Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Jesse Lyn Stoner of Seapoint Center provided the Space Between Coaching and Delegating. This month, we are mixing things up!

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

For organizations, attrition is an expensive issue that takes money away from impactful progress, innovation, employee benefits, and enjoyable team activities. Misalignment around priorities and delegation breeds animosity amongst the team. Use a white board to write down objectives, talk through timelines, and delegate tasks together.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. Frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. Wise leaders are true delegators.

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Leadership Reputation Learning-by-Doing Planning 77

Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2019

Leadership takes courage because it requires making bold decisions that some people won’t agree with or support. Innovation takes courage because it requires creating ideas that are ground-breaking and tradition-defying; great ideas always start out as blasphemy! TRY Courage requires you to exert energy in order to overcome inertia.

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HR Digest

JULY 18, 2022

Gives room for innovation and creativity. Giving them the free will to do this will create space for overall innovation and implementation of tasks. Constantly delegate tasks to each employee once they are needed. . Applauding people gives them the energy to do more. Increases job satisfaction . Applaud good work.

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Micromanagement Delegation Creativity Energy 98

QAspire

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me.

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Succession Storytelling Godin Delegation 195

Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He was delegating more and growing the competence of his team. We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. He’d done everything he could to position himself for the next promotion. His results were amazing.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Success depends on your ability to delegate not just responsibility; you have to delegate authority. You may decide to delegate some decisions and tasks; but you keep the important stuff to yourself. Delegate the rest.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? Are you aware of how leadership is evolving to respond to those trends? As a result, millennials are being pushed into leadership roles before they are ready.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Guest post by Janet Britcher : Entrepreneurship: Exploring When professionals demonstrate excellence in their chosen field, they are often promoted to leadership, leaving behind their foundational expertise and for some, their first love. I’m a fan of playing to strengths, and spending time and energy where there is creativity and passion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

We’ve worked with four-star generals who describe their leadership method this way: “I give my people the bottom line of what’s gotta happen. Former Alaska Airlines CEO John Kelly was a master at knowing when to take charge through one of his conative capabilities – innovating solutions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

Welcome to the April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! However, this year is different, because I get to host the April Carnival and bring you an outstanding collection of the “best of the best” in leadership development. Wally Bock from Three Star Leadership presents The Key to Engagement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying “The best bosses revel in helping others succeed” Mark Stelzner presents Two Easy (And Legal) Ways to Gather Competitive Intel posted at Inflexion Point.

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Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On! The fried clams won. I've had readers ask "Why so many? posted at TanveerNaseer.com.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

It can give you the space you need to turn old problems into innovative solutions or find new areas of thought and imagination. But the alternative–saying yes to everything–can lead to overwork, scattered energy and resentment. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. Tuning out.

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Delegation Creativity Stress Execution 164

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of development, engagement, productivity, team building, and more. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 5 Essential Qualities of Truly Great Leadership.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 9, 2011

So I stopped and instead, began to think about other people, who write about, and practice, leadership every day. And, she is a staunch advocate for women in leadership. She has compelling and global reasons for placing her considerable energies here. Delegation is a big deal in leadership.

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Blog Delegation Leadership Politics 63

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

This post recently appeared on Smartblog on Leadership : To start off the New Year, a lot of leaders will take their teams “off-site” for a day or more. Examples of themes are innovation, change, diversity, or playing to win. It’s the little details that can make or break an off-site that are often delegated and ignored.

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Planning How To Restructuring Hotels 120

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 10, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Consider this promotion with more energy and thought than you would a major machine or capital improvement. All rights reserved.

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Team Building Delegation Learning-by-Doing Maturity 122

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 405

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

You can choose to delegate, mentor, coach, shadow or even give people projects to run with. There are innovative ways you can build a culture of celebration. For example, perhaps a team has been working really hard, putting a lot of focused energy into a project, and for some reason the end result wasn’t what everyone was hoping for.

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Succession Micromanagement Creativity Stress 100

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 21, 2012

Specific values are the things the we will currently give priority to, seek to satisfy, spend our energy pursuing. Values range from generic, such as our ideas of ethical treatment , fairness, honesty…to specific. The more intensely it is valued the more strongly will a goal be pursued. Jaques 1994).

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Motivation Delegation Ethics Creativity 135

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I write and speak a lot about leadership. And, I think wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. But, frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise leaders. They continually seek change, which will spur energy around their vision – for the good of all those around them.

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Reputation Delegation Planning Learning-by-Doing 41

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Limit wasting your energy. Usually the most energy will be in a few key places at a time. Learn to delegate. I’ve learned pastors don’t delegate for three reasons – pride, selfishness or ignorance. And, this is true, and even harder sometimes with volunteer leadership. You can’t do it alone.

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Resistance Learning-by-Doing Delegation Conference 38

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

However, if you don’t give enough direction, and you’ll be wasting time and resources having to delegate and do work over. Know where to apply your energies and you’ll be working faster and more efficiently. Not every person in an office can be led the same way.

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Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

If any of these describe your leadership style, you might want to take a look in the mirror and examine the face that’s peering back at you…you might have bolts growing out the sides of your neck. Are driven by your ego – The heart of leadership is about giving, not receiving. You might be a Frankenboss if you…. They deserve it.

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Micromanagement Follow-up Blanchard Policies 48

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Where we place our greatest energies. Church Revitalization Innovation Leadership Ministry' I’m not good with details.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Bureaucracy 70

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Where we placed our greatest energies. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. I’m not good with details. True story.).

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 40

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I write and speak a lot about leadership. And, I think wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. There are few I know in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. They continually seek change which will spur energy around the vision. The wise leader is risk-taking and intentionally encourages innovation.

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Morale Delegation Edmondson Reputation 30

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Where we place our greatest energies. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. I’m not good with details. True story.).

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. As with New Year’s resolutions, a burst of energy and good intentions may get things started. ” The leadership team I just worked with had a productive two-days together.

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Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As a result a lot of idea sharing and thus opportunity for innovations was potentially lost. I am in a position at work where I have no people under me, however, the point is a great one in that the only relationships that can progress and be maintained are those into which we are willing to give time and energy!

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

When employees are busy and disengaged, businesses are missing out on cost-saving ideas and innovations that could be developed from the bottom up. We believe that one of the ways managers can tap into this discretionary effort is the practice of service-based leadership.

Leadership 8

Leadership Loyalty Greenleaf Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

” This mindset triggered knee-jerk reactions to overinvolve herself in delegated work and to communicate harshly by bottom-lining every email, one-on-one conversation, and team discussion. Second, Jenna implemented a new communication habit to shift her leadership presence from cold and excessively direct to engaging and supportive.

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How To Delegation Argyris Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When companies do find a way to recapture the insurgent energy of a start-up, it’s usually because leadership has emphasized two things. Micro-battles are all about using these fast test-and-learn cycles to innovate—developing new products, opening new markets, figuring out better ways to do things.

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Team Agility Strategy Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. You can't just wish or want to do something; you have to put your time, energy, and attention into getting it done. Growth requires leadership. Do you want long-term growth?

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