General Leadership

JULY 21, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 13 Oct 2013. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”. ― Helen Keller.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2015

A while back, I was given a project that would ultimately lead to improved processes, produce less waste, and create a utopian working environment envious. I just made up that part about utopia, but if you’re going to aim for something, aim high. Right? From the moment the objectives were explained, I was motivated. I liked the idea of methodologies and analyzing complicated processes broken into little steps.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 21, 2015

Toxic behaviors connected to communication: Assume silence is agreement. Overstate teammate’s opinions and question their motives. Sweep difficult topics under the carpet. Speak for others.

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Women on Business

JULY 21, 2015

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 21, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Mike Figliuolo. The phrase “think outside the box” makes me physically ill. It’s trite and isn’t at all practical. But inside the box? That’s where great leaders go to get more out of their teams. You can too with a simple assessment tool that provides insights as to how to most effectively lead the unique members of your team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 21, 2015

One of the best ways to develop a broad and deep set of leadership competencies is to move around in a variety of challenging and diverse jobs. The most successful leaders, especially general managers, tend to hone their skills by working in different functions, geographies, and product lines. Read my latest post over at About.com to learn how to set up a “Manager Exchange Program” in your organization as a way to facilitate management development moves.

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Management How To Diversity Skills 190

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 21, 2015

Share this quote: Twitter , Linkedin , Google+ or Facebook. In The Killing Fields by Diane Cory in Insights on Leadership by Larry Spears , we learn that courage stems from caring. For example, a parent has tremendous courage when it comes to protecting their child. In contrast, the team member who doesn’t care about the team will not take on risk to advance its mission.

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QAspire

JULY 21, 2015

When Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith released the revised edition of their classic book “ Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ” in 2013, I interviewed them on this blog. Now that I am learning how to create sketch note, I used this interview on mentoring as a base to create the following. I hope you like it – and if you do, please don’t forget to pass it along.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 21, 2015

In the Killing Fields by Diane __ in __ on Leadership by Larry Spears, we learn that courage stems from caring. For example, the parent has tremendous courage when it comes to protecting their child. In contrast, the team member who doesn’t care about the team will not take on risk to advance its mission. So how do we get our team to care more and increase courage?

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Lead from Within

JULY 21, 2015

A man on a weekend hike spotted a cocoon. Looking closely, he saw a small opening. He watched amazed as the butterfly struggled to force its body through hole and out of the cocoon. It seemed to be stuck. So the man took his pocket knife and cut through the cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily, but its body was swollen and its wings were shriveled. It was unable to fly.

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 21, 2015

One of the important critical insights emerging on workplace email is the importance of leaders setting the tone on email use. Clearly, employees won’t be able to curb email volume if their own leaders send them an inordinate amount of irrelevant emails, or if they include too many people on every email communication. Executive training can be a key to addressing this issue.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 21, 2015

(This is a story from my memory banks – from decades ago. I’m sorry; I do not remember the name of the seminary). Many years ago, I read about a seminary. It had produced an unusually high number of Pastors for churches that grew in size and number. In other words, the graduates of this particular […].

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 21, 2015

You'll learn a lot about marketing from the new book, Does it Work? , by Shane Atchison and Jason Burby. Most important, you'll discover their 10 principles for getting digital marketing right. What also really caught my attention was the book's discussion about the elements of good culture. Culture created from as high up in the organization as possible.

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Environment Marketing Books Team 73

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2015

All business owners will tell you, one of the most important areas of running a company is the marketing. This is an area that needs to be constantly ongoing and evolving. It’s the way that you interact with other people. You use marketing methods to attract them to the business and help keep them there. So it’s vital to come up with loads of different promotional techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Recently, we found ourselves in motivational seminars at our respective places of employment. Both events preached the gospel of happiness. In one, a speaker explained that happiness could make you healthier, kinder, more productive, and even more likely to get promoted. The other seminar involved mandatory dancing of the wilder kind. It was supposed to fill our bodies with joy.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 21, 2015

I have been blessed to witness what I consider extremely fast growth in several churches since entering full-time vocational ministry. In church planting and church revitalization we have seen hundreds come to faith in Christ or reconnect with the church creating churches which have grown faster than we could anticipate. It’s been an amazing journey — a miracle of God — filled with lots of excitement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Over 200 universities and colleges already offer 3D coursework in their curricula – covering aspects of not only 3D printing but also 3D scanning and design.

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David A Fields

JULY 21, 2015

This is Part 1 of a seven-part series in which I show you how to win more follow-on and pull-through business by consulting at the “enterprise” level. In each article (other than this one), I discuss how to adapt one of the “Six Pillars of Consulting Success” from winning individual projects to winning an ongoing string of lucrative projects.

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Strategy

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

On the first day of my undergraduate marketing strategy course, I show my students one of my favorite New Yorker cartoons. It is an image of a familiar red-and-white-shirted man with matching cap and wooden cane. He sits at a bar. The caption states, “Nobody ever asks ‘ How’s Waldo?’” It’s sharp. It mixes familiar and clever.

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