Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Here are eight critical questions from Leading With Intention that the intentional leader needs to ask: What kind of environment do you create in your interactions with others? Today’s business environment requires the ability to see beyond one’s own perspective. “The rest is practice, consistency, and continuous effort.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Positive work environments create positive outcomes. What is the situational strength of the environment? Coordination is more difficult when team membership is frequently changing, task requirements are dynamic, people work in different locations, or team members have diverse capabilities and perspectives. Conditions.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2018

Bring in outsiders and add diversity of thought. Also in a more diverse environment we tend to be more vigilant and question more. Diversity is like a speed bump. Outsiders will see things we don’t and are more willing to ask uncomfortable questions. This doesn’t mean we should take fewer risks.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When you help your employees develop the ability to scan the environment, anticipate trends, and spot opportunities, you provide a constructive context for career development.” Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

That way, the person fully understands what’s expected to fit into the culture and the environment in which the work gets done. He also places great emphasis on diversity: “If you don’t have people who come from different backgrounds and experiences, you’ll miss out on meeting the needs of groups of customers.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Leaders must navigate and embrace the latter to create inclusive and equitable environments where everyone thrives. Not surface-level differences—like a disagreement in approach or process to employ, the kind of difference that challenges your worldviews, your beliefs, and values.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

In dynamic, fast-paced business environments, leaders and teams often find themselves rushing and producing work full of errors. A walk outside, away from the screen and often chaotic work environment can do wonders to reset your mind and body. Positive communication and mindfulness foster focus and protect valuable energy.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Fashion optimistic environments where people feel engaged and where they trust one another. Try to view your role as a leader through a positive lens — one that assumes noble intent, seeks the best in people, and presents an optimistic view about the future. Your employees aren’t the problem. They’re the answer to your problem.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 12, 2014

Find ways to create value from the intersection of diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise that live inside any organization. Set the Scene: Make thoughtful choices about all of the elements of the environmentfrom the physical space to artifacts to aesthetics.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Involve Diverse People. Unfortunately, the left-brain environment of these organizations often starves these ideas of oxygen and they don’t survive.”. “Develop hypotheses, search for patterns, look for outliers, create alternative scenarios to explain the information you’re receiving. Expand the group that examines the data.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

A leader today is someone who creates an environment that other people choose to join and do their best in. You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. We spend a lot of time with leaders telling them what to do, but we don’t tell them what to stop. Marshall Goldsmith, Business Educator & Executive Coach. ?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Some environments carry more risk than others. Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s. Embrace the reality that sometimes the highest form of leadership is when you lead from behind be creating the environment for others to claim their power and step in before you. There are real and imagined risks.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Because Lean creates a continuous improvement environment where all employees are asked for input on decisions, the Lean journey allows the CEO to naturally evolve from reactive day-to-day decision maker to proactive teacher, coach, and strategist.”. Here are some ideas to reflect on: Lean creates the ideal environment for motivating workers.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Companies that successfully manage at the pace of accelerating change create innovative processes to effectively integrate diverse points of view, co-create a powerful, shared understanding, and drive clarity of purpose across the entire organization. Build shared understanding by bringing everyone together in open conversations.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Use prospective thinking “Prospective thinking means taking a more expansive, long-term view of things, staying open to all sorts of possibilities, and doing your best to stay fully aware of what is happening both within and outside your organization or your immediate environment.” Step 3: Diverge.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Their lean and agile way of working is extraordinarily valuable in dynamic environments where yesterday’s best practices don’t apply. For example, tell them, “Your job is complete when you’ve had a sample group of diverse clients purchase the product through a test site and received a positive evaluation from all of them.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They created a workplace environment in which my contributions mattered and in every human interaction with me demonstrated this. Often, these individuals had confidence in me before I had confidence in my own ability. They provided me with the essential space and pivotal opportunities to learn, experiment, fail, and grow. Mark Twain. * * *.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The whole point of gameful engagement is to immerse yourself in a realistic but mock fearful environment and learn how to thrive, or at least push through it.” Shape-shifting organizations grow from the edges, and it is at the edges where diversity and innovation thrive.”. Gaming allows for immersive learning.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. And it opens the door to greater diversity in the leadership ranks and pipeline.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. By creating an awareness of our environment and identifying our own triggers we can be a force for adding value in other people’s lives by triggering something good in others. It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Too often, senior generations move into ownership development without recognizing that a strong emotional environment in the family is a necessary foundation. This includes having values-driven behavior, open communication, constructive expression of emotion, appreciation for the diversity of skills and interests, and so on.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

But rethinking can also help us find solutions to old problems, deepen our perspective, release us from inherited dogma and other people’s opinions, and understand how our closely held values relate and are applied to our changing environment. Adam Grant challenges us to Think Again —to question what we think we know.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

In changing environments, tried-and-true routines often lead to mediocrity. Sachs comments on Hogarth’s wicked learning environment that gives slow, ambiguous, or misleading feedback versus a kind learning environment that gives us plenty of timely, clear, and accurate feedback. Feeling anxious is not a bad place to be in.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard.” (p. At that point, it’s actually quite valuable to have people who are diverse.” (p. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Collaborate: The Art of We is a practical guide to going beyond democratic or cooperative work to creating truly collaborative work environments as a growth strategy. It’s teamwork that keeps people with a diverse set of skills, knowledge, information, and perspectives working together effectively and efficiently to achieve their common goal.

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