Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

I’m in trouble now. I’m about to commit heresy. I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In my work with thousands of business leaders across industries, geography, and over many years, I’ve repeatedly seen people lose their influence because they don’t address this one thing. In many leadership forums, many leadership books, and not a few social media memes, what I’m about to say would be skewered, and yet… your credibility and influ

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Leading in Context

APRIL 6, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Leadership is multifaceted, but leadership books are not often written about that. Many use a "zoom lens" approach to take you very close to one aspect of leadership. This close-up view can be helpful for fine-tuning our leadership skills, but then we may begin to think that this close-up view is all there is to good leadership.

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Women on Business

APRIL 6, 2016

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2016

Every generation feels it’s pace of life is more frantic than the one before. I wonder if “The Tortoise and the Hare” was written because life was moving too fast around 600 B.C.E.?

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 6, 2016

T oday’s guest is Kent Sanders. Kent is an editor at the Good Men Project , Professor at St. Louis Christian College, and author of The Artist’s Suitcase: 26 Essentials for the Creative Journey. He writes about art and creativity at KentSanders.net. Photo credit: Melanie Sanders. Show Notes: How do you define creativity? I don’t define creativity in terms of a certain kind of art or skill.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 6, 2016

The new book The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results is the first practical guide to help business leaders apply the principles of behavioral economics (sometimes called “Becon” for short) to workforce engagement issues, including wellness and benefits. Author Bob Nease, PhD, who was the chief scientist […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2016

Jon Younger is founding partner of the Agile Talent Collaborative (and partner emeritus at the RBL Group where he established the firm’s HR transformation practice. He is well known and respected for his consulting in HR transformation, talent management, and change leadership. He is the author of 5 books including the new Agile Talent: How… Read More Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood on “Agile Talent”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 6, 2016

Whether you’re navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role , or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you’re facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later; you need to elevate your performance. Leaders and managers today are being asked not only to be the experts in their particular fields but to coach and develop the performances of others.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2016

Encourage a variety of interactive teaching and learning opportunities. One such mechanism is the Book Club. The purpose of the book club is to “stimulate people to have a habit of looking outside the firm as well as inside.” In addition, they give people a forum for grappling with new concepts that may be complex… Read More Lead a Book Club – as Means to….

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 6, 2016

Positive reinforcement, in the form of praise and recognition, is a powerful way to influence change. We all like to be acknowledged for our efforts. Receiving praise boosts our confidence. It makes us feel accepted by others. It confirms we’re moving in the right direction and removes the ambiguity that so often accompanies change. As change agents, unfortunately it’s easy to forget when it’s our turn to dole out praise.

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Deep Imprints

APRIL 6, 2016

I started reading Scatter this morning and almost didn't put it down. Seriously, I read 18% of the book before I left for work. Andrew Scott gets ministry. Here are a couple of quotes: "A new paradigm is needed - one in which we recognize that all of life is where every believer gets to be a […].

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2016

Wealth has historically been viewed as financial success in business that translates to success in life. Money, real estate, investments, and “stuff” like cars and expensive vacations – if you’ve got these things, you’re doing well for yourself… right? Perhaps it’s time we recognized that the wealth game is changing. While money does matter, it’s no longer the foremost defining attribute of personal or professional achievement.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 6, 2016

Edward M. Marshall's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 6, 2016

There are some things in leadership I could honestly say I despise. Ways people behave. Things they do. I should note – not the people involved in them, but the actions. And, I have probably been guilty of some of these also in my career. But, I hate when I did them as well. Perhaps you have your own list, but this is mine. Here are 10 things which drive me crazy in leadership: Responsibility without authority – If you ask someone to lead something – let them lead.

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Management

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

dave wheeler FOR HBR. Not long ago, a manager asked me to name the most important work-life benefit for employees. I answered that the most important benefit isn’t a benefit at all. Of course, child care, flexible scheduling, and family leave policies are important, but in my experience the best thing we can do to support working parents (and all employees) is to get better at one of the most basic and poorly executed functions of managers: performance appraisals.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

Leaders can be categorised in a number of ways, but according to the Harvard Business Review, there are seven main action logics. As a leader’s ability grows, whether through personal development or leadership training, they may be able to advance through the categories, improving productivity and overall performance. Here, ranked from least effective to most effective, are the seven leadership types. 1.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Everyone knows what rejection feels like. It’s a universal (and universally disliked) experience, but it’s one that we each experience differently. For the most part, people are pretty good at moving on with their lives — even better than they might guess. Sometimes, though, getting rejected hurts more than we expect, especially if our immediate response is to become self-critical.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Since Uber was founded, in 2009, its workforce has continued to grow exponentially: 400,000 drivers are considered “ active ” on the Uber platform today, and 1.1 million drivers are active on the platform globally. The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, a

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Strategy

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. The cost of building an oil rig has increased steadily, to more than $600 million, due to raw materials and labor cost increases, growing technical challenges, steeper regulatory requirements, and speculative buil

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Every February, businesses in India wait with bated breath for the country’s finance minister to announce the Union Budget. All major decisions – investment, expansion, diversification – come to a standstill as business leaders play the budget guessing game. Will taxes go up or down? Will new concessions be announced? Will doors open further to foreign investment or competition?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Luis Del Río Camacho. When Alexander Fleming , a brilliant but sometimes careless scientist, returned to his lab after a summer holiday, in 1928, he found his work ruined. The bacteria cultures he had been growing were contaminated by fungus. As it grew, it killed all the colonies it touched. Most people would have simply started over, but Fleming switched his focus from the bacteria to the fungus itself.

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