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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

While their ego-driven ambition may be effective in generating short-term gains, attaining goals is different from achieving growth. In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego.

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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

With this mindset, team members look to the organization’s vision and values instead of specific practices, products, operating goals or legacy accomplishments as touchstones. In the words of Good to Great author Jim Collins, every institution has to wrestle with a vexing question: What should change and what should never change?

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Discoverin?g Your Team Member's Talents

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Joseph Lalonde: One of the best things we can do for our team is to discover our team member''s talents. The talents of our team members are usually what drives them to excel. Your team will find purpose and meaning when they begin putting their skills to work. Your team will be excited to come to work.

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5 Strategies for Building High Trust, High Performing Teams

Leading with Trust

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. However, the most important lesson I’ve learned about being part of a successful team, or leading one, is the need for trust. Great teams thrive on trust ( click to tweet ).

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How Will You Still Be Improving on Sept 22?

Lead Change Blog

In the spirit of helping you think about your leadership goals for all of 2019, not just the year’s first day, I created three dates from a random number generator. These are the leadership-related thoughts each date sparked for me and how they can help teams continuously improve. How does your Sunday improve your team’s Monday?

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The Secret to Maximum Impact

Lead Change Blog

Your year just started and you’re probably already behind on your “you think we’re good now, but soon we’ll be great” BHAG ( thank you, Jim Collins, for introducing the world to Big Hairy Audacious Goals ). You promised yourself and your team that this would be “the year” and now you have to deliver.

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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

As a follow-up to our discussion about the Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders make, Bruce Harpham offers his insights on the biggest mistakes NEW leaders make. When you draw your confidence from technical skills and accomplishments, it is tempting to jump in and work alongside your team. Do you give credit to your team?