Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 28, 2013
'Two-faced leaders destroy culture, break trust, and diminish results. They act one way when you’re around, and another when you’re not. Frustrating when it’s a peer. Terrifying when you discover that Ms. Two-Faced is a leader in your organization. In front of you she says and does all the right things. At other times, her [.] The post How to Expose a Two-Faced Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 28, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Meet LeadChange Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. The interview for May was with Jacob Kache, who works as a consultant for O.C. Tanner, a company dedicated to developing employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.
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Leadership Freak
JUNE 28, 2013
'Image source Heads down hard work lands you out the door, eventually. Hard work is essential, but not enough, to keep earning promotions. Fired not promoted: The board fired the CEO of Callidus Software (NASDAQ: CALD) and Chris Cabrera assumed he was in line for the job. It made sense. Chris was the successful senior […].
Women on Business
JUNE 28, 2013
'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].
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Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 28, 2013
'Did you have a hero as a kid? Do you have one now? I’m guessing you had one as a kid, and at some level I am hoping you have one (or more) now. I’m not talking heroes in the sense of “worshiping the ground they walk on” – but heroes in the sense of [.].
Tony Mayo
JUNE 28, 2013
'The coach whose philosophy I admired most was Amos Alonzo Stagg and he once made the statement he never had a player he didn’t love. He had many he didn’t like and he didn’t respect, but he loved them just the same. –Coach John Wooden Share it!
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CO2
JUNE 28, 2013
'by Calvin Guyer Leadership Fable: The Frog. If you throw a frog into a boiling pot of water, the frog will fight for all of his life to get out. If, however, you put the frog into a pot of cold water then gradually increase the heat, the frog will adjust to his environment. Eventually, the warm water will zap him of his strength and when he finally figures that out he is too weak to fight.
LDRLB
JUNE 28, 2013
'Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He has served on the faculty at Harvard Business School and as a visiting professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is the author of the newly updated Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes For An Answer. In this interview, we discuss how great leaders balance consensus and conflict in making the best decisions, and how history sometimes precedes the research on great leaders.
Mike Cardus
JUNE 28, 2013
'Photo Credit. Coaching and consulting a CEO named Chris. We are working to develop present and future organizational capacity to grow and be change ready for the next 5 years. In our first meeting we began to tackle the challenge of ‘Determining the Levels of Work Within the Company’. I shared the chart Consequences of Too Many Level of Organization below.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2013
'Are you successful in spite of doing things that make no sense at all? by Marshall Goldsmith. Walking under a ladder. Breaking a mirror. A black cat darting across our path. Whoa! Most of us scorn superstitions as silly beliefs of the primitive and uneducated. Deep down inside, we assure ourselves that we are above these antiquated notions. Not so fast.
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Management Excellence
JUNE 28, 2013
'Part of the process of moving up or moving on involves a hefty amount of self-marketing, and it’s at this point where we attempt to share who we are and what we bring to the table that we often fall short. Here are 6 ideas to help you jump-start the process of creating an effective professional value proposition: Career It''s Your Career!
Six Disciplines
JUNE 28, 2013
'You probably already work in Microsoft Outlook – all day, every day. It helps you manage your email, your calendar, your contacts, your to-do list. . Now there''s a way to get even more value from Outlook. . Six Disciplines gives you the capability to create strategy, manage plans, set goals, and manage projects - all within Microsoft Outlook. . Six Disciplines brings your people and plans together in a unified place where they spend most of their time every day – inside Outlook. .
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 28, 2013
'Here is an article written by Dave Johnson for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. * * * (MoneyWatch) The job interview is the gold ring at the end of […].
Ron Edmondson
JUNE 28, 2013
'The calendar indicates a year has past since I began my new ministry position as pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church. You can read about it HERE. I left the church planting world to pastor a historic, 104 year old church. People ask me all the time how it’s going. Recently I was talking with a friend and he reminded me of an old saying, “You’ll accomplish less than you thought you would in a year and more than you thought in five years.” That’s probably true, but, by
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 28, 2013
'Negotiation Brian Tracy AMACOM (2013) “Every battle is won or lost before it is fought.” Sun Tzu I selected one of the insights in The Art if War because I was again reminded of it while sharing Brian Tracy’s thoughts about negotiation, especially what he shares in Chapter 12, “Preparation Is the Key.” The titles […].
The Idolbuster
JUNE 28, 2013
'I am running a contest design the cover for “Busting Your Corporate Idol.” The average contest lasts seven days, and gets 100-200 total designs. This one has over 300 designs in just 3 days. Many are outstanding, and picking the winner will be hard. The contest runs through July 2. But how do I pick? This isn’t really about me, it is about readers.
Leading Blog
JUNE 28, 2013
'Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz, has turned a prescription for growing giant pumpkins in to a formula for building a great business. He calls it The Pumpkin Plan : Step One: Plant promising seeds. Identify and leverage your biggest natural strengths. Step Two: Water, water, water. Sell, sell, sell. Step Three: As they grow, routinely remove all of the diseased or damaged pumpkins.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'Warren Buffett''s advice about money has been scrutinized — and implemented — by savvy investors all over the world. But while most people know they can benefit from expert help to make money, they think they already know how to spend money to reap the most happiness. As a result, they follow their intuitions, using their money to buy things they think will make them happy, from televisions to cars to houses to second houses and beyond.
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Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 28, 2013
'“I serve you, you serve the consumer.” That’s the message from a servant leader boss. Of course, it’s assumed then that the consumers, well served by the team, give them their business. That, in turn, means profits for investors in the for-profit world. As for non-profits, the consumer benefits from the service they received, driving progress in the NPO’s mission.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'Is your company getting your best work? Do you come in every day energized, enthusiastic, creative, and engaged? If not, you''re not alone, at least in the U.S, according to the latest Gallup poll of employee engagement, which you can see if you scroll down through the wealth of data my HBR colleague Gretchen Gavett recently collated. If you''re among the less than enchanted, what are you missing?
leaderCommunicator
JUNE 28, 2013
'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'In the early years of a company''s life cycle, an entrepreneur''s ambition can be a double-edged sword. The drive to align quickly with marquee customers to establish credibility can sometimes cloud your judgment. At my company, TransPerfect, we have mostly been served well by our mantra of 20 years: "Listen to the clients and respond to their needs.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'I run a course at the MIT Sloan School called Essential IT for Non-IT Executives. Every time my colleagues and I come to the end of the course, we ask people what they considered the most important thing they learned. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.". As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'I recently had coffee with a senior partner at a large consulting firm. He''d just had a "milestone birthday" and now hoped to shift into roles that felt more meaningful to him — speaking, writing, teaching, and becoming a thought leader. He had great contacts; newspaper columns and teaching positions could be his for the asking. The only problem, he told me, was he didn''t know what he wanted to say.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'People who were making and tasting lemonade while memorizing a seven-digit number ended up with a 50% higher sugar concentration in the drink than people who were memorizing just one number, say Reine C. van der Wal of Radboud University Nijmegen and Lotte F. van Dillen of Leiden University, both in the Netherlands. This and other experiments suggest that dealing with a cognitive load dulls the experience of taste (not just sweet but also salty and sour), leading people to drink or eat more in
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Don''t let yesterday''s mindset prevent you from seeing what is about to unfold. Those who fail to recognize that the economy is improving are likely to play defense for too long, leaving opportunities for top-line organic growth on the table.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'Long Hours at the Desk. This week''s "Seriously, that happened?" moment comes in the form of American medical-supply executive Chip Starnes being held hostage for six days by 80 employees at the company''s factory outside Beijing. The hostage-takers, worried that he was in the process of shuttering the factory, were demanding severance. Starnes was released after both sides reached a financial settlement.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
'Ten months ago, I was in charge of digital technology for the White House, where security was the top priority and it was inexcusable to let your guard down. Today, I make strategic and tactical technology decisions as the CTO of Atlantic Media. In a media environment, security is often trumped by functionality, convenience, or cost. It''s frequently seen as peripheral or even an impediment to business operations.
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