Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2019. Employee engagement is shockingly low--but it's not an employee problem; it's a leadership problem. Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Losing this is essentially losing one of the company’s most sacred competitive advantages.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Inspiration/Creativity. New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Jesse summarizes, “When managers act like coaches, everyone benefits. Development.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Now that we’ve identified the trends, let’s focus our attention on specific business problems to be solved by the addition of senior leadership talent in the consumer packaged goods space. CPG leaders must be comfortable thinking digitally, creatively, and on their feet. Agility is key. The latter is perhaps more critical.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

By pooling resources and avoiding duplicate efforts, companies can optimize efficiency and enhance their competitive positions in the market. Promoting Innovation and Creativity: Coopetition creates an environment that fosters innovation by combining diverse perspectives and expertise.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In today’s leadership and strategy methodologies, leaders and organizations need to have five strategic rules of leadership clarity present in order to achieve greater outcomes of effort within their organizational designs. Your competitive advantage must transition to become a strategic advantage using the five strategic rules.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Find Dan on Twitter at @DanOestreich. Follow Ken on Twitter @RapidStartLdr.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. Conversely, delegation occurs when a manager assigns a task to a team members. There is little or no opportunity for the team member to provide any creativity or innovation to the process, and often learning is limited.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Welcome to the January 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Creativity/Inspiration. Communication. ” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg.

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Great Leadership By Dan

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. Will you join me in rewriting the script about what gives businesses a competitive advantage?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I’m sure you’ve heard of the terms Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ); but few people have heard of Adaptability Quotient (AQ), especially as it relates to leadership. In part due to their agile and adaptable leadership style, they are able to create self-managing teams that collaborate together on projects.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Creativity is the starting point for all innovation, and most organizations rely on innovation to create a competitive advantage. Because of this, leaders of organizations in all industries are asking more questions about creativity. Where do we find creative people? Where does it come from? How […].

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Purpose is a Competitive Advantage. Once I was visiting a top-performing restaurant manager in Chicago. For this restaurant manager, work has meaning and purpose. They find creative solutions to problems. She had prior leadership positions at Yum! Why does work have such a bad reputation?

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” Yes, the General Counsel role has changed dramatically, from one of gatekeeper and legal advice provider to a critical member of the corporation’s leadership team. A creative problem-solver? But guess what? Think about it.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

Being known as an organization where the best people want to work isn’t just an HR issue—it brings a serious competitive advantage when the best people want to be part of your team. They fall into six critical areas: Great leadership. When you get leadership right, you get the right people. Great jobs. Great purpose.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. By embracing the potential for change, you can harness its power.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

To survive and prosper in 2017, companies must adopt a way of managing that is based on their capacity to learn and change—consciously, continuously, and quickly. Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. Now managers must cope with sudden shifts in the rules of the game.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. Values-driven leadership is essential.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s also a sought-after speaker on subjects ranging from competitive advantage to strategy to leadership. You’ve met thousands of managers and leaders in businesses around the world. They approach strategy as a test of imagination, creativity , cunning and courage rather than as a set of tasks to be completed.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

This according to a recent survey by Right Management. Leaders can develop workplace cultures that engage people and provide a source of competitive advantage. Connection is diminished when we feel we are being micro-managed or over-controlled by others. This is consistent with other research.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You’ll feel good because you’re growing and developing, and you’ll find higher levels of innovation and creativity. Lead From Within : If you want to improve your life, if you want to improve your leadership, you must learn what your strengths are and align yourself with them. Leadership: Turn Mistakes into Lessons.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Her leadership helped save it. Stated another way, these leadership behaviors create a team that pulls together and protects the culture from spiraling down into a dog-eat-dog environment. Although she couldn’t pay them more, she found creative ways to reward their loyalty and effort. What can be done to save it?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms s are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” Yes, the General Counsel role has changed dramatically, from one of gatekeeper and legal advice provider to a critical member of the corporation’s leadership team. A creative problem-solver? But guess what? Think about it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2015

How does an emotional connection between management, employees, and customers actually provide a competitive advantage? It also makes them more creative and better decision-makers. All of these benefits are performance enhancers that provide a competitive advantage to an organization.

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HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2024

There are many examples of diversity and inclusion in the workplace but we often get caught up in two areas—hiring and leadership. If you’re looking at it solely from the viewpoint of profit, a Global Human Capital Trends study found that 78 percent of respondents believed that diversity and inclusion gave companies a competitive advantage.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, December 31, 2010 Slow Down, Sell Faster I am really enjoying the snow. It is in these periods of low rush that my creativity tends to be the highest. This is where my Time Management systems kick in to make sure I am getting the right things done. But the offset is the lower creativity.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By simply being willing to stop the madness and reclaim the asylum from the lunatics (inept leaders, lazy managers, and fee happy consultants), huge gains in morale and productivity can be quickly achieved. Good process should provide a fluid framework to inspire creativity not stifle it.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2014

"Our company takes a holistic view of organizations to align the mechanics that create and sustain real competitive advantage for companies from five to 50 million dollars," he adds. This past week, Michael shared with me his insights about leadership, challenges faced by leader,s and what it means to be a leader.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 15 Key Lessons On Managing Change Change, they say, is the only constant. We may not be ‘change management experts’, but having a set of thumb rules always helps when dealing with change (because at some point, we have to face/manage/lead a change). Hope that clarifies.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

got drowned out because managers and team members were just too busy keeping up. It’s a hard truth, but if you want the power and benefits of distributed leadership then you have to root out toxic mindsets and behaviors at all levels. You can see why this might be very appealing to the managers. ” -Abraham Maslow.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 11, 2012

The newest issue of Strategic Leadership Review is out and features three more strong articles promoting evidence-based leadership. The article discusses creative organizations and the need to develop innovative leaders at all levels. One in particular is Lisa Fornier’s Leading from the Middle. Then check out the piece.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. Yet in a recent survey of 5,000 only 1 in 4 people believe they are living up to their creative potential. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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