Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Great leaders open doors for other leaders. Great leaders also know when to knock. Be a door opener. Learn how to knock. Who’s opened doors for you? What have you done to open doors for others? Bill Treasurer, author of Leaders Who Open Doors, is collecting stories of leaders who have opened doors, or [.] The post Super Leaders Open Doors appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Supervisors are the lynchpins in any organization. They are the link between management and the employees who build the products, deliver the services, and take care of the customers day-in and day-out. They are on the frontline, the leading (and sometimes bleeding) edge, closest to the action and the realities of business.
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 2, 2013
'If you''re losing inside the box, don''t bother trying to compete outside the box. If you don''t have the basics in place or more to the point, if you aren''t excelling at the basics, then no one cares about your uniqueness or your wow factor. Joe Calloway is one of those people that cuts through the clutter and gets to the core issue. His book Be the Best at What Matters Most is full of that—what matters most.
Women on Business
AUGUST 2, 2013
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Running from discomfort is normal but deadly. Shakeups – strategic discomfort – create vibrancy. Repetition produces predictability. Predictability produces comfort. Comfort produces resistance. Organizational rigor mortis sets in. “We’ve always done it that way.” Resistant-comfort rejects the new and unknown because it’s new and unknown.
Engaging Leader
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Link to podcast episode: Creating Loyalty 3.0 at Work | with Rajat Paharia of Bunchball Jesse Lahey: Welcome to the show, Game Changers. This is the show for CEOs, HR Executives and other business leaders to learn about internal gamification. Over the course of the series, you’ll hear examples and pitfalls, discover how to assess […].
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 2, 2013
'We had a wonderful session this morning at the August First Friday Book Synopsis. Karl Krayer presnted his synopsis of Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification by Rajat Paharia, and I presented my synopsis of Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger. I will share my takeaways from […].
Six Disciplines
AUGUST 2, 2013
'“Execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world. This is according to a global survey of 769 global chief executives from 40 countries, which was released by The Conference Board in October of 2007. When asked to rate their greatest concerns from among 121 different challenges, these chief executives chose excellence of execution as their top challenge and keeping consistent execution of strategy by top management as their third greatest conc
CO2
AUGUST 2, 2013
'by Gary Cohen. You have your limits. You believe you know what they are, and you likely adhere to them. But what if you are limiting yourself with either your belief system or your biological system? What if you’ve misjudged your limits? Have you tried pushing past your limits recently? Pushing Past Your Limits. Julie Moss was a novice Ironman competitor in 1982.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Here is the first portion of an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker. To read the complete article and others of his, please click here. * * * When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s basketball team, he settled on two principles. The first was that he would never raise […].
Six Disciplines
AUGUST 2, 2013
'“Execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world. This is according to a global survey of 769 global chief executives from 40 countries, which was released by The Conference Board in October of 2007. When asked to rate their greatest concerns from among 121 different challenges, these chief executives chose excellence of execution as their top challenge and keeping consistent execution of strategy by top management as their third greatest conc
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 2, 2013
'The fundamentals were determined centuries ago: o Know what you are talking about o Care deeply about what you are talking about o Establish and then sustain direct eye contact with your audience o Limit yourself to the fewest number of words necessary…but no fewer o Anchor your ideas in a human context Just as […].
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Here is an example of a common question I receive: My church is not growing. People come but they do not stay. We’ve analyzed all the majors and feel we are doing what we should but they do not stay. Any thoughts please? I receive something similar almost weekly. I wish I had answers every time. I don’t. Most of the time I know many times they can’t afford a consultant (or don’t think they can, but should consider the investment), so I try to give them a few suggestions,
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'A young manager accosted me the other day. "I''ve been reading all about leadership, have implemented several ideas, and think I''m doing a good job at leading my team. How will I know when I''ve crossed over from being a manager to a leader?" he wanted to know. I didn''t have a ready answer and it''s a complicated issue, so we decided to talk the next day.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Success is just in front of our faces. Yet, we often fail to see it coming. Too many companies live with their heads in the sand. Many go down into defeat because it was never on their radar to change. A colleague recently complained about her corporation: “Things are much the same at this company, and I don’t see much changing unless leadership does.” The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'China''s era of spectacular economic growth is coming to an end. That''s a popular theme at the moment, with any number of culprits cited — an overleveraged financial system , pollution , too little consumer spending , corruption , anti-corruption campaigns , and of course bad driving. It''s reached the point that the Chinese government''s International Press Center felt compelled to gather a group of reporters in Beijing earlier this week just so that Justin Yifu Lin, the former World Ba
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'The look is always the same: A seasoned marketer is cajoled into watching their first Vine video. Six seconds pass and it''s over. The marketer gazes quizzically at the smiling young person that brought the video to his attention. "That''s it?". Like any emerging platform, Vine (the short-form video app owned by Twitter) requires a recalibration for users to understand a new context within a new format.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Google''s All "Who Cares?". This week''s merger announcement between Omnicom and Publicis, two ad and marketing agencies with a combined 2012 revenue of $23 billion, involved glasses of champagne. But perhaps a jug of water would have been the more appropriate thirst-quencher for these industry giants'' long road ahead, even as the biggest agency in the world.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Remember that classic New Yorker cartoon with Rover sitting in front of a computer? The caption read, "On the Internet, no one knows you''re a dog." Well, on the web, no one knows you''re a senior vice president either. That''s why every leader is going to have to learn how to get things done in a world where authority is the reciprocal of followership.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'We''ve all seen it. CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Nobel Prize winners live an average of 1.6 years longer than nominees who aren''t selected, a finding that''s consistent with a causal link between status and longer lifespan, say Matthew D. Rablen and Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in the UK. The mechanism for the link is unclear, but it may have to do with higher-status individuals'' greater control over their work lives.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'Back in 1983, in a Harvard Business Review article , Peter Kralijc called for the procurement function to take on a larger and more strategic role in managing the supply chain. Thirty years on, sales people in most large companies are still being trained in ways to actually bypass procurement folks in their customer companies. This is not evidence of people taking the function seriously.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2013
'An interview with Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen , coauthors of the forthcoming article "Make Time for the Work that Matters.". Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by August 9.
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