Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Today’s guest reveals counter-intuitive wisdom, gained from decades of leadership, on how to impact your audience whether you are writing or speaking. Lolly Daskal is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world. Lolly’s process for turning The Leadership Gap into a talk. Is it confidence?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You can be reached from anywhere and find the market you need instantly with a few search engine terms, and then operate on a larger scale than you ever would have been able to in the past. As a result, it’s such a powerful time to run a business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The problem is that most leaders believe that in order to inspire other people, they must exude the uncommon charisma of someone like Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr., The decision to temporarily remove breakfast sandwiches from Starbucks stores is how Howard Schultz inspired employees to refocus on coffee.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Studies of leaders often focus on their style or charisma, but we wanted to look at how workers are affected by their boss’s technical competence. It’s not uncommon to hear people assert that it’s a bad idea to promote an engineer to lead other engineers, or an editor to lead other editors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Why aren’t Asian Americans advancing into leadership positions? Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

And they need process owners (who may variously be called VP of Customer Experience, SVP of Supply Chain, Chief Engineer, or Value Stream Leader, for instance) to lead these initiatives. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Also, process owners control IT budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Leaders are routinely identified based on perceived ambition, self-confidence and charisma. And charisma is often a polite way of saying “loud” and “dominant” – something many of our Asian colleagues are happy to quietly point out. This kind of change takes leadership, and lots of it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

You don’t have to be “the awesome-est person in the room” or make sure “everyone is blown away by your charisma.” Take steps to develop expertise by attending conferences or taking on a leadership role in a professional organization. ” You just need to have good rapport with your colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Granted, this might seem like an obvious answer from someone who regularly writes and speaks about leadership. The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking. .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

HP culture at that time was very engineer-dominated, and relatively male-dominated. As HP’s first female CEO, Fiorina just didn’t connect well with the engineers. Despite her charisma and strategic acumen, I believe Fiorina ultimately failed in several ways.

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