Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We can become so focused on our goals that “the people in our life may quickly go out of focus.” Commit to greatness when you have no audience. Great leaders also know that great teams form when there is a sifting process. But when someone is bitter, they are rarely open to the process required to find healing.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. The process begins by defining reality and banishing intellectual laziness. It is a process. He shares his self-defeating behavior early in life that led him nowhere and the commitment that was required to turn his life around. He did both.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Should you process risk? All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” Through the examples of people who had to cross that barrier of doubt and fully commit to their potential, you will find parallels to your own experience. Absolutely. If that is survivable, then burn the boats.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. The correct balance of these two activities helps us achieve our goals.” Commit, Not comply. If you want to keep your commitments, don’t make it about the behavior but more about who you are. No variations. Very helpful.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We can become so narrowly focused under pressure that our ability to process information shrinks, and our ability to absorb helpful information diminishes. In peak pressure moments, the goal is simple: perform.” That’s the paradox of pressure. When the moment is over, so is the pressure. “In Long haul pressure is different.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Leadership is about influence and mobilizing people to achieve a common goal. Much of the practice of leadership is a process. If you rush the process you miss the fundamental issues that create meaning and engagement. If efficiency is digital, leadership is analog. This is done through relationships.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition, research continually shows that Millennials and Gen Z’s in particular, plus an increasing number of other generations, are wanting to work in places that are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. The intent of this book—the author's goal for you—is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. We are far better at dealing with external, tangible fears than our own imagined ones.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

If we wish to perform better, we should examine our own selectivity process. The typical inside-out view, by contrast, measures work according to whether we have completed our tasks and goals, regardless of whether they produce any benefits.” They become lone crusaders for their efforts—and they exhaust themselves in the process.”.

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Leading Blog

MAY 14, 2014

The number one goal of any expedition: come back alive. Tagging the top of a mountain should never be the goal. The goal isn’t getting to the top. The goal is getting back down—finishing well. Finishing well requires a lifelong commitment to self-awareness and growth. It is a process. It doesn’t just happen.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

I promise to set direction with you, to secure your commitment, and help you execute. They possess little empathy for others because their goal is to survive where they perceive themselves to be unwelcome.”. One of my goals for the students is to have them stand back and face their own life path. Reflections.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

Yet by embracing a mindset of connectedness, we can, at the very least, accelerate and improve the process. Embracing this mindset helps us find and cultivate truly rewarding and sustainable partnerships from our sincere commitment to learning about, investing in, and survive the interests of others.” Outcome#2: Create Partnerships.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

Community is a long-term solution to engagement, commitment, and talent retention. In The Power of Community , Howard Partridge has broken down the process of building a community within your organization into three keys with six action steps. What if you started helping your team members reach their goals in life?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Helping people look back and inward also provides a reservoir of information that allows employees to move forward and toward their career goals in intentional ways that will produce satisfying results.”. Patient (with the development process) – Growth takes time. Encourage employees to get feedback from those they work with.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

With far too much failed leadership on display, leaders should commit to building a different brand of leadership— Triple Crown Leadership , say authors Bob and Gregg Vanourek. Leaders must engage all in developing the colors through a collaborative process, thereby increasing ownership and buy-in. Alignment speeds up the process.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We still need to reach our goals, meet deadlines, and produce results. Space for their brains to percolate and process the mounds of the information they’ve been packing in. Your calendar is probably jam-packed with meetings and commitments, so it might seem unnecessarily selfish to mark off some “me time.” This is different.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Even though we are committed to our plans we find that the end result bears little resemblance to our best intentions. The way we define and understand ourselves is an inherently social process….Our A change in framing can cause us to accept or abandon our carefully thought out goals and plans. Somehow we get sidetracked.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The idea then is to align how people behave and feel—those cultural elements that motivate your workforce—with your goals and what is necessary to make the company successful. Culture change is slow process, but it begins with specific changes in behavior. Lasting cultural changes must have an emotional commitment.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Followers need something to commit to. Becoming an NFL head coach is a process. Command of the Process. That clean slate demands a trip back to basic principles and fundamentals after a detailed examination of the current process.” What Makes a Great Coach? Command of the Room. A leader has to have a plan.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The manager's job is to run a decision-making process that ensures all perspectives get heard and considered, and, if necessary, to break ties and make the decision. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Strive to win, but always win right, with commitment, teamwork, and integrity. Winning Right.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

While no one has ever achieved the goal of ‘being all they can be,’” he says “everyone has it in them to deliver peak performance defined in that way.” To ignite peak performance, he has created a process called the Cycle of Excellence. It is a five step process, that when followed completely, leads to excellence.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2011

When we first set a goal we’re clear. But between here and there the process become difficult and someone on your team becomes unhappy, and, “instead of focusing on the island we are trying to reach, we’re now concentrating on pleasing the one person who is upset. Too often this is where we get stuck. In her terms, “we see the island.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The collaborative process is more complex, slower, and messier than independent decision making. Committed Leaders are individuals who possess the skill, creativity, dedication and tenacity to move an alliance forward even when it hits the inevitable rough patches. The best leaders collaborate anyway.)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Eisenhower completed the long overdue process of desegregating the armed forces. It is hard to imagine Eisenhower evoking such a response, despite the clear direction of his civil rights policies, and his personal expressions of commitment in various settings.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. The goal of this experiential learning program was to shift leaders' perspectives by making them aware of their limitations, while increasing empathy for others. Lots of leaders are smart, but few are wise.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

(It is a 123 page compendium of Dalio’s beliefs and processes that he believes will lead to a successful life and business that is well worth the read.). As Ray sees it, achieving one’s goals is more likely to occur if one strives to be an independent thinker by learning. “The

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. Humanizing Leadership Mentors. Often, these individuals had confidence in me before I had confidence in my own ability.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

Once he committed to change, the transformation began in his team and throughout the culture of the Encore organization. Naturally, it’s not a step-by-step prescription, but it is instructive to see the process because we all share similar issues and thinking.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Leaders at this level understand that the highest goal of leadership is to develop more leaders, not to gain followers or do work. Developing leaders that can in turn develop leaders is hard work and takes a great deal of skill, focus, and a lifetime commitment. Leadership is influence and it is a process.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Starting with the highest assessed behaviors, everyone could quickly identify with commitment to behaviors like making timely decisions, being clear about priorities and accepting accountability for results. Of course they said yes. Several people at once said, “We can’t keep this up.”. Now is a great time to get started.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Goldsmith suggests six engaging questions anyone should be asking themselves each day to build engagement: Did I do my best to set clear goals today? Did I do my best to make progress toward my goals today? Active questions get to personal responsibility—something you have control over. Did I do my best to find meaning today?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

Failure leads to success—if you see it as a process. “If Before you begin a new task, ask yourself: Are you working toward your goals? If you can add a structure to your goals, a ritual you do daily, you will increase the chances of achieving them by 1000%.” It’s because they have discovered a better strategy for success.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Family enterprise ownership requires deep commitment and responsibility. For the multigenerational family enterprise to thrive, owners and managers need to be open to co-creating the future while recognizing the different values, aspirations, and goals between the Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and iGen cohorts. This entails: 1.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2019

The old boss-to-employee, command-and-control leadership environment has “worked” when it comes to building process-efficiency systems, engineering large buildings, and creating infrastructure. In the new working environment, one of the biggest challenges is for managers to go from boss to coach.

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Leading Blog

JULY 18, 2012

In Team Turnarounds , authors Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl present a six-stage Team Turnaround Process. Stage II: Committing to Growth. The team at stage II needs a vision for where it’s going, clear values to guide it, and a decisive plan of action that’s chock-full of specific and attainable goals.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2013

So how you do you continually commit and re-commit to going the extra mile for your customers? The key to providing consistent value, despite the obstacles you will inevitably encounter, is to build a culture of collaboration where everyone''s goal is to delight the customers and ensure their swift return.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Olsher has developed a three-step process to help you uncover and reconnect with your natural strengths, identify the vehicle you’ll leverage to share your gifts with the world and the specific audiences who’ll benefit most from your gifts. Be careful about which memories you commit to.”. What is Your What? Retrain Your Brain.

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