Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 6, 2013
'Throughout June, Great Place to Work is hosting a Blogathon focused on the workplace of the future. They invited “workplace leaders, strategists, managers, employees, pundits, and all who care about creating great workplaces to envision the great workplace of the future.” We were asked to “contemplate how workplaces will function in 10, 15, or 25 years, and what [.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 6, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development I read another article today on the difference between leadership and management. The writer, someone I appreciate, but from the industrial revolution, talked about leadership as a position. People in positions of leadership need the skills of leadership, vision setting, communication, etc. I don’t disagree. However our free-agent age or our age of the individual [.].
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Leading Blog
JUNE 6, 2013
'The Clarity Principle by Chatham Sullivan, is about a widespread issue facing many (most) organizations: who are we and what are we doing? What is our purpose? It is a vitally important question that is rarely answered—not really. It''s a difficult question to answer and is the cause of much of the dysfunctional, painful and absurd activity in many organizations.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 6, 2013
'Guest post from Jim Leighton : I’ll never forget my first big job interview after college. I flew down to Houston for an onsite interview with a large Texas oil refinery. I was still wet behind the years with a business and labor relations degree in hand and with soaring intentions to conquer any obstacle before me. The refinery was in search of one lucky individual to navigate the troubled waters between management, the union, and the hourly associates.
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Women on Business
JUNE 6, 2013
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Leadership Freak
JUNE 6, 2013
'At least once in a while, forget about controlling outcomes. Build human connections. Set aside the things leaders hide behind. Turn off: Results. Strategies. Respect. Vision casting. Authority. Planning. Power. Timelines. Job titles. S.M.A.R.T. goals. Yield: Take a deep breath and let go of doing, at least once in awhile. Connect by gently stepping toward […].
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Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 6, 2013
'CC License, Courtesy of Let Ideas Compete. It is a rare book that deeply effects me on matters of work / life alignment. The late Eugene O’Kelly did this with his book, “ Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life.” This book is as much about life as it is about dying well. Especially relevant for leaders, O’Kelly does not go the all-too-common route of, “I should have spent less time at the office.” Instead, he puts work in balance with t
Mike Cardus
JUNE 6, 2013
'Sometime I feel like we are beating a dead horse or perhaps a unicorn? I just read a GREAT blog post from John Hunter of Curious Cat Management – Leadership and Management. Having also written about my concern separating leadership from management. Management vs. Leadership. Like Two Unicorns Sexting. The Manager AS Leader. 10 Managerial Leadership Practices.
Change Starts Here
JUNE 6, 2013
'A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. I suspect for many of the respondents, the “other” job duties are really their primary job, and those who consider themselves change agents do so because they’ve realized change management is a necessary function of their primary job.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 6, 2013
'Just a quick observation. There’s a lot of debate these days (just Google it) about whether or not the 10,000 hour rule is “right.” (Note: if you are not familiar with the 10,000 hour rule, read the section on it in the Wikipedia article on Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers). Yes, there are plenty of folks who […].
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Ron Edmondson
JUNE 6, 2013
'I received this question on my blog recently. Ron – What do you think are some of the most frustrating things that pastors experience? Great question. I’m sure, like most jobs, there are frustrating things that happen while doing the best you know to do. Leadership deals with people. Different people. There can always be frustrations dealing with people different from us.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 6, 2013
'Yoga Berra is arguably the greatest catcher in the history of Major League Baseball, although Johnny Bench certainly has his advocates. However, Berra is more widely known for his unique way of expressing his thoughts. He insists — and those who know him best agree — that his observations are natural rather than contrived. In […].
Managing Communities
JUNE 6, 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.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 6, 2013
'The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren E. Buffett (Author) and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Editor) Carolina Academic Press Here are business information, insights, and counsel of incalculable value This is the latest edition of volumes published during an ongoing process by which Warren Buffett presents a “chairman’s letter” (i.e. progress […].
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 6, 2013
'Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. by Steven D. Levitt and. Stephen J. Dubner. About the Book. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner challenges conventional thinking by using economic analysis to uncover the underlying causes of everyday life events. Steven and Stephen reveal that economics is simply the study of incentives and that by understanding incentives one can reveal the hidden truth about why people behave as they do and the result
Rapid BI
JUNE 6, 2013
'Five ways in which a leader shows depth of purpose.
Leading Blog
JUNE 6, 2013
'In Balance , James A. Cusumano reflects on his five careers as the lead singer of a rock band, an Exxon research scientist and executive, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a filmmaker and a luxury hotel owner. Through it all he points to people who helped him along the way and pointed him in the right direction. Their perspective helped keep his life in balance.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users. Google has stopped supporting its popular RSS feeder. Apple prohibits all iPhone apps that are political or sexual. Microsoft might be cooperating with some governments to spy on Skype calls, but we don''t know which ones. Both Twitter and LinkedIn have recently suffered security breaches that affected the data of hundreds of thousands of their users.
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Engaging Leader
JUNE 6, 2013
'How do you avoid mediocrity and apathy in the team you lead? At many companies today, innovation is the rallying cry, but bunting for singles is the everyday ethic. So how can you lead a team to be truly innovative? How can you inspire innovation, even from employees who aren’t in R&D? And how can you support process-based innovation, not just product-based innovation?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'A survey evaluating a team''s performance can be a powerful tool for making that team more effective. And the first message that consultants and HR professionals often communicate on these surveys is: "To ensure that the team gets the best data and feels protected, we will make sure responses are confidential." The widespread assumption is that if team members know their answers are confidential, they will respond honestly.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'In my recent HBR article, The New Dynamics of Competition , I present a new analytical tool called Value Network Maps, which I explain below. Video Platform. Video Management. Video Solutions. Video Player. These Maps are an outgrowth of exciting new work by strategy scholars developing a mathematical model of firm strategy that I refer to as the Value Capture Model (VCM).
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'Quick: when someone says "IT," what comes to mind? Usually, people think of the systems they use as employees inside organizations — not customers. Here''s a familiar story: Marketing conducts research (" Big Data "! " Analytics "!) and uncovers new customer insights; it then turns to operations to translate the insights into action.and hits a wall.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'People who were instructed to think about their own mortality were more receptive to the idea of having cosmetic surgery than those who weren''t ( 3.57 versus 2.96 on a seven-point scale), suggesting that fear of death is a motivator behind patients'' decisions to have tummy tucks, says Kim-Pong Tam of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'In a recent column for the New York Times, David Brooks posited that the U.S. has one clear advantage over Chinese competition: branding. He notes that U.S. firms are powered by "eccentric failed novelists" (presumably from agencies and consulting firms that are gifted at brand positioning and execution) and "visionary founders" (think Steve Jobs) who have created exceptional brands.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'An interview with Sandeep Baliga and Jeff Ely , professors at the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University. For more, see The Power of Purple Pricing. Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by June 14.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2013
'The halls of every marketing organization are filled with rumors about the new crop of hires — computer scientists, math majors and big data experts. For them, consumers are a mass of 0s and 1s that represent online behavior that can be collected, analyzed and targeted. But the one thing companies seem to keep forgetting is that customers are actually human beings.
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