Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 13, 2015
I’m launching a new project that will significantly propel the LGL mission of growing leaders with the confidence and humility to make a deeper impact on the world. It’s a strong team, and I found us organically asking one another questions to frame our mission and set us up for success. There was no checklist, but I thought, “Wow, wouldn’t it be helpful for others in such scenes if there were?
General Leadership
MAY 13, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” Roger von Oech. What is a hybrid ? I like the Merriam-Webster definition that includes, “something that is formed by combining two or more things.
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Lead Change Blog
MAY 13, 2015
Leading an organization is not a simple exercise. It requires a leader to be connected with his people, and to understand the business landscape and its shifting priorities based on the market movements. It is a complex matrix of challenges to juggle on a daily basis. It ranges from being strategic as well as being ready to handle tactical stuff on a daily basis.
Women on Business
MAY 13, 2015
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Leading in Context
MAY 13, 2015
By Linda Fisher Thornton In a recent post, I acknowledged that "leaders face information overload, globalization and increasing complexity. And they hold the key to your organization’s future. Make it a priority to help them be ready." How can we prepare leaders to succeed in a socially and globally connected world? What are the strategies that will help them handle a wide variety of unpredictable situations while making ethical choices?
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 13, 2015
I n The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, inter-dimensional beings demanded the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from a supercomputer specifically build for this purpose. Seven and a half million years later, the answer was returned: 42. Looking at the answer, it’s meaningless. What does 42 represent?
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Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 13, 2015
I’m guessing you’ve heard something in the news lately about deflated footballs, fines and penalties related to it. While I’m not a New England Patriots fan (I live in Indianapolis after all), this isn’t really about Ideal Gas Laws, balls hidden in bathrooms or the content of text messages. This is about much more than […]. The post Avoiding Your Leadership Deflategate appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Engaging Leader
MAY 13, 2015
We are not thinking machines. We are feeling machines who think. ~Richard Restak, George Washington University neurology professor As leaders, we need to make emotional connections with our target audience if we hope to influence their thoughts and actions. One very important way to connect positively with people is with what I call powerful empathy. […].
leaderCommunicator
MAY 13, 2015
Employee engagement is an important part of any organization. In order to have a successful company you must engage your employees. We’ve found the 15 most important employee engagement statistics you need to know in 2015 in order to set your organization up for success. 35% of US Managers are engaged in their jobs via Gallup State of the American Manager. 54% of employees who were proud of their company’s contributions to society are engaged via Dale Carnegie Employee Engagement Study.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 13, 2015
On the front page of today’s Dallas Morning News’ Business Section, there is a wonderful article by Cheryl Hall about our monthly event, the First Friday Book Synopsis: Dallas consultants are ghost readers for the business set. (The print version uses a different headline: Reading It For You: Consultants boil down major business books in networking session). […].
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David A Fields
MAY 13, 2015
Ahab, a world-renown fishing expert from Piscandi Consulting receives the following email: Hi Ahab, I’m Ishmael from Beldad Industries. Our catch rate is down 12% versus last year. Can you help us? If you’re Ahab, could you close that project? Should you? Well, I’ll tell you what I think… I have no idea. You see, I don’t know whether Ishmael’s project is a minnow, a redfish, a yellowfin tuna or a whale shark.
Curious Cat
MAY 13, 2015
My father had the most job satisfaction of anyone I have known. He had no separation between work and life. We toured factories on vacation. I visited Davidson College in North Carolina because he was consulting with a client in Charlotte before we went up to Duke and North Carolina for visits and asked the CEO what school I should visit. His grad students would call the house frequently.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 13, 2015
Gillian Zoe Segal is the author of Getting There: A Book of Mentors and New York Characters. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She lives in Manhattan and is also a photographer. Here is an excerpt from my […].
Eric Jacobson
MAY 13, 2015
You can't lead if your employees, team or followers don't trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips , recommended by author Susan H. Shearouse: Be honest Keep commitments and keep your word Avoid surprises Be consistent with your mood Be your best Demonstrate respect Listen Communicate Speak with a positive intent Admit mistakes Be willing to hear feedback Maintain confidences Get to know others Practice empath
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 13, 2015
People say you are in the newspaper three times: when you are born, when you marry, and when you die. Today, we are featured in the Dallas Morning News in a Business section column by Cheryl Hall. The article describes our First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. Use this link […].
David A Fields
MAY 13, 2015
A consultant sent me the following question: I have been approached by a company that wants to market through affiliates. Their approach is to pitch free assessments that diagnose problems then call upon specialists to man the projects. I would administer the assessment then, depending on the client and the work that needs to be done, I would get some portion of the follow-on work.
Strategy Driven
MAY 13, 2015
I recently accepted a cold call from an insurance guy because I was thinking of switching providers. Instead of facilitating my buying decision, the bias in his questions terminated our connection: TODD : Hello Ms. Morgen. I’m Todd with XYZ. Are you interested in new car insurance? SDM : I am. TODD : Is your main concern lowering your costs? SDM : No.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 13, 2015
Do you want to know how to completely frustrate a team? Is that your goal, leader? Of course not. No leader sets out to frustrate their team. Yet, chances are we do it everyday. Or often. We are human. We make mistakes like everyone else. Some things are common frustrations. If we can learn them – and attempt to avoid though – we can do less frustrating.
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Rapid BI
MAY 13, 2015
The session was led by Ruth Stuart – CIPD Research Adviser Robert Ashcroft – Senior L&D Manager Santander UK Ruth Stuart got the session off by asking the participants what we thought the “purpose of L&D is?” (L&D = Learning and Development – or “training” in old money) The 2015 CIPD survey reported that the […].
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
There seems to be something special about coworking spaces. As researchers who have, for years, studied how employees thrive , we were surprised to discover that people who belong to them report levels of thriving that approach an average of 6 on a 7-point scale. This is at least a point higher than the average for employees who do their jobs in regular offices, and something so unheard of that we had to look at the data again.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
“ Never let an MBA near a marketplace that can run itself.” So said Ming Zeng, CSO of Alibaba, when I was interviewing him for my upcoming book. His words struck me as deeply provocative. As we dug into what he meant, we realized that we had both been thinking independently about what we came to call the “self tuning enterprise.” What Ming meant was, in essence, don’t try to manage what is better left to market mechanisms.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
Just when all the hype about the release of Apple Watch was starting to fade away, Apple made headlines again. This time, it’s due to reports that the company is pushing record labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers. The same source also indicates that Apple proposed to pay YouTube’s music licensing fee to Universal Music Group, if the label removed its songs from YouTube.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
Photo by Andrew Nguyen. Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. But not fast enough. Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding tech
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
If you haven’t heard of OTT , short for “over the top,” you will soon. The acronym refers to video content delivered straight to the consumer via internet. The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2015
One of the most powerful forms of influence, according to psychologist Robert Cialdini’s famous analysis, is authority — often derived from perceived expertise. When a doctor advises us to exercise more, or a Nobel Laureate raises questions about a certain economic policy, we’re likely to pay much more attention than if a random person offered the same counsel.
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