Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

What Intrusive Thoughts Can Mean For Your Career by @westfallonline via @forbes Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback by Steve Keating @LeadToday Sally Jenkins: What We Can Learn From Great Athletes from @JohnBaldoni Help Employees Get Back in the Driver’s Seat of Their Career Development by @Julie_WG How to Get Unstuck with Your Career Pivot (..)

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

People who are not “thriving in their lives are much more vulnerable and add risk to your organization.”. Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ Make wellbeing part of career development conversations. What can leaders do?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. It's time to fight back. Far too many leaders are struggling, merely maintaining the status quo and unable to find the way forward.

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Leading Blog

JULY 28, 2023

S TATISTICS show that minorities and marginalized groups repeatedly experience career-stifling unconscious bias at many points throughout their working lives. They’re also less likely to be given access to the multitude of career development opportunities that make a difference in earning potential. So, what’s the answer?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

As you build your skills with the guidance from this trusted reference, success will spread from your generosity to the people you work with, to your organization, to your own career and even society. This book presents 7 ways to give of yourself for everyone’s gain. There is no more powerful leader than a generous leader.

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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. How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U.S.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

If you want to push your career and your organization forward, you need to get bold. I NNOVATION is more about being bold than being disruptive. Using examples of some of the most extraordinary disruptors, Shawn Kanungo offers eight lessons to help you become bolder in The Bold Ones.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Success today,” say Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni in Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go , “rests upon finding ways to continuously expand everyone’s capacity, engagement, and ability to contribute to the organization.”. Career development is nothing more than helping others grow”—one conversation at a time.

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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 Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking : Leading Your Organization into the Future by Michael D. Sutton and Huggy Rao Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Watkins Michael D.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It motivates individuals and organizations to commit to achieving the overall goal — no matter the number of roadblocks that get in the way. 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).

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves.

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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. Source: Winning from Within: A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The Four Workarounds : Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems by Paulo Savaget We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Instead, it is a systemic root-to-tip effort that makes accountability an organic state of being that is cultivated on a daily basis by everyone within the organization. Every member of an organization can build and strengthen accountability by asking fundamental questions related to these pillars. Ask your peers and colleagues.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, we must be prepared to do battle from time to time with the internal bureaucracy in our organizations. Source: Speech, Managing Your Career: The Ultimate Solo Flight. 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2023 that you will want to check out: Five Beliefs To Toss Aside To Grow Your Leadership by @TerriKlass 6 Leadership Tips for Not Being a Jerk at Work by @JenniferVMiller Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans by @DrNickMorgan PODCAST: How to Coach Leaders to Be More Effective via @CliftonStrength (..)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. Embarking on a journey of self-reflection and discovery, he forged a path to revolutionize his leadership and transform his career trajectory. The Catalyst : How to Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger. Everyone has something they want to change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Change How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times by John P. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource. Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today’s world.

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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. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

And your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Grit Factor : Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World by Shannon Huffman Polson. 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.

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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. The author will inspire readers to examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the model that has served him in his distinguished career. Dig deeper. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Seth Godin Hates Being Organized by @danshipper Don’t ask: am I organized enough? Organizational Change: Only the People Can Save the Organization by @BobQuinnUofM. Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Slack CEO’s Rise: From Games to a Workplace Communications Heavyweight via @StanfordGSB. from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Career Opportunities and Employee Satisfaction by @Julie_WG. Turn Your Organization Into A Community from @JohnBaldoni. A Constitution Day Like No Other by @jamesstrock The Founders’ Dangerous Words for Tyrants Everywhere Should Not Be Classified as ‘Harmful Content’ by America’s National Archives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Without effective leadership in place, organizations can’t achieve their goals, and employees may start looking for jobs elsewhere. It's easy to fall into a rut in your position, but it’s harmful to the organization and your team when your leadership is on autopilot. Everyone wants to move up in their career.

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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? Remain cognizant of our teammates and the entire organization. I N 1984 a typical business competency would last 30 years.

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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 ). The book is organized around 10 topics. Career Management. Workplace Practices.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Caught in the middle of all this were managers, the face of the organization to their teams. As many businesses are embracing workplace flexibility, it’s certain that a hybrid working world will be the reality most workers encounter for the rest of their careers. Career development conversations. Leading in a Virtual World.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

This Is The Moment To Reinvent Yourself, Your Organization, and Your Career by @PhilCooke. Authority and Control in Organizational Life by @edbatista. In this Twitter thread, we'll go through each to help maximize your chances when fundraising by @RomeenSheth. CEO Coaching: Exactly Where and When Does the Work Get Done?

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

Harvard Business School is an ideal training ground for intellectual humility: While all of you are extraordinarily smart, you have now spent two years in classes where you have inevitably learned from someone else in the room—and this is an attitude you should continue to exhibit throughout your careers. This is never an attractive quality.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

In these fast-paced, ever-changing, turbulent, and most stressful times, a major challenge that all leaders face is how to reduce skepticism and build greater trust and confidence in their role, their decisions, and in the organization they lead. What is responsive leadership? Empathy: The Ability to Feel and Appreciate Other Human Beings.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. And they seldom regret what they did, because they know I was the right thing to do based on their values, whether they’re defending someone else, doing what’s best for the organization, or simply being able to sleep well at night.”. Choosing Your Battles.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Organizations must have a plan in place to keep the employees they have. A priority for many employees today is career development opportunities. The problem is very few managers and leaders feel they have the time to work on career development. Finding good employees is not enough. And that’s job one for leaders.

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