Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 23, 2013
'This was a farewell. The last concert of the year for the high-school orchestra. The seniors wore roses and beamed with personality. The conductor held up his baton, and the music began. Powerful. Brilliant. Exciting. A send-off to the next phase of their lives. Then…he looked at the orchestra and grinned. He stepped off the [.] The post Orchestra Without a Conductor appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development With spring well underway, many people have started their annual home spring cleaning ritual. Have you ever thought about doing a spring cleaning for your business? Spring is a great time for business leaders to examine routines, learn from past mistakes, and make improvements to create a more productive and successful company.
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Leading Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'The Manager and the Monk is one of those books that comes along every now and again, that will shape and inspire your thinking. It is a deeply philosophical book with very practical applications. The book is essentially a conversation between Jochen Zeitz ( @JochenZeitz ), the former Chairman and CEO of Puma, and Father Anselm Grün , the financial manager of the Münsterschwarzach Abby near Würzburg, Germany.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'Posted in Team Dynamics [link] Collaboration is the new way to work. Walls are being removed and collaboration points are being designed into workplaces. Though collaboration isn’t new, it is being revived. In a world of extreme connectedness, collaboration is rising as a strategic and practical way to gain a competitive advantage. At the core of collaboration is trust.
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Women on Business
MAY 23, 2013
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Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 23, 2013
'Guest post from Gerry Czarnecki: Those who have read my books know that I believe the greatest injustice we can perpetrate on our staff is to like them. Yes, I truly believe that liking our staff creates the probability that we will be biased in our views when we are trying to successfully manage a team. As I say in my book, Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: Prescriptions for a Leadership Headache , I believe that liking people can also be a major impediment to being an effective leader.
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Leadership Freak
MAY 23, 2013
'Image source The power of vulnerability is lost when you don’t dare or don’t know how. Bill Treasurer, author of, “Leaders Open Doors,” said, “I used to drink too much. Way too much. … Three years after getting sober … I decided to reveal to my boss, a partner at Accenture, that I was in […].
leaderCommunicator
MAY 23, 2013
'“Who’s in charge here?”. It’s a phrase many of us have heard in any number of situations and scenarios throughout life – in movies, at work, at home (those with kids know this question might even be posed internally). In successful organizations, being a leader isn’t just about people who manage others. Leadership is something in which everyone participates.
Management Excellence
MAY 23, 2013
'Sometimes, you just have to call a time-out. While our tendency is to respond to the gravitational pull of our devices and the unceasing demands of the urgent and urgent-unimportant in our work lives, some issues simply require deep thought.
Coaching Tip
MAY 23, 2013
'Only 4% of U.S. employers report having an ample pipeline that will cover most of their leadership and management needs, according to a global survey of more than 2,000 senior human resources executives in 14 countries by Right Management. Most of the 650 U.S. executives participating in the survey (85%) indicated they instead expect to rely on a combination of internal talent development and outside recruitment.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 23, 2013
'Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life Ken Robinson Portfolio/Penguin (2013) Finding your Element is “vital to understanding who you are and what you’re capable of being and doing with your life.” According to Ken Robinson, what he characterizes as “The Element” is not a physical location but […].
Ron Edmondson
MAY 23, 2013
'I learned much of what I know about parenting after I was a parent. Thankfully, my two boys are model young people. I would say I have two of the greatest young men as sons that any parent has ever seen. (Biased…aren’t I?) But, seriously, we have seen good fruit from our labor as parents. I believe that is in part because we followed certain principles.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 23, 2013
'Based on its experiences working with the user community, Lego has developed a set of principles that summarize what it has learned about collaborating and interacting with knowledgeable users. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Yun Mi Antorini, Albert M. Muñiz, Jr. and Tormod Askildsen for the MIT Sloan Management Review. […].
Managing Communities
MAY 23, 2013
'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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Strategy Driven
MAY 23, 2013
'The Strategist : Be the Leader Your Business Needs. by Cynthia Montgomery. About the Book. The Strategist by Cynthia Montgomery challenges readers to ask “Am I a strategist?” and goes on to provide illustrated examples and insights into the skills and sensibilities all senior leaders must possess in order to guide their organization to ongoing growth and success.
The Idolbuster
MAY 23, 2013
'3D Team Leadership Arrow Concept by Scott Maxwell via Flickr CC. A guest post by Don Phin . Today’s leader is inclusive. Even a strong leader must discipline himself/herself to take up the right amount of “space,” and that right amount is 40%, especially if he/she wants to work with other strong individuals. If we’re at less than 40%, we’re out of our personal power and easily manipulated.
Rapid BI
MAY 23, 2013
'Business Planning Samples & Templates - What is a good structure of an effective business plan ? There are many types of business plan format or template. How to write a business plan. The sample listed here may be used when raising finance.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'To be a successful entrepreneur - or really, a successful anything - you need to be able to recognize an opportunity when you see one. Specifically, you need to be able to identify a problem or gap, and come up with an innovative solution. (Of course you also need to be able to execute that solution, but without spotting the opportunity in the first place, you aren''t going anywhere.).
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Rapid BI
MAY 23, 2013
'Business Techniques in Troubled Times by Thomas H. Gray This book starts out with the premise that it is the availability of business advice not been the problem. The author pursues a real issues are around “how do I know I need help?” And “what advice can I trust?” In his book Gray aims to [.].
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'David Karp, who sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, is one more in a line of twenty-somethings and even pre-twenty-somethings whose technology innovations have made them a fortune. We''ve seen this before. In the 1990s, young techies with purple hair, ponytails, and earrings (that was the men) disrupted boardrooms; in the 2000s, they wear hoodies.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'All his life, he hated brushing his teeth. Getting toothpaste onto a toothbrush can be messy if your fine motor skills are still developing. And, of course, even though you know you''re supposed to replace a toothbrush every three months, who really keeps track of that? So, Houston Diaz decided to invent a solution. And several prototypes later, he designed a toothbrush that has the toothpaste dispenser integrated into the brush itself, allowing himself and others to have a more convenient solu
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'Thanks to U.S. Sen. Carl Levin''s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations , corporate taxes were all over the headlines this week. Subcommittee staff produced a fascinating 40-page "memo" on Apple''s creative tax avoidance, then Apple CEO Tim Cook submitted to what turned out to be a not all that heated grilling from Levin and colleagues. On the assumption that, while this story will wax and wane over the coming months, it''s not going away, here''s some context (for you headline purists , the
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. When an ad appears to speak to a consumer directly, of course, it''s likely to be most effective. But that''s also the moment when the creepy response kicks in.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'An interview with Michael Raynor , director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the article Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great. For more, see his book. Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by June 2.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified in front of the Congressional Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as a part of their look into the company''s corporate tax practices — according to Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman of the committee , "Apple successfully sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2013
'Ever had to look at a data visualization while you were in a lousy mood? Chances are you were more likely to make an error in visual judgment than if you had been feeling more cheerful. New research suggests that putting users in an emotionally positive mindset improves their accuracy in interpreting data visualizations. So even if your company publishes only the occasional graph, provoking a positive emotional response in the audience might just help you get your data across more accurately.
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