Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

T HE leadership we need now can be found in the entrepreneurial mindset—the characteristics found in entrepreneurs. Their work ethic didn’t sink in. I wanted to have fun instead of sit in class,” he said. More importantly, leadership. He came from a working class family with no history of higher education.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. The top books of 2024 delve into key areas like leadership, organizational culture, and employee relations. Get ready to transform your organization and become the ultimate HR hero.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 10, 2015

Kind of funny, isn’t it, how you can find lessons about life, love, and leadership almost everywhere, provided there’s openness to seeing them. I didn’t expect that thought to bubble up in a spin class while pedaling furiously, breathing wildly, and trying frantically to ignore an uncomfortable bike saddle. What say you?

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2009

Jim Holland’s guest post Leadership Lessons from a Kindergarten Class is the focus. July’s Leadership Carnivals brings together links to more than 25 fresh posts on topics such as accountability, talent management and succession planning. The Leadership Development Carnival is well a half hour of your time.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

What can a classroom full of bright-eyed and energized kindergartners teach you about leadership? During the school year, I’ve been asked to come in and help, so I’m well acquainted with each personality in the group and the “good morning Mr. Near the end of this school year, my wife asked if I could complete a project with her class.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Leading executive search firms have recently developed a progressive process that far outstrips what was previously “industry standard.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Relationships and understanding develop.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Relationships and understanding develop. Fly-bys don’t count.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2016

McGill Professor @profkjmoore takes you inside his CEO class. Do you make these common leadership mistakes? Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone by @JesseLynStoner. Leadership Effectiveness Can’t Be Improved by Peer Groups by @Michael_Beck. 3 Strategies for Spectacular Leadership by @melissa_lamson1.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 23, 2010

World class professors and a great culture. Take a look at the excellent video of Dr. Horniman discussing the importance of ethics in business and you’ll see what I mean. We gave a three hour presentation to students in the MBA for Executives program and briefly visited friends such as professors Marian Moore and Alec Horniman.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

When we don’t take the time to notice growing issues or simply chose to ignore them, corrupt systems develop around us. It is easy to miss or more likely to accept changes in ethical behavior until it’s too late because of this slippery slope effect. “Through our silence and complacency we accept and promote corruption.”

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 24, 2012

My good friend and work-ethic expert, Eric Chester , (author of the fantastic Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce ) recently shared with me his perspective on the relationship between passion and work. Please read his words and comment away!

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 1, 2011

I am creating a Leadership Development class for Japanese students of business English. Do you have any other suggestions for a Leadership Development class? Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Business Rules , Clients , Filmmaking , Pixar { 1 trackback } My soup 01.02.11 at 3:17 PM I love this. Is that OK?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Relationships and understanding develop. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Relationships and understanding develop. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Fly-bys don’t count.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 6, 2012

This Kantian line is used in many philosophy classes and I hear versions of it in the the companies, teams and Managerial-Leaders I work with. Developing strong Organizational-Practices that enable people to work to their individual capacities, to exercise their creative freedom to make choice and use this knowledge to solve problems.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It's time for business schools to stop telling students that they are "better than" their peers in the class or "better than" students in other programs. It's time to stop telling leaders they will only succeed if they are "better than" the competition.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 6, 2011

He was speaking to the entire male freshman class (the ladies were in another room in a similar talk with the Dean of Women — boy would I have liked to have been a fly on that wall!). I think it gives you a solid world-view that tempers your expectations, avoids disappointment, and permits development of realistic goals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In the ‘ Managing Organizational Complexity Class’ the idea of determining individual capacity to work with ambiguity and the amount of ambiguity within the work role are discussed and evaluated, for better organization development. We all have our issues with authority, “the man” or management – I know I do.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 31, 2020

Join Force Leadership. After reading the book, I reached out to talk to the authors about their views of leadership today. Before we start on Joint Force Leadership , I’d love your perspective on how the military helped prepare you for the work you do today. You start your book on leadership by talking about the power of focus.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2011

In college, I took a communications course which made me stand up and give presentations each week to the class. Most people developed very serious talks. I spoke about how he helped me learn to read (comics) and gave me a basic ethical structure in relation to crime. I present to audiences all over the world. I chose Batman.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Now think about the women close to you.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

You see these concepts are appearing more and more in leadership development studies as well.) Our best employees are problem solvers and are able to weave everything they know together—customer service, empathy, persuasive skills, leadership skills, flexibility, and work ethic,” Marie Artim of Enterprise told me.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. It was one of the most smoothly professional presentations on ethics and values that I have ever seen. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. Enron is a great example.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Admiral Clark created Value in the Navy’s culture by getting the Master Chiefs – the leaders of the enlisted class — to value the sailors under their command. As the Navy improved sailor retention and developed greater alignment with Admiral Clark’s vision, it became faster and more responsive. Posting your comment.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

In my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Comes Between You and Your Greatness , I illustrate what it takes to be a great leader. Much of it concerns how not to get stuck spinning your wheels with skills that may have been useful in the past but are no longer relevant to your life or leadership. Give them something to learn and grow on.

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Leading with Trust

AUGUST 18, 2019

It wasn’t really a game in the traditional sense, but more like story-time or a group activity to help the whole class learn more about the presenter. The premise of Show and Tell is a student gets to bring something from home to show the class and then tells them why it’s important to them or what it represents about them as a person.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Since those days I have trained other leaders, coached executives and helped to develop hundreds of organizations in over 26 different countries. Leadership is more about heart and soul than about education or a diploma on the wall. Joel Barker has the best definition of leadership. More information. Click here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Jason Pankau and I are excited about this opportunity to work with yet another world-class partner to take our work and ideas on The Connection Culture from our book Fired Up or Burned Out to a new audience. Organizations today are in desperate need of improving employee engagement and strategic alignment. why is everyone smiling?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

2) Deploy a leadership strategy. There is unmistakable evidence revealing how leadership is exercised, formally and informally, throughout the organization. There needs to be a system for decision-making and development of leaders and managers as well as the reinforcement of values, directions and performance expectations.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

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First Friday Book Synopsis

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

   A long time ago, in a more bipartisan age, I helped organize a week long orientation program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for the freshman congressional class of 1986.     I haven’t heard whether or not this year’s class is headed to the Kennedy School.  Click Here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Conduct classes in cake decorating, flower arranging, jewelry-making, gardening, automobile maintenance, carpentry, photography, or whatever your expertise happens to be. Teach a class at a local community college, or hook up with a business that can use your classes to increase sales.

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