Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2015

What is your unique value proposition? What unique set of experience, skills, and style do you bring to the your work? If you’ve never tried this before I challenge you to give it a shot and share it with our community. That’s not bragging, that’s confidence. Why I’m Writing About Unique Value Propositions Today. When I recently published a post on the Lead Change Group Website, How to Promote Yourself Without Being Annoying , my first tip was “be confident in your

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 21, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Many go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”. Henry David Thoreau. Not too long ago I was fortunate enough to go on a guided fishing trip with a great group of men.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This blog may be a little different than your typical leadership blog post, but I hope my perspective encourages you to think from a different angle. This August marked a decade from the time I began my professional journey. I had not even noticed this milestone, but my colleagues on a professional networking site kept mentioning it. I wish it could be considered a happy milestone, but the feelings are mixed.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In Collaboration Begins with You , Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley and Eunice Carew weave the tale of Dave Oakton, the head of a cross-departmental project that fails due to self-serving silos. What’s more, the company offers “no incentives that encourage people to work together toward organizational goals. Managers get promotions and bonuses based on their own individual success and the success of their siloed groups—regardless of the success of the projects they work on or the company as a while.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 21, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton While I specialize in positive, proactive ethical leadership, I frequently get asked questions about unethical leadership. In particular, readers ask about the damage that toxic leaders do in organizations and what situations and circumstances lead to ethical failures.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 21, 2015

P robably the biggest challenge in starting a blog is the process of creating content. Especially on a consistent basis. Common blogging wisdom tells the blog author that he has to write 3 blog posts a week. Some will even tell the person looking to start a blog that they need to create content 5 days a week. Image via Creative Commons. That’s a lot of content, even at 3 times a week.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In order to develop a quality or skill it must be distilled to behaviors. I was fascinated when a client pushed me beyond behaviors by saying, “Curiosity is an emotion.” This post is the result of her statement. 3 benefits of curiosity: Solutions begin with curiosity. Curiosity makes you interesting. The most boring people aren’t curious.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 21, 2015

60-second story: Four friends wander a woodsy path to find the ocean. Their goal: wade through warm, crystal waters and gape at neon sienna sunsets. Once they reach the Coast, of course. But not now. Not yet. First there’s a trail to follow. The forest byway buzzes with the everyday hide-and-hunt of insects and animals. Along the way, Ranger Dan hails the foursome as they pass below his perch amidst the treetops.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 21, 2015

I am frequently asked what we did or didn’t do as parents. I am amazed God has allowed us to raise the two young men we have. In their mid-twenties they are far better men than I was at their age. They love Jesus. They work hard and provide for themselves. They love others well. What a blessing! It’s all grace. But, there were a few principles we practiced consistently.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2015

There’s been an age-old argument in the communication field: who’s at fault if a misunderstanding occurs – the Speaker communicating badly, or the Listener misunderstanding? Let’s look at some facts: Speaking is an act of translating what’s going on internally into communication that enables others to understand an intent – choosing the most appropriate words for that particular listener in that particular situation.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Manager’s Dilemma by Jesse Sostrin Balancing the inverse equation of increasing demands + shrinking resources The first thing that struck me about The Manager’s Dilemma is the jargon loaded cover. But do not let that put you off. Once you open the book we enter into a practical and well laid out journey through […]. The post The Managers Dilemma by Jesse Sostrin – Book Review appeared first on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

As children, anything sparks our curiosity. The box intrigues as much as the gift, and the scenery outside a car window can enchant for hours. We seek to know, and we engage in the essential activity for finding out. We question. And yet, as we grow older, curiosity tends to be wrung out of us. Parents, schools, and workplaces impose rules and discourage risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. Leaders at good hospitals around the country are working hard on cutting waste and added cost and improving the quality of care and patient satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

ANDREW NGUYEN/HBR STAFF. I was biking with my friends Eric and Adam, both far more skilled and experienced mountain bikers than I, on terrain that was slightly beyond my own skill. I thought I could do it. I was wrong. I suffered a pretty dramatic crash, falling down a ravine, flipping over a few times, and hitting my (helmeted) head on a tree. Eventually, I ended up in the emergency room.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. Walmart isn’t the only retailer struggling with selling on the web — most brick and mortar stores are, too. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.” With Amazon having such a big head start – claiming a customer ba

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

HBR STAFF. I’m convinced that the ingredient for the effective use of data and analytics that is in shortest supply is managers’ understanding of what is possible. Data, hardware, and software are available in droves, but human comprehension of the possibilities they enable is much less common. Given that problem, there is a great need for more education on this topic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

HBR STAFF. Women still have a long way to go when it comes to joining the ranks of senior management. A recent study by my company, Weber Shandwick, shows that the proportion of women in top management teams in Global Fortune 100 companies is only 12.5%. Nearly three out of 10 companies in our Index have no women at all on their senior management teams (29%) and not a single one is gender-balanced.

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