The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

On a personal level (and in complete and total transparency), I don’t know exactly what to say about Marshall, so I will just go with this: He has meant more to my personal development than anyone in my 40-year career and has also meant more to The Center for Leadership Studies and Situational Leadership ® than anyone not named Paul Hersey.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&#

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 20, 2009

I’m very proud of how well she did in high school and am impressed with her clear understanding of what she wants to pursue as a career. My wife and I took our oldest child to the university where she will pursue a degree in architecture. She’s far ahead of where I was at her age. Congratulations to your family.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When the two are highly aligned, we see that spark where employees are rowing hard in the same direction to execute the business strategies quickly and effectively. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. A good test of this is to ask about priorities. Capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

When it comes to your career and your ability to become a great leader, the word ‘invest’ is perceptive. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 16, 2009 at 5:59 am said: “50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. — are the most valuable asset you own. Nice quote!

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

– -Will Rogers. 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. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. – -Michel de Montaigne.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Especially in public sectors, where leadership turnovers occur every couple of years and results are quarterly based, many executives overlook game changers that take longer than 12 months to execute.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2009

It’s also a time to step back and take a fresh look at the direction your career is headed. I would review Stewart Roger’s and The Productologist as well as your local product management association. Stewart Rogers recently shared this with me: As someone who has attended four Product Camps, I still get excited for each and every one.

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Surviving Leadership

JANUARY 21, 2018

Whether it was Roger Moore’s rendition of “Talk to the Animals” while fighting spies with laser guns, or Lynda Carter just being awesome, I loved watching. I bring all this up because I want you to really understand what Frank Oz has accomplished throughout his career. And now – Frank Oz is on Twitter.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Personally, I find coaching to be the most effective when I’m feeling stuck or hitting a career plateau. More $$ isn’t always more impact… leadership or executive coaches can range from $375 a session to $3,000 a month (or more). I find different coaches are good for different stages of your career path. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. Derek and I often meet executives who have high levels of pressure but low levels of stress, and vice versa. My stress levels went down, my health improved, and my career took off.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

And that's the story I sling every time I walk into a meeting with film and TV executives. The executives I'm meeting are quick to point out that people are clamoring for more. In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. But then that Hollywood magic starts to kick in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. Apple existed to "delight customers" first — benefits to other stakeholders, including shareholders, followed. But this is at it should be.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Aspiring junior executives dream of climbing the ladder to gain more authority. Senior executives, on the other hand, are often frustrated by how little power they actually have. Yet Semmelweis and Antioco had not only authority, but also had the facts on their side and were willing to risk their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

To illustrate, we recently collected data from an executive development program at a Fortune 10 company. A wealth of research shows that when individuals see learning as valuable to their careers, they’re more motivated to learn and apply new skills to their roles.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Business Simulation Rogers 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I do however agree that delivering results is key, and I thought I covered that with certainty of execution – even so, I'm thanking you raised the level of focus on being results oriented.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. To still another, it may be a Roy Rogers wristwatch, one of Elvis Presley’s scarves or a Partridge Family lunchbox. Vision for the project, from concept through execution.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. On average, my executive students answer this question in the twos and threes. My guess is that your second number is lower than your first.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. To still another, it may be a Roy Rogers wristwatch, one of Elvis Presley’s scarves or a Partridge Family lunchbox. Vision for the project, from concept through execution.

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. by Roger Rankin | Submitted Jun 05, 2012. A couple if years ago I was feeling like I hit a plateau in my business career and was looking for new, different, challenging ways to grow. I decided to go to school to become a medical assistant.

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Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Most important, “teamwork” in the NFL means teamwork among players whose careers are absurdly short and whose loyalties to any one team only last as long as the duration of their contracts. According to The Wall Street Journal, the average length of an NFL career is 2.66

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The days when we could simply plan and execute are long gone. So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career.

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Strategy Uncertainty Welch Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. My executive mentor was a little more cautious, at 50%, but for the most part we all believed, and we knew we all believed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. The Steelers, led by young star Ben Roethlisberger , leapt out to a 10-0 first-quarter and 20-7 halftime lead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We’ve recently seen this imbalance wreak havoc in the entertainment and media industries, where it’s long been understood that major players like movie producer Harvey Weinstein and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes could easily make or break women’s careers. But executives are responsible too.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Martin (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. Garfinkle (JAG Press, 2022) Executive presence matters. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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