Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2016

I was blown away by an email I received from a woman who recently read Winning Well. I was touched on so many levels… by her brave journey toward authenticity in the workplace, by her clear sense of confident humility, by her gratitude for accepting leaders and an inclusive workplace, and quite frankly by the fact that there are Winning Well CEOs out there looking for other Winning Well leaders who have the ability to value competence and confidence over all the other crap that gets i

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General Leadership

MARCH 28, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. “ Ralph Waldo Emerson. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

David Burkus is a very dangerous man … In Myths of Creativity , he punctured my long-held beliefs about creativity, including those which I had cherished because they absolved me of all responsibility for being creative. I could no longer simply relax and say “ I’m not the creative type,” even though it made life much easier for me.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 28, 2016

We see changes around us all the time. Some things change so often we become blissfully unaware. One of those areas of rapid change is the people making up the workforce.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

Traditionally, career paths have been based on the idea of “moving up the ladder.” Success is measured by how high you get. A lateral move is usually not seen as a smart career move. Even when changing jobs to increase your skills, the expectation is the new position will be a step higher up the […]. The post Take Down Your Corporate Ladder and Support Career Disruption appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 28, 2016

You influence the way people feel about themselves. When you make people feel weak, they act in fear. When you make people feel powerful, they act with boldness. Boldness takes you further than fear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2016

I’ve been asked by our Career Services office to deliver a one hour workshop in a couple weeks for our business school juniors, seniors, and MBAs. Even though I happen to work at the University of New Hampshire, most of my career has been dedicated to helping aspiring and current managers’ development. So other than having given advice to my two daughters, I’ll be way out of my element.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 28, 2016

W hen we last saw Superman on the big screen, he was learning the ropes of the superhero thing. In Man of Steel , we see Henry Cavill play the caped hero. Only he’s not yet a hero. He’s hunted by the US military. People are scared of him. And he creates a lot of chaos and damage. And that’s where Batman Versus Superman comes in. Bruce Wayne, better known as Batman, saw the mayhem poured out on the citizens of Metropolis.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 28, 2016

Foolish? Really? You’re going to have to give me a little latitude here as we lead up to April Fool’s Day, because by a dictionary definition, we probably don’t want to be foolish as a leader. Here is what I mean, from Dictionary.com Foolish – adj. resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; […]. The post Why It Is OK for Leaders to Be Foolish appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 28, 2016

In this short blog series with HRD Business Summit, I was asked questions that are highly pertinent to leaders, especially leaders of HR. The first question I was asked is: “why engage employees?” The simple answer: Employee engagement is critical for business success. We all agree. We want engaged employees. Employee engagement is defined by marginal effort.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 28, 2016

It’s important to realize that most problems in business today lie in the absence of real communication, and to understand the need to facilitate dialogue and “manage” conversation with employees and teams. As a result, you’re able to create shared meaning and move people to action.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 28, 2016

The word “curate,” lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting. In more print-centric times, the term of art was “edit” — as in a boutique edits its dress… Read More “Tell me about your curating skills” – Is this the New Job Skill Requirement for the New Era?

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Managing Communities

MARCH 28, 2016

Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 28, 2016

Here is a new word in the dictionary – “phubbing.” It means maintaining eye contact while texting. I read this on page 4 in Sherry Turkle’s RECLAIMING CONVERSATION that I present this Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas at the Park City Club. So, are you are a “phubber?” And, are you… Read More Are You a Phubber?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 28, 2016

One of my favorite books by leadership communication expert David Grossman, founder and CEO of The Grossman Group , won the 2015 Best in Business Pinnacle Book Award , announced earlier this year.* That impressive book is, No Cape Needed: The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Steps to Improve How You Communicate By Leaps and Bounds. And, it’s for leaders at all levels.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 28, 2016

In my observation, many leaders want change and know they need to lead for change, but they haven’t been able to actually produce change. I think there are reasons for this. The process of change isn’t easy. And, it doesn’t happen overnight. Some leaders move too fast. Others move too slow. Plus, not every church, business or non-profit will tolerate change – or at least to the level prescribed by a leader.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 28, 2016

Guest post by Mike Stoecklein. I hear a lot of talk in healthcare about the importance of defining “true north” for the organization. If you search the internet, you’ll find many definitions of true north and examples from organizations. Here are a few (all are from healthcare organizations): The company’s governing objective. Example given: deliver double-digit returns to our investors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

I was coaching Sanjay,* a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated. He wasn’t where he wanted to be at this point in his career. He had come to our coaching session, as usual, prepared to discuss the challenges he was currently facing. This time, it was his plan for conducting compensation conversations with each of his employees.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Here’s a quick one-question quiz: What is the most important requirement for a successful product launch? A great product. A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A great distribution plan to sell it. A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. All of the above. In a perfect launch, all of these components are vital to a successful launch.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices. This was a characteristic move. For decades, this is how the oil business has worked.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Advice for how to gracefully handle mistakes often emphasizes 1) taking responsibility for the error, 2) presenting a plan for the remedy, and then 3) fixing what was wrong. Although these directions sound simple, they can be extremely difficult to execute in real life. No one finds it easy to own up to a mistake — particularly a costly one. One case in point I came across recently was Brad.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

I was recently asked to give a talk about family businesses, and the conference organizer told me not to even mention the “three generation rule.” As he put it: “Everyone already knows that family businesses don’t last.” He’s perfectly right. An oft-cited statistic is that only 30% of family businesses make it through the second generation, 10-15% through the third, and 3-5% through the fourth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The nature of disruption is changing. In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., 2.5-inch vs. 3.5-inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

No one intends for their communication to be a burden; it’s not like people leave voicemails with the express purpose of distracting you from your most important work. And yet far too often that’s the result. You receive their missives with dread because each one entails more time expended and new obligations that you’ve been dragooned into.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

When most of us think of multisided platforms, the ones that come to mind are those, like Apple and Facebook, that make heaps of money. Or unicorns like Uber that, if cap tables mean anything, someday will. Of course, anyone who really knows the history of platforms may recall the many that aspired to make gobs of money but never did and quickly died (think of the many B2B exchanges that never made it to the other side of dot-com bust).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Recently, both Hershey and Coca-Cola have switched to a master brand strategy. Instead of promoting, for example, Hershey’s Syrup, chocolate bars, and Hershey’s kisses separately, the company is running an advertising campaign that unites all Hershey branded treats in a single commercial, emphasizing the corporate brand name over individual product lines.

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