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APRIL 9, 2020

One area where this is absolutely critical is when it comes to company values, the subject of my new book, ‘ Bringing Your Values Out to Play’. What purpose do they serve to your company? Start by making sure that your leaders fully understand your company values, don’t assume that they do. But why are values important?

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MAY 16, 2019

Hewitt: Leadership is one of the most regularly used words in the world of business, and arguably one of the most important. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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JUNE 6, 2013

I sensed the disintegrated teamwork at the oil company and knew my efforts would be futile in that perfect storm of animosity. It is discouraging to note how many people suffer from an unFIT dynamic at work that pollutes company culture with negativity, resentment, and backbiting. Jim Leighton teams culture leadership'

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JULY 16, 2019

Guest post from Tabitha Laser: What is leadership? Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people. This is the first in a series of leadership books she calls “The Deadly Practices.”.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Guest post from Stephen Klemich : It is often asked, what is the difference between Leadership and Management? For over 30 years we have always referred to Leadership as being able to rise above the situation, be objective, strategic and find time to contemplate the culture, people and one’s leadership impact.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Guest post from Leo Bottary: Leadership lessons exist all around us, all the time. One of my favorite fictional characters provides a profound lesson in leadership in a wonderful book called The Offsite by Robert H. The groundskeeper, however, serves as the perfect metaphor for servant leadership.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

If this premise and the figures above are accepted it would suggest that only 10% of team leaders are high performing, enabling their teams, whilst 40% of leaders are failing in their leadership tasks, whilst the remaining 50% are barely holding in there! He founded The ODD Company www.theoddcompany.ie Sounds complicated? Not really.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Your mind drifts again — pondering if this company is the right place for you. If your responsible for hiring talent in your company, then you already know it comes down to creating , retaining and sustaining internal believers. Consider these questions for a second: Do you often feel like you are on an island alone in your company?

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is a powerful thing, one that comes with a unique set of stresses, challenges, privileges, and responsibilities. Our leadership journeys begin starry-eyed and well-intentioned, but the path to leadership power is one that can lead even the best of us astray if we aren’t careful.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Connection At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Leadership is a relationship between two people. Communication and leadership are joined at the hip. People, companies and entire industries have had to pivot and reinvent themselves. So what separates great leaders from the rest?

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MAY 2, 2019

Adams : We all look up to the great leaders among us—the men and women who seem to have a knack for creating inspiring visions of the future while building company cultures that bring out the very best in employees. And while individual leaders are key to an organization’s success, collective leadership effectiveness carries the day.

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MARCH 28, 2019

To me, one of the most important character traits of leadership is the amount of compassion we show others. Our ability to help find this explanation and deal with it is rooted in our humility which is of course another quintessential hallmark of leadership. He is passionate about all topics related to management and leadership.

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MARCH 6, 2019

A Genie (actually an HR Vice-president at a former company) once asked me, “ Dan, if you could make a wish and only do one thing for leadership development, what would it be?” You see, this was a company that was going through some tough belt-tightening, and we spent a lot of time making hard choices as to what to keep and what to cut.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Cultivating leadership presence is foundational for this to happen. What leadership presence is When was a time that you became so immersed in what you were doing that you lost a sense of time? Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, attributes the sustained success of the company to its operating principle of ‘values create value’.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students. But wait, there’s more!

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MAY 28, 2019

A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. It’s not about replacing action, which we know is a necessary leadership ingredient. She is a sought-after leadership speaker and educator, serving diverse organizations around the world. What if incessant doing keeps us from greatness?

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MARCH 15, 2018

I’d guess it’s unlikely that you think of your leadership team in this way. So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. A Superhero strategy isn’t necessarily bad, and it’s certainly better than having no leadership strategy at all.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Guest post from Jeffrey Hayzlett: What’s leadership? There is no one set of rules that makes for an effective leader, but leadership encompasses a slew of characteristics and different people embody different sets of traits. My attitude is about owning who I am and everything I do: Sell me, sell the company; sell the company, sell me.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Now we are looking at leadership opportunities that might not have been previously considered. Their myopic focus on this one tool limited their ability to “see” other leadership development solutions. After some analysis, they determined that the issue was a silo mentality within the company.

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JUNE 25, 2019

An age with lots of talk of innovation, lots of resources for it, better conditions for it than ever – but also an age of shallow innovation and a lack of innovation leadership. Succinctly put, innovation has a leadership problem. The next challenge for today’s leaders is to develop this kind of innovation leadership.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Last month Aon Hewitt, The RBL Group and Fortune announced their Global Top Companies for Leaders list. It's been two years since the last list, not to be confused with the competing " Best Companies for Leaders " list sponsored by Businessweek and Hay Group. companies, like Hindustan Unilever are catching up. PepsiCo, Inc.

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JULY 29, 2013

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Fast Company. Source for Nos.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Inept managers were responsible for losing talent with leadership potential. People leave managers, not companies. And in a competitive marketplace, it cost us dearly.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to hear David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around speak about the frameworks to creating leadership throughout an organization. Words, acronyms, and stories are key components to your company language.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Building balanced relationships through trust is at the heart of the IFB Model of leadership. About the Author: Yvette Bethel is CEO of Organizational Soul, an IFB Consulting and Leadership Development company. So, the question is, how can leaders lead by using IFB principles?

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JUNE 19, 2018

Even the military has morphed their ideals on leadership roles, shifting away from the highest ranked official and instead citing the individual or group who knows the mission and territory the best. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success. This is leadership!

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APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

The Three P’s of Second-Wave Leadership So, how do leaders practically manage this new batch of workers in the workplace, and what do these Second-Wavers need from an employer? Companies would be well served by following PwC’s lead. As a GenXer myself, I like to keep things simple and make my recommendations memorable.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And here's where our auto design safety analogy comes together with my thoughts on leadership. While leadership can confer ever-increasing levels of power, authority and compensation, it also carries with it greater and greater responsibility, just like automobile manufacturing. Leadership is a responsibility!

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MAY 7, 2013

When it comes to understanding how to balance the need to keep a sharp eye on the bottom line and keep a workforce fully satisfied and productive, some managers and companies seem to get it while others don’t have a clue. Company #1: 20 Cents an hour. Company #2: The $2000 sales management training lesson. Bob was devastated.

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MAY 15, 2014

I have also observed up close and per sonal the leadership styles of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Scott McNealy, Mitt R omney and a number o f others. Here are three ways I have seen leadership demonstrated powerfully- the type of leadership that gets results. compassion David Bradford leadership transparency'

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Guest post from Ray Zinn Having value is the essence of human happiness, and the essence of leadership. We also had the highest “boomerang employee” rate, an unofficial measure of employees who left the company and came back. The Value of Leadership Providing value is what leaders do. We did not pay salaries above the norm.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Guest post from Scot Hunsaker: Back in 2000, my company, Counsilman ? Very quickly, Macy’s role within the company began to change. This kind of artful leadership ability was not a theory. She leaned into leadership situations that likely caused her some discomfort. Hunsaker was in need of a receptionist.

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MARCH 6, 2014

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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MAY 14, 2020

For companies that are seen, by their behaviour, to be meeting the challenges set by the climate emergency in an effective manner; then on purely consumer-engagement and brand differentiation levels, this will enable them to achieve greater business success.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Now, the types of leadership qualities that show up on list after list are there for good reason. However, when you look closely, you discover that it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. This is the power of empathy at work. The POWER of Empathy?

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JUNE 28, 2018

So what does this have to do leadership? Leadership guru and author, Simon Sinek recently said, “To affect change inside an organization we must remember why people resist change. How does this impact great leadership? It even enables listeners to better remember the lyrics and melody by tapping into their limbic brain.

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