Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 22, 2013
'It’s hard to argue with Stephen Covey’s 2nd habit ”begin with the end in mind.” Wise wisdom. But… Heads down, full steam ahead comes with risks. Chartered courses without open minds lead to missed opportunity. Sir Captain Don’s Story Last week I met Sir Captain Don Stewart on our vacation to Bonaire, in the Dutch Caribbean.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 22, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Change is part of organizational life — inevitable, unsettling and necessary. Too often when managers are pushed to improve, they make changes without taking stock of the situation and their talent. So, before you embark upon a change process, learn to ask yourself and your team five critical questions.
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Lead Change Blog
JULY 22, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Problem? Issue? Complaint? While venting is a widely acceptable practice in the work place today, often encouraged and actually good for you, don’t forget to match some of that expressive energy with real, actionable solutions. Frustrated? Irritated? Down Right Pissed Off? Great! Who isn’t!?! It’s the What•are•ya•gonna•do•about•it that separates those who stay that way and [.].
Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 22, 2013
'A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). An IDP usually defines what you want to get better at and why and how you’re going to get better. Studies on goal attainment prove over that over that people with written, specific plans are more likely to achieve their goals. Most IDPs are written for a one-year time horizon, sometimes even less.
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Leadership Freak
JULY 22, 2013
'All foolish leaders believe they understand things they don’t. Foolish leaders: Are cocky not confident – fearful. Pretend they like you when they don’t – manipulator. Reject authority – arrogant. Express anger quickly – impulsive. Blab rather than listen – know-it-all. Leaders with understand know they don’t fully understand. Leaders with understanding: Seek guidance as […].
Persuasive Powerhouse
JULY 22, 2013
'I see leaders laboring to figure out how to deal with a previously good worker whose performance has declined. The leader may go from thinking the individual needs to buck up and get it done, to ignoring or avoiding the person, to putting them on a performance warning without asking what help they might need to get through whatever is impacting their performance.
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Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 22, 2013
'There is no perfect leader; leaders truly come in all shapes and sizes. Doctors know the same about their patients, yet they still study anatomy – to understand the basic workings of body parts, their roles and how they function together. While the bodies are different, the anatomy is the same. Similarly, though the style, [.].
Nathan Magnuson
JULY 22, 2013
'From 2006-2012 I served as a part-time member of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Some of our hardcore “green beret” colleagues operated as independent 4 man teams conducting unconventional warfare operations. My role in Civil Affairs had more to do with liaising with and advising local civilian leadership in foreign areas.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JULY 22, 2013
'Considering the compelling case for the value of vision, it’s strikingly absent these days. Recent research by Kouzes and Posner demonstrates that “ being forward-looking is the quality that most separates leaders from individual contributors.” However, “it’s something that too few fully appreciate, and too many devote almost no time to developing,” says Jim Kouzes.
Next Level Blog
JULY 22, 2013
'My wife has this great line that she sometimes uses when she’s asked to help with something that’s not as high a priority as other things on her calendar. She listens to the pitch and then politely says, “What you’re doing sounds great and really important. I’d like to be able to help but given everything else going on in my life, it wouldn’t be responsible of me to say yes.”.
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The Recovering Engineer
JULY 22, 2013
'One day John, a newly promoted supervisor with Fictional Products, met with his boss, Bill, to discuss a new procedure recently mandated by a change to company policy. John was not happy with the change because he knew that his team would not like it. The new procedure added two documentation steps to an existing operation, and he knew that it would add both time and energy to an already cumbersome process.
QAspire
JULY 22, 2013
'I recently delivered a talk at a local entrepreneurship forum on the topic “ How to Build a Great Team and Culture ”. It won’t be unfair to say that establishing a great culture and team is highest on priority of a business leader. And why not? A great culture enables success, builds team fabric and attracts talent too. We have all seen many talented teams failing simply because of a poor culture and human dynamics.
Mike Cardus
JULY 22, 2013
'An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Selection. Using Existing Employees as Mentors. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. The Chief Executive. The Chance to Lead. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.
Coaching Tip
JULY 22, 2013
'All life is competitive. The plant or the tree competes with its neighbor for light and moisture, the successful one becoming a perfect specimen, while the less successful one languishes and dies. In animal life, one species or individual competes with another for a place to live and for the means of existence. People do so not only for the right to exist and the means of existence but because their instinctive competition includes the intellectual field possessed in all life by man alone.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 22, 2013
'(Note: I started this back before vacation. I’m returning to the series today. Sorry for the delay). In my introductory post, 12 Vital signs of Organizational Health, I listed the 12 signs. Here is sign #3: A healthy organization has a clear, challenging organizational strategy. Back in my graduate school days, I remember the day that […].
CO2
JULY 22, 2013
'by Calvin Guyer In a previous post , I covered 5 Leadership Failures. Here are 5 more. 1. Failure to involve your team in setting goals. ”People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals –that is, goals that do not inspire them.” – Tony Robbins. People are not inspired by your goals; they are inspired by their goals. Organizations that insist on creating their annual goals or strategic plans from the top-down are missing a vital part of their business–their
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 22, 2013
'( A very short post – worth pondering, I think). ——————— So, I had lunch with a friend today. He runs a small size business. He runs it very, very well. He is as ”big” as he wants to be, but he is known and respected in bigger – much bigger – circles. We talked […].
LDRLB
JULY 22, 2013
'My first (hopefully of many) posts in Harvard Business Review blog was just released today. The piece, titled “ How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams ,” examines a hidden bias we all share – a bias against creative ideas. The history of business is filled with examples of successful organizations passing on groundbreaking innovations.
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Management Excellence
JULY 22, 2013
'We all know and live with the distractions that pull us from our true priorities. From the personal issues that tug at us while we’re striving to work and live, to the endless number of workplace distractions, focus often seems like an abstract concept.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 22, 2013
'The author of nineteen books, Chip Bell‘s newest book (written with Marshall Goldsmith) is Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service (with Ron Zemke). He has served as consultant, trainer, or speaker to such major organizations […].
Building Personal Strength
JULY 22, 2013
'In this space I''ve written a lot about habit and behavior change. A few months ago I realized my eating habits had caused me to gain so much weight I feared for my health. My best weight is about 165. One pound at a time, I had ballooned to 192. My blue jeans didn''t fit anymore. I had a gut. I tried dieting but it wasn''t working the way it used to when I was younger.
Ron Edmondson
JULY 22, 2013
'What makes an effective leader these days? I was asked that question recently and I had to think for a moment. The question was asked in a way that caused me to believe the questioner felt my answer would be different today than ten or twenty years ago. Would it? Is leading any different today than in years past? Well, it’s a good question, and I’m not going to attempt to answer it in this post (how’s that for dodging a question?
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Managing Communities
JULY 22, 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.
Strategy Driven
JULY 22, 2013
'Every salesperson wants to think of him or herself as powerful but, if asked, would have no idea where their power actually comes from. Most salespeople fail to understand their own power. The reason they don’t is that there is a heavy concentration on what cannot be controlled or what is not being done. This manifests itself in complaints about: price, unreturned phone calls, bidding, loyalty to others, and other various excuses about why a sale does not take place and the relationship i
Rajesh Setty
JULY 22, 2013
'My friend Japjot Sethi (founder and CEO of Gloopt ) and I had an opportunity to record these 7 insights at Guy Kawasaki ‘s residence a few months ago. What was fascinating to me was that there were no retakes for any of the recordings. It simply shows the internal clarity, depth and control on how to package an insight in a super short span (in this case one minute each) of time.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2013
'It''s tough to find examples of successfully challenging the boss, even tougher to find stories of leaders who specifically ask to be challenged. The most common is a tale of Alfred P. Sloan at General Motors. During a meeting in which GM''s top management team was considering a weighty decision, Sloan closed the meeting by asking." "Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here?
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My Own Coach
JULY 22, 2013
'Changing " the way things are done around here " can take time. There is no easy fix and the legacy of a past culture often has a tight hold long after it has been changed. There is a great story, based on a real study carried out in the early sixties, that illustrates the way behaviour may be influenced by " the way things were done around here! ".
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2013
'Last week, I observed six senior Fortune 100 executives discussing a desperately-needed digital strategy. They each sported the obligatory hallmarks of business success: expensive Italian suits, carefully manicured hairstyles and company-issued smartphones resting on dark leather compendiums. You could almost smell the overhead. As the meeting progressed, it was clear that these Ivy-schooled individuals were slick, sharp, and well-structured.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2013
'A study in which college students were assigned to spend most of their time with 30 other randomly chosen undergraduates shows that people may adopt the diet and exercise patterns of the least fit within a peer group, says a team led by Scott E. Carrell of the University of California-Davis. The data suggests that if half of your friends were to become among the least fit (for reasons unrelated to you), your own fitness level would drop by nearly 20% of a standard deviation.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2013
'Peter Jackson is a game changer who transformed the practice of filmmaking. Like Jerry Buss , who revolutionized basketball, Jackson and other effective innovators share a common set of qualities that we call the innovation mindset: they see and act on opportunities , use "and" thinking and resourcefulness , focus on outcomes , and act to "expand the pie.
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