Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The success I’ve enjoyed has been due in part to my own efforts, but it’s also been due to so much beyond me, the effort and support and examples of so many people, and to twists of fate beyond my control. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life. Be decent to people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without losing your soul. Your source for practical leadership, inspiration, tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. Two the initial cost is lower. They want to see action.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. She held a similar role of CHRO at Flowserve as well as HanesBrands Inc.,

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It means providing high quality products and services at a reasonable cost (to the organization, the employee, the environment, and society). Two of the most important aspects in the organizational equation are the cost and the productivity of your personnel. As an organization, you want everyone to perform and produce optimally.

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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? What happened?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Welcome to the May 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided 8 Steps to Avoid Flipping Your Lid in Challenging Leadership Situations. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Change: Drive Your Desired Culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Better yet, the most important behaviors leaders can do to develop and maintain motivated, engaged employees tend to have little or no cost, but rather are a function of the daily interactions that managers have with employees pertaining to work in the context of each employees’ jobs.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

That rest and recovery did me a lot of good, because I sit here today with a ton of renewed energy and focus. “ And, he quoted a Harvard analysis that estimated that “sleep deprivation costs American companies $63.2 Ultimately, it’s all a matter of leadership expectations, and the examples that we set.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The demands on a leader’s energy and attention throughout the year are endless. This article provides you with 3 critical leadership steps for transitioning from the end of this year to 2016. Let’s first address what are transitions. Why Are They Important to Leadership Growth? 2. Eliminate “energy drains”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. For example, IBM hired Lou Gerstner as CEO in 1990s rather than promoting from within. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. You have less energy to think about strategy.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

They truly believe they can transform employees, even those with below-average skills and drive, into valuable players through their excellent example and the sheer force of their iron will. Avid the sunk cost trap. Since sunk costs are irretrievable, it’s nest to act like you have only the present and the future—because you do.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Renewable energy in electricity generation. Innovation requires creating value that exceeds the cost of production. This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. Only through collective leadership can we meet the challenges before us. And the list goes on.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, working with a social prompt app can significantly improve employee connection if your team struggles with interoffice communication. For example, notifying team members about birthdays and workplace anniversaries, especially for remote team members, can help everyone feel connected socially.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 19, 2023

For example: How much does it cost to express genuine interest in customers or to anticipate their needs? Does it cost more to display a sense of urgency or to pay attention to detail? Do you pay your employees more to smile, to make eye contact, or to add energy to their voices?

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 3, 2017

Ambiguity and unclear expectations carry extremely high costs! One such example is the decision-making process. In some instances, you may benefit from a conversation with a professional leadership coach. Better to let the small things go and save your energy for when you really need it. Get Clarity.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

What was once considered one of the most contaminated and environmentally dangerous locations on earth, was reopened to the public as a pristine wildlife refuge in one-sixth the time and less than one-sixth the cost of original clean-up estimates. feat the government''s own General Accounting office declared unlikely, if not impossible.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

So, you and the entire leadership of your neglected organization decide it’s time for change. By sending, your focus is on extrinsic motivation (nice events, for example). Before you even begin, leadership at the highest level should believe in what they’re doing. What the heck is going on??? Empty Promises.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Wasting time and energy may be one of my biggest pet peeves as a leader. Does it ever feel like you are wasting valuable time and energy? It can be frustrating to feel your most valuable commodity – time – has been wasted or you invested good energy on the wrong things. Plus, bad structure is an energy-drainer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. I’m super excited to put those things into practice and to continue to grow my leadership skills as a result. My ex was scared it would cost us the respect of our clients and, ultimately, their business.

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QAspire

MARCH 11, 2014

Supervisors commanded and controlled others and leadership was often equated with “taking power”. Mary Parker Follett defined management as “ the art of getting things done through people ” and collaborative leadership embodies and extends this belief. When required, they collaborated in person. Let us take a closer look at these.

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The Empowered Buisness

MAY 6, 2014

Because of my exertion-exhaustion approach, my world came crashing down with life threatening illnesses that cost me everything in my life. Willpower is one of the least understood concepts, especially in the world of leadership. Living your company’s purpose and values takes daily leadership discipline and self-control.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

You can also advocate recycling and go for energy-efficient practices. Conduct an audit of your machinery and choose the most energy-efficient alternatives. Or, you can create a mentorship program and bear all costs. You can achieve it at every step of the production process. For that, you can start a community awards program.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2021

Examples of aporia: Covid19 forced my 1st-grade twins to be in hybrid school for almost one year. So, what does this have to do with work, teams, and leadership? “To agree that someone else’s idea is coherent is a lot easier than agreeing they are right or wrong – the energy cost is lower.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 13, 2024

Leadership’s Focus on Clarity Emerges as Key Antidote to Uncertainty The more challenges you face, the more clear you need to be about which problem is the most important to solve. 3 Vital Questions to Create True Leadership Focus 1. What is it costing us? The next crucial questions, ‘What is it costing us?’

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 17, 2018

As we continue to explore the business alignment steps I listed in my June Lead Change Group column ( Leadership Requires Healthy Relationships with Feedback ), we’re moving from Confronting Reality to Starting on the Inside. It is the intangible energy that supports and permeates through all the other levels of your business.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman. Connection.

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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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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

For example: How much does it cost to express genuine interest in customers or to anticipate their needs? Does it cost more to display a sense of urgency or to pay attention to detail? Do you pay your employees more to smile, to make eye contact, or to add energy to their voices?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

’ As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value.” How the leadership team functions — or dysfunctions — ripples out to shape organizational culture. What they most often have are leadership problems.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. For example, being able to think strategically in the high-tech industry involves a nuanced understanding of strategy topics such as network effects, platforms, and standards.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

B EING A LEADER often means making far-reaching decisions that require major investments of time, resources, and energy. Cost and Consequence: How will you achieve your objective? What will it cost? Keeping your strategic objective constant, ask whether different tactics can lower the cost or raise the prospects of success.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2011

If the only candidates with experience are simultaneously not qualified to lead, how did they get in the running for leadership positions? From their work in succession planning and executive assessments, they have isolated seven leadership attributes that come up again and again, that provide the key to leadership success.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2021

For example: How much does it cost to express genuine interest in customers or to anticipate their needs? Does it cost more to display a sense of urgency or to pay attention to detail? Do you pay your employees more to smile, to make eye contact, or to add energy to their voices?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The real question is: are you willing to invest the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to take on the responsibility of a leadership position? The authors propose three questions you should ask to assess your own leadership potential: How far do you want to go? What do you enjoy now but would have to give up?

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