Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2015

I’ve been a student of leadership for over five decades. I learn every day from leaders – but my foundational learning came from four gentlemen. I spent fifteen years in non-profit management. I had some good bosses, some OK bosses, one great boss, and three really lousy bosses. One of my lousy bosses made grand promises – to staff members, to volunteers, to customers; yet he kept few of his commitments.

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General Leadership

MAY 4, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.” General George S. Patton. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2015

The most important tip for having effective one-one-ones is: Believe they are important , that they are the manifestation of leadership, and treat them as the most important part of your day! Once a manager does this, the rest is all just technique. However, we could all use a little refresher. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 12 suggestions for brushing up on your regular employee one-on-ones.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 4, 2015

Responding to uncertainty establishes trajectory, impacts potential, and determines quality of life. Uncertainty is the spotlight of leadership. The dark side of uncertainty: Intolerance and quick tempers. Lost perspective and poor judgments.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 4, 2015

I live in a part of the world where we greatly appreciate the spring season. I look out my office window, and see the glorious magnolias blossoming. When I stretch my view just a little wider I can see the tiny spinach leaves and pea shoots stretching out of the soil from where I planted them a couple of weeks ago. The ruby-throated hummingbirds are on their trek back to this part of the world to make their nests and raise their babies.

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Women on Business

MAY 4, 2015

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 4, 2015

One of the words we use a lot at The Kevin Eikenberry Group is potential. It is in book and newsletter titles, and it is on my mind every day. Implied in those titles is our belief that we all have significant potential. Here is what is at the bottom of this blog: “Extraordinary potential […]. The post Leadership Potential: Make the “Possible” Your “Reality” appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 4, 2015

Is complexity leaving your organization behind? That’s a question we considered at a workshop I attended recently. Author Mark Miller and a team of facilitators walked a large group through the content of his new book Chess Not Checkers. The boardgame imagery? It’s symbolic for what happens as organizations grow. In the early stages of most small organizations or teams, the rules are simplistic and team members may play interchangeable roles much like the game pieces in a checkers ga

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 4, 2015

Dear Followers: I’m excited that my new book Triggers is finally finished! Pre-order it now at Triggersthebook.com ! Life Is Good. — Marshall. Finally just around the corner (May 19) is the publication of my new book Triggers ! This week’s blog is the second of a short series that is going to be all about the book, its content, and its message. More specifically this week, I’m going to share with you how you can overcome feeling depleted (and succeed anyway) and how I use the material from Trigg

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Coaching Tip

MAY 4, 2015

According to scientists, our personalities are a mixture of genetics and individual experiences. We inherit a genetic predisposition, but the environment in which we are raised can modify our personality for better or worse. We need to understand our unique personality and our early experiences that helped forge it, and then we must train ourselves to become conscious of the ways our attitudes can help or hurt us and others.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 4, 2015

Communication skills are critical to being an effective leader, but they are seldom the reason people are promoted to leadership positions. Even the most personable and engaging leaders can benefit from knowing more about how to strategically use communications to advance their ideas or align their people around a common goal and drive them to action on behalf of the business.

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Jason Womack

MAY 4, 2015

You’ve been assigned a new project at work, or perhaps you volunteer for a local not-for-profit organization. Either way, you have some important phone calls to make, or you have a meeting coming up, or - maybe - they’ve asked you to lead a workshop next month. As you sit down to think through the “presentation” you’ll make (on the phone, face to face, or from the stage) you find yourself thinking, “Am I ready for this?".

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2015

Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader (Crown Business (March 24, 2015) by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. It is a terrific book, and one that adds greatly to our understanding of the life, and impact of, Steve Jobs. He really was one of […].

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Management Excellence

MAY 4, 2015

(Note: This post first appeared at the Management Excellence blog [link] by Art Petty. Copyright 2015 Art Petty.) One of the most common and damaging of a leader’s blind-spots is the compulsion to regularly provide evidence that he/she is the smartest person in the room.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 4, 2015

I have the opportunity to sit with many people who are experiencing disappointment in life. Many times, even when we are doing the best we know how, we find ourselves disappointed with where we find ourselves in life at the time. Life happens. It could be tragedy or a minor set back, but it hurts. Pain is always relative to context. And, if we don’t know how to respond we can have a very hard time recovering.

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Managing Communities

MAY 4, 2015

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Rapid BI

MAY 4, 2015

Date line May 4th…year… well every year :) Sometimes, just some times we like to do things people are not expecting. Sometimes its obvious. If you don’t know that today is special, well it is an inter galactic holiday – Galactic Star Wars day Well today is one of those days, and just for a […]. The post Just because… it’s May 4th – or Star Wars day #StarWarsDay appeared first on.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Two decades before Daniel Goleman first wrote about emotional intelligence in the pages of HBR, he met his holiness the 14 th Dalai Lama at Amherst College, who mentioned to the young science journalist for the New York Times that he was interested in meeting with scientists. Thus began a long, rich friendship as Goleman became involved over the years in arranging a series of what he calls “extended dialogues” between the Buddhist spiritual leader and researchers in fields ranging fr

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 4, 2015

S eeing April come to an end marks one third of the year gone. Can you believe it? The year 2015 seems like it started yesterday but we’ve already entered the fifth month of the year. Crazy, I tell you! I hope this year has only gotten better for you as the year has progressed. Ours definitely has. With that said, it’s time to get to business today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

I was working with a CEO who was frustrated that his team often failed to meet deadlines. When I asked why he thought that was, he explained that it was because they were lazy. When I met with the team to ask why they were often late, they explained that the culture of the organization was built around quality. They had been told that mistakes are not an option.

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Women on Business

MAY 4, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

The hit show “House of Cards” highlights a remarkable journey for its owner Netflix. The company that once desperately offered itself to the now-bankrupt Blockbuster Video for $50 million—and was rejected—is now a profitable $5 billion company growing at about 20 percent per year. Few would have imagined that a company built around the distribution of CDs by mail could, in just a few years, migrate its business model to streaming content on the Internet and eventually to

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 4, 2015

On the grand scheme of deception I suppose this ranks low on the Richter scale. But early tremors are deceiving, and reveal important indicators of our fault lines. The Backstory. Sebastian (for those just tuning in, my youngest son, age 9) came out of the womb running. The son of 2 marathon runners and triathletes, he was tousled in the womb and spent hours sleeping and giggling in the baby jogger, so much so that we needed a new set of tires.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

HBR recently ran a series on midcareer crises and asked experts to tackle tough questions like: Should you consider a more fulfilling job with a pay cut when you’ve got a mortgage, bills, and college savings to worry about? How do you get the training or education you need to switch careers if you’re already struggling to spend quality time with your family?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Nicholas Blechman. Running an open recruitment process – one where the position is openly advertised – can be overwhelming, especially if you don’t have at your disposal an HR department that’s organized to handle the process. This is often the case in small businesses, volunteer organizations, and some government branches. I’ve often seen recruitment calls receiving too little interest, or, worse, paper CVs piling up on a desk, with no clear plan on how to deal wit

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

If your job feels as though it’s draining you, try this: Do more. Even if you feel overworked and too busy to fit another thing onto your calendar, the solution may actually be to take on more responsibilities. Not just more responsibilities in general, but more of the right type. Try adding a new pet project or even giving a trial run to a whole new job that you’ve been interested in and feel passionate about.

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