Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

Improving connection in the home can lead toward a more fulfilling life and healthier communities, organizations and nations. Some clinging to objects is natural but too much clinging to objects may be a sign that they are substituting it for human connection that they would typically get from a parent or caregiver.)

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Sports Stress Objective Learning-by-Doing 369

Lead from Within

JANUARY 5, 2021

Part of any leader’s job is caring about their people and working to instill in them a sense of happiness, motivation, and pride in what they do and who they are. Many leaders neglect this important element of their role, but it’s too important to leave it up to chance. It makes a big difference—for them and for you.

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Crisis Crisis Management Motivation Succession 218

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer. What should I do?”

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Management Delegation Stress Team 234

Lead from Within

MARCH 12, 2020

Whatever your current level of leadership, use this list to guide you as you work with your own coach, mentor, or support team. Leaders who can’t manage conflict tend to shy away from it, and the outcome of conflict avoidance is never good. If you aren’t communicating well, you aren’t leading well.

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Self-aware Delegation Mentor CEO 214

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 9, 2018

Guest post from Bethany Andell: “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” – Mahatma Gandhi Recently a CEO friend of mine said that the three key ingredients to building a great culture are: 1) belief in the mission, 2) clarity of the vision and 3) having fun while living the values.

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Power CEO Brand Long-term 204

Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Organizations are always looking for new ways of doing business, new products, new innovations—it’s an important part of almost any successful business strategy. One important factor, often neglected, is the need for leaders to coach their teams through times of change. Respect their emotions as you communicate the change.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Resistance Execution 167

Lead from Within

JULY 19, 2018

Pershing, a US Army general in World War I, once said, “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary a poor leader can demoralize the best of troops.” Here are some ways to recognize the weak leaders around you and help put them transform. Poor leaders fail to lead by example.

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How To Cooper Tactics Succession 167

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 5, 2016

Doug Conant, from Leadership Resolutions for 2016. Others require immediate action because the timing is perfect and I feel confident that I know what to do. The bottom line for you is that if you don’t pay attention to the relationships you need to support you and your organization, you won’t get the results you want.

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Goal Bottom-up Content Leadership 100

HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Mental health professionals constantly warn us against turning into workaholics but despite our best efforts, responsibilities take over and push us away from finding a healthy work-life balance. Even when we are away from work, it quite often spills into our personal lives and distracts us from the peace we find externally.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Stress Long-term 119

Ron Edmondson

MAY 1, 2023

How do you know when it’s time to quit? In fact, I think that’s good advice to leave before you are forced to leave. Obviously, if God calls you to stay somewhere, you should stay. If God calls you to it — even when you’re miserable — you stay. No questions asked.

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Loyalty Positioning Incentives Edmondson 61

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We are pleased to share an excerpt with you today! We all expect certain things from our leaders, and these expectations constitute the Promise of Leadership. Leaders who do not make it safe to fail are breaking a promise. When a promise of leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken and performance erodes.

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Leadership Long-term Human Capital Commitment 150

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Today we are pleased to share a post from leadership coach and author Kimunya Mugo. All I wanted to do was… nothing actually! You are experiencing burnout,” he said. For me, I draw a lot of energy from my family. So deep was I buried my busy-ness that I completely neglected to nurture those relationships.

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Stress Follow-up Energy Banking 150

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

When he was rescued from the raft, he was put into a Japanese POW camp where he and other soldiers were tortured by the maniacal Watanabe ‘The Bird’ Unbroken: Path To Redemption takes place after the horrors Louie experienced in Unbroken. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Unbroken: Path To Redemption.

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Leadership Letter Discount Training 205

Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

He didn’t always do things by the books. He suffered from stuttering when talking in front of class. Are you looking for people’s strengths and encouraging them to use them? Could you help someone achieve greatness by helping them play to their strengths. Who are you surrounding yourself with?

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Leadership Travel Exit Strategy Brand 209

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You might imagine that having a manager that is aware of the profitability of their organization would be a good thing, but a recent study from Baylor University suggests this might not actually be true. ” It perhaps goes without saying that organizations do ultimately want to be profitable, so what can they do?

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Ethics Survey Loyalty Analysis 73

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 10, 2020

Now, leadership is needed (and sometimes expected) from every corner of the organization. What’s changed is that organizations have come to depend on a different set of relationships and the diffusion of tasks and authority throughout the organization. From Individual Contributor to Leader.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Influence 53

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Do the most creative among us think differently? I think you will find our dialogue full of useful information to help you think differently. As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. Think Different. If so, how? But this proved to be a false conclusion.

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How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 107

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The quality of information flow within an organization often is a good indicator of the quality of the organization, period. And in this day and age, enterprises that suffer too many breakdowns in communication just won’t survive. Sadly, this attribute is lacking in many companies. He seemed completely unimpressed.

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Bureaucracy Talent Management Travel Magazine 110

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 1, 2011

To ensure your people reach their stated goal, you as a leader must be aware of the potholes and obstacles that may delay or even sabotage that journey. To ensure your people reach their stated goal, you as a leader must be aware of the potholes and obstacles that may delay or even sabotage that journey.

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Teamwork Succession Education Diversity 124

Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2013

But as an organization grows, the message can get diluted or distorted if the group is too large to stay connected – if they can’t all fit around the campfire. But as an organization grows, the message can get diluted or distorted if the group is too large to stay connected – if they can’t all fit around the campfire.

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Team Agility Goal Teamwork 124

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Even in organizations that are supportive of the concept, it can be a challenge. Especially now.

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Servant Leader Greenleaf Leadership Airlines 250

The Empowered Buisness

MAY 6, 2014

While my details may be different than yours, how many times as a leader have you: Used brute force and over-efforting to achieve goals? According to Kelly McGonigal PhD, author of The Willpower Instinct, willpower is an instinct that comes from both the brain and body. I have always thrived on achieving big goals.

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Leadership Short-term Motivation Long-term 144

Ron Edmondson

MAY 14, 2019

How do you know when it’s time to leave an organization? In a previous post I wrote “ Leave Before You Have To ” – and I think that’s good advice for some people. Obviously, if God calls you to stay somewhere, you should stay. We stay because we don’t know what we would do if we left.

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Loyalty Positioning Incentives Motivation 35

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 18, 2011

How do you know when it’s time to leave an organization? I recently wrote “ Leave Before You Have To ”. Obviously, if God calls you to stay somewhere, you should stay, but many times, in my experience, we stay for the wrong reasons. I think these may apply if you are in a church or business setting.

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Incentives Loyalty Positioning Career 77

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 22, 2011

This is an outstanding book that should become a classic for its extensive research on leadership and organization effectiveness. Highly effective organizations have both. A central model is the “five frames&# they call the “5As&# with chapters organized around each one: Aspire : Where do we want to go?

Competitive Advantage 68

Competitive Advantage Price Organization Review 68

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 10, 2017

From Colleen Wing (played by Jessica Henwick, also from Game Of Thrones) to the return of Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson reprised her role from Daredevil , Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage), there was a lot of diversity in the supposedly whitewashed Iron Fist. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Marvel’s Iron Fist.

Leadership 171

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Training Power 171

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 31, 2015

How do you know when it’s time to leave an organization? In a previous post I wrote “ Leave Before You Have To ”. Obviously, if God calls you to stay somewhere, you should stay. Obviously, if God calls you to stay somewhere, you should stay. You may only be a leader for a season.

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Loyalty Incentives Edmondson Positioning 30

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 24, 2015

If you want to improve your team (especially your leadership team), don’t ignore these three cultures that will kill your team’s ability to thrive. And the church suffers from a lack of quality leadership. Before your team will be successful, you may need to engage some cultural change to enable the team to thrive.

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Ryan Team Discount Learning-by-Doing 30

Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2019

If you’re practicing even one of them, start working immediately to replace it with a positive habit before your leadership weakens and suffers major damage. Weak leaders are in the habit of saying one thing and doing another. If you can’t communicate, you can’t connect with others—much less provide engagement and transparency.

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Self-aware Resistance Strategic Planning Skills 168

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If the opening paragraph caused you to wince, then the text that follows is written just for you.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Here are some of the best practices we learned: Separate the M&A process from normal business operations. It’s easy to get caught up in the logistics of trying to integrate two organizations. But if leadership allows itself to get distracted, the base business can quickly suffer. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Operations Brand Ryan COO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

You know the one. On the other hand, compensatory narcissists were children who may have suffered significant emotional abuse or neglect at the hands of parents. Odds are that at some point in your managerial career, you will have to mentor a narcissist (or at least a fairly self-absorbed person).

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Mentor Self-aware How To Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s foundations and massive individual donor base that fund it and help it to move. But it doesn’t have a brain.

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Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

How often should you interact with her? What should you say? And how do you foster a connection without undermining your direct manager? The stronger your relationship, the more insight you’ll have into your company’s future. After all, “your boss’s boss should want to see you succeed.

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Career Bond Case Study CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

But two minutes from start to finish meant that they didn't brush their teeth very well, they definitely didn't floss, and the bathroom was a mess. It makes sense: if you don't know specifically where you're going, then you'll never get there. And if you don't set the bar high enough, you'll never live up to your potential.

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Goal BHAG Wilde Class 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

They’ll never ask you to do anything like that again.” ” In most organizations female employees pick up after George. But businesses probably will continue to reward their Georges until they appreciate the harm it causes to the organization itself.

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Taylorism Taylor Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Employees often feel victimized rather than energized by the changes.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12