Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 25, 2013
'Bad leaders suck life-force from their teams. They don’t mean too. And yet, contagious yawns permeate the workplace. Low energy abounds. Why? I’ve been asking this question everywhere this week (my organization, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter). Here’s the top 10. I’ll leave it to you for #11. 10 Energy Zappers 1. Blurry vision Working frantically without a clear purpose [.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 25, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development “Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” — Socrates “Rev it up!” “ I’m pumped!” “Shake it loose!” Where does this type of energy come from? In the rural section of Waverly, Virginia, where I grew up, there was no running water in the homes. Instead we had a community well with [.].
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Women on Business
JUNE 25, 2013
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Leadership Freak
JUNE 25, 2013
'Leave a comment on today’s post and become eligible for one of twenty-five copies of, “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest,” by Peter Block. Human Resource Departments that are dedicated to serving upper management and controlling front-line employees are a sad waste of human resources. Peter Block complains, “We have separated the management of the […].
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Lead from Within
JUNE 25, 2013
'One of the clients I coach—an important leader in his industry—was extremely distraught and agitated about the future of his company. I allowed him some space to vent and rant, and then I reminded him how great leaders look at the future, how they create vision and values and culture, and how they create targets based on where they’re going. But when times are tough, I told him, great leaders are handed a gift.
Jason Womack
JUNE 25, 2013
'What are you moving toward? Some time ago over lunch, my friend and mentor - Marshall Goldsmith - reminded me, What Got You Here, Might Not Get You There. This IS a book I''ve read more than once. Just today, I had a wild experience. This month I am riding my bicycle about 1,100 miles (first with Ride the Rockies, next with the Bicycle Tour of Colorado).
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 25, 2013
'Dave Ulrich is a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning […].
Coaching Tip
JUNE 25, 2013
'All creatures have an executive function, but in the human case it has a special power of self-awareness. For many leaders, the story of their development was a journey of discovery. The life journeys of many have involved revelations and switches of direction. It is also common for changes in our perceptions ; new awareness about the world around us to trigger changes in goals and desires.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 25, 2013
'While I was preparing my remarks, Kobe dropped by my room, carrying a copy of my book, Sacred Hoops. He asked me to sign the book, and said he was really excited about working with me because he was a big Bulls fan. It was a good sign. Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings ——————— We are […].
Your Voice of Encouragement
JUNE 25, 2013
'My husband Lee and I were in the kitchen preparing dinner last week, and I said, “I’m thinking that broccoli would be great as a side dish.” He looked at me and chuckled. “What are you laughing about?” “It’s just that you''ve been starting a lot of sentences lately with ‘I’m thinking…’ and I bet you don’t even realize you’re doing it.” I had no clue.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 25, 2013
'I am back from vacation, hitting the ground running, with some days of Presentation Skills training beginning tomorrow. “Regular” blog posts coming soon, but here is my last “vacation reflection” blog post. We spent a chunk of our time in Red River, New Mexico. My wife first went to this quiet, wonderful place as a […].
Strategy Driven
JUNE 25, 2013
'It’s counterintuitive to think of high overtime as being related to over staffing. Most view high overtime as a sign more workers are needed and current employees are over worked. In fact, managers are far more comfortable having bloated staffs rather than either an understaffed organization or one with a staffing level demanding cutting edge efficiency in order to get the work done.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 25, 2013
'Reproduction of Altamira cave paintings in Munich’s Deutsches Museum (Mattias Kabel) Here is an excerpt from an article written by Priscilla Long in which she explains what it takes to take in, say, a Picasso. It was published by The American Scholar, the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and […].
Ron Edmondson
JUNE 25, 2013
'A recent conversation on a Sunday went something like this: Staff member: Where is everyone? Me: It’s summer. Staff member: But, it still seems low, even for summer. Me: This is still up percentage wise well over last year…. Staff member: But, it doesn’t feel like it. Me: No, it never does. The next day I received an email from a church staffer at another church.
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Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 25, 2013
'The following is a guest piece by Kevin Kruse. “Hey, why is it always up to the manager to increase engagement?” Shirley had thrust up her hand and didn’t wait for me to call on her before blurting out her question. She continued, “The person who always complains about ‘communication’ never raises his hand in a meeting to ask a question.” We were in the middle of workshop teaching leadership principles that drive employee engagement—techniques that increase an employee’s emotional commitment to
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'That''s a question I am almost guaranteed to hear during any social media workshop, or indeed, in one-on-one conversations about social networking. Even committed LinkedIn users are often uncertain of which connection requests to accept, or which invitations to extend: Someone who regularly shares your blog posts on Twitter? That guy on your condo board?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'Managers at every level almost universally complain that many of their meetings are a waste of time. It''s an old story, repeated over and over: "We didn''t have an agenda." "We didn''t manage the time well." "We didn''t have the right people to actually make any decisions." It''s a long list of dysfunctional behaviors that are familiar to just about anyone who has worked in an organization.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. He was attracted to the country''s immense potential and the aspirational drive of its people. Moe started a web design company, servicing his US-based clients with a growing workforce of 12 employees. Soon, he started dreaming of his next venture, a platform that would make setting up an online e-commerce store as easy as starting a Facebook page.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'Throughout his life, Peter Drucker strived to understand the increasing complexity of business and society and, most importantly, the implications for how we can continue to create and deliver value in the face of complexity. I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'No matter how nimble, innovative, or globally networked your organization or business is, it will run smack into the limits of its capabilities just by virtue of operating in today''s dynamic world. To push through these limits, you need to tap into a nearly bottomless force of adaptability known as symbiosis. Symbiosis is a biological concept — roughly defined as a partnership between organisms — that has helped living creatures innovate and expand into new niches for billions of y
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. In TV programming, combatants like Netflix and Amazon challenge decades-old premium channels and other producers to gain watchers with original programming. Using their treasure troves of information on online customer viewing habits, they''re designing new TV series that their data tells them will win.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'Malicious attacks by hackers: At first they were an irritating oddity, but they''ve surged so much over the past few years that now they''re the most common cause of data breaches among U.S. companies. Because these incidents are hard to discover and combat, they''re also now the most costly form of loss. As part of HBR''s "Data Under Siege" Insight Center , we present a few charts that show just how quickly malicious attacks, and their costs, are mounting.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'A majority of retail managers said in a survey that they thought customers would be more satisfied getting perks and bonuses in public than in private, but a team led by Lan Jiang of the University of Oregon shows that''s not so: Consumers have mixed emotions when others see them get unearned rewards, such as a cartload full of groceries for being the millionth shopper.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
'John Macomber , senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, explains why the private sector needs to focus on city-level improvements.
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