Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

2 Simple Writing Momentum Hacks by @wallybock How Failure Feeds Creativity Being right all the time is killing creativity.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Championship golf courses use an architecture and difficulty that challenge the best in the world. But as the best keep getting better (improved equipment, better conditioning and strength, smarter course management, better coaches and caddies), it’s vital to improve the courses to meet the new abilities.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. 1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

But setting goals in functional silos and then hoping that everything works itself out across the organization is an unlikely path to success. Doing so ensures that what they’re doing as an entire team will enable the achievement of the company’s overall business objectives — which often represents the difference between success and failure.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Jack Trout on the simple approach to success: “Trying harder, believing in yourself, walking on fire, and saying, ‘yes I can’ are not steps up the ladder of success. The surprising truth is that success does not spring from anything inside yourself at all. Success is something given to you by others.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. The result is Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Speed Trap.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The most successful companies adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time. Of course, you have. In How To Work with (Almost) Anyone , Michael Bungay Stanier shares a tested process that sets up working relationships for the best possible success.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? A striking feature of Roosevelt’s political success was that he became an admired champion of the poorest Americans. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful. It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. Collision Course : Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire by Hans Greimel and William Sposato.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

☙ When asked the secret of his political success, Ford reveals more than he perhaps intends by replying, “I made everyone else’s problems my problems.” ☙ “Ford never doubted the contribution of college sports to his character or career.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

This personal feedback loop will “place you in a constant state of course correction and improvement.”. Of course, we need to be clear about our values. Successful Seals training students make it through because they “accept it as a means to a better end.”. Your values help you know what winning looks like.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Even when there is a large market, most successful entrepreneurs attack a small portion of it at the beginning. Of course, you will take the higher valuation, because you’ll give up less of the company, right? Of course, you want the bar to be set low rather than high, to guarantee that you’ll make it over.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

This is, of course, exactly the way the Founding Fathers wanted it. Source: The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life. * * *. the president is in charge of an entity over which he has fairly limited power. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Lessons from the Titans : What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success br Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer. Today’s leaders can learn a great deal from their successes, as well as their missteps. But how does virality actually work?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

10x Is Easier Than 2x : How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy Dan Sullivan, the world's leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

While entrepreneurship is not for everyone, going in well-informed is essential to success. If you want to improve your chances of success, be honest with yourself and recognize the weaknesses in your business education and your business acumen, and seek help from a mentor or take courses to learn what you need to know.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is, of course, exactly the way the Founding Fathers wanted it. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job”— James Fallows. And of course, we play a hand in that.) Thanks to “the tremendous power of mass communications, any unpopular or unorthodox course arouses a storm of protests.”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

I T SHOULD go without saying that the health and well-being of employees have a direct impact on the success of an organization. Yet, it is unusual for an organization to put it on the high-priority list along with profitability and customer service. The solution is to build it into the culture of the organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen teamwork, and foster success in business. Distilling lessons learned from some of the world's most extraordinary disruptors, The Bold Ones presents eight unconventional pillars to success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2020 that you don't want to miss: A Decade of Ideas for New Year Success by @Mark_Sanborn. He is, of course, one of the most un-ordinary individuals in history. What Makes a Great Leader? by @ScottEblin. Examining Harvard Business Review Press’ New Drucker Library by @brucerosenstein.

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. Over the course of the last year, he has collected his thoughts on the response to the pandemic and its implications. We are told to work smarter, not harder. Friedman will show you how. Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World by John Baldoni.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

He shares the lessons and the opportunities that have come his way as a result of his success. Schwarzman grew up in a successful entrepreneurial family selling curtains and linens in Philadelphia. He says, “To be successful you have to put yourself in situations and places you have no right being in. Schwarzman was not.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

There is the crisis where the issue is known, there is a procedure for handling it, and success in dealing with it comes down to proper execution of the solution. People’s anxiousness comes from the sense that things are out of control, and they have no capacity to direct the course of their lives. What can I do now?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But whether the disruption is big or small, there is a quality that is critical to our success that connects them all. I remember my parents telling me, from early on, to roll with the punches—don’t let situations knock you off course. For some disruptions, it is fair to say, “Get over it,” and move on.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Asking for help can mean the difference between success and failure.” Of course, we recognize and reward people for giving help, but we don’t typically reward people for asking for help. With both organizational and individual success at stake, we need to rethink our responses to asking. We just need to ask.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Over the years, he has helped his clients completely reinvent their operating systems—the fundamental principles and practices that shape their culture—with extraordinary success.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Making it on the team is the new success.” And of course, this means openness to feedback. At one end is the Success Impulse. Following tough advice is takes real grit, especially when you’re already experiencing some success.” But 10xers are not only high IQ but high EQ. They work well on teams.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This of course, is a key to their eventual success. There was no precedent or legal course of action that allowed presidential intervention. Unremarkable at this stage of their life they, like most young leaders, made mistakes stemming from inexperience, cockiness, lack of caution, outright misjudgments, and selfishness.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2023

When working with me or taking my courses, they’ll try to emulate that cool, calm exterior — thinking it matches the interior monologue. The anxiety is great fuel for success, and I know that as long as it doesn’t control me, I control it. Hundreds of speeches, panels, and sessions later — most folks are shocked to hear this.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This is a guest post by Robert Smith, author of 20,000 Days and Counting : The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now. The bottom line is that success is built by chunks of time. And a successful leader has that time built in. Of course, if you are that serious, you probably already do. Keep it up!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Above all, this is a book that will help you navigate your own life's voyage: the voyage of leadership of course, but more important, the voyage of character. Sailing True North helps us find the right course to chart. The Leader You Want to Be : Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day by Amy Jen Su.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2020

And for us to be successful leaders, teammates, parents, friends, spouses, and human beings, it’s important to give feedback effectively to those around us. Do we genuinely want the other person to be more successful? And there are, of course, different ways to give feedback effectively.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

Of course, working with others has its challenges. Instead of looking for the ‘secret sauce’ of success, we must start sowing seeds of success.”. American missionary Adoniram Judson is rumored to have said, “There is no success without sacrifice. Leadership is not a solo practice. Great leadership costs us something.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

T HE ABILITY TO REINVENT YOURSELF is core to your success as a leader. Warren Bennis and James O’Toole wrote, “Most of us wear the concrete shoes of our earlier successes.” What are the new capabilities on which your leadership success will depend? The ground is shifting under your feet. You can measure them. What Happens Now?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Of course, to begin, you have to recognize the need to adapt. Knowing the rules and when to break them is essential to successful adaptability. Something to think about: Most people lock on to a particular course of action, they make their minds up early and fail to adapt to evidence that their choices are wrong.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The foundation for doing that is found in five success principles that have worked for Falk and others he has shared them with: Never go to work or school, or anywhere important) running on autopilot. That, of course, requires that we overcome our reluctance to expend energy on deliberate thinking.

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