Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

It’s a question that has many of us in the leadership resiliency field pondering with great uneasiness. The current public personas of people whom we would title “leaders” are a far cry from the model Robert Greenleaf developed during his 40 years with American Telephone and Telegraph (now AT&T). After decades in corporate America, Greenleaf’s research led him to a growing suspicion that the power-centered authoritarian leadership style so prominent in U.S. institutions was not working.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 1, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton I don't particularly like the quote "Good things come to those who wait." This quote, attributed to British author Violet Fane (Mary M. Singleton) in 1892, may be true but it leaves out important parts of the story.

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Women on Business

MARCH 1, 2017

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 1, 2017

Great leaders all have many traits in common. Great leaders are able to cast vision. They’re also able to inspire others. Not only that, great leaders know how to get the job done. But there’s one thing aspiring leaders can miss that will hold them back. There’s a missing leadership ingredient every great leader must have. 12th Grade Me.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Time, Talent, Energy : Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power by Michael C. Mankins and Eric Garton. Leaders Made Here : Building a Leadership Culture by Mark Miller. Radical Candor : Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 1, 2017

Several years ago, I called to reconnect with one of my mentors from my college days at Xavier University. Early in my conversation with Gene, I mentioned that I thought I recalled reading in Xavier’s alumni magazine that he’d recently completed a one-year sabbatical. (As at most colleges and 15% of US companies, Xavier […].

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 1, 2017

Don't Hide in Your Office—Do Rounds. It’s a basic theory—and it works. Allocate time each month to walk the halls, eat lunch in the cafeteria, talk face-to-face with the factory manager or employees on the floor. Ensure that on every trip, you spend time talking with employees at the location. Schedule these activities in your calendar, just like any other appointment.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2017

Another book giveaway!! The giveaways of Mark Miller’s new book, Leaders Made Here: Building a Leadership Culture, are going so well that we’re doing it again!! 30 more free books!!!

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Transitions such as quitting one job for another opportunity or retiring from your current career are usually far harder than we imagine. It’s easy to talk about letting go, but when the time comes, it’s hard to do. The emotional aspect of departing is difficult to fathom, but at a recent meeting I attended, a marketing exec put the dilemma in succinct terms to a group of us.

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David A Fields

MARCH 1, 2017

The easiest source of new business is, of course, current clients. However, setting your existing clients aside, where will you find your next, new client? Below are the two best places to look.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Recently, I had the honor to interview one of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein. Frances is the former executive director of the Girl Scouts of America and is currently the chairman of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. She is also one of my best friends. Not only do I think Frances is an extraordinary leader, the great management thinker Peter Drucker once noted that she was perhaps the most effective executive he had ever met.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 1, 2017

A lesson from parenthood: All the motivation in the world can't beat a true sense of urgency.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

My mission is simple. It is to: Help successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in their behavior. Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. It has helped me focus and become pretty good at what I do, which I can describe in two words: behavioral coaching.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2017

The monetary compensation plays a big role in retaining employees and giving them good reason to give their job their all. But if you believe that’s all they need, you’re going to find more people leaving the team than you would like. There are deeper needs that you and even they might not recognize at first. Neglect them for too long, however, and those will serve as the reasons you can’t retain your staff.

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Management

Steve Farber

MARCH 1, 2017

I wasn’t sure if crickets lived in the deserts of the Middle East, but I fully expected to hear them if they did. This probably won’t come as a surprise, but that’s seldom the goal for a keynote speaker, and it wasn’t my goal at the Leaders in Dubai Conference in the United Arab Emirates. This was one of those big-time conferences that every keynote speaker wants to work.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 1, 2017

Some of my favorite quotes for leaders are: A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit -- Arnold H. Glasgow I praise loudly, I blame softly -- Catherine II of Russia Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress -- Mohandas Gandhi A long dispute means that both parties are wrong -- Voltaire The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable -- Paul Broca These and many more compelling quotes can be found in Susan

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 1, 2017

I revised and reposted 10 Things I’d Do If Raising a Daughter Today recently. In this post, I will focus on raising a son. I know a little more about this subject, having two incredible sons of my own. But, we always look at life differently from the other side of it. My boys are grown. I’m still parenting, but in a completely different way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Most leaders know what strong motivation looks like. When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At a time when so many companies are starved for growth, senior leaders must bring a productivity mindset to their business and remove organizational obstacles to workforce productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown. At another, an Hermès Birkin bag , which is almost impossible to buy unless you’re a celebrity, had to be restored, at great expense, after a waiter spilled

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

The New York Stock Exchange requires that the boards of all publicly traded corporations conduct a self-evaluation at least annually to determine whether they are functioning effectively. The purpose of the exercise is to ensure that boards are staffed and led appropriately, that board members are effective in fulfilling their obligations, and that reliable processes are in place to satisfy important oversight requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the

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Career

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Throughout the recent U.S. presidential campaign, commentators of all political stripes urged Donald Trump to give his Twitter account a rest. He ignored them, bypassing mainstream media in favor of a technology that continued to deliver his provocative messages directly, frequently, at all hours, and without filters. While no hard proof exists that his tweets put him over the top in the election, they undeniably riveted the attention of a broad public, media included — and continue to do

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