Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 1, 2013
'You’ve been asked to do the impossible. The clock’s ticking and there’s pressure to perform. Competing priorities complicate the scene. Pushing harder exacerbates stress. Stress leads to inaction. Time to move fast. The FAST Model F-Focus To move results quickly, focus is key. Resist the urge to fix everything. Identify and communicate the biggest [.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation No one likes to fail. Failure feels like losing. But failure is more generous than we might think. Failure gives experience to those who try and offers wisdom to those who will try next. Failure fuels our quest for something better. It is the hunger that drives our discontent.
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Recently, I approached the entrance of familiar children’s store and saw a dead bird on their doorstep. Decay indicated the time for a proper burial had passed and while disturbed, I was not surprised the employees left it lying in state. The dead bird on the doorstep is a common symptom of a big organization problem and if you run one, you might have a few dead birds of your own.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership [link] Diversity is finally getting beyond discussions of race and gender to include experiences, talents, and ways of thinking. I’d like to add another type of diversity to the conversation — virtues. More than 2,500 years ago, Aristotle “created” the Virtues as a guide to leading a “happy life.” They still hold true; that’s why they’ve [.].
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Breakthrough by David C.M. Carter The Chaos Imperative : How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack. Stop Talking, Start Communicating : Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life by Geoffrey Tumlin.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Guest post from Rich Wellins , SVP DDI: If one word could describe the job of being a frontline leader today, it would be “harder.” Growing. demands for greater productivity, more innovation, and doing more with less have made leading at the frontline more challenging than ever. And these same demands have made their roles more critical to the success of our organizations.
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Next Level Blog
AUGUST 1, 2013
'While travelling this week, I’ve been reading This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America''s Gilded Capital by New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich. It’s a simultaneously entertaining and depressing account of the power elite in Washington, DC. The primary point of the book, which Leibovich illustrates with story after story, is that the players in D.C.
Tony Mayo
AUGUST 1, 2013
'I like this guy. We speak the same language. – from many movies, in many variations Some people hate to talk to mechanics. Most people don’t know what their doctor told them. No one likes reading the fine print. Computer departments often find it difficult to get support from the business side. [.].
Engaging Leader
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Deep, long-term business relationships can be extremely valuable. Yet most people seem much more focused on getting a high quantity of customers or other relationships, even if they are low-quality, short-term relationships. David J. Soler is an expert on the topic of relationship marketing and sales. He is the host of the top-rated “Relationship Marketing and Sales Podcast” on iTunes, and the Founder of the Relationship Marketing & Sales Academy.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 1, 2013
'In my introductory post, 12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health, I listed the 12 signs. Now I have completed blog posts on each of the twelve. (The last was posted yesterday). Here is the list again, this time with links to the blog posts, for quick reference. #1 — A healthy organization is constantly adapting and […].
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Tony Mayo
AUGUST 1, 2013
'To be totally engaged with all my functions, all my faculties, all my capacities in life. To me that would be success. –Philosopher Jacob Needleman in Money And The Meaning Of Life Fast Company See also on this blog, Thoroughly Used Up When I Die Share it!
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Earlier today, at the Urban Engagement Book Club for CitySquare, I presented my synopsis of the intriguing book The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns by Sasha Issenberg. What an interesting read! It takes the reader on a journey through the rise of modern-day political consulting and campaign management. And it describes how […].
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 1, 2013
'I regularly watch a show on HGTV called “Love It or List It.” The home makeover show features a couple who are tired of their current house and want to make a change. The show pits two professionals against each other: Hilary, the interior designer, and David, the real estate agent. Both Hilary and David set out to fix up the current house or find the couple a new one, respectively.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 1, 2013
'NUMBERSENSE: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage Kaiser Fung McGraw-Hill (2013) How to cope with an information blizzard that has become a data tsunami I agree with an observation by Mark Twain: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli […].
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Mills Scofield
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Shh.I''m still unplugged from blogging but this crept in - Thank you SmartBriefs ! 21st century leadership learnings from 2,500 years ago.
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Lord, teach us to pray…. (Luke 11:1). I don’t know about you, but I feel like the disciples. I am still learning to pray. The fact is I have more knowledge of prayer than I have substance and practice of prayer. Just being honest. Here are 5 suggestions for amateur prayers…like me: Be respectful – You’re talking to the Creator God.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 1, 2013
'As you start to gear up for the fall and winter holiday shopping season, consider this advice from author Paul R. Timm. He recommends a different twist on asking your customers questions : stop asking your customers the "typical" questions and instead ask them open-ended questions. Here''s specifically what Timm recommends: Don''t Ask : How was everything?
Managing Communities
AUGUST 1, 2013
'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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Chartered Management Institute
AUGUST 1, 2013
'In the wake of another set of statistics suggesting that the banking sector, having caused the financial crisis and economic meltdown, are happy to see its consequences afflict everyone but themselves, I wonder whether the concept of ethical, transformational leadership still has a pulse.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'You''ve been told that getting the most from your team depends on rewarding and recognizing them collectively. But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. Luckily, you don''t have to overhaul your company''s evaluation process or pay structure.
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Every successful business leader has one single-minded purpose, create customers. Businesses aren’t born until they create customers; they die when they stop. I love writing about the qualities and behaviors of effective leaders. But, all the clarity, alignment, collaboration, and vision in the world won’t mean a thing if you don’t create customers.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'One of the very bad things about the Great Recession is that those who were not doing well already got hurt the worst, and that also seems to be the case for the economic recovery. Hiring has picked up, but not for the long-term unemployed, those out of work for more than more than 26 weeks. We''ll get a new look at the data when July jobs numbers are released Friday.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Reinventing corporate IT requires recognizing deep differences between what we have today and what we need in the future. These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'There Is No Alternative. Margaret Thatcher and her allies in the "dry" wing of the British Conservative Party popularized the phrase three decades ago. TINA, for short. The name never caught on in the U.S. as in the UK and parts of Continental Europe, but the idea did. The most compelling statement of it may have come from Milton Friedman, talking to Phil Donahue in 1979 : There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the p
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'This January, we met Shantha Ragunathan , an illiterate woman from Kodapattinam, a remote village in Tamil Nadu, India. Her story is at once heartbreaking and inspiring, showing that game changers can come from all walks of life, all over the world. At six, Shantha lost her parents. By her twenties, she was stuck in a seemingly dark pit without a glimmer of hope: with two children and little financial support from her husband, she could not afford even one square meal a day.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
'Ride-sharing services such as Lyft ask for "donations" that run about 20% less than cab fares in Los Angeles, says The New York Times. The services, which have ignored city regulators'' orders to shut down, appeal to younger riders as a cheaper and more fun way to get around. Cab companies point out that ride-share services can charge less because their cars don''t have to be accessible to the disabled or include safety partitions protecting drivers from riders.
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