Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Of course, it depends on the situation. You must determine what’s required to achieve your goals. . Ron Shaich, the former CEO of Panera Bread, believes the two essential requirements of operating any successful business are discovery and delivery. . The post Leadership—Are You Using the Most Effective Ratio?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

When you can embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive. But we’re gonna start with a conversation about strategy and tactics, because leaders and managers can often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. Over the course of five years, these events will occur frequently enough that your ability to address them will likely determine whether your business succeeds or fails. Any wrong move can take you down.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Well, one collective deficit could, and did: The lack of effective leadership. This is the best way to pressure test and improve ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

By Richard Moy Reprinted with permission If you are searching for an executive-education course that will foster networking opportunities in addition to the actionable knowledge you are seeking to build, ask yourself these three questions as you sort through all your options. Does your course foster a group-based learning environment?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 2, 2017

But too often these goals fall by the wayside before the snow has had a chance to melt. With all the writing I’ve been doing recently on goals, I thought it might be fun to put my money where my mouth is, set a New Year’s goal of my own in a public way, and see if I can stick to it. Make small sub-goals. Define Success.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals. Encourage your employees to ask ‘what is our purpose?’

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Working together includes talking, sharing ideas, debating issues, collaborating, making decisions, establishing goals, providing feedback, and celebrating success. Do all team members embrace the team’s mission, goals, and values?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

—————— An effective operating plan is strategic. Vision informs goals, priorities, and strategies, which become a roadmap to fulfilling the vision. Navigating these adjustments is an ongoing strategic leadership role, also known as a strategic management process.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history. How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. The leadership aspect of servant leadership is the responsibility of the traditional hierarchy. Leadership is the by-product and positional authority is, at best, an afterthought.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. In the meantime, here are my Top 10 leadership insights of 2017 as chosen by you, the readers of my award-winning leadership blog.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. The end goal of all of these principles is to cultivate excitement which enables you to love what you do. The common denominator among almost all company goals is their lack of clear and exciting outcomes.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 26, 2016

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of being invited to be the in-studio guest expert on CBC Radio to discuss why people have a hard time keeping their New Year’s Resolutions and what we should be doing to be successful in achieving our goals. And where will it lead your organization once you’ve achieved it?

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is one critical leadership error most leaders make at some point. The critical leadership error: Forgetting people are trying to follow. 4 suggestions to avoid this critical leadership error: Ask questions. They share leadership across the team. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 4, 2016

With a complex endeavour such as leadership, it’s only natural that there be different schools of thought and perspectives on what would be the best way to lead your team and organization forward. Now to be clear, leaders by default do operate with some form of authority, usually as a result of their position within their organization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Michelle Bonam, VP of Organizational Effectiveness, Ceridian Investing in Growth The time to nurture leadership potential is not upon retirement announcements, but well before. Investing in leadership development and ongoing learning opportunities empowers employees to fill the shoes of departing leaders seamlessly.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.” It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Leadership is joined at the hip with achievement (goals; tasks; desired outcomes; targeted results).

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This past summer, my daughter Malaika worked at her first summer job, which also happened to be her first time in a true leadership role. And this effort reveals the first critical leadership trait: our ability to grow as leaders is dependent on our willingness to get feedback from those we lead [ Share on Twitter ].

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For many of us, the month of September presents the perfect opportunity to look back on the goals we set out for ourselves earlier this year and to assess how well we are doing in achieving those goals and more specifically, what should we be doing from this point forward to ensure that we successfully attain them.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

So whilst vision or mission articulates goals and tactics for achieving those goals, purpose defines the essence of the business – why it exists, who it exists for and how it makes the a difference in the world. And of course for the purpose to survive the company must adopt behaviors that align with that purpose.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Innovation isn’t just the breakthrough concepts which often sets the course for extraordinary companies, but ongoing innovations small and large. Effective Leadership Satya Nadella’s transformative leadership at Microsoft demonstrates the profound impact of visionary and effective leadership. Be extraordinary.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. However, Mark’s influence has not been limited to chicken. Learn more and register here.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Defining Leadership Development In simple terms, leadership development is a set of activities that equip current and future leaders with the tools they need to perform effectively in their roles.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many organizations operate out of the belief that people in leadership need a tough mindset to be effective. Especially in turbulent times, there’s a sense that the only way leaders can reach the financial and subjective goals they’re measured against is to bulldoze their people. The Leadership Gap.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2024

To help determine whether this degree is worth it for you, consider these five career opportunities: School Counseling As a graduate student in this area, you’ll develop a strong understanding of the policies, budgets, laws, and leadership strategies that are transforming modern educational institutions.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival. That’s real leadership.”

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Modern Servant Leader

MAY 8, 2020

The servant-leadership community lost another great example and shepherd this week. Ken was a passionate advocate for servant-leadership at Toro and beyond. In particular, when teaching the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership I always use one of his stories to represent Empathy in practice. That is servant-leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2023

Starting a small business is an exciting venture that comes with immense satisfaction and, of course, tons of challenges. It’s about transforming your vision into reality, introducing your unique offering to the market, and turning an idea into a lucrative operation.

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