Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. Extreme Teams : Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail by Robert Bruce Shaw. Extreme Teams : Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail by Robert Bruce Shaw.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

How do you know when your leadership is making a difference? As we move forward on our leadership journeys, there are lots of clues out there that can let us know how we’re doing, but there are 10 in particular that you should focus on.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. But time has not diminished the importance of integrity as a leadership trait. Why is integrity such an important leadership trait? Beyond the buzz-words Most leaders and companies profess to “value integrity”. Find out how others view you.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The hardest part is taking the first step. * * * Aaron Salko, Founder and Creator of The 9th Stratum, is a Sales Management Professional with the innovative solutions-based company Stephen Gould. Learn more at stratum-nine.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Questions that sound stylistically dissimilar can be, at their core, the same type of question. Towards the end of a multi-day strategic planning session for our leadership team last year, our facilitator asked, “Can we really do all of this?” This approach paid off for a leader at a software consulting company.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Questions that sound stylistically dissimilar can be, at their core, the same type of question. Towards the end of a multi-day strategic planning session for our leadership team last year, our facilitator asked, “Can we really do all of this?” This approach paid off for a leader at a software consulting company.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. The Campbell Soup Company has been doing more and more for decades. Nike began as a shoe company. Nike is a Do Less Better company.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 31, 2013

In a recent post we found out why nice companies finish first. Throughout the book the author quotes successful leaders that show how companies (and people) that are nice experience more success than their less kind counterparts. Oscar Wilde. Leadership Product Management / Marketing customer service optimism reputation'

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2024

Last fall, leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss , cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, released their book, Move Fast & Fix Things. In it, th ey share a unique, engaging and hands-on playbook developed from their work with companies from Uber to Riot Games to Walmart.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 21, 2014

For instance, Oscar Wilde was known for saying. As leaders, I believe an appetite for curiosity and learning is indispensable for leadership development. As leaders, I hope you use this underutilized tool to bolster your leadership. Questions: Which quote has shaped your leadership? Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 10, 2015

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your company’s reputation. But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal employees living and breathing your brand. “No, I’m telling you this works, I’ve seen it from the inside!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2016

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are 10 pieces of feedback in particular that ratify our more human effectiveness and eventually lead to leadership greatness. They are rich with meaning as to the kind of leader you are, and are destined to become.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 3, 2012

When you’re hiring for a leadership position one of the most elusive qualities is actual leadership. Leadership is always harder to get a grip on. The act of leadership is, at its root, a selfless act. Power of influence: Most companies work along flexible and ever-shifting lines of authority. Indeed, Davis et al.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2019

No wonder 71 percent of senior managers view their companies’ meetings as unproductive and inefficient. Getting the most out of meetings is easy if you know how to effectively design them. One of the biggest black holes in workplace productivity is the poorly designed, poorly run meeting.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit July’s Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 5, 2010 03:56 am under E Pluribus Partners Every month I participate in a leadership carnival with several bloggers whose work I respect.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

He describes Texas Roadhouse as “a people company that just happened to sell steaks.”. To develop your mission and values, moderate open and honest discussions with groups around your company. He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 16, 2014

Throughout the book you’ll discover amazing leadership lessons and quotes. I think you’ll enjoy the 7 leadership lessons and quotes I picked out from Masters Of Doom. Team with people who have similar vision : The two Johns began to disagree on how their company should be run. Eventually, the two Johns parted ways.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company. I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. So how do billion dollar companies get built? We’ve heard it all before. Why does it need to be a small market?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Advertising company Grey gives a “Heroic Failure” award to employees who take ambitious risks and go down in flames. Just as a failed cancer drug proved incredibly useful for managing the AIDS virus, a past failure can become a wild success in a different context. Want more advice on boosting creativity and innovation in your company?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

His company sponsored scores of future professionals in the sport when no one else would take the risk. Vans is way more than just another shoe company; it’s a worldwide influencer that’s still striking a chord with up-and-coming generations. Paul was genuinely curious about the kids rolling by, their gear, and how they felt doing it.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Below are my top 60 favorite leadership quotes of all time. Leadership is not what you know or who you know, but how to transfer what you know into the hearts and minds of who you know.” – Mike Myatt. “A Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.” By Grant Wattie. Margaret Mead.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Today we’d like to introduce you to Eileen Hahn, a leadership consultant who partners with organizations to assist them in hiring and leading exceptional people. I love partnering with organizational leaders to enhance their business on all levels: financial, systems, customers, leadership, and employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 18, 2022

As my guest, Jim Huling, points out in this episode of my podcast “ Leadership Biz Cafe ”, the problem is not with the strategy itself, but with how leaders go about executing it. For the past 40 years, Jim has served in various corporate leadership roles, from Fortune 500 organizations to privately held companies.

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LDRLB

MARCH 20, 2014

Lindsey helps companies and their people get wildly better remarkably quickly through experiential learning, most recently in Learning and Development roles at McKinsey & Co., Their research and insights draw interesting parallels into the world of leadership development. Leadership caplan rao scaling subtraction sutton'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 2, 2016

It was this overpowering appreciation that life was wild and precious and fleeting, that undoubtedly propelled TR to become the youngest person to ever be President. Perhaps, then, we should revisit the importance of internal empathy, and not outwardly charisma, as a potential hallmark of true leadership? Find out more at: [link].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 3, 2011

“I have this fantastic idea, do you have a second&# – When you know they haven’t stopped dreaming, and feel that no idea is too wild or stupid. “I’m really enjoying my work here – I’m proud to work for this company&# – When you’ve just about hit the leadership jackpot.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

BetterWorks drives high-performing companies to become operationally excellent, and provide powerful insights about how work gets done. Their enterprise goals platform, based on “Goal Science” thinking, is designed to engage, empower, and cross-functionally align workers.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

While in the second year of my profession the great recession hit and had a significant impact on my area of expertise including venture capital, and private equity-backed technology companies. What I am recommending is a highly strategic communication plan to help maintain a candidate’s interest in your role and respect for your company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Or perhaps you work on your own or in a small company that just doesn’t have time for such formalities? I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team. Invests deeply in developing her leadership team.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 17, 2014

Guest post from Daniel Patrick Forrester : Too often leaders of companies fail to recognize the Pavlovian habits of constant connection and the opportunity cost of think time and ingenuity that it creates. Step 2: Determine What''s Lurking Within Your Digital Culture Your company already has a digital culture.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. Here are 100 of the best ways to define leadership–choose the ones that fits best for you. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Guest post by Janet Britcher : Entrepreneurship: Exploring When professionals demonstrate excellence in their chosen field, they are often promoted to leadership, leaving behind their foundational expertise and for some, their first love. Culture is hard to transplant, as any company which has been through a merger can attest.

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