Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. What is left out is how political, shifting, and unpredictable leadership is. The problem is the unpredictability.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Plus: creating intentional managers and boosting workplace wellbeing 4 October View all 2023 CMI Highlights Dear all, It was a brilliant evening for CMI last week at the Memcom Excellence awards (the membership organisations’ Oscar’s) – where we were honoured to be nominees in eight categories and winners of three !

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

What we’re experiencing today is too much form over substance – leaders lacking in foundation, but replete with social/political savvy. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. While I will dress in a suit and tie when appropriate, you’re much more likely to find me in jeans and casual sport coat.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. All three of these individuals have had a profound and positive impact on those individuals and organizations which they have led. Mike Myatt : If you could offer any of our readers’ specific advice about leadership what would that be?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. elliotross So well said Mike, I know for myself that managing conflict is not a 'natural' for me. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted The ABC Problem Solving Strategy. Leadership will play an increasingly important role in how political and corporate leaders will tackle these competitive forces.”

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 17, 2011

This is, I suspect, a rare dialog, but an important one, especially for political officials such as this one. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Mary Jo Asmus : January 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm Me too, Susan.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Lost: corporate politics. Found: helping clients traverse corporate politics. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Found: a calling Lost: corporate colleagues. Found: a community of friends. Lost: steady paycheck.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2014

We live in an era when downsizing, increased work hours, ceaseless pressure for higher profits, internal competitiveness, and similarly unpleasant factors have produced a toxic brew of resentment, resistance to change, and self-serving political maneuvering on the part of workers at all levels, and the cost is significant.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I know that your workplace can be politically charged, even ugly sometimes. The next step is to have a heart-to-heart with my manager to discuss the reasons and rationalizations he and his boss used in promoting someone who hadn’t accomplished all of the requirements of the job.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JANUARY 21, 2020

Some are easy to identify; they may hold political office, run successful businesses, minister at churches, command troops, or quarterback their teams to victory. Often times there are leadership opportunities at our churches, our child’s school or sports leagues, or at our favorite non-profits. The world is full of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

How did you perform in managing a major project? In reality, for managers seeking promotion, such feedback is of only marginal benefit because its frame of reference is how you’re doing in your current job, at your current level. How does one navigate the “political thicket” in the company to get things done at the senior level?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

A lot of talented people grapple with the disruption of having to switch jobs or careers and figuring out how their current profession’s skills can be applied in a fulfilling new way. Since then, many friends and strangers have sought my advice about career paths outside of newspaper journalism. Consider the legal field.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Folks need to understand you are really no different than them, you are just at a different place at a different time along your career path and therefore have a different role right now. I recently had an experience where I needed to spend the afternoon alone with a particularly high ranking division manager. Good stuff.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Why do we constantly need to be reminded to be polite, offer praise for job well done? Managers need to make sure they often use these feel good comments to keep spirits high in the workplace. One of the easiest ways to implement a positive environment amongs peers. Do we really need to be always positive? I enjoyed reading this post.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Mine your backyard. Try new approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Instead, her party dropped 12 seats and will now be forming a painful minority government at a time of great political turmoil due to Brexit. Until a couple of years ago I used CBSSports.com, America’s third-ranked sports site, for my sports news. Is the lesson: Don’t take risks?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

This summer's Olympics got us thinking: how do we as managers and leaders become coaches who elicit greatness in others? manage the Olympic environment. manage the Olympic environment. Does his role encourage visibility that can propel his career? build a strong coach-athlete relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Across the economic spectrum — whether business, law, sports, politics, academia or religion — women represent less than 20% of the leaders in the U.S., Black women are toiling in middle management and that is usually the height of their career.". Professional black women make up only 1% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Yelling was an integral part of their leadership and management styles. Harvard Business School recently published and popularized a case study of Sir Alex Ferguson , Manchester United’s recently retired manager and the most successful coach in English Premier League history. Of course, that’s sports. They yelled.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 18, 2023

He never writes about politics or other grenade-lobbing issues that seem to consume social media platforms. If you’re a parent, teacher, coach, religious leader, neighbor, or manager, you’re influencing people every day,” he says. “If Many people struggle with time management—or perhaps we should say attention management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

When you’re on a team and you played sports in college, as I did, you’re doing stuff with people all the time. Early on, you decided not to talk politics with him, and over time that helped you develop an easy camaraderie focused on your shared interest in sports. Those moments sounded really unpleasant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

To use a sports analogy, you’re not going to ever be a really great tennis player unless you stop relying on your forehand (your strength) so that you can develop your backhand, which is inherently weaker. Liane Davey. 4 Ways to Become a Better Learner. Monique Valcour. Better internal networks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Second, they’re specific enough to help senior management make trade-offs. Yet change they must. Who owns each customer relationship? ” he asked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 11, 2020

politics or infighting. For example, a lesson in sports can be applied to business. Many missteps occur due to: insufficient preparation. avoidance or denial. poor planning. weak information. bad assumptions. poor diagnosis of the problem. lack of focus. no sense of urgency. incorrect strategy. conflicting goals. inadequate resources.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

As women progressively enter leadership roles and management positions in organizations that traditionally used to be held by men, many pose questions about leadership styles and gender. Maybe those are the reasons why it is so difficult for women to make it all the way up political or corporate leadership ladders?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 28, 2022

Developing your mind and your talents shouldn’t be limited to formal schooling or work experience; you can gain just as much from playing a sport or learning to play a musical instrument. Embrace the value of continuous improvement and lifelong learning. Personal growth. Positive reinforcement.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 3, 2022

Keeping score may be appropriate in sports, but it won’t do much to foster a meaningful relationship. Keeping score is a losing game. There are times when you’ll make a greater effort than others — and won’t get anything for it. Get over it. Leave work at the office. There are workdays when everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 14, 2020

Developing your mind and your talents shouldn’t be limited to formal schooling or work experience; you can gain just as much from playing a sport or learning to play a musical instrument. Embrace the value of continuous improvement and lifelong learning. Personal growth. Positive reinforcement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

While top-level jobs are tough on everyone, the transition to senior management comes with extra challenges for women. At the center is managing your mental energy: How to gain it, maintain it, and not drain it. Senior leadership teams are often political, and failures typically have much larger consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

The relationships that you form with each of your direct reports are central to your ability to fulfill your three core responsibilities as a manager: Create a culture of feedback, build a cohesive team, and achieve results collaboratively. Becoming a Manager. 5 Things New Managers Should Focus on First. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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