Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Your journey toward authentic leadership involves evolution and revolution. You’re in what LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman, calls the state of permanent beta. But, what’s your ideal leadership prototype? What are you working on becoming? Not some textbook leadership prototype, or what someone else wants you to be. Build your prototype of your leadership at it’s very [.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Posted in Change Management Self Leadership Workplace Issues A few months ago, I was reading John P. Kotter’s best selling book Leading Change as part of a group assignment in my workplace. Kotter’s eight-stage process for managing organizational change sparked lively discussion. Our leadership team spent time considering our organizational challenges and how we might apply the eight stage process.
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Women on Business
AUGUST 14, 2013
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development I met Ilan Saks, founder of The Founder Project, through my education entrepreneur guru Aron Solomon, and now I can’t wait for The Founder Project to come stateside! This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions.
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Leading in Context
AUGUST 14, 2013
'By Linda Fisher Thornton The Manifesto How is ethical leadership a learning journey? "Ethical leadership transforms profits, people, the planet, communities and the world. Ethical leadership is not something on our to do list that we can check off as completed. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. This learning journey will bring out the best in all of us.
Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 14, 2013
'I had a great conversation the other day with a seasoned and accomplished leader (let’s call him “Rob”) who’s been in a tough spot for a while. Rob was feeling stuck at work with a boss that took the credit for all of Rob’s hard work. It is a big source of frustration, and Rob couldn’t see a way out. This has been going on for a long time, and although it doesn’t seem to be affecting his performance, Rob is beginning to wear down.
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Kevin Eikenberry
AUGUST 14, 2013
'This is the third Wednesday in a row I’ve written about innovation. Why? Because it is important to us, personally and professionally. Today’s title might have you scratching your head, which is fine with me. Read on. . Ask most people what they think about when they consider creativity and innovation, and most likely [.].
leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Imagine getting fired. Think how you might feel. Then think about getting fired in front of a peer. What about in front of 1,000 employees? Still worse, by the CEO. A bad dream? Not so. This was the reality for an employee at AOL last week. According to Business Insider, last week AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong told Wall Street they’re cutting Patch – AOL’s local news network – websites from 900 to 600.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Anastasia Lankford has worked with us at the First Friday Book Synopsis for quite a few years. She put this on her Facebook page, and passed it along. Apparently it originated on the Hobbes End Publishing Facebook page. It is worth a careful look. Notice especially the finding about “an hour a day leads to […].
Mills Scofield
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Words of wisdom from alumnae of the 1970''s-90''s to 2000''s-''13, based on our successes, failures, experiences, yearnings and hopes. I''m indebted to Barbara Laskey Weinreich for regularly hosting this gathering of women and to Karen Berlin Ishii for compiling this wisdom. Please pass it along - and add to it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Show, don''t tell.
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Tony Mayo
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Life is mainly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble. Courage in your own. –Adam Lindsay Gordon See also on this blog, Be Kind. Share it!
Mike Cardus
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Had the joy of facilitating the professional staff from the University at Buffalo Campus Living for the 2nd year in a row! Below are some images from the University at Buffalo NY Campus Living Staff’s team building day, we were at Chestnut Ridge Park. Objectives: Have fun! For all staff to get to know each other in an enjoyable atmosphere. Boundary Breaking – reinforcing the message that everyone’s work is needed and valued.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 14, 2013
'I was looking over some of my “earlier” First Friday Book Synopsis handouts (some of them were not as thorough as my current handouts), and I ran across the one on the early Michael Lewis book: NEXT: The Future Just Happened (2001). Here are two excerpts from the book: In the long run the Internet […].
Building Personal Strength
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Have you been around the block a few times? Then you know how hard it is to get along in the world. Life has a way of challenging you on a regular basis. You end up having to make hard decisions and do hard things. I''ve known people who preferred to look for an easy way out; and if they saw one, they took it, seemingly oblivious to the consequences.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Dan Isenberg was raised in Woods Hole,Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Oregon and then Harvard University in Social Psychology (Ph.D.), after living and working in Israel from 1972-1976. He taught organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, and then moved to Israel in 1987 to raise a family and become an entrepreneur and venture […].
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 14, 2013
'In my experience, the type of leader who gets followed closest has some distinct characteristics. I think that’s more defined these days than ever before, possibly because we live in the days of information. The leader is known well. It’s hard for a leader to hide true character. Here, in my opinion, are the most admired qualities in leadership these days: Servanthood – A willingness to do for others before (and if they never) do for you.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry David C. Robertson with Bill Breen Crown Business (2013) How and why the phoenix became the unofficial bird of the LEGO Group The family-owned LEGO Group is among several once great companies that deteriorated almost to the point of […].
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 14, 2013
'The world of the customer has dramatically changed. The tough economy has made customers more value conscious, demonstrating far more caution in how they spend their hard-earned dollar. The proliferation of self-service (while a blessing when it works) has made customers more frustrated when they feel trapped in a process with no live person to help.
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Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Mike Brown, the founder of the Kansas City, MO company called, The Brainzooming Group , encourages business leaders to solicit feedback from their customers when creating a strategic plan. Brown once wrote in Smart Companies Thinking Bigger magazine, that you should “ ask a group of current, former and potential customers the following questions :" If you’re a current or former customer, why did you start using us?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
'The stats below offer a startling glimpse into what work and leadership is like for women around the world. Click or tap the refresh button for a new fact, and share them with your friends, family and colleagues. They''re not all depressing. I promise. Taking a more in-depth examination of women and leadership, our September issue focuses on some of the complicated ways gender manifests itself in our workplaces.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Women who had read a vivid article describing growing unemployment and increasing scarcity showed a stronger desire ( 6.19 on a 7-point scale) to purchase lipstick, form-fitting jeans, and form-fitting black dresses, in comparison with women who had read a neutral article ( 4.97 on the same scale), says a team led by Sarah E. Hill of Texas Christian University.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
'We all know that if you put a frog in water and slowly heat it to the boiling point, the frog will stay put and die. But if you throw the frog into already boiling water, it will quickly jump out. Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Five years ago, as Facebook was establishing global dominance and Twitter was showing promise as The Next Big Thing, there was little doubt that both would become hugely profitable. Today, after years of awkwardly placed ads, Promoted Tweets , privacy concerns, and struggling stock values, the wisdom has started to swing the other way. Being popular and ubiquitous, we''ve learned, is not the same as having a long-term revenue model.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
'For many years I have been asking friends and colleagues, "What frustrates you the most in modern society?" I''ve received many, varied answers but at their core, so often, was a common root — another question: "How can citizens and government accomplish what modern life requires of them to improve the world in which they coexist?". As the three basic sectors of U.S. society — government, business, and nonprofit,each of which have their own culture, language, and mentality — a
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