General Leadership

DECEMBER 7, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The MBA has become a touchy subject with a lot of young entrepreneurs figuring out the next step in life. This article may have put it best, theorizing that the MBA is “losing its magic.” Specifically, the reference was to the notion that an advanced degree in business would (magically) lead to better career opportunities; the more you study, the more you eventually earn.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 7, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton In the New Year, we will deal with leadership challenges we cannot predict in advance. To be ready, we need to set our leadership and learning on the path to success. This series includes 20 quotes (linked to posts with leadership guidance) that will help you leverage your leadership planning.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Isolation and disengagement may be normal in the short-term. Things happen. Patterns of disengagement fracture teams. 7 reasons people disengage: #1. They want something.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Successful leaders listen because they know that they don’t know everything they need to know. Who do you listen to? Abraham Lincoln understood that if you surround yourself with people who agree with you, you will miss out on important information and perspective. Charged with unifying a divided country, he understood that the strongest cabinet […].

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The moment immediately after a prospect becomes a client your consulting project begins. Beginnings matter. Which is why the best practices to start your projects are discussed below. Consider some famous beginnings: “Four score and seven years ago…”** “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”** “Call me Ishmael.

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ReImagine Work

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Forbes, Jan. 13, 2017 : “ Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s perspective, even when that perspective is quite different from your own. More than just a buzz word, empathy may be key to helping businesses grow — allowing leaders to relate to people and ideas around them. How might leaders work on developing empathy either on their own or with the support of their company?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Answer to a reader's email. After a post about people-pleasing, I received the following email: Ron, Have just finished your blog post “ 7 Casualties of a People Pleaser in Leadership “ I recognize I am a People Pleaser Pastor. How do I turn the tide on this? How do I stop? I am seeing tension mounting on the team. There is frustration on our staff and it is even spilling over to our spouses, and my vision has hit a brick wall.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Most people think they will speak up when something negative happens at work, but few actually do. Take these examples from a recent survey we did with managers and employees: “We had an assistant who created a very adversarial atmosphere. We walked on eggshells around her. People would rather do her work themselves than engage with her. Her boss wouldn’t even cross her.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Even as a new leader, you can’t ignore the fact that your position as a leader is temporary. One day you’ll leave. You’ll transition out of your leadership position. And someone will take over for you. Or maybe you’ll be asked to leave. Not given the choice to exit your leadership position gracefully. While we don’t really look forward to either kind of exit, we still know that we will leave one day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Marion Barraud for HBR. In every organization and every sector, hiring managers want to find the best people they can. Ask anyone trying to quickly find the right candidate for an open position and he or she will tell you: finding fantastic people and convincing them to work for you is challenging. In our experience, it is even tougher in the social sector, where the problems are bigger but the salary budgets are often smaller.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 420 features an interview with me, by Thomas Cagley, on Building Organizational Capability (download podcast). John Hunter in the podcast: Changing how organizations are managed makes a huge difference in people’s lives , not all the time and I understand most of the time it doesn’t. But when this is done well people can go from dreading going to work to enjoying going to work, not every single day – but most days, and it can change our

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Businesses today are constantly generating enormous amounts of data, but that doesn’t always translate to actionable information. Over the past several years, my research group at MIT and I have sought answers to a fundamental question: What would it take for businesses to realize the full potential of their data repositories with machine learning?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The U.S. Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Virtually everyone realizes that precision medicine, which aims to tailor care to the individual patient’s needs, is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We’ve all worked with that person who doesn’t know how to chitchat, can’t make eye contact, or even says inappropriate things from time to time. When that person is your boss, it can be very uncomfortable. How do you build a relationship with a manager who isn’t good at relationships? How do you get past his social awkwardness?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While women make up 51.5% of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite. A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility. We know having a sponsor who supports your career can help level the playing field for women.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Perhaps no single factor has a greater impact on a company’s future — for better or worse — than the selection of a new CEO. Choosing a CEO is a high-stakes proposition, arguably the most important decision a board can make. While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice.

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