Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 9, 2013

'What does your bookshelf say about you? What if your leadership books could collaborate to support your growth? Spine Poems provide new perspective on your reading choices. The idea, take a quick look at your shelf, and use the spines to create a poem. The exercise provides perspective your topics of choice and how they hang [.] The post Leadership Spine Poems as Reflective Practice: If Your Books Could Talk… appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2013

'Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Team Dynamics As a leader I have encountered a diverse number of leaders each characterizing certain leadership styles. Some of these leaders have been effective, some not so effective, and some have been extraordinary. What type of leaders have I encountered? Here are a few that come to mind: “Gung-ho” leaders who lead zealously and are overly [.].

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2013

'As leaders we need to understand how to make our ideas catch on. This is most effectively done through word of mouth and social influence. It''s more persuasive than advertising and is more targeted to an interested audience. Jonah Berger shares the science behind word of mouth in Contagious and even teaches a class at The Wharton School by the same name.

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Women on Business

MAY 9, 2013

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2013

'Never in our time has there been a greater need for outstanding leaders. Regulatory changes and changes to the international economic landscape have made it challenging for today’s leaders to achieve the results they need to survive , never mind the results they need to thrive. There is, however, much that can be done to confront these challenges head-on.

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Engaging Leader

MAY 9, 2013

'Are you consistently able to influence people to take action? Do people trust what you say and follow your recommendations? When you speak, do people pay attention or do they start to check their iPhones? If you don’t have the impact you’d like, you probably need to improve your face-to-face communication skills, whether you are speaking to one person or a roomful of people.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 9, 2013

'Pathetic talkers – talk after listeners check out. Blabbing leaders have something to say and it doesn’t matter that people in the room have turned to bored, lifeless manikins. They keep blabbing. Talkative leaders talk long past listener’s capacity. Distracting talkers – tweak, guide, correct, add, and adjust ad infinitum ad nauseum. They unnecessarily prolong meetings with [.].

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 9, 2013

'Rather than traditional “command and control” style of leadership, Sir Ken Robinson, during a recent TED talk , shared that effective leaders should focus instead on “climate control.”. I felt that was tremendously insightful, as leadership styles determine the culture of most organizations. Throughout this blog I have explained how command and control leadership can often lead to problems with morale and employee engagement.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 9, 2013

'This is a great article about what makes Generation Y tick. Also some great discussion on the blog. A must read for anyone wanting to understand this generation. Solving Gen Ys Passion Problem – Cal Newport – Harvard Business Review. The post Solving Gen Ys Passion Problem – Cal Newport – Harvard Business Review appeared first on Leadership Speaker and Motivational Speaker for Businesses | Employee Engagement | Gregory Smith - Chart Your Course International.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 9, 2013

'The reports keep coming in. There are a lot of mediocre to bad speakers out there. And every poor presentation adds to the frustration – the sense that “this is a waste of time.” There really are some simple fixes. If each speaker would simply remember, and follow, some simple rules, the audience would be […].

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CO2

MAY 9, 2013

'by Calvin Guyer. In the diagram above, Robert Quinn and John Rohrbaugh put culture on a two-dimensional plane. The vertical axis represents Structure (control vs. flexibility) and the horizontal axis represents Focus (internal vs. external). Control organizations value standardization and a well-defined, decision-making process. They focus inwardly on their people and processes.

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Tony Mayo

MAY 9, 2013

'A foundation distinction of executive coaching, from a commencement speech by David Foster Wallace?. Share it!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 9, 2013

'Whenever I need to take a break from reading and writing, I often re-watch a past program of The Charlie Rose Show. Among my favorites is one during which Bob Iger, Steve Wozniak, Marissa Mayer, Walter Isaacson, Marc Andreessen, Ken Auletta, Eric Schmidt, Lawrence Ellison, Walter Mossberg and David Carr share their thoughts and feelings [.].

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Managing Communities

MAY 9, 2013

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you. ManagingCommunities.

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Management

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 9, 2013

'From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with Wisdom Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to see the world “as it really is, without perceptual filters that manipulate motivation, decisions, and behavior” Throughout human history, the greatest leaders have been both smart and wise. According to Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou, [.].

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 9, 2013

'I never had a daughter. I have a great daughter-in-law, and she has a special relationship with her dad, but I never got to raise a girl. I missed out, didn’t I? But, I know a few grown girls. I’ve witnessed scars. All women have a scar of some kind. And, I know a dad plays a role. An important role. And, one that, if the right foundation is set, can help a girl avoid, or at least recover, from many of the scars life naturally will bring.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 9, 2013

'AMACOM''s (of the American Management Association) sixth edition of the best-selling book, The First-Time Manager -- originally published in 1981 is a must-read for new managers and leaders in business. The book covers eight core responsibilities of a new manager , including: Hiring Communicating Planning Organizing Training Monitoring Evaluating Firing Expert advice is additionally provided regarding: Using Your New Authority Managing Your Mood Building Trust One of my favorite sections of the

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Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2013

'Leaving On Top : Graceful Exits for Leaders. by David Heenan. About the Reference. Leaving On Top by David Heenan examines the exits of large corporate C-level executives; identifying the several actions common to graceful departures. David shares ten lessons from successful transitions including: Know thyself. Know thy situation. Take risks. Keep good company.

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The Idolbuster

MAY 9, 2013

'Chaplin should have taken 2 weeks off before starting his new job. I heard a crazy idea the other day: Offer people two weeks of paid vacation before they start work. Literally before they start work. After you finish your previous job, your salary and benefits begin two weeks before you come into the office. It is called a Pre’cation, the brainchild of Jason Freedman, who wrote about it on his blog 42Floors.com.

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Rapid BI

MAY 9, 2013

'A great list of people to follow on twitter who tweet about leadership. Proud to have been included.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'Disclaimer: It''s probably not a good idea to read this before you eat. I still remember how it felt when, as a medical student, I drained my first abscess in a patient. We called the procedure "I & D" which stands for "Incision and Drainage" (I told you not to read this just before you eat). When you do an I & D, you locate what is the most protruding and bulging part of the abscess, wipe it off with alcohol, than pierce it with a scalpel.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'GE, perhaps more than any other major company, is dedicated to the use of data visualization as a key part of its marketing and communications efforts. Stemming from last month''s Insight Center on visualizing data , I spoke with Linda Boff, GE''s executive director of global brand marketing, about the benefits and challenges of this approach. An edited version of our conversation is below.

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Career

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'An interview with Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins , authors of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World to Power Success and Influence. For more, see the article Do You Play to Win--or to Not Lose? Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by May 17.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'Recently, the marketing director for a tech start-up told me that her CEO was furiously drafting job descriptions for a half-dozen summer interns. She was planning to bring a small army of youngsters on board to help push her business into overdrive this summer. As the director of marketing looked at her CEO quizzically, she asked, "you know you need to manage all those interns, right?".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'We knew that the Internet would bring with it a whole wave of new media disruption. We were unprepared for just how massive the disruption has been. You needn''t look any farther than this one staggering statistic to understand the scale of change: Google''s advertising revenue is larger than that of the entire print industry''s revenue. In the past short while, we have seen a rise in new ways for advertisers to connect with consumers like never before.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'Big Data and Analytics could be the twin forces driving innovation in Asia—one provides information while the other sifts through it for precious insight. In Asia, the applications are endless: Forecasting the revenues of a new business unit; pinpointing bottlenecks in the regional supply chain; even searching for niches in unwieldy consumer markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'So is the best man for the job a woman? Research by Hay Group, culled from its 17,000-person behavioral competency database in 2012, finds that when it comes to empathy, influence, and the ability to manage conflicts in the executive level, women show more skill than men. Specifically, women are more likely to show empathy as a strength, demonstrate strong ability in conflict management, show skills in influence, and have a sense of self-awareness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'Much like newspapers, conventional advertising agencies are becoming irrelevant. When one person with a wireless connection can be an agency, a media company, or even a manufacturer, traditional advertising organizations have to change their culture, processes, structure, talent policies, resources, and even their business and revenue models in order to embrace the power of open systems being fueled by digital connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

'World economies are unstable, making it increasingly difficult to lead a business over the past few years. The uncertainty that business leaders face today is palpable. Some of the news is good, some is bad, but it is altogether uncertain and seemingly random. On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters.

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