Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2013

'You hear devastating news. Job loss. A diagnosis. A new baby with life-changing special needs. Your brain and heart rush through thoughts, prayers, next steps. It’s hard to gain perspective. This was not in the plan. What now? Perspective and the Arch of Time I met with Bill Treasurer to talk about his new [.] The post Powerful Perspective: Opportunities and the Arch of Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2013

'Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development A leader once said to me “Alan, I’m a leader in my company, but I don’t know what’s expected of me.” A closer look at that organization revealed a few things. It had succession gaps in key leadership positions. It had little support for new leaders and no model of leadership. It had inconsistent training [.].

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 15, 2013

' . I had the privilege of speaking to a seasoned leaders’ stakeholders recently in an effort to get their candid feedback about him. I was captivated by how many indicated that they appreciated his “open door” As I listened to their stories and their feedback, I found they weren’t just referring to that thing that hangs on the wall between his office and whatever is outside of it. .

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2013

'Posted in Light Your World Resources [link] Last week, my daughter Chana and I attended the SEEED Conference at Brown University. It was an amazing gathering of those doing, funding, supporting, working in and for social businesses. These are Chana’s thoughts on the first day of the conference. Chana is 13 years old and in 7th grade. Yes, I am a proud mom and find her insights [.].

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 15, 2013

'Click here to view the embedded video. Recently I was speaking at a university about the importance of connection and Connection Cultures to help students, faculty and staff thrive in institutions of higher education. After I spoke, the president of the divinity school came up to me and said I needed to see a great new comedy entitled Warm Bodies. He informed me that the movie is about mummies who are brought back to life by human connection.

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Leading in Context

MAY 15, 2013

'This week, I''m sharing 10 of my favorite quotes from the Leading in Context Blog. Clicking on each quote takes you to the full post that includes the quote.

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Women on Business

MAY 15, 2013

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 15, 2013

'I am often reminded of the power of habits in my personal life, and today I wanted to explore that with you and make some important connections to our role as a leader, why it can be difficult, and how to improve our success. Two Kinds of Habits While all habits are automatic responses, they [.].

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Mike Cardus

MAY 15, 2013

'Participation in our own backstabbing is the result of our desire to be accepted and our reciprocal fear of being rejected by Potential Perpetrators and Messengers if we confront them with what we believe or know to be true. – Jerry B. Harvey. Backstabbing, lying, gossiping , being an a **e – these are all common things within work. I am guilty, you are guilty, we all are guilty.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 15, 2013

'We spend a fair amount of time talking with our clients and the leaders we work with about “desired outcomes” -- the first step in planning any kind of communication. When we ask, “What’s the outcome you seek?” we often get a communications goal (that’s helpful to know but communications should never be an outcome; it’s a means to achieving a business outcome).

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LDRLB

MAY 15, 2013

'Motivation is a big industry. From incentive and recognition trade shows to compensation consultants, there are a host of industry experts ready to carefully craft the perfect program that keeps employees working happily and productively. Most of these experts adhere to the economic principle of agency theory, which says that individuals work for their own self-interest.

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CO2

MAY 15, 2013

'by Gary Cohen Few Employees Want to Be Told What to Do. Only six percent of employees wish to be told what to do by their boss, according to a survey by CO2 Partners. The overwhelming majority, 94%, prefer to be asked questions by their supervisor. . The directive workplace has been in decline since the 1970s. Today it’s not about following orders, but about dialogue and effective leadership.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 15, 2013

'When we come to know and accept ourselves, we become free to accept others and appreciate how they complement us. Whether you are looking for a job promotion, seeking peace within your team, or looking to improve relationships, we can all benefit from learning more about what drives and energizes us. Finding common ground among an office or different personalities can sometimes be difficult or even detrimental to a career or an organization.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2013

'When a culture adopts “What’s the next action?” as a standard operating query, there’s an automatic increase in energy, productivity, clarity, and focus. David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity ——————— (call this a rather free-flowing thought exercise)… Every person has just so much time in a day.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 15, 2013

'Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Steve Farber

MAY 15, 2013

'If you’re in the Midwest of the US–or just have a hankering to travel there–please join me at The Extreme Leadership Intensive in Des Moines, IA on July 18 & 19, 2013. This day-and-a-half program will help you apply the principles of Extreme Leadership directly to your business. You’ll leave with a specific roadmap for weaving Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof into the very fabric of your team, project, company, or organization.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2013

'The Q-Loop: The Art & Science of Lasting Corporate Change Brian Klapper bibliomotion (2013) Here is a queue for achieving and then sustaining organizational excellence In every organization, whatever its size and nature may be, there are people who directly and frequently interact with the given competitive marketplace. They are on the “front line” and […].

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 15, 2013

'One of the themes that runs through most of the blog posts here is this: Life is challenging, and it takes a strong person to do the hard things. Recently I spent time remembering my time in Vietnam. The vast majority of my West Point classmates served in combat there. They faced challenges that most people can''t even imagine. They had to do hard things.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2013

'Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in the category “business teams.” Ironically and paradoxically, we now know a great deal about effectively […].

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

'They say it’s the little things in life that matter. This principle applies to sales representatives if they want to be successful in their career. As salespeople, we often get caught up in the things that stare us right in the face. We focus on quarterly goals, the weekly conference calls, and the ever-looming concern over what this year’s bonus will be-all the while overlooking ideas that keep us on top of our game.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'Much has been said about the virtues of failure — it''s a learning opportunity, it happens to everyone, it''s character-building. Failure is becoming some romanticized rite of passage, invoking images of young entrepreneurs burning the midnight oil and yelling "Eureka!" I can say from experience that any entrepreneur who fails repeatedly before finding the golden ticket had better be ready to coat themselves in protective armor, because your stakeholders may not be as understanding of you

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 15, 2013

'7 things I’ve learned or am learning about God: Sometimes God opens doors simply to show me that He can. I’ve seen it many times. God seemed to provide an opportunity, only to later make it clear that’s not the right one for this time. It’s always though an encouragement than when He is ready He can and will make a way. God’s plan for my life is always bigger than mine.

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Career

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'Unhappily shocked by Sputnik''s unexpected 1957 success, President Eisenhower quickly pushed the Pentagon to establish the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S. military, and to create surprises of its own.". Anticipating and enabling " technological surprise " has become even more challenging, DARPA director Arati Prabhakar recently told an MIT audience, because more people in more places have more access to m

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'At 7:30 on a sunny winter day in London, I settle into a conference room with the usual low-tech tools for high-stakes teamwork: Big white Post-It pads, Sharpies of every color, and a sense of urgency. Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'If you want to provoke a vigorous debate, start a conversation on organizational culture. While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'Humans engage with their world in two reciprocal ways: firstly as passionate participants and secondly as detached observers. As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. Detached observation requires a certain maturity. Consider that we are born into the world immersed in context.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. We aren''t "climate change deniers" and we believe that every individual and organization should use energy and other natural resources responsibly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'Michael Watkins , author of The First 90 Days , explains how to secure early wins during a transition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

'Years ago, as a family physician in Louisiana, I made house calls. Certain patients were too sick or too hurt to get to my office. Sometimes a condition or injury had worsened, requiring my evaluation bedside. I would visit patients at home for the simplest of reasons: home was where they needed care. By the mid-1980s, the pressures of time and money prevented most physicians from making house calls anymore.

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