Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.” Many find spending time with their manager to be the worst time of their day. Remove abusive managers.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Though, given their worldview, led may be too strong a word – even manage may be too strong. What is unique to Millennials and Gen Zers is that they were “found to be seeking purpose and meaning at such an early stage in their careers.” Managers can use the SKS framework both to provide effective feedback: What should I stop doing?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Anne Loehr and Jezra Kaye, authors of Managing the Unmanageable , say that these “unmanageable” people are costing companies a fortune. Perceiving the difference is the task of leaders, managers, and coaches. Managing the Unmanageable is written to help you do just that. Maybe I should switch careers.”. She’s unreliable.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

15 Critical Keys to Relationship-Management Skills and Emotional Intelligence by @SteveGutzler. Sheryl Sandberg: Careers Aren’t Ladders, They’re Jungle Gyms via @StanfordGSB. Why This Is A Perfect Time To Make A Career Switch by @DrDawnGraham. Leaders Think First by @JohnBaldoni. 4 Things to Do Every Day by @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Here is a selection of Posts from December 2023 that you will want to check out: Leadership Development is Indeed Failing Us—Time for a New Approach by @artpetty Be Treated Respectfully: How to Set Limits w/ Pushy People by @KateNasser Paradoxes of Life by @SahilBloom All Together Now by @morganhousel When you realize how susceptible you are to others’ (..)

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2023 that you will want to check out: The Magic of Assuming Positive Intent by @Julie_WG How Magic and Happiness Impact Leadership by @DebbieLaskeyMBA A Conversation You Should Have about Grit with Your Teens by @TimElmore How To Be A Great Team Player by @davidburkus Successful People Skills: How to Deal With (..)

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values. What matters now, more than ever, is that managers embrace the responsibilities of stewardship.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2023

It Matters More Than You Think by @PhilCooke The Death of The Manager Role Is Predicted Yet Again. Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The reality is that creativity in your career environment is derived from both the need to solve a problem and the desire to avoid or solve future problems (which often leads to innovation). If you are methodical and analytical, that statement probably makes you cringe.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. Alarmed managers are responding with harsh top-down edicts, layoffs, surveillance and mandatory meetings.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. The best managers recognize that 1:1s are not an add-on to their role as a manager. Conducting 1:1s successfully are foundational to being a manager.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Source: Speech, Managing Your Career: The Ultimate Solo Flight. To do that, we must be prepared to do battle from time to time with the internal bureaucracy in our organizations. But even more than that, we have to be prepared to fight against our own inertia — or what one poet described as ‘mind-forges manacles.’”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Leaders are often tasked with many projects that overload their schedules, which can prevent them from effectively leading and managing their team the way they should. Neglecting an employee by providing minimal feedback and support is an issue that lies within the management position, not the employee. Don’t fall into this category!

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. Middle manager."

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better. In writing The Grit Factor , Polson made it her mission to connect with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared with her their candid stories of combat and career. Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. The solution is far from magical.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

In the book, she explores the mentorship advice that helped her start a groundbreaking company after studying entrepreneurship and strategic management at MIT and Harvard. You’ll find practical steps you can take to build your own plan for finding the right mentor for you, or for becoming someone else’s trusted advisor.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

This Is The Moment To Reinvent Yourself, Your Organization, and Your Career by @PhilCooke. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. In this Twitter thread, we'll go through each to help maximize your chances when fundraising by @RomeenSheth.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team. Blog Post ). How did you react?

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. The biggest challenge most leaders and managers face is deciding what to do when confronted with a new situation. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. But are we leading? Truly leading people?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In addition, it demands a new kind of 10x management. There is the talent, and then there are the people managing and developing that talent. Importantly, those managing the talent should be working to become 10x talent themselves. Wherever you are on the Manageability Continuum, you can improve.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. Detert defines workplace courage as “taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand for a principle, a cause, or a group of others, despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These are things in your control, like how you set goals, behave, develop, network, present yourself, and manage your sleep. We manage impressions all the time. “As As your career evolves, your continued high performance will require you to show new behaviors. Effron dismisses many of today’s management ideas.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. READ, Caveat emptor, CEO by @TedKinni A short list of questions can help leaders avoid the potentially harmful consequences of flawed management studies. Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Leadership Insight: How to Spot Fear by @KateNasser.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You don’t have to be a management expert, accountability speaker or business guru to be a catalyst for excellence. How does the organization intend to encourage my professional development and career growth? What advice can you offer on ways I can move forward in my career? What does “living our core values” look like to you?

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Seth Godin says, “This is the management book of the year. Aaron Dignan.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Career Management. The book is organized around 10 topics.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? The trick is to be ruthless in managing our energy so that it can expand and become boundless. Today, it’s more akin to five.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

I F YOU WANT TO GROW your career, Wharton Lecturer and EMBA Career Director Dawn Graham recommends in her book Switchers , that you “ continually put yourself in situations where you’re the least qualified person in the room.” Beyond what I'm sharing here, Switchers is an invaluable resource for those looking to make a career switch.

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