Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2016

Have you ever looked at your to do list and just laughed? You think, “oh right, that’s not happening,” and then moments later, you realize that none of the tasks on your list are really an option. Perhaps that’s the point that your nervous laughter turns to tears. That’s the wall I hit this week. I’ve had a number of serious personal challenges that require an intense investment of emotion and time, some stuff I wouldn’t have chosen, and certainly not at

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General Leadership

MARCH 14, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.” from the book “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin. What did you think about when you saw the title? Did you think that this would be a negative article describing how a weak leader can be a detriment to an organization?

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 14, 2016

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” Lao Tzu Today’s challenge: Be passionate about compassionate leadership. Compassion doesn’t ignore problems.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2016

A fter a terrifying accident, a young woman wakes up shackled to a pipe in a basement. Enter John Goodman as Howard who proceeds to tell her of what happened to the outside world. A bombing. Alien invasion. Who knows what really happens but he claims the outside world has been wiped out and he’s here to protect Michelle and Emmett. Thus begins 10 Cloverfield Lane, the follow-up to JJ Abrams shaky-cam flick Cloverfield.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Braden Kelley Change efforts are an expedition, a sometimes perilous journey that must be collaborative.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 14, 2016

Perhaps my favorite food is homemade pie (black raspberry or peach, to be specific). I come by this naturally, as my Dad used to famously say, “I only like two kinds of pie; hot and cold.” While I can’t quite say that, there is little doubt how much I love pie. And I’ve had lots […]. The post Recipe for Success: What Leaders Can Learn from Pie appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 14, 2016

Perhaps my favorite food is homemade pie (black raspberry or peach, to be specific). I come by this naturally, as my Dad used to famously say, “I only like two kinds of pie; hot and cold.” While I can’t quite say that, there is little doubt how much I love pie. And I’ve had lots […]. The post Recipe for Success: What Leaders Can Learn from Pie appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s a paradox that every leader faces: Create teams that work well together but embrace conflict. Also, drive consensus but encourage individual points of view. Discomfort is emotional. Feelings can be complex and multi-layered. But stifling expression can inhibit a team’s performance and lead to poor decision making.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 14, 2016

When we make plans for the future or even just today, why do we so seldom, if ever, plan on distractions? Why do we make our plans as if we are going to live in a perfect world and be left alone to focus on our work or family or whatever it is that we’re hoping to accomplish that day? This state of being able to completely focus without distraction on whatever task we assign ourselves for the day has never happened in the past, yet we still plan as if this nirvana-like world will exist in the fu

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2016

“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate.” from Cool Hand Luke ——————– We fail to succeed in so many of our communication attempts. So many… I’ve read and/or heard things in the last few days that helped crystallize some thinking for me on this problem/issue – Why are there are so, so many unsuccessful attempts… Read More Three Reasons Why We Fail In Our Attempts to Communicate.

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CO2

MARCH 14, 2016

“The human mind gets creased into a way of seeing things.” -Antoine Lavoisier, Reflections on Phlogiston Kripkean Dogmatist If you are showing up as a Kripkean Dogmatist then you treat any new information that disagrees with your position as irrelevant. The moment you know that what you are hearing, reading or observing is counter your position you know enough, it is not correct.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2016

Our April First Friday Book Synopsis features our first charity sponsorship of the year. For the third consecutive year, Creative Communication Network is a silver-level sponsor of Running 4 Clean Water, scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Did you know that 9,129 people a day die because they do not have access to safe water? Last… Read More April Synopsis Has Major Charity Sponsorship.

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CO2

MARCH 14, 2016

“The human mind gets creased into a way of seeing things.” -Antoine Lavoisier, Reflections on Phlogiston. Kripkean Dogmatist. If you are showing up as a Kripkean Dogmatist then you treat any new information that disagrees with your position as irrelevant. The moment you know that what you are hearing, reading or observing is counter your position you know enough, it is not correct.

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Managing Communities

MARCH 14, 2016

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

MARCH 14, 2016

Speed, agility, communication, delegation, innovation. You’ve heard the saying “fighting the last war”. It refers to preparing to compete using familiar techniques, against competitors you’ve faced before, in the same markets or industries, only to discover that the rules have changed. Modern business competition is changing rapidly, and to compete effectively, you need to understand the skills that are required to win.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2016

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart explain that there are nine managerial competencies essential to managing Millennials. They are: Be Flexible - Focus more on what gets done than on how it gets done and give Millennials the leeway to work how they want when possible. Create the Right Rewards - Rewards don't need to be overdone for every accomplishment, but Millennials should be recognized when things go well.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 14, 2016

I’d almost always rather hear “No” than to hear “I don’t know” Don’t misunderstand. I love when a leader admits they don’t know something. I believe every leader has something to learn and should learn first from their team. But, I have strong contentment against hearing “I don’t know” when the real answer has already been decided – and the answer is NO!

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Rapid BI

MARCH 14, 2016

LinkedIn is more than just a job search and CV hosting tool. The problem that many users create for themselves is only being active when looking for work. LI gives us tools to raise our profile too. Effective use of LinkedIn requires balance. When employed use it for connecting, learning and sharing. When needing new […]. The post LinkedIn it’s not just for job search #HRBlog appeared first on.

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My Own Coach

MARCH 14, 2016

And…what stories do you still believe to be true, and will later find out are urban myth? Often times, it’s difficult to tell what is true and what is myth – particularly in this age of the internet and social media. We read an article on a credible looking website, or notice a post from […]. The post What Stories Have You Believed To Be True?

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Rapid BI

MARCH 14, 2016

LinkedIn is more than just a job search and CV hosting tool. The problem that many users create for themselves is only being active when looking for work or a new role. LI gives us tools to raise our profile too. Effective use of LinkedIn requires ongoing balance. When in a stable (employed) role, we […]. The post LinkedIn it’s not just for job search #HRBlog appeared first on RapidBi.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Business reliance on the freelancer economy continues to grow. Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2016

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.” – Theodore Roosevelt. All of us at some point in our lives will encounter challenges. Some people will succumb and give up, while others will try their best to work on it until they overcome and learn the lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Robert J. Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, has recently published an important new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth , which argues that the U.S. has entered a new age of stagnation in which our hopes for an ever more prosperous future will largely evaporate. While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Rob

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Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2016

“Institute training on the job” is point 8 in W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming’s management system was focused on creating a work environment that allowed people to take pride in their work by letting them contribute fully. So many workplaces waste the abilities of people and in doing so demoralize them and create organizations that are ineffective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

When executives complain about activist hedge funds, it’s often under the cover of short-termism. Activists are bad, the thinking goes, because they pressure companies to prioritize quarterly profits over long-term value creation. That view isn’t well supported by the evidence. Instead, there’s a more obvious reason why CEOs dislike activists, backed up by a new research paper by Thomas Keusch of Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Globalization is not what it was even a decade ago. What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization. Since this is a firm for which I have deep respect and admiration, I shared a very long list of positive observations on the people, their culture, and their impressive accomplishments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Since the early 1990s, when teams became a corporate trend, a lot of work has turned into teamwork. Companies have assigned more and more responsibilities to teams, rather than individual employees or departments, and collaboration is seen as critical to getting good work done. And yet most performance management systems still rely on a set of recognition and reward programs aimed primarily at motivating and guiding employees toward reaching their individual goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. In an upcoming book and in a recent article in Harvard Business Review , my coauthor Christopher Zook and I identify the qualities of “the founder’s mentality” and show how all organizations, even those whose founders have long retired

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