Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 12, 2013
'If you want customers, stop selling. Hard sells exhaust. Aggressive pitches scream, “Do this for ME.” Every day, I close down down to parades of hard sells. Last week I re-opened my mind to a sales exec who caught my interest by offering consultation to a real business problem. Two years ago, his predecesoor [.] The post Your Hard Sell is Hard to Buy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 12, 2013
'Posted in Change Management Leadership Development “Wow – what a beautiful view!” was one of several responses I received when I posted this picture on my Facebook page last weekend. I took this picture with my iPhone while piloting a Cessna Skyhawk on my return trip from Pennsylvania back to Virginia. At the time, I was flying over the Susquehanna River [.].
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N2Growth Blog
JULY 12, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Seeking perfection is the business of excellent organizations. Like a coach who helps you visualize victory prior to tip off, great leaders have a way of describing what perfection looks like for their organization. This leadership is particularly important in large organizations where managers waste so much energy protecting the status quo and avoiding failure that there is little left for progress.
Women on Business
JULY 12, 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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Leadership Freak
JULY 12, 2013
'Discouragement is easy. Igniting fires takes wisdom and work. Success always begins with who before what. Kindling great fires: Small before large. Stop waiting for explosive fires. Start small ones now! Explosive opportunities require extensive resources. Leaders, who refuse to start small, whine about lack of resources. Waiting for what could be destroys what can […].
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 12, 2013
'Perhaps this quotation speaks to me more while I am on vacation, but I believe its message is for all of us, everyday. Today’s questions and action steps take a more personal focus than they sometimes do, and I hope you take them seriously, and most of all take action. Questions to Ponder - What [.].
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JULY 12, 2013
'Did you ever have an important point to make and it wasn’t heard or understood? What did you do? If you eventually gave up in frustration, you’re not unusual. When you have something important to say, a little preparation ahead of time can increase the likelihood you’ll be heard. Use “I statements.” Take personal ownership for the ideas and feelings you express.
leaderCommunicator
JULY 12, 2013
'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
Mike Cardus
JULY 12, 2013
'It does not have to be complicated…. Photo Credit. It does have to be followed-up and remain a priority of the team. In every team building & leadership program and consulting meeting we can find 1 to 3 things that can be re-focused, changed and / or improved often we find many more. In an earlier post I wrote about 5 Team Building Processing / De-Briefing Questions.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 12, 2013
'We had a wonderful session this morning at the July First Friday Book Synopsis. (Yes, we were a week late, due to the July 4 holiday weekend). I always appreciate the books I read and present, but I especially enjoyed reading Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson, which I presented this morning. I will post more […].
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Eric Jacobson
JULY 12, 2013
'I was recently asked, " What five most important traits must a leader have to be effective ?" I could reply fairly quickly, but I did take a moment to remember that when I asked a similar question in a LinkedIn group discussion, group members offered up nearly 100 different adjectives to describe an effective leader. But, for me, I contend the five most important traits are : Good communicator.
Six Disciplines
JULY 12, 2013
'While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn''t provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect complement to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 12, 2013
'Here is an article written by Michael Hess for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. Image by Flickr user Liz West * * * (MoneyWatch) Yoga has become a pretty […].
Ron Edmondson
JULY 12, 2013
'I am a Bill Cosby fan, so when I was asked if I’d allow a guest post in honor of his birthday this week, how could I refuse? (This is NOT a sponsored post.). The Cosby Show – revisited. The 1980s was a much different time in American culture than the current era, a period in which a television show featuring a middle-class African-American family was a revelation and something never seen before.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 12, 2013
'[What''s the Future of Business?]: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences Brian Solis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How to gain an understanding of the psychology of engagement between and among connected consumers First, an introduction to Brian Solis who is principal at Altimeter Group, a research firm focused on disruptive technology. A digital analyst, […].
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone''s day. Each is a chance to transform an ordinary moment into a touchpoint. What is a touchpoint? A touchpoint is an interaction with one other person, a couple of people, or a group that can last a couple of minutes, a couple of hours, or a couple of days.
LDRLB
JULY 12, 2013
'Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor and single highest-rated teacher at The Wharton School. He is a former record-setting advertising director, junior Olympic springboard diver, and professional magician. He is the author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success. In this episode, Adam and I discuss why nice guys don’t finish last, why it’s so hard to identify potential talent, and how to get seats on a private jet.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'How do you become truly influential? We''ve found that the most highly respected leaders avoid techniques to gain short-term compliance; they also steer clear of a self-centered "How can I get people to do what I want?" mindset. Instead, they take a different approach altogether. We interviewed over 100 high-impact influencers from a wide range of industries and organizations for our recent book.
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Ron Edmondson
JULY 12, 2013
'(I’m on vacation this coming week, and so for the next couple weeks I’m posting again some of my most read posts, but also ones I think are actually helpful. These are my “favorite top posts” Some posts had more hits, but they simply do well in the search engines. I’m actually proud of these. None of these were posted this year.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. It is a social function. It is, therefore, both socially accountable and culturally embedded.". Some thirteen years later, Tom Peters remarked in the article Managing As Symbolic Action : "It requires us, as managers, to get people to share our sense of urgency in new priorities; to develop personal, soul-deep animus toward things as th
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'Undergraduates who had gazed at their 40-year-old selves in virtual "mirrors" were 74% less likely to cheat for extra cash on a subsequent trivia test, says a team led by Jean-Louis van Gelder of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and Hal E. Hershfield of NYU. This and another experiment suggest that one reason people make self-defeating choices such as engaging in unethical behavior is that their ability to imagine their future selves is limited.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'If you''re a manager working with the analysts in your organization to make more data-driven business decisions, asking good questions should be one of your top priorities. Many managers fear that asking questions will make them appear unintelligent about quantitative matters. However, if you ask the right kinds of questions, you can both appear knowledgeable and advance the likelihood of a good decision outcome.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'Working From My Bean Bag Chair Treadmill Desk. That''s what everyone''s favorite late CEO did when he designed Pixar''s offices in 1986. Instead of putting the bathrooms (and café and mailboxes and gift shop) off to the side, Steve Jobs placed them in an atrium at the center of the workspace. And "although some were more than a little annoyed to have to traipse to the lobby every time they needed the loo — something remarkable started to happen," writes The Independent''s Archie Bland.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2013
'The prospects for investors, be they corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds, or individuals, appear bleak. John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more
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