Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2016

Scholars have long held that when we see ourselves learning and growing, it creates an increased sense of competence, which in turn provides a great sense of meaning in one’s work. What a great gift to be able to provide for your team – an ecosystem that nurtures learning and growth. But not all learning is created equal – at least not when it comes to how adults learn.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 7, 2016

Thursday Thought: Vision is about serving something greater than yourself. If not in service of a vision, your leadership can become self-serving. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *. In addition to my regular leadership blog, I offer “Thursday Thoughts” – simple truths for reflection and food for thought. The post Vision is about serving. appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 7, 2016

A leader without a problem to fix is like a fly searching for stink. If you aren’t fixing something, you’re buzzing around looking for something that’s broken.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 7, 2016

Knowing the Dark Side. Ever since Obi-Wan Kenobi first introduced the concept of “the Force” to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope , fans have pondered and debated its nature: what exactly is the Force? Why does it have two sides? How are the “light” and “dark” sides related to each other? As is well known, George Lucas invented the Force as a fictional stand-in for the diversity of spiritual metaphysics found in Western and Eastern philosophical and religious worldviews.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 7, 2016

(Note: I live in Dallas, and I am old enough to remember Roger Staubach’s Super Bowl wins for the Cowboys. As a quarterback and team leader, he was something! And, he has been equally successful in building a thriving business in his post Cowboys days. So, in Dallas, when Roger Staubach, speaks, we all listen!).… Read More Roger Staubach on The Challenge of Teams and Team Building.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2016

Lately, while listening to an NPR program, I heard a group of business people discussing kindness. Kindness – not a word historically associated with corporations, those bastions of male verve – is now being equated with the bottom line. How times have changed. In the 90s when I gave keynotes titled ‘Sales as a Spiritual Practice’ I would get asked: “Yes, but how would we make money?”.

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Managing Communities

JANUARY 7, 2016

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

With 2016 upon us, you’ve probably set business goals for the year ahead: launch the new product, grow sales by 20%, or complete the acquisition. You may even have set personal New Year’s Resolutions, like losing 10 pounds or going to the gym three times a week or finally learning Spanish. But professional development – improving yourself at work beyond meeting your specific performance goals – is too often left to the rote box-checking of annual performance reviews.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 7, 2016

Stress is increasing today as the world economy becomes more competitive and the explosion of information overwhelms individuals. The effects are felt not just mentally, but throughout our nervous systems. Human connection in the form of conversation and relational support provides psychological resources to cope with stress. Unfortunately, people have fewer confidants today as single-person households in America are at an all-time high of 28 percent, families have spread out, workplaces are lon

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Leadership development and change management tend to be top priorities for many organizations. In spite of this, a majority of organizations tend to fall far short of their goals for both. One major reason organizations struggle is because they treat both leadership development and change management as separate rather than interrelated challenges. Cultural changes cannot happen without leadership, and efforts to change culture are the crucible in which leadership is developed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” The authors explain that disruption “describes a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses.” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.&

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. All of us, at some point or another, are asked to break the rules at work. It may be a small action, like rounding up or down in an accounts ledger, or a small inaction, like looking the other way while others do so. It may be a one-time request, like when one of us was asked to alter some documentation on a patient in a hospital we worked for.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many business travelers loathe business travel, and for the most part, the hotels they’re staying in are not helping. A 2012 Carlson Wagonlit Travel survey of 6,000 business travelers reported that hotels were responsible for four of the top 10 stress-producers among corporate road warriors. However, hotels can do a lot to reduce your stress and make your trip more pleasant and productive — if you know how to get the most out of your stay.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The use of content marketing has grown exponentially in recent years, and in 2015, Content Marketing Institute found that 88% of B2B marketers are now using content marketing. A lot of these efforts have focused on positioning senior executives as thought leaders, but limiting yourself to content by only those in the C-suite also limits your impact.

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Management

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Tim Wolfe, former president of the University of Missouri system, did not lose his job because of racist incidents on campus. He lost his job because he didn’t talk about them. Unwilling to acknowledge protesters during the homecoming parade and unable to effectively respond to questions about systematic oppression , Wolfe was seen by students as uninterested in addressing their concerns — concerns they had attempted to raise with him time and again.

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