General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”. Andrew Carnagie. Delegation is a key skill every leader must master in order to be fully effective. From my observations it’s a skill that takes years to develop beyond being a simple means of shifting tasks from oneself to another.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Many organizations are still talking about the triple bottom line (Profits, People, Planet) as if it's the standard for ethical business. While it's a great improvement over focusing on profit alone, the triple bottom line doesn't reflect the current expectations of customers, employees and global markets.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

T oday’s guest on The Answers From Leadership Podcast is Richard McLemore. He was the Canada BDC Regional Manager for Oracle. His specialties include coaching hiring/interviewing, revenue attainment, and career development. Show Notes: What do we need to know about you? Played football at the University of Oklahoma. Served in the Special Forces where he was deployed to Vietnam and Los.

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How To

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

You’re tempted to ignore the problems high performing jerks cause. Things are clear when jerks are incompetent. Cowardice is the issue, when leaders tolerate incompetent jerks. Leaders who tolerate destructive jerks hobble teams and prolong incompetence. Four types of jerks: Head-in-the-sand jerk: doesn’t see how their behavior impacts others.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Storytelling is the most underrated skill [among entrepreneurs]. ~ Ben Horowitze, famed venture capitalist Storytelling is the act of framing an idea as a narrative to inform, illuminate, and inspire. From Steve Jobs to Sheryl Sandberg to Richard Branson, successful leaders study and practice the art of storytelling in order to attract top talent, increase […] Storytelling is the most underrated skill [among entrepreneurs]. ~ Ben Horowitze, famed venture capitalist Storytelling is the act

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I started a dialogue with the PRSA New Professionals group on what effective leadership looks like today. The series airs on the PRSA New Pros blog, and the dialogue has been so great that I want to bring the topic and conversation to you, too. Please weigh in with your thoughts on this important question: What does effective leadership look like today?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Bob Nease received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he studied methods to improve medical decisions made by doctors and patients. Before joining Express Scripts in 2001, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Medical School. He recently retired as the… Read More Bob Nease on eliminating the “intention/behavior gap”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We’ve all heard about client delight. Perhaps we’ve experienced it ourselves from time to time, and we’d like to think we deliver it to our clients. But do we? Consistently? Fortunately, with clients (and toddlers!) small gestures make a big difference. Delivering excellent results, which I assume you do already, creates satisfied clients, but not delighted ones.

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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How To

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Almost every day we read about a CEO ouster, a logo change that backfires, or a product launch that fails to live up to its hype. As a young sailor, I was taught how to salute properly, and how to wear my dress blues and summer whites correctly. Later, as a naval officer I was reminded regularly that details matter, and can be the difference between life and death.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

As a leader, the time will come when you will have to speak with an employee about his or her poor performance. Here are six steps that will guide you through that process: Tell him what performance is in need of change and be specific. Tell him how his actions negatively affect the team. Let the discussion sink in. Set expectations of performance improvement and time frame, and get his agreement on the desired outcome.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The world is stressful. And, as I view the world, it is not getting any easier. There seems to be little relief in sight. If anything, life seems more stressful today than even a few years ago. It may be getting worse – not better. I’ve written about the subject previously, but it keeps coming up in discussion, so here we go again. What should we do?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

All too commonly, we see groups of leaders fail to accomplish their goals — legislators who cannot agree on a bill, heads of state who cannot broker meaningful peace deals, or boards of directors who make disastrous decisions for their companies. Why do powerful people, when working together, fail as often as they do? This question is particularly vexing because researchers have long found power to boost individual performance in a variety of ways.

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Management

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

One of the critical lessons I’ve learned in life - and it extends beyond the workplace - is the importance of respect. This may seem old-fashioned or trite in the days of, “I got mine, go get yours,” but if you treat people right, you will get the results you want. This is especially true in business. Respect still matters! Great leaders appreciate every job that is done well; it doesn’t matter whether it’s in the C-suite or the mailroom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Ask a roomful of CEOs if they want a workforce that innovates, and you’d be shocked not to see all hands in the air. But how many CEOs really mean what they say? Do they truly believe that innovative work can be left to the non-management ranks – and do they give individual contributors the time and resources they need to do so? We surveyed nearly 3,500 people from companies in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Germany, and India.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Have you ever heard the assertion that introverts do not make good leaders? While this may be a common observation, it is unfortunately one that is based on fundamental misunderstandings and the inaccurate perception of introverts as being shy, unfeeling and indecisive to the point of paralysis. In fact, Forbes has reported that a staggering 40% of executives actively describe themselves as being introverted, including über-investors Warren Buffet and Charles Schwab, publishing legend Katharine

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Most of us understand racism at the personal level. It’s looking at resumes and choosing to interview David instead of DeShawn, even though their qualifications are the same. It’s making an inappropriate joke to your co-worker when no one is listening. It’s snubbing actors on your Oscar nomination ballot because of their race. But the larger #OscarsSoWhite controversy isn’t about this kind of racism, because it’s not about any one Oscar voter.

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Strategy

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Kenneth Andersson FOR HBR. Most executives I talk to understand very well that digital technologies are permeating nearly every function of nearly every business. And yet many fall prey to two harmful myths. Myth #1: You will die without a digital strategy. This myth is generally accompanied by scary stories, such as how Amazon devoured Sears. But digital technologies are no more strategies than electric power, telephone communications, or any other advanced technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. In a departure from this norm, 20 major corporations earlier this month announced that they were joining forces to create the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA) to help them take a much more active role in the health and health care of their employees and beneficiaries — some 4 million people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

There’s a very real cost to the actions of the U.S. Government in the San Bernardino case. From a civil liberties perspective, we’re all bearing it. But from an economic perspective, that cost is being born almost entirely by the one bright spot in the American economy: the technology sector. To consider the impact this is having on tech firms, it’s critical to understand the change the internet has had on the world of business, taking the addressable market for any one product

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So far this year, the stock market has been anything but stable. The correction for tech companies appears to be well underway. Instability overseas continues, causing rising concerns about the effect on the global economy. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve finds it difficult to commit to a plan for 2016. If the economy continues to head south, what does it mean for entrepreneurs ready to scale their business?

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Career

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. Every organization wants to create a culture that works from a set of core values, where everybody is on the same page about what’s important, where the company is going, and how it’s going to get there.

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