Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Have you ever been handed an “impossible” project, only to realize that the next step is to convince your team it’s completely doable? I have. I hope I can help you. Thanks so much for your support of Let’s Grow Leaders in 2015. I love the feedback I’m receiving on the 2016 panning survey. If you have asked for something specific, and not included your contact information, please send me a note at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com to let me know how I can reach out to

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

When I began my career, I set my sights on one day being a manager, maybe even a director. My ambition was to become a reputable leader who had influence and ability to motivate people to achieve their goals. What I learned within a short span of time is that titles and org charts are invisible to the definition of leadership. I read recently that if you are influencing, you are leading.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 23, 2015

E mployees are your biggest customer. They may not be the ones purchasing your products, but they are the ones selling your company and they’re also the faces your paying customers see. When you have a bad employee, a toxic one at that, things can go downhill real fast. That’s why I’m excited to share with you this infographic that shows you the 5 toxic employees you may face and how to deal with them.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Negative stories produce emotions that close your mind and harm your relationships. Emotions don’t know the difference between true stories or fiction. Video games, movies, and novels produce strong emotional responses.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In, he and co-author John Ullmen share what they learned while interviewing more… Read More Mark Goulston on How to Deal With “Everyday Craziness”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Millennials and younger generations don’t respond to control and a non-stop focus on productivity. To get the best out of them you need to be a benevolent leader. What is different about being a benevolent leader? You are always in the question of what you are creating and how it can contribute to everyone, not just your bottom line. Benevolent leadership is innovation on steroids.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Wishing you a Joyful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 23, 2015

You already know that follow-up after a speech is critical. Your odds of winning a consulting gig from an attendee increase by an order of magnitude if you connect shortly after the speech. But, if you’re like most consultants, you may not know exactly what to say to generate business. We’re going to solve that right now. The six step approach detailed below works for any speech in front of a normal-sized audience.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

One half of all new organizations will close their doors forever after only five years. Those organizations – started with vision, enthusiasm, and hope for the future – will leave employees, clients, and constituents in limbo. Within sixteen years only twenty five percent will still be viable. There are a number of reasons for failure but some result from their own success.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 23, 2015

But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: Today a Savior, who is Messiah the Lord, was born for you in the city of David. Luke 2:10-11. As I read the Scriptures, the ability to have joy is a gift. We may not always be “happy” with our circumstances, but we can have joy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

At this point, everybody knows emotional intelligence matters in the workplace. Yet there are two aspects of emotions that make it hard for people to exercise their emotional intelligence. First, most people are still not completely clear about what emotions actually are. Second, even when we understand emotions conceptually, it can still be hard to deal with our own emotional states.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. On our largest shared challenge, climate change, most of the major hurdles to action — both imagined and real – started to crumble. And an unlikely group of new voices joined the fight. From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Amy Bernstein , editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. For more, see the January-February 2016 issue. Download this podcast.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Leaders of most internet-based businesses have realized the critical importance of using open application programming interfaces (APIs) to expand the reach of their organizations. If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous. APIs are programming routines or protocols that allow software applications to share data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

When companies want to address fragmented cultures, they do some of the oddest things. For example, we’ve seen at least 15 corporations put “one” in front of their name (as in, “One Acme”), as they launched campaigns to dramatically increase interconnection across the organization. As if that would work. Fragmentation is a natural byproduct of scaling.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For several years now, conversation on social media has been locked in mortal battle with campaigning. Spontaneous user-driven conversations are increasingly crowded out by content that companies and organizations have disseminated across the social web by paying for high-quality production, advertising, and promotions. But for a while, one online service seemed to hold conversation and campaigning in balance: Topsy, acquired by Apple in 2013 and shuttered abruptly by the Cupertino behemoth last

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