Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2016

David Dye and I do truly strive to lead by example. So I wasn’t shocked the other day when my Winning Well co-author leveraged a practice straight out of chapter 20, thanking me for something I’d done to promote our Winning Well mission. And then, hearkening back to chapter 7 (accountability), I laughed and said, “If I were really a good co-author I would have done __.” (it really doesn’t matter what this is, as I will here pull a Scarlett Ohara , and be sure to wo

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 5, 2016

What you don’t see CAN hurt you. and your team. Unexamined beliefs can undermine your good intentions. Here are five questions to help surface some important leadership beliefs and to consider how well your actions reflect them. 1. What do you stand for? What do you care deeply about? When you know what you hold most dear, […]. The post 5 Questions to Surface Your Leadership Beliefs appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2016

This post is part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to introduce you to speaker, coach, and author JoAnn Corley. I start every leadership group coaching session with these two questions: What is leadership? What’s the point of it? Those questions usually generate looks of confusion, blank stares and the painful expression of “why are you asking that?”.

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Women on Business

JULY 5, 2016

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2016

How healthy are your teams at work? Are functions siloed or is there proactive communication and cooperation? Do team members work purely on their own individual tasks or do they also help their colleagues when the pace demands it? If your team’s interactions fall somewhere between those extremes, effective team work is eroded. Doing team work right, every time, requires clarity and discipline from leaders and team members.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2016

Giving feedback may make you feel vulnerable and exposed, causing you to avoid or delay important observations that your team and other stakeholders need to hear. You’re not alone. Many leaders dread giving honest feedback to others, thus avoiding it or sugar coating the message. Good feedback requires you to be clear, direct, and empathetic. It comes from the heart, and it shows that you care about the person you’re giving it to.

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Lead from Within

JULY 5, 2016

You may be wondering why is the empathetic leader the best leader? Empathy is a leadership competency – like no other skill- that can make a big difference when it comes to leadership. Empathy means being able to understand the needs of others. It means you’re aware of their feelings and their thinking. It doesn’t mean you have to agree with their point of view, but- it means that you’re willing to understand and appreciate it.

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Jason Womack

JULY 5, 2016

Your #coach is a nationally ranked, age-group triathlete. I'm committed to racing in the USAT national championships next month. A dream that was 15 years in the making. So, what is that thing (goal, dream, project, change) you are getting.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 5, 2016

You suck at many things and excel at few. If you’re a “know all – decide all” leader: Create hierarchy. Stick with your expertise. Control everything. Surround yourself with kowtowing conformists. 5 signs you’re a “know all – decide all” leader: Immediate recognition that you know what to do in nearly every situation.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 5, 2016

As leaders, having mentors is extremely important to our success. But picking one can be quite a daunting task, especially if the mentor is one you’ve never met or will never meet. Today I’ll tell you about one of my mentors as a way to help you identify, study and learn from a mentor. Tweet […]. The post Remarkable TV: Mentors You Never Meet appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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CEO Blog

JULY 5, 2016

I read a great book by Carmen Simon, PhD called Impossible to Ignore - Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions. Of course I love marketing and SEO. Simon is a Cognitive Scientist. I am not smart enough to know exactly what that is but she writes scientifically (which I love) with proper research. Much of the approach to me echoes what a psychologist would do.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 5, 2016

When it comes to changing our behavior, there are two options that people usually try. The first is attempting a new behavior (like running Saturday mornings, or calling our parents on Thursday afternoons). The second option most people try is eliminating something. Eliminating is our most liberating, therapeutic action – but we make it reluctantly.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 5, 2016

I have never been to a hot dog eating contest. I have never actually watched one in its entirety. But I have watched clips, and I have marveled at the records falling. The team at 538.com wrote about the big breakthroughs that led to leaps in the record. In addition to some training methods that… Read More Laboratories of Innovation – Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

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Management Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2016

Business performance assessments lose their value if the recommended performance improvement actions are not fully implemented. Consequently, it is not only important for executive leadership accept the recommendations; the mangers responsible for providing the time, capital, and labor to implement the actions must also buy-in. Because these managers tend to be those whose area was cited as needing improvement, their buy-in can be difficult to earn.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2016

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better. Look for new ways of reinventing the workflow in light of your company's changing needs.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 5, 2016

I love investing in the next generation of leaders. They are our future. I think we have an obligation to share our experiences and help them learn from our mistakes. This is a huge purpose of this blog. Most of the ones I invest in these days are younger pastors – or those who want to be some day. I love it. It’s honestly what fuels me most.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Every CEO claims to struggle with the challenge of getting the right “talent,” but what does this really mean? Their real concern is: Do I have the people who will understand my agenda and be able to really change how work gets done, at pace? This is the wrong question. Individuals can make a difference in an organization, but a social system — particularly in large organizations — is always stronger.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Rick’s boss thinks Rick is both brilliant, and a tyrant. He recently told Rick he is not on the succession plan to become the next CEO because his volatile temper could destroy the company. Rick, like many of us, was one habit away from his ultimate professional aspiration. Ultimately, he retired early and angry, toggling between resentment and self-recrimination at failing to achieve his final goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Senseless acts of violence affect all of us. Mass shootings, suicide bombers, assassinations — the emotions such events bring up are strong, even if our personal connection to the events themselves is not. Feelings of sadness, pain, confusion, and anger don’t get checked at the office door. If you’re leading a team or an organization, how can you help manage the emotional culture of the people you’re responsible for?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out that way. Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

It should be news to exactly no one that top firms hire from top schools. Research has shown that attending an elite university can make or break a student’s chances of being recruited by the best firms ( whether or not that strategy makes sense for firms ). But a recent study, by Russell Weinstein of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, found that “top schools” is a less obvious category than it seems — and in some cases students might be better off avoiding the obvious top

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

You’ve probably heard this before: “The only way to get a raise is to get another job offer.” Is it true? I talked to experts who study negotiations to get their perspectives on whether this oft-given advice holds up in practice and against research. So, first things first: Yes, the outside offer can work—and it often does. Hannah Riley Bowles, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School who studies negotiation, admits that the practice is “well-established.R

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

There are many reasons that founder-led companies are so good at disrupting industries and making life miserable for slow-moving incumbents. But perhaps the most powerful is that founders create great insurgencies. They ignore established industry rules and boundaries. They create better ways to solve old problems. They disdain anything that blurs their focus on the front line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

I was at a startup that got acquired. At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. With the profile, students using Blackboard’s software could present themselves to their classmates, teachers, and to prospective employers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of many overlapping crises afflicting Europe. In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution t

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