General Leadership

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Men and women want to do a good job. If they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.”. Bill Hewlett. As leaders, we are always looking for leadership strategies that work. A successful leadership experience can lead us to assume that these strategies will work at our next assignment if we impose it on the new organization.

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Analysis Advice Strategy Environment 260

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Have you ever had leak, repaired it, only to find the drip, drip, drip showing up someplace else? Or have you recognized a familiar employee engagement problem, and breathed an immediate, “oh, I’ve seen this movie before” sigh of relief and began to apply your time-tested know-how, only to realize the sequel was far different from the original?

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Books CEO Course Resources 207

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A few weeks ago, I was reflecting on how my career started over 25 and a half years ago. I remembered my coworkers and how much time we spent writing code, debugging programs, analyzing issues that arose, and helping each other figure out problems. I also remembered the late nights and eating out as a team after a long day at work. It was a lot of fun and it created a bond of camaraderie.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

G od is a God of order. He’s also a God who likes to break the rules, especially with leaders. The rules God will break aren’t His rules. They’re the rules of man. Image via Creative Commons. Why God Breaks The Rules Of Man. The Bible tells us plainly why God will break the rules of man. Man looks on the outside. This is the outward appearance, the way a person acts or looks.

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Creativity Positioning Organization Leadership 152

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Is greatness an attribute reserved for only a few special people? Abraham Lincoln didn’t think so. He believed we are each capable of greatness. Most of the good of the world builds on the accumulated efforts of everyday people doing small things in a great way. A story is told about Abraham Lincoln’s response to a sermon by his friend Reverend Phineas Gurley of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.

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Leadership 141

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The nature of leadership is taking people to places they haven’t been. Thankfully, you don’t need to pressure people in order to challenge them to reach higher. Anticipate disengagement, once you begin pressuring people.

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Leadership 125

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Genuine. It is one of the words used when I ask people to describe a highly effective leader. Yet when you ask them to define what the means, they often struggle. Like I often do, as I started to write this, I went to the source – the dictionary. Here are the two relevant definitions […]. The post What Does it Mean to Be a Genuine Leader? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Definition Leadership Skills Development 114

Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

What does it mean to really listen? As I’ve written here before , I’ve been focusing a lot on that question in my talks and workshops on mindful leadership. When I ask colleagues to sit with each other for just a few minutes to listen to each other speak about something important in their lives or something they’re grateful for, the process feels transformative for them.

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Conference Workshop Participative Power 112

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It doesn’t matter how friendly your tone is or how honey sweet you’re in a conversation and you start your sentences with one of these words (or both), the message to your recipient is “You are wrong.” What are these conversation stopping words? They are “No” and “But.”. These words don’t say, “Let’s discuss this” or “I’d love to hear what you think about this” to people.

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Open-book Advice Video Blog 111

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Why do we sometimes drift off course and get caught up in meaningless activity? We see people wandering at all levels, even CEOs at times.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I had the privilege of going to a trade show in Frankfurt. I do a weekly report to my board (this is good discipline) and in it I said "for an entrepreneur, a trade show is like a kid in a candy store". I have to so much restrain myself. The challenge with me, is I have far more ideas than time and resources to implement or to implement well. And I also need ideas that are the "right" size.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I’ve just sent out our e-mail for the March 4 First Friday Book Synopsis. (Click here to register now). We have met every month (except for one snow month, as I recall), since April, 1998. This means that our March session is the completion of eighteen full years. Read that again – monthly sessions – two… Read More 18 Years of the First Friday Book Synopsis – Just what is the First Friday Book Synopsis?

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a leader, you know that engaging employees and helping connect them to your business goals can directly impact the bottom line. Your internal communication plan can include two-way communication vehicles like feedback channels and listening sessions to help accomplish this.

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Goal Planning Leadership 86

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Management

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Companies are scrambling to ensure millions of younger managers from the so-called millennials generation—those born from roughly 1981 to 1997—are ready to step into leadership roles as Baby Boomers bow out of the workforce. About 10,000 Baby Boomers reach retirement age every day. “Many large, older companies are caught up in a tsunami of Baby Boomers retiring and are unaware of how much tribal knowledge they are taking with them,” says Dorothy Leonard, professor emeritus at Harvard Business Sc

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

For years on this national holiday, I have posted a list of the number of men and women in the military services who were killed during each of the wars in which the United States has been involved. My sources are U.S. Army Military History Institute, iCasualties.org, and Wikipedia. In its first 100 years of… Read More Lest we forget on this Veterans Day….

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Leaving the corporate world behind and becoming an entrepreneur is an exciting venture, but it can also put a lot of pressure on you – especially in the first six months. You’ll spend a lot of time learning new things, making adjustments and reacting to situations as they arise. The “bumps” in the road you are likely to encounter are a common occurrence on the entrepreneurial journey, so don’t get bogged down by thinking you’re doing something wrong.

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Succession Entrepreneur Outsourcing Short-term 54

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

According to Flavio Martins , the author of the new book, Win The Customer , the most important team building hour of the day is lunch hour. He explains (using insights from Joel Spolsky ) that, "great workplace cultures and places where people love to work are environments where people are emotionally involved, happy and excited to come to work. One of the keys to achieving this is getting to know each other as individuals and a part of a team.

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Team Building Team How To Open-book 50

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Deep Imprints

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Who do you dance for? Fear. Will others approve? Will they misinterpret? What would make me okay? It hits us in so many areas of life - parenting, job performance, social situations.the list is long. The cure? To dance before the Audience of One. I don't know where this phrase started, but it means that […].

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Managing Communities

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I love observing leaders. I consistently strive to be a better leader and the best way I know to improve is to watch and learn from other leaders. Whether they have more experience, have learned things I haven’t learned or they reinforce principles of leadership I know – I improve observing other leaders. In my observations, there are some common traits among the most successful, long-term leaders.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. How to apply the model. The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional.

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Career

My Own Coach

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How do you define your organisation’s leadership style? It strikes me that there are many leadership style models out there, such as Lewin’s Leadership Styles, Six Emotional Leadership Styles (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee), Transformational Leadership and The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner) to name as few. Each of these has merit and helps us to […].

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Leadership Styles Lewin Goleman Leadership 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Dr. James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic. Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. He carefully reviewed over 200 resumes and conducted background checks, finally deciding to hire Mike, a highly credentialed MBA who seemed to check off all the boxes Dr. James was looking for in the new hire.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Skills Micromanagement 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Executives have begun to understand that to build a great business, companies need a larger goal, one that transcends the traditional bottom line. The best and brightest talent are attracted to organizations that offer a broader purpose. But simply defining a purpose is not enough. It’s just a first step, your organization’s ante to get into the game.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In the past, low oil prices have been seen as a boon, particularly at the gas pump. They’ve been credited with boosting economies and stirring growth. But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. What does all this mean for countries and companies? How big is the risk?

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Price Energy Constraint Marketing 10

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Succession

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Sales executives typically have two levers to try to increase sales: they can increase the quantity of sales effort by adding salespeople, or they can improve the quality of sales effort by investing in coaching and training. There is a third approach that is often overlooked: Improving the allocation of sales effort. Salespeople can work smarter, not harder, by dividing their time more appropriately among customers, products, and sales activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Harman Wardani. In October 2000, Jack Welch announced the biggest deal of his 20-year tenure as head of GE: a $45 billion merger with Honeywell. Shortly thereafter he was forced to retire, due to GE’s mandatory retirement policy for CEOs turning 65. More than a third of S&P 500 firms have a mandatory retirement policy for their CEO. Their aim is to drive out executives who are past their prime.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A few years ago my daughter Nora, now eight years old, announced emphatically that she wanted to learn to play the piano. With the delight and naiveté of a first-time parent, I signed her up for lessons with visions of the joyful time we would spend together at the piano. Now, if you are the parent of a young child who has even dabbled in music lessons, “joyful” may not be the first descriptor that comes to mind.

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