Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 6, 2015

There are four main reasons my MBA students give me for wanting to work for the big guys versus a smaller company: prestige, salary/benefits, room for upward mobility, and security. Tough factors for the small guys to compete with for sure. Interesting, those conversations have been juxtaposed with interviews I’ve been doing this week for a mid-sized client, as we’re looking to take their social media strategy to the next level.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 6, 2015

Inconsistent behavior is a silent killer in the workplace. Inconsistency from leaders confuses people, erodes trust, causes fear, and can lead to a sort of learned inertia where the employee, paralyzed by uncertainty, just avoids or shuts down interactions with the offending manager. How does it happen? How does inconsistency come into play? Surely we don’t set out with the goal of keeping our employees guessing.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2015

“There are few things in the world that will change someone’s opinion of you as quickly as generosity” says Jon Acuff in Do Over. You will go to bat for people who have shown you generosity. Your employees will work harder. Your clients will return more often. When you are down, people will look for opportunities to pick you up. Fear will tighten your belt.

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General Leadership

MAY 6, 2015

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Women on Business

MAY 6, 2015

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Leading in Context

MAY 6, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton How do we help young people become ethical leaders? This is an important question because our long-term future depends on how well we prepare young people to make positive ethical choices and honor multiple dimensions of ethical responsibility.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 6, 2015

His eyes lit up when he heard me offhandedly say, “Not everyone is coachable.” He could stop blaming himself for his coachees lack of progress. He’d been frustrated and discouraged. New techniques might help, but, the truth is, not everyone is coachable. Evaluate yourself first, when your coachee doesn’t grow. Don’t just write people off.

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Engaging Leader

MAY 6, 2015

As you probably already know, yawns are contagious. Right now, the image below is causing many of you to feel the need to yawn. This even works with animals. A study by the University of London observed that 21 of 29 dogs yawned when a stranger yawned in front of them. Why? The answer is […].

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Coaching Tip

MAY 6, 2015

"No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." James Russell Lowell. We are born with a job to do and have been given the talent, virtues and circumstances needed to fulfill that role. Our task is to uncover exactly what is our unique purpose or mission. Part of the process is uncovering our strengths and then consciously building upon these competencies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2015

A friend of mine helps people with “deep interviews” for key positions. He is a master at pulling out insight about a person’s capabilities from a long-view-life interview. So, I asked him… if a person has developed a rather undesirable trait from the earliest days of childhood, how difficult is it to make a true […].

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2015

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the new book, Connection Culture. "Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." Based on shared identity, empathy, and understanding , connection moves primarily self-centered individuals toward group-centered membership.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2015

So many things to do… So many skills to learn. So many people and networks and circles to circulate in… It almost seems impossible It certainly, at times, seems too much. But… we all need to do more of it – all of it. There are skills we need to learn, like: people skills; (especially) […].

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Management Excellence

MAY 6, 2015

(Note: this post originally appeared at the Management Excellence blog. Copyright 2015 by Art Petty.) My one disappointment with much of the current business writing about change is that it is short on the “what to do about it,” content, in part because the notion of all this change makes for fascinating reading, and in part, because it’s not clear what exactly we should be doing in many cases.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2015

Rodd Wagner is the New York Times bestselling author of the book Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People, published by McGraw-Hill (April 2015). He is one of the foremost authorities on employee engagement and collaboration. Wagner’s books, speeches, and thought leadership focus on how human nature affects […].

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

Do you know what’s stopping you or your company from making the changes necessary to have more success? Or why prospects aren’t buying something they need? Or why clients aren’t adopting the changes they seek? The problem is resistance. And as change agents we’re inadvertently creating it. Change requires that a complacent status quo risk its comfort for something unknowable - the probable loss of narrative, expectations, habitual activities and assumptions with no real knowledge of what will ta

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Rapid BI

MAY 6, 2015

Can you really use gamification to increase employee motivation and engagement? Is gamification just the latest management fad? As organizations have become more focused on business objectives, gamification has increased because it can help the workplace become more engaging and productive. Gamification changes the rules of engagement and inspires employees to change behaviors as a […].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Andrew Nguyen. Think about a time you were weighing an important decision at work or considering a big expense such as a buying a house, making a hefty financial investment, or a starting a new business. Such decisions are inherently complex, and — no matter how much experience we have making them — working through the pros and cons of each choice can be overwhelming.

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David A Fields

MAY 6, 2015

Raymond, a 38 year-old operations efficiency consultant on the West Coast wanted to snag some strategy projects. Weary of solving operations issues for 15 years, he agonized over the wording of his new, strategic offering then revamped his website and cards to reflect the revised thrust of his consultancy. When he brought me in to help, I asked him the same question I’m posing now for you: what’s the single most important attribute of your target prospects?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Kodak. Sears. Borders. The mere mention of any of these companies brings to mind the struggle to stay relevant amid today’s technology and boundless alternatives. But behind each of them lies a deeper story of at least one leader who is or was “sheltered” from the reality of their business. This dangerous “white space” where leaders don’t know what they don’t know is a critical one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Imagine the following situation: It’s March 15 th , and Mark, an American manager, is arranging a date for the installation of a powerful new computing system for a Japanese company. With the help of his colleagues, Mark has set a date at the end of the month, and communicates the date to his Japanese counterparts. Mark immediately receives a note back from the Japanese company thanking him profusely for selecting the date and mentioning how eager they are to get the installation in place.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The amount of content written about Millennials is astounding. They’re naturals with technology and can simultaneously use their phone to order a cup of coffee at Starbucks, Instagram a photo of their name spelled incorrectly on the coffee cup, reply to a friend via text, and talk to their co-worker about the company softball tournament. Corporations, retailers, universities, and their parents have been trying to solve Millennials for years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Kenneth Andersson. The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Over the last couple of years, major corporations such as the Gap , McDonald’s , and Walmart joined the growing ranks of companies voluntarily raising wages. But recently, a smaller tech company, Gravity Payments in Seattle, took a more unusual step by raising the minimum wage for professionals in the firm to $70,000 per year. Given the collective hand-wringing from some economists and pundits following the announcement, you would think Gravity was waging war on capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, is likely to revolutionize business in the next several years. Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Already it has moved well beyond prototyping and, as I explain in a new HBR article, it will increasingly be used to produce high-volume parts and products in several industries.

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