Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Communication. Who is Mary Follett? Neal Burgis, Ph.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2018

Fowler & Noal McDonald: Leadership is a complex idea: one that is not consistently easy to wrap our minds around. We know good leadership when we see it. If we think of what these experiences have in common, we might think of this quote by Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell: “Leadership molds individuals into a team.”

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 4, 2022

When someone moves into leadership, they typically have more responsibility. If over time a leader can increase his or her capacity–produce more results in a given period of time–they will not only succeed but potentially free up time to pursue new projects and revenue streams. Cooperation. Innovation.

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Cooper EVA Delegation Learning-by-Doing 77

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Goleman Crisis 59

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/26/13 – Team Building & Leadership Articles. 12/30/13 – Team Building & Leadership Photos. 12/31/13 – Team Building & Leadership Activities / Simulations. 7 Principles of Leadership Development: Managers as Mentors. Enabling Innovation. Meeting Zombies.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By definition, good ideas mean an improvement over the present, a better way of doing things or even better lives.That’s why people who have good ideas expect their leaders to act on them, which creates an instant test of leadership: do you care enough for those around you to do something positive with the idea?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Dr. Evil, err Ron, promised the Board that he would save, “One Trillion Dollars”. Scott continued by saying that Susan’s function was a big component of spend and the projected savings in her space was not only critical to ACME’s assessment, it was critical to the growth and success of NIH. NIH’s top leadership did neither.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. Tom has over three decades of experience as a leadership and organizational culture consultant. What’s the Goodell definition of leadership? . Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 30, 2013

To see all the Executive MBA teambuilding & leadership photos. Executives applying the Team Building & Leadership Development to ‘ Build a Tower Build a Team ’. Are you looking for team building and leadership development? Contact Mike or call 1.716.629.3678 to make your team and leadership better.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 20, 2022

The iceberg is filling a perverse need to understand or project something into the other that we wish to see, as opposed to just accepting that we are here, now, and what we have is what we got. And it does not help set conditions for change and the emergence of novel and innovative ideas.

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Organizational Behavior Cooper Team Resistance 97

Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

Ilan , Founder of The Founder Project , is no exception and I can''t wait for The Founder Project to come stateside! This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

A balance of meaning and results enables players to act from inspiration and cooperation, not purely from competition. Every project we took on was carefully positioned and aligned with our team’s purpose, values, strategies, and goals. They discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines. ” What does this company do?

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Cooperation. I suggest that instead of looking for the problems’ resistance you simply start looking for the exceptions’ cooperation. “ What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

When consulting and working on long-term projects with teams, the initial meeting is used to determine: Where is the team right now? Plus it helps, for you the facilitator, to be on the look out for cooperation. The company, team and people are changing, they may not notice it and change is happening. What do you think?

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Team Company Team Building Executive Coaching 141

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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Positioning Cooper How To Open-book 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

We changed the reporting structure to show the number of people who got their budget reports in on time and posted public reports ( by the hour at first then eventually monthly ) to show who is getting things in on time and how that is reflecting the allocation of $$ to their projects. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Great leaders have to ask: Where does your innovation come from? Recruit all the same people to the project? For Sir Richard, seeing his dream turn to ashes was a teachable moment of epic proportions—an unexpected provocation to rethink innovation in a world full of surprises. Not likely. Restock it with all the same things?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 31, 2017

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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How To Cooper Open-book Creativity 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 30, 2016

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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Positioning How To Cooper Open-book 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2016

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Learn More and Purchase Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions by Gary B. This book uncovers an important leadership skill – that of asking questions. The whole book can be read in a very short time (only about 90 easy reading pages), but the lessons will last far longer.

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Books Open-book Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Some major differences are going to be more time spent on Clarification of Role Responsibilities (who does what when; who is accountable to whom; authority of assigning and taking away existing work and project tasks.). Facilitative leadership of teams. Facilitative leadership. Managing Quality Team Projects. Team Leader.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

These elements are absolutely core to effective sustainable positively impactful leadership. Creating intentional impact This is another essential component of leadership requiring intention, energy, and presence to come alive. What do you want to have happen as a result of this meeting, conversation, or project? Be present.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

BTW – I am teaching a Professional Development class for University at Buffalo School of Social Work in Solution-Focused Leadership. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 124

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

The authors of that research, Lynda Gratton and Tamara Erickson, noted that “[people] were encouraged to cooperate, and they wanted to cooperate, but they didn’t know how to work together very well.” To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative.

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Project Efficiency Management Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. But that would require an ambitious new project. But it does happen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, about the importance of building inclusive leaders throughout your organization. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Indeed, humans are unique among primates in that we readily cooperate with in-group members– even if they are completely unknown to us. Given that group membership is such a deeply rooted part of human nature and organizational success, a central element of leadership is the management of group identities.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution…One Person at a Time in celebration of its five year anniversary along with quotes from the authors about their experience. Insigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. Leadership Is Influence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. This mismanagement of innovation is further exacerbated by the fact that managing creatives tend to require special attention and consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

.” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. One business head comments: “Initially, we had to coerce the top team colleagues into submitting their projects.

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