Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 31, 2013
'Many of the approaches we take to solving problems, do just that. Solve problems. That works, until the next problem comes along. To build long-term results, requires more. Unleashing your team’s potential leads to breakthrough results. I’ve been intrigued by the “Unleashing” approach described in the new white paper, Unleashing the Future of Work (download for [.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 31, 2013
'Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Reviews “I say it has to be done rapidly and it has to be bold!” Those words reverberated through me like a bolt of lightning when I heard them spoken to me by Marilyn Jacobson. She is the author of the recently published book Turning the Pyramid Upside Down. I immediately felt the energy and power [.].
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Leading Blog
MAY 31, 2013
'Here are a selection of tweets from May 2013 that you might have missed: Why Managers Haven''t Embraced Complexity by Richard Straub - HBR. Leadership Lesson: The Difference Between Google and Apple by @mikemyatt. Good advice from @wallybock: Ideas are like the rain. Seven Tips for Taming Your Calendar by @scotteblin. Making The Case For Creating Meaningful Work by @TanveerNaseer.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 31, 2013
'Posted in Workplace Issues [link] (This is the fifth in a 12-part series on the origins of Lean in the U.S. and my role as one of its pioneers.) It was clear that employees in Japan were engaged. Toyota was famous for andon, a manufacturing term used to describe a system whereby employees could “pull the cord” and alert management [.].
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Women on Business
MAY 31, 2013
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Leadership Freak
MAY 31, 2013
'Embrace the power of disruption or tomorrow will be today, again. More of the same produces more of the same. All leaders disrupt. Successful disruption: Disruption makes new futures possible. But, disruption “gone wild” destroys your capacity to build the future. Too much disruption irritates and aggravates. People make fun of the “innovation of the […].
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Women on Business
MAY 31, 2013
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LDRLB
MAY 31, 2013
'Sometimes adding to the number of people on a team can actually subtract from the quality of the teams output. This isn’t a rare occurrence, it’s a well researched phenomenon. In this episode, we review the research on social loafing and share three options for counteracting the negative effect of more people. [Special thanks to Mark de Rond for tipping me off to this research.].
Women on Business
MAY 31, 2013
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 31, 2013
'In one of my speaking engagements this week, my host pointed me to a participant, and told me that over the last year this man had lost 250 pounds. 250 pounds! He described the difference this had made. More energy. Happier. It was almost like a rebirth; certainly a new beginning. There is a simple […].
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leaderCommunicator
MAY 31, 2013
'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
Jason Womack
MAY 31, 2013
'More and more, people are seeking "contribution" as their focus on what''s next. But, what do you do if you''re already stretched to the edges? There are two ways to implement your “at my best when…” mentality. Click here to listen!
Mike Cardus
MAY 31, 2013
'Contextual Goals Matter. If the goals are too small people feel micromanaged. If the goals are too large people are lost and unsure what to do, macromanaged. Properly delegated Contextual Goals are Goldilocks Goals …They cannot be too big or too small. They are just right, and matched to the person. How as a manager do you determine the “just right” amount of context that is needed for on-time, on-budget, on-quality completion of goals and tasks?
Six Disciplines
MAY 31, 2013
'Six Disciplines® is a total performance excellence program. By integrating a proven best-practices methodology and innovative Outlook software, we help you to build an effective culture of continuous improvement, enabling you to achieve predictable and measurable growth. . The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it''s usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. .
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Management Excellence
MAY 31, 2013
'Being miserable in a job is not the normal state of existence. If this is your prevailing mood in the workplace, something is obviously wrong and needs your attention and action. Here are 5 ideas to help you move from miserable to motivated: Career It''s Your Career!
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 31, 2013
'Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * If you want to encourage people to take healthy risks, you need to make sure they’re not afraid to fail. The first step in doing […].
Deep Imprints
MAY 31, 2013
'For years, I beat myself up for not being able to keep my house in pristine condition. Mind you, for the most part, we didn’t live in squalor. There was a short time where I remember praying on at least three different occasions “God would please get my house vacuumed today?” only to find that.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 31, 2013
'The other day someone said to me, “Pastor, Sorry I haven’t gotten involved in the church yet, but I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing right now. I can’t seem to find my purpose.” I hear that kind of thing often. In this case, it’s been five years and the person is still waiting. Doing nothing. Inactive.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'What advice would you give new college graduates about launching themselves into the workforce? Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The hundreds of responses offered a wealth of advice and insight about what it takes to make a successful transition from college into the workforce. I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career.
CO2
MAY 31, 2013
'by Gary Cohen Sometimes the sample size needed to make the best or right decision is one. You. If you are deciding to get married, you will get advice—some of which is sought, some of which is not. Friends and family may tell you to spend more time with your would-be fiancé or take a break for a month or more, or do a background check, or recommend that you live together first.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'Good managers focus not only on bottom-line performance, but on the means by which their people achieve that high performance. Unethical behaviors can be damaging to a broad variety of stakeholders, and are often the cause of organizational crises. Ethical behavior not only keeps consciences clean; it can boost the reputation and performance of your firm.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'Every employer can tell stories about an applicant who sounded like an A-player at the interview but ended up a dud once at work. Good candidates prepare, of course, but rehearsed interview answers can make it hard to separate the winners from the spinners. Gauging an applicant''s true colors and skill level in an hour is certainly tricky. But there are ways to take interviewees out of their comfort zones, snap them off their prepared script, and encourage the kind of candor that will enable yo
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'What''s better than a really excellent engineer working on a project? Not just more engineers working on a project but more engineers who can collaborate effectively. I''ve been working on an engagement focused on increasing the productive output of teams of software engineers. One part involves identifying who the most successful software engineers are, so their performance can be replicated.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'With more and more farmers using genetically modified corn from Monsanto Company that resists plant-killing rootworm, the share of U.S. acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. But the rootworm has modified its genetics too. Insects resistant to the Monsanto corn appeared in 2011 and are now scattered across the Midwest.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'The promise of digital marketing continues to grow as big data gets bigger and is turbo charged with mobile and social. In theory, digital marketing should be more precise and better than traditional analog marketing. So why is digital marketing still so ineffective? Data from the 2012 Direct Marketing Association benchmarks say that direct mail — yes junk mail via snail mail — still reigns supreme, offering response rates of 1.1 to 1.4% versus 0.03% for email, 0.04% for Internet di
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'People are drawn to and influenced by leaders who communicate authentically, easily and effectively. How do you become one of these leaders? You need to have a "signature voice"—a means of self-expression that is uniquely and distinctly your own. Once you discover and express this voice, you won''t believe the impact you can have on those around you.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'It''s hard to think of a company providing a mostly useful, non-polluting service that gets rooted against as much as Facebook does. Well, maybe I can think of a couple: AOL and Microsoft in the second half of the 1990s. AOL wasn''t entirely non-polluting, given how many unasked-for CDs it flooded mailboxes with to lure people to its dial-up service.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
'Mobile in China and Collecting Your Fitness Data. As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. It''s worth clicking through all of them (seriously, you can spare a half hour), though I can save you some time by pointing out a few that probably have implications for you, your business, and the rest of the 2.4 billion internet users across the globe.
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