General Leadership
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Mastering Others is Strength; Mastering Yourself is True Power”. Lao Tzu. We’re taught from the beginning that leadership is about a person applying influence to guide and enlist the support others in achieving a goal.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
The outdoor wedding on the water was beautiful, the bar was open and the line for the fanciest version of a port-o-pot I’ve ever seen was long. Which is why so many heard the screams of the little boy who couldn’t escape from the pottie on wheels. His cries grew more frantic as his dad and others tried to calm him down. “Lucas, it’s going to be okay… Just turn the knob… Please stop crying… ” Lucas stayed stuck.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. To use a golf analogy, not every shot is a long drive. Many times, golfers have to take a chip shot to move the ball along for a short distance, with incisive accuracy. If you are new to the Chip Shots green, welcome.
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
There’s a host of reasons why great brands decay. High on the list is weak marketing, weak management, and weak strategic discipline. I could add a dozen more. I won’t. I will say that the crux of the matter is the incessant pressure on management to maintain or rediscover corporate growth. The ramifications are pervasive, and particularly pronounced in the food industry where giants such as Kraft, Kellogg’s, General Mills, and Campbell’s Soup seek growth another way, a seemingly easier way – by
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Life’s darkest frustrations hover over the gap between feeling unimportant and hoping to be significant. Desires for greatness are holy. No one wakes up in the morning with burning desires to be trivial.
Joseph Lalonde
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
B logging can be very competitive. We want to grow our audience. We want to impact lives. We want the chance to change the world. The question, though, is how far are you willing to go to succeed in blogging? Image via Creative Commons. A listener on Pat Flynn’s Ask Pat Podcast recently asked the question of. How do you stay true to your morals while making business decisions?
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
First Friday Book Synopsis
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
…the Northeast whether it’s New York, Philly or Boston, from my experience, you don’t go out there and appear weak. You go out and you appear strong. Jim Gaffigan, from his interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross ——————– Jim Gaffigan is performing for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this weekend, which likely… Read More “Appear Strong” from the Beginning – Your Presentation Skills Tip of the Day from Comedian Jim Gaffigan.
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll see articles on fixing our unhealthy obsession with work email, who 'owns' employee engagement and how to master work/life balance.
Rapid BI
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Some office fun for a Friday afternoon – Drop in customer complaints Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #316 “We’re seeing a significant drop in customer complaints since we stopped answering our phones” Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
We humans are a paradoxical species. On the one hand, we are uniquely endowed with the power of extraordinary imagination – the ability to see what could be, but has never been. On the other,we are imperfect. We have weaknesses and we make mistakes, lots of them. It is the ability of our imagination to triumph over our imperfections, weaknesses, and mistakes that has driven human progress over the millennia.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
In the past, new managers often had the luxury of cutting their teeth on traditional collocated teams: groups of people, sitting down the hall from one another, who met up in conference rooms to hash out what they were trying to achieve and how to get there. Unfortunately, today’s increasingly global work environment does not always afford that luxury.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
The headlines this summer about Apple Music were not what we might expect from the wizards of Cupertino. Apple’s streaming music service has been called a “ nightmare ,” a “ crushing disappointment ” and a “ broken promise.” Even long-time fans are wondering, “ What Went Wrong? ” This isn’t the first time Apple has struggled with its music business.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
It’s no longer unusual for teams within organizations to span different countries and cultures. While there are many benefits to this, one of the challenges for leaders of these global teams is navigating everyone’s vacation schedules. Employees within a single team may have completely different holiday calendars, laws, and customs. Most people are familiar with their own country’s vacation patterns, but few are fluent in the intricacies of everyone else’s.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
In 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic. It took him 73 days to complete the 3,716-mile journey. When asked how he managed each day to confront the vast ocean that lay ahead, he answered, “I never jump into the water thinking about the entire ocean, I just cut it into small pieces. When I am in the middle of the ocean, I think about being in a pool and the pool moves with me.” These days, health care organizations find themselves crossing another ocea
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
HBR STAFF. As Carly Fiorina enjoys a surge in recent opinion polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, her record as former CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) is being put under the microscope. Fiorina herself cites that record as part of the reason to elect her president — even though some have called her one of the worst CEOs of her era.
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