Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2016
After 15 years of working for other people, I quit my job—I finally realized I needed to do something on my own. I was frustrated and demoralized, my ideas were being marginalized and I wasn’t waking up in the morning looking forward to a new day. With my wife, Paula, and our business partner at my side, I started a lecture agency, with no experience or real plan.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 21, 2016
The ability to delegate is the power to build a future bigger than yourself. 6 secrets wise leaders know about delegating: Wise leaders know that delegating includes people development and relationship building.
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Joseph Lalonde
OCTOBER 21, 2016
A s a man of faith, I believe God can change our lives for the better. Through Him we receive the ability to persevere and have hope for a better tomorrow. In 2 Chairs: The Secret That Changes Everything , Bob Beaudine’s latest book, Bob shares 3 questions that will disrupt our lives. I believe these 3 questions can also change your leadership.
leaderCommunicator
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.
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Chart Your Course
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Our DISC behavior and other talent management assessments change people’s life’s and have a major impact on organizational improvement. However, for lasting change, there is a right way and wrong way in using these assessments. This webinar will outline some of the proven ways to use DISC and other assessments for a long lasting change with both internal and external clients.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 21, 2016
The financial situation for Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company could not have been more dismal in 1998. The company had chalked up losses in seven of the past eight years, and it was now paying a billion dollars annually just to service its $19-billion debt. Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses.
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Eric Jacobson
OCTOBER 21, 2016
From John Blakey 's book, The Trusted Executive , here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma. Channel ambition into the company, not the self, and set up successors for even more greatness in the next generation.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Most of what has been written about apologies is fundamentally manipulative, because the focus is on technique — on applying psychology to extract forgiveness from others, as in: “What do I need to say in order to get my boss/child/neighbor to trust me again?” This view of apologies is one of today’s most pernicious assaults on trust.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
We hear more and more that organizations must have a “purpose.” Purpose is on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and discussed by celebrity CEOs like Richard Branson of Virgin Group, who has said , “It’s always been my objective to create businesses with a defined Purpose beyond just making money.” Oxford University and Ernst and Young found that public dialog on purpose has increased five-fold between 1995 and 2016.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Stop swearing at Siri. Quit cursing Cortana. As digital devices grow smarter, being beastly toward bots could cost you your job. As machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities proliferate, digital interface design sensibilities begin to accelerate from skeuomorphic to anthropomorphic. Consider how Slack and Hipchat now use bots that go beyond automating interfaces to facilitate smarter and more engaging user experiences.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. A profitable new line of business is created. There are countless examples: corn millers have long sold the “gluten meal” that is left over from yielding corn starch and corn oil as food for livestock; oil companies routinely sell the hydrogen they create as a byproduct of the refining process.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Like many of my peers, I had thought that I could gently start thinking about retirement in my mid-fifties. But as my mid-fifties arrived, and as the debate about the human lifespan rages on , I’ve been confronting a new question: what if I live to 100? For more, I looked to a book by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott, two London Business School professors, called The 100 Year Life.
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