Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 18, 2013
'You know they can do it. They’re scared. Their lack of courage is a downward spiral. Fear stops trying. Lack of trying creates doubt. Doubt affirms negative self-perceptions. It breaks my heart to watch highly qualified, talented people let scared stop them. And yet, it’s hard for those born with a few extra confidence genes [.] The post 7 Ways to Inspire Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 18, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development ”You can pretend to care, you cannot pretend to be there,” wrote Texas Bix Bender in his book Don’t Squat With Yer Spurs On! It is one of my favorite lines for characterizing a vital feature of leadership—command presence. I first heard that label in the military. Officer school candidates were drilled on the power [.].
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Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 18, 2013
'Guest post by Joseph Lalonde: One of the best things we can do for our team is to discover our team member''s talents. The place where they really shine. The talents of our team members are usually what drives them to excel. Your team will find purpose and meaning when they begin putting their skills to work. The key is discovering the talents of our team members.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 18, 2013
'Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership [link] A friend suggested that some people don’t want to lead. He insisted some just weren’t cut out for leadership and others might “never” or seldom choose a leadership role. What makes a leader? It got me thinking about what makes a leader. Is leadership a position, a set of behaviors or a decision? If a [.].
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Women on Business
JULY 18, 2013
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Leadership Freak
JULY 18, 2013
'Agility without direction destroys. You swerve left. They dash left, then right, then left again, until one day it’s too late. The closer your car gets to squirrels in the road the more they panic. Unrelenting pressure creates panic. Anyone can rush around like squirrels on steroids. It takes time to be quick. Rushing […].
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Next Level Blog
JULY 18, 2013
'My friend and Georgetown leadership coaching colleague sent a thought provoking email to his friends and clients last week on the recent crash of an Asiana 777 jet liner at San Francisco International Airport. In it, Bob raises a lot of important questions for leaders and their colleagues to consider. With his permission, I’m sharing his thoughts on the Next Level Blog.
Women on Business
JULY 18, 2013
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Engaging Leader
JULY 18, 2013
'Building a personal brand is essential to becoming a leader worth following. It allows people to see style of your leadership and more importantly the quality of results they can expect from you. But how do you build a personal brand in a responsible way that isn’t simply self-promotion? Our guest on this episode is Glenn Llopis, the nationally recognized thought-leader, author, and founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 18, 2013
'“I want to get out of the business of trying to save failing students before their lives are destroyed,” Canada said. “I’ve been in that business, and it’s a tough business and a good business, and I’m glad some people are in it—but I really think it’s the wrong place to focus.” Paul Tough: – […].
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Coaching Tip
JULY 18, 2013
'The aim of every aspiring leader should be to move people emotionally in a way that releases their discretionary effort in the act of followership. . People who blindly and obey are of little use to the modern corporate leader. In many ways we get the followers we deserve. Every fully functioning human being is motivated. We all have motives that drive us towards particular actions.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 18, 2013
'Here is Art Kleiner‘s Introduction to an interview of David Kantor, an eminent systems therapist who says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership. Kleiner is the editor in chief of strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company, and the author of The Age […].
Management Excellence
JULY 18, 2013
'Most of us have very little real understanding of how our behaviors impact others. We cruise through our days secure in our view of our importance and convinced that our presence lights up every room, enlightens our colleagues and brings joy and prosperity to our teams and organization.
Managing Communities
JULY 18, 2013
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Ron Edmondson
JULY 18, 2013
'Empowering other people on the team to be leaders…delegation…is critical to a successful church or organization. Every leader talks about delegation, but few truly empower others to be leaders. It’s a frustration I hear frequently from staff members of churches. Frankly, as one with a strength (StrengthFinders) of command, I can easily take over if no one else takes the lead.
Rajesh Setty
JULY 18, 2013
'Your first startup is special for you and everyone else in your team. It is hard work in whatever way you look at it. I am not suggesting that this article will provide a full recipe for cooking up your first startup. That is not the intention. If after you read this, you will discover ONE or TWO things that you will pay attention to beyond whatever else you are doing, I have done my job.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'McDonald''s and Walmart, the two biggest private-sector employers in the U.S., don''t pay their workers much. This more or less eternal truth is making one of its increasingly frequent appearances in the news this week. McDonald''s is catching flak for a " sample monthly budget " for employees that sets aside $20 a month for health insurance and no money at all for heat.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'We often write about B-school research findings in this space. Now we''re going to let you take part. This video, presented by Harvard Business School associate professor Michael Norton, is a game. In fact, it''s the same game Norton used in research he recently conducted, so when you play the game here, you''ll be doing exactly what Norton''s subjects did.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'When we first decided to move the headquarters of our software company from Atlanta, we didn''t think of Silicon Valley. In fact, Silicon Valley wasn''t even on our short list. At Infor, we chose New York City. There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. Talent flocks to companies like Google, Facebook, and Oracle, just as it does to the slew of start-ups looking to become the next big thing.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'The recent toppling of Australia''s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard , continues to raise questions about women and leadership. Gillard was regarded as smart, capable and resilient. However, a string of bad decisions and broken promises had the public and politicians questioning her capacity to lead. In her final exit speech before Kevin Rudd took her place, Gillard responded to the "gender wars" discourse that had come to represent her leadership, saying that "the reaction to being t
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'Newly hired employees of an Indian call center were at least 60% less likely to leave within a period of a few months if they went through an onboarding process that, instead of emphasizing conformity, focused on their individual strengths, for example by highlighting what was "unique" about them, says a team led by Daniel M. Cable of London Business School.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'The principal role of a CMO has always been to be a great storyteller. Once upon a time, this meant waxing eloquently about the brand''s promise, giving people a hero to cheer for and something to relate to and believe in. And the process of storytelling used to be fairly simple: create an ad, place it in a magazine, newspaper or on the radio or TV, and you were done.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'After tsunamis, protests, wildfires, and riots — to name just a few recent major disruptions — few managers can be unaware of companies'' vulnerability to the vagaries of politics and extreme weather. You''d think. Yet three quarters of the 195 large companies surveyed recently by APQC got hit by an unexpected major supply chain disruption in the last 24 months.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'An interview with Adam Waytz and Malia Mason , authors of the article Your Brain at Work. Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by July 25.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2013
'People love to talk about the ROI from social media. But ROI doesn''t just fall from the sky. If you want your social media efforts to drive actual sales, you need to understand how your customers and potential customers actually use social media in their purchase process. And once you have that understanding, you need to tailor your social media strategy so that it pushes your customers towards a purchase.
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