Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 20, 2013
'They think it can’t be done. You do. Now you’ve got to prove it. Game on. Nothing’s more inspirational than having something to prove. My team has spent the last 2 years proving “the impossible.” The more folks told us “it” wouldn’t work, the more fired up we got. We wanted to prove that culture [.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development The leaders of tomorrow will embark on a self-discovery journey. They will listen to and act on their callings to fulfill the lives of others. We all share an innate drive for meaning, guidance and purpose. We want to lead significant lives that matter and worth remembering. Lives that can make a memorable difference, lives [.].
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Women on Business
MAY 20, 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].
Persuasive Powerhouse
MAY 20, 2013
' . Today is the start of International Coaching week. This is the week designated by the International Coach Federation for professional coaches worldwide to host events that promote the proven power of coaching. This post is my own tribute to the week, a shameless promotion of the profession I joined more than a decade ago. . When I first started coaching, there were times that I would cringe at the promotion of my profession.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'Stewardship is about choosing service over self-interest. It begins with a willingness to be deeply accountable for a body larger than yourself - for a team, an organization, a community. Imagine how strong your organization would be if everyone were deeply committed and accountable for its success. These are not new ideas. The evidence and research results are in, and we know for a fact that partnership and participation are the management strategies that create high-performance workplaces.
Leadership Freak
MAY 20, 2013
'Image source Nothing is more frustrating, from a leadership point of view, than a group of individuals circling each other like vultures. Team conflict wastes time, energy, and resources. Incompetent leaders have teams who turn on each other. Focus: Lack of focus invites conflict. Teams who don’t know what’s important can’t focus. Leaders focus teams […].
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Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 20, 2013
'If you have flown anytime in the last several years you have heard some version of this announcement: At this time, we request that all mobile phones, pagers, radios, and remote controlled toys be turned off for the full duration of the flight, as these items might interfere with the navigational and communication equipment on [.].
Next Level Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'Music can have a powerful impact on mindfulness. Certain songs or genres can be totally distracting or annoying while others set you up to remember why you do what you do as a leader. Likewise, there are distracting and annoying things about smartphones and there are also very useful things about the devices. One of those is the capacity they give you to carry around a mindfulness playlist in your pocket.
Mills Scofield
MAY 20, 2013
'MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) are a very hot topic in higher education and corporate training. Nabeel Gillani started Coursolve.org to connect organizations using MOOCs with students around the world to solve real world problems. UVa’s Darden School of Business and University of Washington are finding unexpected value and learning by using Coursolve.
LDRLB
MAY 20, 2013
'Middle managers don’t get a lot of attention or respect. Most business literature focuses on the actions of companies’ senior leaders. Most reorganization efforts try to squeeze the role out through “flattening” or “right-sizing.” Even most business satires are targeted squarely at middle managers, think Michael Scott or Bill Lumberg. But leadership happens at all levels.
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Jason Womack
MAY 20, 2013
' I opened my email up to an article titled, "Are you faking it?" and laughed out loud. Then…I read about a study designed by some heavy-duty psychologists and thought, "Wow, there''s something here.". Why do you want to be more productive? Really? I read an HBR update recently, a quick note about a study coordinated by Francesca Gino and Michael I.
Mike Cardus
MAY 20, 2013
'Quality Leadership Development from Michael Cardus. I’ve delivered variations of this workshop and talk at conferences and to teams in many places. Highlighting that systems-drive-behavior , there is no special ‘leadership personality’ … Within any team when someone is great at their role people see them as a leader. Competence = Comfort = Observed Leadership Behaviors.
Chris Brady
MAY 20, 2013
'There is a hackneyed old story about a fisherman who believes he has died and gone to Heaven as he catches one perfect 2 lb trout after another. As he sets his fly and hooks into yet one more, he. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
CO2
MAY 20, 2013
'by Gary Cohen. Tilting at Windmills. Many of our “enemies” are illusions–specters of past traumas or the product of misguided beliefs. We allow old narratives to play out again and again, unquestioned. We simply draw our swords and start swinging, just as Don Quixote does in Miguel de Cervantes’ novel. That’s where the term “tilting at windmills” originated.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 20, 2013
'Here’s the New York Times Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers for May, 2013. In Dallas, Karl Krayer and I have presented our synopses of business books every month (two each month) since April, 1998. From this month’s list: I have presented Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg (at the April, 2013 gathering), Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan […].
Steve Farber
MAY 20, 2013
'As promised, here is the first of my 3 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Team–virtual or otherwise. To prepare for Conversation 1, write down the names of the people on your team. Now, list everything you know about each person—beyond the team function he or she serves. Do you know anything about their family? How about previous companies they’ve worked for?
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 20, 2013
'So, I just read the short piece by Matthew Iglesias about the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr: Yahoo Buys Tumblr, Promises Continued Operational Independence Under David Karp’s Leadership. Concise, makes sense. Here are the two key sentences: You’re going to hear a lot about Marissa Mayer trying to make Yahoo cool again and no doubt that […].
Managing Communities
MAY 20, 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.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 20, 2013
'The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded Edition: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael D. Watkins Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the first 90 days in a new leadership position can sometimes seem like 90 minutes This is a revised and updated edition of a book I read […]. Bob''s blog entries "Onboarding checklists" "Reasons for transition failures" "Structured methods for learning" "Vision without execution is hallucination" Avoiding Common Alig
Chartered Management Institute
MAY 20, 2013
'Speaking at a networking event the other day, I did a quick straw poll to test out one of my theories about why so many people find such events a pointless exercise despite feeling compelled to go along. Not surprisingly, out of a group of nearly 40 people, only 2 claimed to have a systematic approach to following up after the meeting.
Management Excellence
MAY 20, 2013
'It takes courage of conviction and a strong dose of self-confidence to absorb the flak from the naysayers.
Chartered Management Institute
MAY 20, 2013
'There''s really no doubt that you need a photograph to accompany your profile on LinkedIn. Not having one simply means that people will at best consider you''re a newbie on LI (and, by extrapolation, IT generally). At worst, they will think you have something to hide.
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Ron Edmondson
MAY 20, 2013
'A friend shared this with me on Facebook. Priceless. Laugh…and be convicted if needed. The post Mark Lowery: Recovering Fundamentalist appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Related posts: 10 Tips for Recovering from Major Disappointments. Notes: Catalyst Atlanta… #Cat11 – Mark Driscoll. Mark 16…Challenging the Believer. Two Messages from the Book of Mark.
Strategy Driven
MAY 20, 2013
'I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “Count your blessings.” I wonder how you interpret that. I wonder how you count them. I wonder how you take advantage of them. My biggest wonder is how grateful are you for your blessings. HERE’S AN IDEA: Re-look at your blessings from a different perspective. Are they blessings or are they assets?
Rapid BI
MAY 20, 2013
'How do you start your business or grow a business if the traditional approaches are not accessible to you? How do you raise money AND do your marketing at the same time for no cost? It’s all about crowdsourcing. If you have seen the news over recent months, you would have seen that there has [.].
Ron Edmondson
MAY 20, 2013
'A friend and I went to a Reds game recently. It was a cold night for baseball. It had been raining for several days and thankfully stopped in time for the game. But, it made for a very chilly night. It didn’t stop the stadium vendors from doing their job though. The only problem…I’m not sure their marketing matched their market. Especially one guy.
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My Own Coach
MAY 20, 2013
'Despite coaching being used with leaders in business for many years, I am often asked " what is coaching? " and " what benefits are there from being coached? " So, last year I sought a perspective from other coaches by asking fellow professionals around the world to complete the sentence " As a coach, you know when coaching works when. " The response was overwhelming and I put a selection of them into an illustrated eBook called Coaching Works , available as a FREE download ( click here ).
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2013
'Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course.
My Own Coach
MAY 20, 2013
'I''d like to invite you to take part in a short exercise. Are you sitting at a table? Get yourself comfortable.are you ready? Good. Now I''d like you to hold both of your hands over the desk, around two inches above the top and with the palms facing down. Think of the feedback you have received in the past week. Using your right hand only , place one finger down on the desk for every valuable piece of feedback you have received.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2013
'The annual 10-K report that JPMorgan Chase filed with the SEC in February includes a 13-page section on "Risk Factors." It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure.
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