Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 25, 2016
Gamers are manipulators. They spend their days playing dirty politics, working one person against one another in their ceaseless quest for status. In their mind, winning is not related to organization results. Their meetings and efforts at delegation usually have two layers of meaning, with political subtext just below the surface. Gamers attract a motley cast of sycophants, other Gamers, and the disaffected.
General Leadership
APRIL 25, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If a leader can’t describe the culture, the organization will never achieve it” – Todd Hirneisen. As leaders, we are aware of the importance of culture. Leaders are continually looking for ways to evaluate the culture in their organizations.
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Women on Business
APRIL 25, 2016
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Lead Change Blog
APRIL 25, 2016
Several years ago I was coaching an executive sales team. During the meeting, someone brought up that the salespeople in the field were struggling. The VP of Sales said something like, “I have been meaning to address that for some time. We really do need to do a better job of training our people.” I was present a couple of months later when one of the directors walked into the room before the meeting began and threw a huge three-ringed binder on the conference table as he exclaimed, “Here it is.
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Rich Gee Group
APRIL 25, 2016
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi. The funny thing is, it happens ALL the time. And people wonder. ‘What Happened?’: I went to work every day. I was there on time. I did what they told me to do. It’s all about PERCEPTION. I know I’m going to get a lot of flak for say it, but it really comes down to how your superiors, your clients, your colleagues, and your team perceive you.
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 25, 2016
T here are a lot of sparkly things out there to get our attention. From the latest productivity app to the newest course by the big name leader to the latest and greatest book on leadership, there’s always something vying for our attention. Most of the time we give in. We grab the shiny, new object and adore it. Until we’re finished… Then we put it aside.
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Kevin Eikenberry
APRIL 25, 2016
First, a couple of caveats. When I say PowerPoint, I’m speaking generally – think Keynote and Prezi and whatever other similar tool you might use. I’m qualified to talk about this because I have been teaching and coaching presentation skills and trainers for over 25 years – before PowerPoint was even released […]. The post Five Reasons PowerPoint is Killing Group Communications appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
APRIL 25, 2016
You can’t bring out the best in others while looking down your nose. Devalued people perform below their potential.
ReImagine Work
APRIL 25, 2016
“But if we just give her a chance…” In his article, “The Seduction of Potential,” (HR Magazine May 2009) Keith Rosen talks about talks about why we are seduced by underperformers. We think that if we just give underperformers a little more time, they will realize their potential. We think this even when we have little evidence of improvement.
Marshall Goldsmith
APRIL 25, 2016
How would your work change if your pay was based on your performance rather than howmuch your clients like you or how much time you spend with them? I believe that neither of these (how much I’m liked or the length time I spend with my clients) is a good metric for them to achieve positive, long-term changes in their behavior. In fact, I have never seen a study that showed that clients’ love of a coach was highly correlated with their change in behavior.
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LDRLB
APRIL 25, 2016
Ron Carucci is a principal at Navalent, an organizational consulting and leadership consulting firm, and former Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. He is co-author (with Eric Hansen) of Rising to Power. In this interview, we break down Ron’s 10 year study of the career paths of executives and discover the patterns in the journey of exceptional leaders. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].
leaderCommunicator
APRIL 25, 2016
We’ve all been faced with this situation: you planned a presentation for thirty minutes and are now told, “We’re running late—can you do it in ten minutes?” It’s a common (and often dreaded) situation but doesn’t need to be.
Lead on Purpose
APRIL 25, 2016
How leaders rise above the distractions The corporate world is full of distractions.
Coaching Tip
APRIL 25, 2016
Maneuver strategy has been used by the military since King Leonidas and Genghis Khan, yet businesses all too often neglect it. In their new book, “OUTMANEUVER: OutThink, Don’t OutSpend” strategy and innovation consulting experts Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky examine how maneuver strategies, based on speed, agility, insight and innovation win the most in any market at the least possible cost, for companies of any size, in any industry.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 25, 2016
Creative Communication Network is a gold-level sponsor for Running 4 Clean Water. The 2016 5K race was held on Saturday, April 23 at O’Banion Middle School in Garland. A big thank you to all of the donors from the First Friday Book Synopsis that made contributions to this event, which is to dig wells and… Read More CCN Team Runs Well at R4CW – 2016.
Strategy Driven
APRIL 25, 2016
Why do salespeople quit their job? More money? Better job opportunity? Don’t like what they are doing? Don’t like their boss? Don’t like their corporate politics? Don’t like how you’re being treated as a person? Don’t feel the company is supporting you as a salesperson? Just had their commissions cut? Company going back on their word about paying or deal structure?
First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 25, 2016
In 2011 Americans took in five times as much information every day as they did in 1986—the equivalent of 175 newspapers. Where once an educated person might have assumed she was at least conversant with the relevant knowledge on a particular field of study, the explosion of information has rendered that assumption laughable. General… Read More More on the Battle of Focus in an Information Overload Era – (with insight from McChrystal’s Team of Teams & Cal Newport’s D
Ron Edmondson
APRIL 25, 2016
I love the story of Manoah and his wife. They had been unable to give birth to a child. It was apparently their greatest desire in life. One day an angel of God brought them good news a child was to be born. I think one reason I identify with the story is the huge number of people in our ministry who have struggled with infertility. It’s a huge hidden pain in the church.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Deming Institute
APRIL 25, 2016
The video above shows Don Berwick’s presentation at the IHI/BMJ International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, 13 April 2016. He starts the presentation with the Red Bead Game (see related posts on our blog: Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming , The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming ). Quoting Shewhart, Berwick said: When you inspect you are conceding the to the system.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
dave wheeler FOR HBR. No matter what industry you are in or what job you do, you probably have experienced the frustration of working within a dysfunctional team — one marked by drawn-out discussions that led nowhere or heated conflicts that made communication difficult. To function properly, teams need to communicate effectively. How can you improve the odds of that happening?
Ron Edmondson
APRIL 25, 2016
Everyone wants to be successful in life, but the truth is many people never really achieve what they set out to accomplish. Many of us fall short of obtaining our dreams and goals. This is true in life and leadership. After years of observing a lackluster success rate among some of the people to whom I minister and to leaders I coach, I began to examine why some people never seem to succeed.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
Uber, the car-sharing service, has become ubiquitous. It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
HBR STAFF. High-status jobs are known to bring with them a number of benefits: higher incomes, greater job autonomy, and even, according to some research, longer lives. Yet there may also be some downside to these jobs: greater stress levels and less happiness at work. Although social scientists have long assumed that low-status jobs brought higher stress, research in recent years has suggested otherwise: those in high-status jobs appeared to be more stressed.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
A few years ago, when I got a speeding ticket, I was offered the option of attending traffic school in lieu of a black mark on my otherwise spotless driving record. I showed up at City Hall promptly at 6 PM, hoping my educational experience would end at the advertised 8:30 PM. The instructor was 25 minutes late and quite disorganized. By 8:15 PM he was on slide 18 of 123 and seemed to be just getting into the groove.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
Recently I had a revealing conversation with the head of sales of a global marketing company. She was talking about her company’s vision of diversity. As someone who has studied diversity for a long time, what she said was music to my ears. She described how the market has changed and globalized over the last 10 years, and how today it is unthinkable not to have diversity in our organizations.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
Intel’s restructuring announcement last week describes its plans to reduce headcount by 12,000, or 11% of its workforce, and to seek growth in markets such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Center Processing. The personal computer (PC) chip market that the company dominated for over three decades, and which accounted for the bulk of its sales during that period, is now in decline, and accounts for only 50% of revenues, down from 65% in 2012.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2016
Rich people are happier than poorer people on average, and richer countries are happier than poorer countries. And yet growing national wealth is not always accompanied by growing national happiness. This is the famous Easterlin Paradox, named after economist Richard Easterlin, who first observed a puzzling phenomenon. Between 1946 and 1970, the U.S. witnessed remarkable economic expansion.
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