a team or family.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. When this happens, I interpret this as meaning that our team isn’t working very efficiently. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. You asked for a sample goal.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Neil Armstrong’s historic step onto the lunar surface was not his achievement alone, but the result of decades of effort by a team of thousands. In this, as in most complex human endeavors, teams outperform individuals. Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. Outside ROPE Teams.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

You build a bridge, the engineers will tell you upfront what the serviceable life of that bridge will be. Are conversations about how we will maintain our business, work, or team infrastructure more difficult topics for some leaders? 07:45 So when we’re talking about leadership, what are the acts of maintenance for your team?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2024

Amy Edmondson Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. Since then, most of the ideas and code that have gone into Facebook have come from the great people we’ve attracted to our team.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Following the Navy, he completed a fellowship at Yale in surgical critical care then held a series of increasingly senior leadership positions at hospitals in Connecticut. It happened during a period earlier in his career when his leadership responsibilities increased while fewer colleagues were available to help carry the load.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. Effective leaders and team members challenge each other’s paradigms and to think out of the box.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

The devotion that many leaders feel for their businesses infuses everything, from company culture and engineering to the snacks in the kitchen. The leader’s curse is a condition that can be very dangerous to the financial health of your company, your competitive edge, culture, and professional career.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” ” Functional managers and their teams are accountable, rated, and rewarded for doing their own jobs inside their siloed segment of the production, delivery, or support process. .”

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. A big part of that is having a simple vision that teams can rally around and a strategic direction that leaders can buy into and articulate easily throughout the organization. 5000 list.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A successful salesperson and sales team leader had a twenty-year, well-paid career, but she didn’t love her work. With so many years and so much invested in their careers, what could they do? What, though, if these inspiring, engaging activities don’t offset the many more hours you spend in an unfulfilling career?

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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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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Imagine, for instance, that you’re brought in to manage a team only to find that it has struggled for years with gender inequality issues. It can work both ways, too; perhaps your team is suspiciously flooded with male talent, or maybe the department you’ve been handed has more women in key positions than their male counterparts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 5, 2016

Now if you asked John if he trusted his team, he would say “of course.” HOW TO SHOW YOUR EMPLOYEES YOU TRUST THEM It takes more than words to demonstrate your trust in your team. Oh sure, your team may grumble, but managers who win well know there’s no greater gift you can give your team than leading them toward head-turning results.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

There’s been a lot of talk lately in the US about building more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) capability in the workforce, and related conversations about how to increase the number of women in STEM programs, and how to keep women in those jobs once they have them. And it makes me feel a little guilty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

Tom started with his senior leadership team by sharing his leadership point of view – his philosophy of leadership – and his values. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

Culture Change is Dangerous to One’s Career Someone might come to the conclusion that a person leading organizational change will risk losing their job. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Most of my posts will touch on one of the three core leadership imperatives I discuss in the new edition of The Next Level : Manage yourself. Leverage your team. You can read more about how I think about how the three of those work together in this post from last summer, How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

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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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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Read over these outstanding leadership posts this month and I think you’ll agree each one is a home run! Anne shares, “Ed, an Engineering Director, has a habit of mind that immediately sees what could go wrong in any given situation.

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