Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

True leaders at any level of the totem pole show their leadership primarily through managing their own emotions. After all, the only things we can control in life are our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and if we can manage those, we can lead our organizations from anywhere in the hierarchy. True leaders show emotional intelligence by learning about the science-based patterns about how our emotions work and how to manage them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2016

When I was in my sales and customer service executive roles, whenever I needed a pick-me-up, I would go talk to the new hire classes. They’re fired up, full of ambition, and ready to serve. “Raise your hand if you’re looking to be promoted into management” Every hand in the room goes up. Sadly, in many companies something happens along the way.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 13, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is the 3rd in a series on 50 Ways to Lead For Trust. Part 1 included numbers 1-15. Part 2 gave you 15 more, and this post includes the final 20 Ways to Lead For Trust.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2016

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2016

Received a call from a good friend this morning — he was unceremoniously laid off Monday after 16+ successful years at the same organization. I felt for him — starting 2016 off with a fizzle and not a bang. But the coach in me kicked in — and I said, “This is not bad news, it’s a new beginning for you! In fact, this is THE BEST time of the year to get laid off!

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 13, 2016

W elcome to episode 3 of The Answers From Leadership Podcast. Today’s guest is Paul Sohn. Paul is a leadership consultant, blogger, speaker, and author. He Has spent most of his career building leaders worth following and creating good-to-great organizations. He has worked for both a Fortune 50 company and a Top 100 Great Place to Work Company.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 13, 2016

Making decisions is both an art and a scientific endeavor. A decision represents a call to action in some future state; decisions are based on information that often consists of assumptions. Decision makers use their own personal values and assumptions and past experiences and/or intuitions to arrive at their decisions. All of this individualistic assessment of a situation is part of the artful approach to decision making.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 13, 2016

In an interview with CBS News, the president of the United States was asked about the nation’s economy. “There’s no magic solution,” he replied. “To even stand still we have to move very fast.” He pointed out that “we have a combination of older workers who have been thrown out of work because of technology… Read More “Education and Retraining” – What if These are Not Enough?

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David A Fields

JANUARY 13, 2016

I’m going to assume you’re a darn good consultant. Not much of an assumption, really. I trust you. As a darn good consultant, you know that the path to new business is offering the Right Solution to the Right Target with the Right Chocolate Bribe at the Right Time. But when is that time? Well, of course you know the right time is when your prospect is aware of a big issue you can address and considers it a top priority.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 13, 2016

David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 13, 2016

This is a guest post by my friend Will Mancini. Will is one of the best church strategy and vision guys I’ve met. Check out his new book – God Dreams. The Nine Forms of Generic Vision That Stifle Practically Every Church. Most pastors are visionaries. But to fully realize the vision of a church, a pastor needs more than a generic sense of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Research has documented that outstanding leaders take time to reflect. Their success depends on the ability to access their unique perspective and bring it to their decisions and sense-making every day. Extraordinary leadership is rooted in several capabilities: seeing before others see, understanding before others understand, and acting before others act.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 13, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” Albert Einstein. A recent IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs report that creativity is the single most important leadership competency of the 21 st century.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

I’ve been researching mindfulness since the early 1970s. New findings emerge from our lab and others each year, showing what a powerful factor mindfulness is with respect to our health, happiness, and effectiveness. Everything we do, we do mindfully or mindlessly, which suggests that it can be one of the most important drivers of our well-being.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2016

The growth of alternative messaging systems for business has been remarkable. Startups like Slack reaching multi-billion dollar valuations nearly overnight and established companies like Facebook investing similar amounts into developing a platform dedicated to intra-organizational communications are fueling the drive toward new forms of communication.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference — improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: people sometimes distort ideas, and therefore fail to reap their benefits. This has started to happen with my research on “growth” versus “fixed” mindsets among individuals and within organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

The New Year is a time when a lot of people decide to start making changes, including changes about where they work. While letters of resignation aren’t typically dated January 1, for many people the departure plan begins with the turn of the year. But if you’re making plans for a job change in 2016, make sure you’ve got a plan in place to keep your relationships at your old employer intact even after you’ve started somewhere else.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Are executive women gaining power at the expense of their health? Or do their high earnings and advanced degrees protect them from unhealthy outcomes? I surveyed 369 North American professional women, largely drawn from Fortune 500 companies, to get a fuller picture of their health. The women in my sample included a range of incomes and education levels from senior executives to entry-level analysts to executive assistants.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Noisy and ungainly, India’s three-wheeled auto rickshaws are an iconic form of urban transport that can be hard to love. Without knowing their place in Indian life, an outsider might take one look at their loud engines and open sides and suggest that rickshaws should be replaced with modern vehicles that are faster, bigger, and more comfortable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

It’s no secret that many leaders have favorites within their teams: people they share more information with, trust more, and rely on more to complete important tasks. After all, team leaders are human beings, so it’s natural for them to gravitate toward certain people based on things like interpersonal compatibility and demonstrated performance abilities.

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