Lead Change Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

It is a powerful question and one which few clients have considered. Even for relatively-mature business people or organisational leads, it is not something they consider. How might I help you? I cried, I laughed, and I may have even sworn. Great leaders create other leaders. Do you lead your life well?

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch Dianne had always felt like more of a wallflower than a leader. She began working with an executive coach who gave her weekly exercises to do in order to hone those abilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

Powerful Phrases to Confidently Confront a Bully at Work Looking back I feel I should have stood for myself and not give into this bully. – Female, 47 Dubai (from our World Workplace Conflct and Collaboration Survey) You would think by now, we’d be past the need to write about dealing with a workplace bully. ” Sigh.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about people only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Without question, your top talent will leave you if you fail to lead and take care of them. More than 50% say they have different values than their employer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

You were born to be an entrepreneur. You were taught to be an employee. Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2017

Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. You strike a nail to put it in its proper place so that it can hold a structure together for decades. Other times you need to be the nail. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. Taking offense or not taking offense is a choice.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

No one enjoys taking criticism, but if you can’t listen to others and take in what those around you are saying, you’re slowly eroding your leadership, even if you don’t realize it. Here are some questions to help you identify the principal danger signs in yourself: Are you closed off to criticism?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2013

Guest post from Jim DuBreuil: If you Google the term, “business maturity,” you will find lots of discussions about the emergence of social networks to drive new business. You’ll also see information about how a line of business “matures” when you implement an effective model, focus on the right priorities and execute rigorously.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about people only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Without question, your top talent will leave you if you fail to lead and take care of them. More than 50% say they have different values than their employer.

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CO2

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination – Jimmy Dean All new leaders should read The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins. The First Week We tend to fall back on old habits and patterns when we’re at a loss for what to do.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

“Disruptor” has become the “feature-of-choice” for contemporary leaders on the move. It telegraphs a leader who is cutting-edge and transformational; one who cultivates risk-taking and experimentation. What makes a leader a great mentor? Great Mentor-Leaders Are Judgment-Free. It as a mark of partnership.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Aaron Hobbs President of RISE shares his experience in having an executive coach and the benefits he gained, during this interview. What led you to seek executive coaching, and why did you choose your particular coach? What led you to seek executive coaching, and why did you choose your particular coach?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Great leaders look for ways to make this conversation easier. Many times people wait to have important difficult conversations until the issue has escalated. Many times people wait to have important difficult conversations until the issue has escalated. It’s harder then. A Functional Conversation on Dysfunction.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You came up with an awesome idea. You started a company. You got funding. What could go wrong? Others do not. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Six powerful new technologies, all reaching maturity simultaneously in the early 2020s, will each act like a new color in the palette of creators, designers, and innovators. What business problems will you solve using artificial intelligence? What new products and services will you create with it?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2018

Neal Burgis of Burgis Successful Solutions submitted Great Leaders Simplify Complexity. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Eight Ways Leaders Inspire Us. Dan recaps, “This guest post from Andy Cunningham describes eight ways that leaders inspire those around them. Productivity. Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

Then I said, “I don’t know if you realize it, but I have my own personal agenda too. In fact, it runs everything I do.” How a personal agenda can work against you. My team went on to discuss what having a “personal agenda” meant and how we interpret it in a negative way. Not always.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2011

In the world of leadership where the traits of accountability and personal responsibility are so highly regarded, I have one question? What’s with all the finger pointing? Here’s the thing – as a leader, anything that happens on your watch is your responsibility whether you like it or not.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 24, 2011

How difficult is it for you to change your mind? When was the last time you changed your mind? Do you consistently challenge your own thinking, or do you wait for others to bring the challenge to you? When your thinking is confronted, how do you react?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Yet what we hold in our consciousness tends to manifest, meaning that the inner game runs the outer game. Both are essential.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

I N The Leadership Gap , Lolly Daskal makes clear to us that “if we want to continue to have a positive impact on the world and make a difference, we must constantly rethink the instincts that drive us.” Leaders need to question “who they are being while they are leading.” What children’s stories have in common is survival anxiety.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

Went on to do what put them in the history books. The stories offer some perspective on what young people are experience now. For millions of millennials, what should have been a key transformation period, full of adventure, freedom, and self-exploration, was temporarily halted. Author Robert L.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2014

Guest post from Karin Hurt : You think you’re ready to be promoted. Perhaps she’s known you for years and she still has an outdated view of your professional maturity and competencies. Or, let’s face it, you might not be ready. Here’s a proven model for approaching the “do you think I’m ready” conversation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). We do more and produce less. Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. Disengaged leaders do not want to abandon the status quo. What is expected of leadership today? Where are we?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Guest post from Larry Senn: Think about the last argument you had with a colleague or even a loved one. Chances are, it was because you saw, experienced, or truly believed something that was different from the other person. This stagnates your personal growth as a leader. How do we honor other’s realities?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2018

When I read through the New Testament, I see countless examples of leaders who, at their core, were passionate about making disciples. In order to be a true leader, you must make disciples, not fans. Anyone can have fans. Fans observe you from a distance. A true leader is vulnerable and transparent.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

From the moment you walk into a room or meet someone one on one, you’re being sized up and judged. It’s such an automatic response that most of the time we don’t even realize we’re doing it. It’s such an automatic response that most of the time we don’t even realize we’re doing it.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Too many appointed leaders sit on the line and wait rather than taking the initiative and stepping up to make things happen. ” They may be called “leaders” by their position. .” ” They may be called “leaders” by their position. Leaders develop and bring out the best in people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 3, 2012

Baker & Evan Leatherwood: In addition to being a great painting, Rembrandt’s “Head of Christ,” reveals two traits that great leaders and great artists share: the willingness to persist past the initial round of success and failure in life, and the courage to find a true mission and serve it. Rembrandt’s genius came only with maturity.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 11, 2013

Marissa Mayer is a case study in what NOT to do as a new CEO. While she’s clearly under intense pressure to pull Yahoo out of what many see as a death spiral, making rookie mistakes is not going to help her cause. That said, I see no indication whatsoever that Mayer is the right leader for Yahoo at this critical juncture.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 23, 2023

There are some hidden fears shared by many leaders. And those fears, if left to do as unanswered fear does in our life, can be dangerous. As leaders, there’s a charade we can be tempted to play about how we are feeling. It’s as if there’s an unwritten rule we have to hide our true emotions. Seek a mentor.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

He said, “We only have had a swimming team four years.” I asked, “How did he do that?” He replied, “The coach had a simple philosophy, if you want a football team you get some horses, if you want a swim team you get some fishes.” Leadership is the ability to take yourself and others from Point A to Point B.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 21, 2015

But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. That’s why I always start any emerging leader program by talking about trust. I’m preparing now for a new emerging leader program for one of my clients. Have a Solid Plan.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

You miss a few weeks of news and everything changes. How do companies compete in this digital era ? What are the best practices we can learn from others? What is the Peter High definition of “nimble”? You share stories of companies who have shifted into the digital era. Digital Leadership.

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