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. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Fly-bys don’t count.

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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. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Fly-bys don’t count.

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2014

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Question : Can work ethic be taught? In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Coaching Tip

MAY 3, 2013

Risk averse, they may either procrastinate when faced with difficult decisions or make decisions that may yield tactical benefits but be unviable in the long term. Context awareness and ethical clarity altogether form the cornerstone of a wise leader''s decision logic. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

There is no leadership without relating to others so put relationships at the top of your priority list. As you work your way up the leadership ladder, it’s absolutely essential to make sure that you develop and nurture key relationships. Stop being tactical and start broadening your scope.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Based upon many hours of advisory with C-Level clients, here are the two major tenets that bubble to the top: IQ – Intelligence Quotient (or Tactical Intelligence) You have to have the chops, the intellect, the experience, and knowledge to make it through the first hurdle. What are some of the techniques used? It’s that simple.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It requires you to move from the tactical to the strategic and from managing a process to motivating and aligning people around a vision and strategy. . Other self-coaching leadership books: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Ask the Coach . .

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

And then, I used Permission Based Marketing to market the hell out of each event and sell seats with all the marketing tactics I had at my disposal. And I charged a fee calculated to be just under any ordinary manager’s sign-off level, so anyone could attend. That was where the money was. There was no loss. Unported License.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 10, 2017

This reference guide provides any business owner, manager, or HR professional with the most current information to get the most from their talent.from strategic HR-related issues to the smallest tactical detail of managing people. Leadership Development Investments. Related articles.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2013

The leadership lesson is: Developing organizations, communities and countries requires more than capital and innovation. And the French, remembering their defeat in the French and Indian War twelve years earlier, were willing to support the patriotic citizenry against England by providing weapons, soldiers and military leadership. .

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Those who excelled at every assignment given and each stage of their career. Those who were downsized, out-placed, retired or changed careers, launching a consulting practice. Self Appointed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Ethical behavior has to be led by example, and promoting people who ignore ethics when expedient for them tells everyone that the company wants results and it does not really care how they are obtained.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Relational Leadership is people-centric. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style. This final article examines creating a respected organization.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ” Approach your career as a body of work.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Some performers made careers as supporting players. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Act as a mentor to still others.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We asked Roxi Hewertson about the 8 overarching leadership insights that kick off her new book Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does hitting the stores in just a few weeks. Some of the best-intended and least effective leaders I have known regularly read lots of books and even more articles on leadership. Doing is the hard part.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

Many people come to me to make a drastic change in their careers. Their tendency has been to jump right back into the same type of career for security purposes only, even if they truly dislike this work. This is a dead end tactic. Are You in Career Quicksand? Or even worse, the walls will all cave in.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style. You will learn how to put the attributes in play for yourself in your own leadership situation.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2014

We now KNOW, for a fact, that EQ (Emotional Quotient/Intelligence) is far more important for success in most jobs, and definitely within leadership roles. Whatever methods (legal and ethical of course) you use, you need to discover at least these SIX key things about your candidates BEFORE you hire. It is mind-boggling!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In fact, I would go so far as to say reading is simply a necessity if you’re serious about leadership. The list below (in no particular order) is comprised of leadership lessons from Ancient History, US History, Religious History, Military History, and yes, I threw in a few of my favorite business business classics as well.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The article points out that ‘overqualified’ candidates tend to show a better work ethic, stay, on average, longer than less qualified candidates, and as long as they are empowered are actually happy workers. Even if a person was downsized, maybe she was burned out on what she was doing and wants to jump-start a new career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

When I met Jill (not her real name), she was struggling to make sense of her career setback. Jill was one more victim of what I call the “Kumbaya” school of leadership, which says that being open, trusting, authentic, and positive — and working really hard — is the key to getting ahead. What happened?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the summit… Share and Enjoy: View Comments pinto philip Topic : Next Generation leadership -> How has leadership evolved with changing times , how has the styles changed , why is servant leadership more relevant in todays world. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Without a sponsor to spotlight her attributes, offer her opportunities, and kick her career into high gear for years , she found herself stuck in what she calls “permanent lieutenant syndrome.”. It turned out to be a really effective tactic, because we could be quite compelling about each other’s accomplishments.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Indeed, Gemma is extremely trustworthy and ethical. In many ways, she seems like the ideal employee, someone with excellent potential for a career in management. For example, EQ is positively correlated with leadership , job performance , job satisfaction , happiness , and well-being (both physical and emotional).

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

Brands have always catered to our emotions viewing them as associative triggers – the tactics I’m describing are clearly not new. Isn’t Starbucks using the same addictive business tactics as those industries listed above? Do you feel “Addiction Marketing&# is ethical? What about other fast food outlets?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of professional life that puts collaborations first. by Hank Moore. Culture and Mission.

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