Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
I’ve never met someone who would admit to preferring drama over collaboration. And yet, most cultures have too much drama, too little collaboration. What’s up with that? This weekend we stayed in a beach house in Nags Head with my sister, and 28 of her closest friends (most of whom we had ever met) to run the Outer Banks Southern Fried racing weekend.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
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Women on Business
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
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Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Your ability to cultivate people determines your impact in the world. Surprisingly, only 15% of top performers* are likely to be high potentials (HiPo). Performance is easy to spot. But, if you want to change the world, look for people with character. After performance, character determines potential. Leaders without character are disasters in the making.
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Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
C hurch leaders, I know you mean well but you’re doing some things wrong. So much so that you’re turning people away from the church. That’s the bad news. There’s good news though. Image via Creative Commons. You can change your habits and begin reaching people again. You can stop the mass exodus of people from the church and have a healthy congregation and volunteer team.
Persuasive Powerhouse
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
We’ve all heard it: “It’s lonely at the top”. That may be true for some leaders, but I would challenge that statement and question the wellbeing of a leader who believes it is undeniably true for them. Certainly there are times when must make a final critical resolution alone and that can make you feel isolated and lonely. But the loneliest leaders are those who continually struggle without help in making decisions.
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Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
When you go through a 200 hour yoga teacher training class as I did a couple of years ago, one of the elements you’re introduced to is the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali. The Sutras are an ancient text made up of 196 aphorisms that tie the different aspects of yoga together. (One of the translations for the Sanskrit word, sutra, is thread.). The first yoga sutra is Atha Yoganuśhāsanam.
Marshall Goldsmith
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Because we’re deluded! We all delude ourselves about our achievements, our status, and our contributions. We. Overestimate our contribution to a project; Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. Many of our delusions come from our association with success, not failure.
Coaching Tip
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Thriving is our birthright. No matter who you are or where you live, we all deserve to thrive. The sad truth is that only one in four people in the world believe they are thriving, and 70% of people in the U.S. feel disengaged at work, which costs the U.S. economy up to $435 billion per year. A new book, "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead" by Donna Stoneham, Ph.D., describes how transformational leadership produces life-enriching change and makes you m
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
So, last Saturday, I presented my synopsis of Uncontainable by Kip Tindell (CEO, The Container Store) for a group of MBA students at SMU’s Cox School of Business.
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ReImagine Work
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
We know it’s important to present feedback so others hear you. You want them to leave the conversation hopeful about going forward with something to act on. It’s also important to not blurt everything out at once. Humans can only take in so much at one time–thus the importance of two-way interaction. Lead your employee through a thought process so they come along with you.
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
We had a wonderful session last Friday at the November First Friday Book Synopsis. Charlotte Hudgin, our guest presenter in Karl’s absence, presented the Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, and I presented Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer. (I will post my lessons and takeaways soon from that book). We have selected two good and useful books for… Read More Coming for our Dec. 4 First Friday Book Synopsis – Extreme Ownership (leadership insight from the Navy SEALs), and Simple Rules.
Ron Edmondson
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Every time I write about parenting, people email me asking for more. I understand. Parenting is hard work. Most people who follow my ministry closely know this is one area of my life I have taken very serious. One specific desire Cheryl and I had in raising our boys was encouraging them to love Christ and display His character. It’s great to teach our children how to play sports or to do well in school, and I think we should, but our greatest goal should be to help them be people who aspire to h
Managing Communities
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
How do you picture yourself? Pretty powerful question when you think about it. Some of you are thinking handsome or pretty, some overweight or average, some successful or struggling. Some pictures are happy, some are not. Very not. Tell me about the picture. Was it a physical picture (tall, pretty), or a mental picture (self assured, confident)? Was it a positive picture (great attitude, successful), or a negative picture (failing, in debt)?
Curious Cat
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
On Twitter today I was getting more than 30 times the notifications I normally get. So I took a look to see what is going on. One of my tweets was getting retweeted and liked quite a lot (nearly 100 times each, so far). I figure most likely someone with many more followers than I must have retweeted it. A bit more investigation and sure enough that is what happened.
Deming Institute
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
I attended a 4 day seminar by David Langford about 15 years ago. The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. I wasn’t in the education field, but I believe what I wrote about earlier: we don’t need to restrict our management learning to our industry. And thankfully my boss shared that thinking and approved my attendance.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
The greatest brands make life simple. Think Google, Amazon, or even Dunkin’ Donuts. They cut through the clutter by delivering what consumers want, when they want it, without hassle. By simplifying customer experience in a complex world, these brands win customer loyalty, which drives business results and creates value for shareholders. For the past six years, Siegel+Gale has published its Global Brand Simplicity Index — a study based on a survey of thousands of consumers from around
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
On a cold English autumn evening recently, we three found ourselves together in the bar of our business school, Cranfield School of Management , along with some clients. Emma, an Australian by upbringing, did something entirely unexpected: she ordered the quintessential summer drink of Wimbledon, a Pimm’s. She didn’t say this was a good idea, or praise Cranfield’s Pimm’s, she just ordered it.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
HBR STAFF. A difficult conversation has to be a two-way street. You’re unlikely to come to a resolution if you don’t hear the other person out. But equally important when addressing a conflict is getting your message across. So after you’ve thoroughly listened to your counterpart, increase the likelihood that they will see things your way by doing the following.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
The company I co-founded is now ten years old. While we’re an investment firm, many of the things I’ve learned as CEO transcend any particular industry. In looking back over the years, there are some things that I expected to be tough, and they have been. But there have also been surprises. First, I was surprised by how much selling I would personally have to do as CEO – and I was equally surprised by how much I enjoy the process.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
One conversation 25 years ago changed business travel for me forever. My business partner, Kerry Patterson, and I were talking about a book we hoped to write. We had been yakking about it for a couple of years but had made no progress. Let me be more honest: I had made no progress. Kerry seemed to show up with reams of fascinating ideas written out in polished prose while I had a stained airplane napkin with crayon drawings on it.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Customer experience has been defined as the quality of all of a consumer’s encounters with a company’s products, services, and brand. While a strong customer experience has been shown to produce significant results —more customers, more sales, and more loyalty—many companies still struggle to identify the plan of action that will best achieve them.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Most leaders receive surprisingly little development before assuming their first supervisory roles. In fact, many get no leadership training at all until they’ve been in the executive ranks for nearly a decade—reaching, on average, age 42. But whether you’ve had formal training or not, there’s one simple action that can dramatically increase any manager’s success in gaining the support and engagement of subordinates: recognize great work.
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