The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron. Zenger Folkman’s study comparing 360 assessments of STEMM versus non-STEMM leaders shows STEMM leaders are rated lower in leadership effectiveness. Something is missing.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Cooper Workshop 97

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2015

Wally Bock of Three-Star Leadership says that when you’re starting a new project, it’s tempting to think you can plan the error out of it. Think of bright shiny objects as a source of energy or refreshment, such as the new car smell or getting a new bicycle! Thanks, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E. Unlimited Follow Beth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post.

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 18, 2013

When jobs abound, employers of course are eager to fill the spots. Every person hired contributes to a company’s culture with their talents, ethics and enthusiasm, and a bad hire is a waste of time, energy and money. They host job fairs, place advertisements or offer current employees incentives for bringing in new hires.

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Reference Insurance Delegation Incentives 174

Chart Your Course

MAY 13, 2013

It is critical to write a detailed job description for the position you are looking to fill- listing specific skills, responsibilities, and time and energy requirements. Assessments give the employer a more complete view of what to expect in terms of performance, energy levels and personality traits. Divide and conquer.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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Leadership Long-term Cooper Charisma 67

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

I had not even finished my course work, and here he was asking me about deanship! I felt my energy shift. Many years later as I work with companies, I often wonder why most don’t feel energy around the vision they created. She serves on the board of ARTDO international (a Pan-Asian Leadership and HRD organization).

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Storytelling Katz Magazine Tactics 183

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

All of this takes energy and drive, for sure, along with a willingness to learn, adapt and engage. One of our four strategic priorities at 3M is People & Culture – because we know talent development, leadership, culture and organization effectiveness are all central to our business success. PHOTO: 3M. 54) of The HR Digest. .

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HR Digest

MARCH 29, 2024

To this day, I’m very grateful to my manager for giving me a second chance—it was a lesson in both communication and leadership for me. It’s also ideal to avoid badmouthing the client as it sets a bad precedent for your work ethic, even if the client was in the wrong.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Leadership.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. The research suggests that sales are highest when the team is highly coachable and under transformational leadership. Your best sales team will find energy from your enthusiasm and creativity.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. This often encourages an enlightened leadership style – illustrating the profitability of employee engagement and product knowledge in customer-facing staff, for example.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

s “Leadership Guy” because of his many articles on that platform. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. The very best managers inspire and excite employees and colleagues—unleashing the natural energy within them. Leadership Tip: Great managers are great communicators. 2) Energize.

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Management Diversity Performance Review Review 105

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage B2B Seminar 100

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit What Are “Sustainable Values&# ? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Self-aware Teamwork Open-book Emotional Intelligence 278

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage B2B Seminar 74

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh? Do you have great vision?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Relational Leadership is people-centric. The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Critical Success Factor 50

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of course, I would then start beating myself over the head with a guilt stick for not embracing a Madonna-like serenity in my new ‘round the clock role of nurse, short-order cook, janitor and taxi service for two little people with a sense of innocent entitlement in knowing their parents owed them a good life. They’d say ‘Wow, that’s great!’

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. People are the core of this leadership style.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 24, 2010

Of course she needed a lot more from her wait staff than showing up for work. They have energy. And of course it will be satisfying to the manager. Maybe this manager was self-serving or had questionable ethics. It was finding reliable employees. I was familiar with some of her waiters. I thought they were excellent.

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Learning-by-Doing Ethics Course Energy 98

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. The Vosges-Haut Chocolat headquarters runs on 100% renewable energies. Katrina Markoff first shopped her chocolates to Neiman Marcus who originally gave her a weak response. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

I promise to give unselfishly of my time and energy to strive to protect the interests of the group. As our research shows, loyalty highlights the importance of ethical principles, bringing people’s attention to the fact that behaving ethically is the right course of action. Pledge of Loyalty to Our Group.

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Ethics Loyalty Participative Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

business schools and recently-minted MBAs should shoulder most of the blame for the crisis, the article triggered a series of follow-on pieces in the world's most-respected publications, many lambasting the value of top business schools like Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and MIT, and questioning the ethical and moral convictions of their graduates.

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Leadership Ethics Crisis Globalization 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For more information about Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill and Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010), please visit their website www.survivingtheboomerexodus.com. Final Request… The strength of our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base.

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QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

The ideas they shared in the book as well as in the interview with me have served as a constant reminder to me that leadership in its best form is a gift of growth for others. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith] The same way any leadership or coaching activity occurs…it comes down to priority. The preamble to risk is courage.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Books 172

The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

The Star Wars website gives this definition, “The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together.” ” This is a powerful analogy for the leadership and culture energy fields that bind teams and organizations together. Ultimately, the problem is a failure of leadership.

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Herzberg Leadership Simon Motivation 64

Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you think this routine is a waste of energy, you’re right. Instead of complaining and criticizing , channel your energy into getting stuff done. Of course, you will have periods when you take on more responsibility, and periods when others will do the same for you. Over the course of a lifetime things balance out!

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Teamwork Micromanagement Short-term Comparison 95

Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

Ken and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he’d led his team. To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. And it wasn’t the kind of management or leadership advice you’d expect. We all know it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Of course this is not a good thing in and of itself. Walmart listed some impressive accomplishments , from diverting 80% of waste from landfills, to doubling the amount of local food sold, to generating over 1 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy onsite ( the second most of any corporation in the U.S.). Of course not.

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Ethics Short-term Marketing Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

All eyes were on Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL, to step up, assert the League’s values, and provide the leadership needed. There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Crisis management Ethics Leadership'

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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