Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2021

To breathe new life into cooperation and collaboration on your team, take time to connect with people on a personal level and resist the inclination to skip time spent in conversation getting to know the people you are responsible for leading or who are your teammates. from 2014 to 2017. Letting Others In.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Bob Johansen describes full-spectrum thinking as “the ability to seek patterns and clarity across gradients of possibility—outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories—while resisting false certainty.”. Johansen looks at business development. It is a valuable and cautionary book. Think beyond products.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Many leadership books and coach training programs outline rules for asking good questions. Ask open questions that start with What, When, Where, and How. Offering observations when clients deflect, hesitate, or show resistance. Common ones include: Don’t ask closed questions. Avoid Why questions.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 23, 2024

I talk some about change in my book The Mythical Leader. Understand the real resistance. Knowing why people are resisting helps the leader walk people through change in a caring, less controlling way. Then hold everything else with open hands. Develop a healthy rhythm of change. It’s not always the obvious.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Acting courageously can help to solve problems, avert disasters and open the doors for opportunities. One of the most important points he makes in the book is that the outcome of your courageous move hinges a great deal on how you behave—how you present it—and your reputation. But if it weren’t risky, it wouldn’t be courageous.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

came up with the idea of opening a store with only one price—a dollar. And in 1955 the first Dollar General store was opened. A boss only gets results; a leader gets development.… introduced it he thought he might get resistance from Cal Sr. The least control for the most development of our niche.” When Cal Jr.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2017

Compassionate Accountability is a method for resisting the negative pull of drama—“I gotta win.” Compassionate Accountability is based on three skills : Openness. Openness is a state of non-judgmental receptivity to your own and others’ experiences. That seems like a tall order, but it makes sense. Compassionate Accountability.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Ann Van Eron , founder and principal of Potentials , a global executive coaching and organization development consulting firm. She is the author or co-author of several books including her latest, Oasis Conversations: Leading With an Open Mindset to Maximize Potential.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2017

Guest post from Michael Bungay Stanier: Recently, I stepped into an elevator on the way to a meeting and noticed that the button you press to close the door quickly was much more worn than the one you press to keep the door open. Despite the title of the book, it isn’t about turning these managers into coaches.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

Leaders who may have previously resisted extending the option of remote work to employees out of a concern that it will negatively impact productivity were relieved to see the opposite. The open question is whether this change will payoff for individuals and for organizations. It’s temporary, they may have told themselves.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 7, 2022

Joe Folkman’s new book, The Trifecta of Trust: The Proven Formula for Building and Restoring Trust , cuts to the heart of a critical leadership issue. Joe provides detailed definitions and a chapter for each of the three pillars and weaves the “trifecta of trust” throughout the book. Trust is easy to talk about. They moved faster.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The sharing economy reduces the need for as much material and energy to be used in production because we potentially don’t need as many drills, saws, cars, RVs, books, or cars. If you didn’t agree with any portion of the assertion, would you vocalize your resistance or just ignore the argument and the arguer?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 23, 2014

As Steve Tobak says in the post Why Leaders Resist Change , “…those who have the greatest impact on corporate performance – not to mention the livelihoods and investment portfolios of millions of employees and shareholders – are the most resistant to feedback and change.” An open mind is willing to listen, learn, and grow.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm. or “you sound excited.”

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

After I read her book, we spoke about her experiences leading in what she describes as “the most male-dominated organization in the world.”. “No The book and training suggest an exercise using the “5 whys” to drill down to this core purpose. Remember that fear is just another form of resistance, and you remember what you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Or does it unknowingly - and sometimes knowingly - promote avoidance of honest and open communications? Teams and entire companies can become feedback-resistant, and will inevitably suffer. I discuss the Feedback Trifecta in more detail in my new book, The Courageous Leader. Chances are, it’s the latter. This isn’t unusual.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Those skills, while uniquely human, are not what we are typically trained to do and require a deal of messy personal development. Open Source Leadership rewrites the rules of management, giving you a unique look at the most common misperceptions, illusions, and downright wrong information you’ve been getting about what works and what doesn’t.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2023

It marks the latest development in a wave of generative AI technology, including Stable Diffusion and DALL-E2, which have proven capable of generating incredibly sophisticated images. The nature of our relationship with AI is something that UCL’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ponders in his recent book I, Human. ” Master or slave?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As someone who loves studying and implementing strategy, I read numerous books on the subject each and every year. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. Starting with the challenge opens up minds to problem solving rather than the more traditional focus on attaining performance goals.”-Richard

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Lead from Within

JULY 22, 2014

In Chuck Yeager’s book The Right Stuff, he describes a time in the 1950′s when an elite group of US Air Force pilots set out to fly at altitudes beyond anything that had ever been attempted before. Lead From Within: When we are accepting rather than resisting we open ourselves to profound new possibilities.

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General Leadership

APRIL 9, 2014

By resisting the tendency to turn inward and focus only on his challenges by willfully orienting outward and discovering what he could do to help lighten the load, life the spirits and selflessly serve those around him. “…developing a great sense of caring requires we [make] empathy an indispensable part of our lives.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Invest in self-development. Just imagine, then, how much further you could get into their good books simply by asking your manager whether there are any important-but-dull tasks you can handle for them. In that case, you could indicate that you are still open to receiving other perks. Surpass your manager’s expectations.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

Intrigued by his book, The Art of Fairness: the power of decency in a world turned mean , and its case studies and stories, I reached out to talk with him about his perspective. In my book I talk about the justifiably disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, and the much-respected Game of Thrones producer Bernadette (Bernie) Caulfield.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 31, 2014

People openly resist being persuaded. All the raw ingredients of communication (words, body language, emotion, logic, action, inaction, listening, branding, perception, structure, and so forth) produce change--either positive or negative," writes business communications expert Dianna Booher in her book "WHAT MORE CAN I SAY?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2010

It’s not worth stressing over if it gets in the way of developing the great relationships you need to get work done well. Stop striving and resisting. The effort it takes to strive and resist keeps us from seeing the people right in front of us who can help. It relieves stress and allows us to be more open to others.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 14, 2017

That’s the question that author Adam Grant poses in his 2016 book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Some key points from the book I think you might appreciate include how original work happens in the first place, and how as leaders we can establish an environment that encourages originality from all of us.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When my eyes were opened to that, I realized that I actually have little to no 3rd or 1st gear in my life at all. Kubicek writes that while writing this book consumed a lot of time, energy and mental thought, “it is still my responsibility to be the leader worth following in my home. You hire responsive ones and fire the resistant.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 16, 2019

It is unusual of for me to do interviews or promote books on this site. A well respected thought leader in the the emerging and evolving world of coaching for 30 years, I couldn’t resist. And when I read her latest book called “Self as Coach, Self as Leader”, I knew that you also needed to hear what she had to say.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Be open in communicating commitments , and be willing to have your performance measured. Your relationships will be more rewarding, you will be better able to resist negative influences, and you will build self-respect. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Be consistent so that others will see you as reliable.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Someone you know opened a window that let the fresh air of a dormant dream take you in a new direction. Thinking bigger can help to create a greater vision and goals for your organization as well as help individual team members to set personal development and organizational goals with more ease. I sense your resistance to this one.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. That’s when I decided that it’s time to write a new book.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It has the highest resistance to adapting to changing circumstances. The resistance of the organization’s structure to change remains the primary obstacle to a well functioning, fully aligned organization. The reason is that the system of organizaiton is always the last to change.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Someone you know opened a window that let the fresh air of a dormant dream take you in a new direction. Thinking bigger can help to create a greater vision and goals for your organization as well as help individual team members to set personal development and organizational goals with more ease. I sense your resistance to this one.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Serve to Lead , my book about 21st century leadership, includes respectful references to the management approach of Dwight Eisenhower. In his new book, Eisenhower in War and Peace , respected historian Jean Edward Smith makes the case for Eisenhower’s exceptional leadership in war and politics. More recently, Ike has been rediscovered.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 7, 2015

It''s an adventure," explains author Laurie Sudbrink in her new book, " LEADING WITH GRIT.". It''s what keeps us young and happy, if we embrace it rather than resist it. Knowledge: Knowing your desire, your why , opens you up to accepting the what and the how. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I talk some about change in my book The Mythical Leader. Understand the real resistance. Knowing why people are resisting helps the leader walk people through change in a caring, less controlling way. Then hold everything else with open hands. Develop a healthy rhythm of change. It’s not always the obvious.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

When I studied the Argentine Tango there was a foundational rule that I believe is true for all leaders: The leader opens the door for the follower to pass through, and the leader then follows. It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

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