Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I just returned from a week long sailing holiday. Karalee and I chartered a 30-year old boat through our yacht club. While I’ve sailed for more than 45 years, this trip taught me that I still have lots to learn about sailing and leadership. We started out the first day with our daughter Jocelyn and her husband Daniel. We got in a little sailing, then travelled to a small island with a very tight little bay where we planned to anchor for lunch.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If you’re a Star Trek fan like myself, then you know this week marks a historic milestone for this science fiction cultural phenomenon. More specifically, how this Thursday, September 8th marks the 50th anniversary of the airing of the first episode in this iconic, internationally renowned television series. Whether you’re a fan of the series, or sci-fi in general, or not, you have to admit it’s an impressive feat for a series made literally half a century ago to have given ris

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We have all been there before: Working under a leader who is constantly criticizing, a boss who is quick to accuse and blame, a manager who is constantly disparaging the staff. It’s extremely hard to work with someone who’s always critical, finding fault and spooning out judgment. It creates a tense, untrusting environment and an adverse working culture.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Sarah and I were in a coaching meeting, and she was frustrated. “I’ve tried everything, and nothing is working” she lamented. She told some long, sad stories about the lack of enthusiasm from her manager, her team and others who were involved in new project she was leading and was excited about. She felt she’d tried everything. I suspected that she hadn’t tried everything….yet.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thirty-seven percent of the American workforce now say they have worked remotely, representing a fourfold increase since 1995, according to a recent Gallup poll. For workers in many industries, working remotely is a novel concept. But for traveling sales representatives, working away from the office has long been a way of life. In 2014, there were 1,800,900 wholesale and manufacturing representatives in the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Mistakes aren’t the end of the world. Sometimes they’re the beginning. Beginnings: Paula Swain convinced her husband to leave a 15 year career to start a business from scratch on wrong information.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If you are dealing with a mediocre team or average performance from people, check what you are expecting from them. People respond to expectations (implicit and explicit) and raising the bar of expectations is a great way to enable growth and potential in people. Raising Expectations Doesn’t Mean Pressurizing People. Setting high expectation means providing clarity of purpose, helping people find meaning of their work, helping them see what success looks like and then helping them along the way.

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ReImagine Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

September 5, 2016 : “At a time when our nation is gearing up for major elections, many people claim to have what it takes to lead. It can be challenging to sort out what they mean versus what they will actually do. We appreciate this set of posts ; each one carries a nugget of something a leader can actually do in order to lead well. The Lead Change Group would like to thank Coaches Training Institute (CTI) for sponsoring the Lead Change Group (including this carnival) for September 2016.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Can being disciplined make you happy? This is an interesting question that most people don’t think about. At least, they don’t think about it in the way that I’m going to talk about it here. Most people think that if they are disciplined with their exercise they will get in or stay in good physical shape. Most people trust that if they spend time studying for a test they will likely pass.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Just under eight years ago, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success was first published. Yet, here it is, yet again, at the number one spot in the September, 2016 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers list. It says a lot about this book, and this author, that it is back at the #1… Read More Here’s the New York Times September, 2016 Business Books Best Sellers List – Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is back at the #1 Spot.

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I had someone call me last week looking for the gold "nugget" of advice that would help them accelerate their leadership impact and influence in the quickest way possible. They have their MBA, they're super smart, they're in a highly visible position, and they care very much about what they're up to. And of course, like any high achiever who wants to have more impact, they're looking to optimize.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When evaluating an organization's culture, it is important to understand that variations likely exist vertically among personnel levels and horizontally across divisions, departments, and workgroups. Consequently, it's important to establish the degree of alignment between the various organizational levels and business units to the cultural characteristics being evaluated in order to fully understand the cultural adaptation and adherence within the organization.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From Sydney Finkelstein 's book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent , comes these great questions you should routinely ask yourself as a leader: Have you answered the "why do we exist" question for your team? Could all of your team members share this answer with you right now? Do you have people on your team who have followed non-traditional paths to their jobs, or do you find yourself attracted to cookie-cutter backgrounds?

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Hint: They involve you! I see part of my role as a senior leader as a developer of other leaders. In church terms, as much as I am called to make disciples, I am called to disciple disciple-makers. I take this role seriously. I am consistently thinking how I can encourage people around me to be better at what they do. Several years ago, with another staff, someone who once worked with me mentioned my intentionality in developing leaders on his blog.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Some of us remember the days when we could lock ourselves in the office, turn off the phone, and put the outside world on hold. But now—what with texts, social media updates, instant messages, and the incessant vibrating and chiming of our mobile devices that deliver them—we are always connected. Or are we? Ironically, the very technology that is designed to connect us with one another often separates us from our team and prevents us from enjoying in-person, face-to-face interactions.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Presentation by Michael King and Jane Kovacs at the 2015 Deming in Education conference – Finding Joy In Learning: Applying Deming’s Theory to Schools. The speakers work for Quality Learning Australasia (QLA). QLA’s website has quite a bit of useful information. One of the tools they used in the presentation is a Lotus diagram which is used to help organize your thinking and learning.

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My Own Coach

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Are you making it too difficult for people to get through to you? People will simply give up trying to discuss everyday problems and challenges with you. The post Do You Encourage Your Team To Share Their Problems With You? appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Imagine a busy day at work. One of your coworkers walks over to your office and asks for your help — he is struggling to understand some financial projections. You put aside what you’re doing and spend the next 45 minutes helping him sort through the formulas and numbers. He leaves your office with a better understanding of the projections.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. has found that almost half of the private equity firms it studied replaced the CEOs who ran their portfolio companies,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

A hidden source of friction is slowing your company down. Your workers are complicit in it. So is your management. And it’s driving everybody nuts. It’s bad business writing. I surveyed 547 businesspeople in the first three months of this year. I looked specifically at people who write at least two hours per week in addition to email. They told me that they spend an average of 25.5 hours per week reading for work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’” So starts David Foster Wallace’s famous commencement speech.

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