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JUNE 28, 2022

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. That’s a path to limiting your opportunity to grow and take on leadership roles that don’t just play to your strengths.

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JULY 21, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. Earlier in my career, I ended up as a manager in a couple of HR departments. You deal with a lot of employee discipline issues in HR and the first thing you learn is you have to do a thorough investigation before you make any decisions that could end or damage someones career or reputation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned?

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

In the video review, I walk through the simple yet resonant model of career path transitions that the authors Charan, Drotter and Noel outline in the book. The book has been around for about ten years and it’s become a go to resource for anyone charged with developing senior leaders. Your comment has not yet been posted. Click Here.

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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. 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? Leverage your team. Engage your colleagues.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Krames has been involved in publishing more than 400 business books over the course of his career and has written books on business and government leaders like Jack Welch and Donald Rumsfeld. It''s called Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis and is available this week.

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MAY 29, 2013

Effective leadership is all about getting stuff done through and with other people. As the author of Getting Ahead: Three Ways to Take Your Career to the Next Level, Joel has done a ton of research, coaching and speaking on the topic so he was a great guy to talk with about influence. Click headline to continue.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There was a period in my blogging career when I created a side gig as a vocal critic of former Washington NFL football team owner, Dan Snyder. It started in 2009 with a post I wrote about how leaders could succeed just by not doing what he did. That one led to an appearance on the local TV news in D.C.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

That''s what leadership and career expert Dan Schwabel teaches you how to do in his new book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success. Dan is a particular expert in the millennial generation and has made it his mission to help members of that cohort be accountable for their careers and take charge of their lives.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Russell had made her career by casting her in Silver Linings Playbook (a 2013 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Lawrence) and, now, American Hustle (a 2014 Golden Globe for Lawrence - so far.). General Leadership Colin Kapernick Goal setting Jennifer Lawrence' Click headline to continue.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Back in the early days of my public speaking career, I got some invaluable feedback that eventually changed everything for me. My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm. I took a deep breath and said, “Sure.”.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins So, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you might have expected me to have some sort of leadership lessons post on yesterday’s mid-term elections.    And, oh by the way, McNabb has run more than a few game-on-the-line two minute drills in his long NFL career. 

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MAY 17, 2012

She’s a company veteran and change leader who has taken on increasingly responsible positions over the course of her career. The Eblin Group is a leadership development and strategy firm that supports organizations in ensuring the success of their leaders. I spoke with her recently about what she’s learned along the way.

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MAY 29, 2019

Pretty much every leader I’ve ever coached or spoken to has worked for a micromanager at least once in their career. Remember, leadership rocks roll downhill.) If dealing with a micromanager for a boss isn’t the number one complaint I hear from high potential leaders, then it’s certainly in the top three. Who is their boss?

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Now that you’re in your leadership role, start giving away the things that you’re an expert in to your team. They may not do it exactly the same way you would do it, but at some point, earlier in your career, somebody took a bet on you and asked you to do some things that they used to do.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There are any number of reasons to pay attention to primaries, one of which is you can learn a lot about leadership communications strategies and tactics by watching how the candidates do what they do. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s presidential primary season. This point was driven home to me years ago by a client.

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MARCH 11, 2020

As a professor at Columbia University, a counterterrorism research fellow for the Department of Homeland Security and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Jennifer has spent her career helping people get out of seemingly endless conflict loops.

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JUNE 1, 2012

This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on productivity, women leaders, and getting your career back on track, among others. Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. Click headline to continue.

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JUNE 28, 2010

He became a consistent supporter of civil rights legislation only in the last half of his career.  At the peak of his career, that base of knowledge enabled him to be a leader of the institution and drive the agendas of his party, his president and himself. Rest in peace, Senator. The people of West Virginia will remember you.

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JUNE 21, 2010

That actually ended up being a pretty good running start on an approach to leadership in the jobs I had after that one.  In addition to the good times and the successes, she talked about tough times she had been through in her career and bad bosses she had worked for. You just need to stay in learning mode.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The career history of the talented, iconoclastic, maddening, entertaining (even if he’s the guy you love to hate) Olbermann has been one of resigning from or getting fired by every network he’s worked for. What have you learned about managing difficult superstars? Please share your experience with the rest of us. Click Here.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Then, of course, we had the fascinating story of Jet Blue flight attendant Stephen Slater pulling the metaphorical rip cord on his 20 year career. One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue. I can’t stop reading about this story – there are so many layers to it. How about that issue of stage presence?

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Last week, I shared some of my thoughts on Bowie’s innovative career and life on the Huffington Post. Like many, I was moved earlier this month by the news of David Bowie’s death and what he accomplished in his life. Thought you’d like to read them here in case you missed them there.

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MAY 21, 2015

If you’re a leader in your organization, there will be multiple times in your career when you have to get a new team off to a strong start. One of the critical steps in that process is when you bring the team members together for the first time.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Those are the kinds of questions that have intrigued Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dart­mouth, for much of his professional career. They’ve intrigued him so much, in fact, that he spent ten years researching and conducting 200 interviews on the questions.

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MARCH 28, 2016

While I was back in DC to teach in the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program, I got to spend three days teaching with my dear friend of 13 (!) I’ve known each of these people so long that we’ve shared births, deaths, career challenges, health crises, laughs, sadness, triumphs, defeats and, really, just a lot of life together.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

It’s about a former IBM senior executive named Robert Moffat whose long and successful career with the company ended when he was arrested by the FBI for conspiracy related to insider trading. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game. Click Here.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

He’s had a lot of successes in his career and is fond of speaking his mind. The subject is Dan Akerson, who’s been the CEO of General Motors for 15 months. Akerson is not a “car guy.” He made his bones in telecommunications and came to GM from the world of private equity investments. Click headline to continue.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leadership is more complicated.    Technology, globalism, competition, structural shifts in the economy, generational expectations and so many other factors have merged together to make the practice of leadership - influencing people to work together on common goals - a lot more complicated than it was ten years ago. 

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

They could leave and hope to find another job in their profession, they could stay and grit it out or they could stay and try to improve their career prospects by joining in on the Animal House leadership style.   Still, it’s really easy for leaders with titles to underestimate the impact of their leadership footprint.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

It’s usually a case where they’re moving from a pretty hands-on, directive leadership role and into a role in which they’re coordinating the work of a number of other leaders. This kind of shift can happen a number of times over a career. Click Here.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

  By vocation, I don’t mean your job or your career.    As gifted a performer as he was, his leadership and vocation really came as an educator.  Before you get too deep into the mode of running flat out, here’s a question that might be worth considering.    What’s your vocation?  Click Here.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Both Draper and Gekko are consumed with their careers. Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders. Click Here.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

One of the goals I had in writing the new edition was to bring more global leadership perspective to the book. After a long career of working with global organizations, James describes the trap that a lot of leaders step into: “The fact is, there are talented people all over the world. One of those executives was James Kelly.

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JUNE 23, 2010

The result of that is an engrossing article that includes a number of intemperate remarks from the General and his aides which have endangered McChrystal’s career. The RS reporter, Michael Hastings, had pretty much unfettered access to McChrystal and his top aides over the course of a month in Paris and Afghanistan. Click Here.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

OK, by now you’re saying, “Nice story about a dad and his son but what does this have to do with leadership?” I think about that in terms of leadership - while the risk was greater, I know I'm a better driver because of the way they taught me. That opposite hand was just along for the ride, so to speak. Good question. Click Here.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins | Main | The Power of Courtesy » November 05, 2010 The Heroes of Walter Reed Yesterday, on a rainy afternoon in Washington, DC, I had the privilege of doing something that I wish every American had the opportunity to experience.  Click Here.

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