Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 14, 2015
The room was filled with successful, competent, middle-aged women. We’d just finished a powerful workshop where each of them had identified ways they could make a bigger impact in the their organizations, in the world and in the women leaders coming up behind them. Then over lunch, Laura turned to me and confessed, “Karin, I’m still having trouble with your confident humility model.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2015
For every action there is a reaction. But for the leader’s 5 worst inactions, there is often a chain reaction of undesirable consequences. Failure To Make A Decision – Indecision can paralyze an organization. It can create doubt, uncertainty, lack of focus, and even resentment. Multiple options can linger, sapping an organization’s energy and killing a sense of completion.
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General Leadership
DECEMBER 14, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. “ General George S. Patton. .
Women on Business
DECEMBER 14, 2015
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Engaging Leader
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Holacracy revolutionizes how a company is structured, how decisions are made, and how authority is distributed. Perhaps the best-known examples of companies who have adopted Holacracy are Zappos and David Allen Company. “No one reports to anyone anymore,” explains The Washington Post about Zappos.
Kevin Eikenberry
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Chances are you have heard the phrase “groupthink” and if so you have a justifiably negative feeling about the idea. Chances are probably even better that you haven’t heard the phrase “teamthink”, and that is the point of this article. The word and idea of groupthink was popularized in the early 1970’s based on a […]. The post The Difference Between Groupthink and Teamthink appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 14, 2015
The difference between compliance and commitment is relationship. Compliance is forced. Commitment is given. “If you want people to be committed, commit to them.” Dee Ann Turner, VP of Corporate Talent at Chic-fil-A, author of, “It’s My Pleasure.” 3 ways to ignite profound commitment: #1. Care. If you don’t care about people, get out of leadership now.
Marshall Goldsmith
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Randy was a wonderful coaching client, the CEO of a large service firm and an incredibly cheerful guy. Having dinner with him was usually great fun, but it wasn’t on this particular night. Randy approached the table and greeted me with a weary smile. He looked exhausted. I asked, “How was your day?”. He replied, “Which part? I was six different people today.”.
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Back in the summer of 2010, I wrote a post called The Business Travel Diva’s Guide to Summer Vacations. I meant it to be tongue-in-cheek when I wrote it but you know that saying that there is truth behind every joke? When I re-read it for the first time in several years this morning, my thought was “Wow, the guy who wrote that was an a **e!”. The thing about it was there was no way I could have come up with all of those tongue-in-cheek rules for my family unless I had actually practiced them mys
Tony Mayo
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Tony Mayo Executive Coach. Repeat Back & Report Back Here is a simple habit that can boost productivity in your organization. One client credits this technique for an 18% increase in annual revenue with a reduced headcount. It takes practice but quickly becomes second nature. I brought this method into the workplace from my flight training. Pilots and air […].
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ReImagine Work
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Over the sound of the espresso machine I hear Lydia, the manager at my favorite coffee shop. She’s talking with a barista who is training to be a shift manager. The barista was looking at a piece of equipment. Lydia said, “What do you do next?” The barista responded. Lydia: “And if you do that, what do you expect to happen?” Another response.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the toughest job of all? Ok – there are some obvious answers. Being on the crew of Apollo 13. Serving as President in most any year. Serving as a Navy SEAL. Being Pete Rose’s laywer. The list is long… But, I read this really revealing article about the (for… Read More Tough Jobs: a Reflection – (Prompted by a good article about NFL Quarterback Jason Campbell).
leaderCommunicator
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Don’t: Forget to train your teams on how to use email. You can’t assume everyone knows the key ways to reduce email volume. If they did, there wouldn’t be so many darn emails.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 14, 2015
We began our research by asking people to describe their dream organization—one that feels authentic and within which it is possible for one’s best self to emerge. We’ve synthesized these ideal organizational qualities and have shown how some workplaces are making the elements of the dream real, inspiring the rest of us in the process. Put together these multiple benefits – commitment, creativity, understanding, personal development, trust, purpose, and freedom—and you have created the fun
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Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 14, 2015
When you communicate change to your team, explain the logical and rational reasons for the change: 1. Explain how the change will make employees feel before, during and after the implementation. 2. Explain the tactical plan and goals. 3. Answer questions from your team.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Humbug. Salespeople hate holidays. Holidays are an excuse for decision makers to put buying decisions on hold. But the worst of them are the Christmas to New Year. “Call me back after the holidays,” and “Call me after the first of the year,” are two of the most hated phrases in sales. (They still rank behind “We’ve decided to buy from someone else,” “Your price is too high,” and “I want to think about it.”).
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Here is a great passage from the book, Stronger: Develop the Resilience You Need to Succeed : Listen to Others, Especially Before You Speak When we think of people who possess extraordinary interpersonal skill, we find they are good listeners. In even the briefest of encounters, they can make you feel important. According to author Denise Restauri, charismatic people are good listeners who make the conversation about the other person. they show genuine interest.
Managing Communities
DECEMBER 14, 2015
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Ron Edmondson
DECEMBER 14, 2015
I have never met a church which didn’t want to reach young people. Every church sees the value in younger people becoming a an active part of the church. They know the future life of the church depends upon it. The problem is often the church doesn’t act like what they claim to value. If a church is more interested in protecting traditions, for example, than it is in creating a future, then it will most likely fail to attract young people.
Deming Institute
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Lynda Finn, President of Statistical Insight and facilitator for The Deming Institute. Download the podcast with Linda: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Data Points. This podcast is the first episode of our “Knowledge In Variation Series.” Lynda discusses the importance of moving from spreadsheets to plotting data, and the common mistakes that organizations make if they aren’t charting their data.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Patrick Pilz. Mindfulness is quickly following yoga in becoming a billion-dollar industry. It’s no surprise, then, that the popularity of meditation – one way to practice mindfulness – is also growing among CEOs and senior executives. Why are business leaders embracing meditation rather than, say, massage or ping-pong? Because there’s something to meditation that appears to benefit CEOs more than recreation or relaxation do alone.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
A sea of ink and hours of video have been dedicated to the looming battle between humans and machines, often concluding that the machines win and human workers lose. It is a nearly irresistible narrative, which has been captured in books such as Martin Ford’s Rise of the Robots and The Second Machine Age , by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR. Warren Buffett is rightfully admired for his investment record as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by more than 10% annually during his 50-year tenure. Much less attention is paid, however, to the manner in which Buffett manages the company itself. This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
This past fall, I did a documentary with HBO, directed by Peter Berg and produced by Michael Strahan , called State of Play: Happiness. In the film, we explored how to create a positive culture in organizations where the culture or conditions make it difficult to talk about “happiness.” During the first half of the documentary, we examined the NFL to see how people create happiness in an organization where the average career is 3.3 years, where there’s a high potential for inju
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues are often referred to by investors as “nonfinancial information.” As Robert G. Eccles , a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School points out, that’s not because these issues don’t have financial consequences. Rather, it’s because there are no standards for how to measure and report on ESG issues, unlike a company’s financials.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008, two Harvard Business School colleagues and I held four forums with groups of about fifteen business leaders each in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. The purpose of these meetings was to generate a dialogue with some of the best leaders in the world about the challenges they believed lay ahead for business, and for capitalism in particular: what problems, we asked, would we face in the 21st century for which the School should prepare its students?
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. Is that “big data”? I have little difficulty storing, securing, and accessing it, so I’m not sure it qualifies as big. To me, the bigness of data is not its absolute size, but the task of transforming it into wisdom. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), we use big data to create real-world applications that lead to wise clinical decisions for patients.
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