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Catalyzing Leadership Energy Building Ready Now Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Author Matt Paese explores leadership acceleration and how organizations can convert sluggish processes into dynamic adventures that produce energy instead of burning it. Join us for a 30-minute conversation as Becky Robinson discusses some creative approaches to marketing your books during the upcoming holiday season.

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5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels

Lead Change Blog

What you can do, however, is manage your energy. Energy is the amount of effort we expend into doing something. Approach a task with high levels of energy and you can often get the task completed with super-human speed. Approach the same task with lackluster energy, and it seems to take forever. Avoid Task Switching.

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Put Limits on Your Energy Drainers

Next Level Blog

One of my favorite things to talk about with my executive coaching clients is “What are your energy givers and your energy drainers?”. Here are three simple but effective things you can do to ensure you get the optimal mix of energy in your work as a leader. They’re showing you who your energy givers are.

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How Leaders Can Choreograph Creativity

The Horizons Tracker

Despite the stereotype that creativity is the preserve of the lone genius, it is increasingly a collaborative affair. Recent research from INSEAD explores how leaders can do a better job by challenging the notion that creativity is driven from below and instead arguing that the best results tend to be when the leader drives things.

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The 6 Conditions Required to Scale a Creative Leadership Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

However, the ability of an organization to scale its leadership is in great degree limited or enhanced by the dynamic between the two most common kinds of leaders revealed by our many years of research: Reactive and Creative. Creative leadership is built for scale. Creative leadership is built for scale. Creative leadership.

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Constraint Kick Starts Creativity

Lead Change Blog

Consider that these constraints are but a catalyst for becoming more creative about the possibilities sitting before you. While my three girls achieved their modest goals in a summer, bigger constraints can require plenty of emotion energy and stamina. Time to re-frame. Notice that Coolest Cooler was TEN YEARS in the making.

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Leading Thoughts for March 21, 2024

Leading Blog

But you’ve got to figure out what the main thing is and transfer the time, energy, resources, and mindshare there. Source: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.