Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2015

You know your boss cares deeply about customers, employees, and doing the right thing for your business. And you’ve built a passionate team of customer advocates, who want to make a good living and feel good about coming to work every day. And yet here you are precariously squashed amidst the intensity of all this passion and good intentions. At the core, everyone wants similar outcomes… you get it.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2015

What’s really at risk when you take a risk? I was coaching a client recently on working with his new supervisor. This supervisor had already shown his true colors many times. He would go back on his word, drag things out, allow deadlines to come and go, and change his story from one day to the next. My client and I looked closely at whether he wanted to continue in this position, with this employer.

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General Leadership

JUNE 8, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. “ Colin Powell. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read

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Women on Business

JUNE 8, 2015

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 8, 2015

So, it’s not every day when you can say that one of your lifelong best friends just won a Tony award. Today is actually the second time I’ve gotten to do that. The fact that today is actually National Best Friends Day makes it even more fun. Last night, one of my best friends since third grade, Michael Cerveris, won his second Tony award. His latest is best lead actor in a musical for playing the role of Bruce Bechdel in the ground-breaking show, Fun Home.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 8, 2015

C hurch leaders know they must continue to work on their skills to improve their knowledge and to continually seek the face of God. We can fall into ruts where we no longer feel the desire to do the seeking. And then we begin to fall away. This is why I like to keep a list of handy dandy websites to rejuvenate my faith and getting me going again. Image via Creative Commons. 5 Websites Church Leaders Need To Visit.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 8, 2015

The pursuit of excellence offends those who like things as they are. Excellence is an unwelcome disruption to insecure leaders, comfortable teams, and stagnant organizations. The pursuit of excellence hurts at first.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 8, 2015

It is one of those buzzwords, created by and repeated by consultants and “experts” (people like me). They pick a word or phrase and use it so much it gets a life of its own. And whatever relevance it had to begin with is lost in the faint nodding of heads (because everyone is supposed […]. The post What Transparency Really Means to You as a Leader appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 8, 2015

Dear Followers: My new book Triggers is published! Order it now at Triggersthebook.com ! Life Is Good. — Marshall. So much has been written about ways to achieve goals. And my new book Triggers is all about the ultimate achievement, becoming the person you want to be. There is a fine line, though, between setting and achieving goals and goal obsession.

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QAspire

JUNE 8, 2015

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say ‘Thank You’. In between, the leader is a servant.” – Max De Pree. Gone with the industrial age is the concept of traditional leadership where people at the top of pyramid exercise the power in a hierarchy. In a creative and connected economy, a leader’s first and foremost job is to serve to the needs of people they lead.

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LDRLB

JUNE 8, 2015

Nilofer Merchant is the Jane Bond of Innovation. From working with Steve Jobs at Apple, to defeating Microsoft in an epic industry battle, to advising the C-Suites of GE, IBM, Logitech and more, Merchant brings a world-class pedigree to her work. You’ve probably seen her byline and ideas in publications like the Harvard Business Review, Wired, and Oprah.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 8, 2015

Now you may be asking yourself, if even married couples can’t understand each other – and if even the President of the United States, with his team of communications professionals, doesn’t come across the way he intends to—what hope do I have of ever getting my boss to see my potential, or my colleague to […].

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

We hear all the talk about adversity and how it can shape us. Well, it's true. This is a guest post* from Nick DiNardo , author of The Game of Adversity , who shares from experience how we really can turn adversity into opportunities, if we want to. Nick is passionate about this and it's infectious.** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Management Excellence

JUNE 8, 2015

The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — What if everything that used to work for your business no longer did? The business challenge of this era for long established firms is much about escaping the powerful pull of the past. Approaches that worked so well for so long are […].

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2015

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins , is the new book by Annette Simmons , president of Group Process Consulting. "The power of even a simple story to affirm someone’s connection to your organization’s people, values, and vision can mean the difference between simple competence and fully realized ownership," explains Simmons. "Simply put, your stories help your people feel more engaged and alive.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

We hear all the talk about adversity and how it can shape us. Well, it's true. This is a guest post* from Nick DiNardo , author of The Game of Adversity , who shares from experience how we really can turn adversity into opportunities, if we want to. Nick is passionate about this and it's infectious.** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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David A Fields

JUNE 8, 2015

A consultant asked me the following question: You’ve said your standard terms are to be paid in full within 6 weeks of a project starting, regardless of the results. How does that fit with the idea of putting the clients’ interests first? How would you answer this consultant? What would those of you who get paid 100% upfront say to this consultant? What about those of you who don’t get fully paid until the project is over… what do YOU think is in the client’s best interests?

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Managing Communities

JUNE 8, 2015

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

JUNE 8, 2015

I’m challenging you NOT to have your BEST year ever. Rather, have a GREAT year. A great family year. A great achievement year. A great money year. A great health year. The secret of 'great' is NOT to start with 'it.' The secret of 'great' is to start with 'you.' 'IT' is I’m gonna buy a new house this year, and 'YOU' is I’m gonna study the science of asking questions.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 8, 2015

What is it you have to do when you’re not preaching? Must be nice to only work one day a week. I’d like to come see you this afternoon. Since it’s not Sunday I’m assuming you’re free. Believe it or not, I’ve heard all of those. Most are simple misunderstandings. Sometimes people are just trying to be funny. I must admit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In 1904, the great sociologist Max Weber visited the United States. As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” Yet while Weber saw vast potential and boundless opportunities, he also noticed problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Photo by Andrew Nguyen. As much as we all need vacations, the day or week after a vacation often leaves us wondering whether the joy of vacation is worth the pain of returning to work. Between the email backlog, the pain of readjustment, and the fight to get back into your work clothes after two weeks of eating all the biscuits in Oregon (strictly hypothetically), you may feel like you need another vacation just to recover from the stress of getting back into a work groove.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Eighteen years ago, five airline companies—Lufthansa, Air Canada, United Airlines, Thai Airways and Scandinavian Airlines—formed an alliance with a vision to offer better services to their customers. Under the banner of Star Alliance, these companies started sharing resources such as sales offices, maintenance facilities, operational staff, and seating capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It is hard to study competitive strategy. As a result, we don’t know much about what actually works. We don’t lack anecdotes and stories. A business goes under, we get an instant autopsy. A business takes off, we get an instant reverse-engineered recipe. That’s entertaining but not rigorous. There’s plenty of evidence about what’s profitable to have.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

This is sponsor content – insight from GE. With energy demands rising and reserves of oil and gas becoming more challenging to access, the productivity revolution promoted by the Industrial Internet is of vital importance to the oil and gas sector. By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

On the surface, John looked like the perfect up-and-coming executive to lead BFC’s Asia expansion plans. He went to an Ivy League B-school. His track record was flawless. Every goal or objective the organization had ever put in front of him, he’d crushed without breaking a sweat. But something broke when John went to Asia. John struggled with the ambiguity, and he didn’t take prudent risks.

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