General Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In any moment of decisions, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”. Theodore Roosevelt. As a leader, you’re generally working with two types of decisions: immediate or crisis action and everything else.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 4, 2015

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2015

L EADERSHIP is stewardship. It requires a long term perspective. It is difficult because it is fundamentally a process of reconciliation; a process of bringing a community of people together towards a common purpose. It is service. Stewardship requires that the organizational leaders put leadership in the hands of every member of the organization. It gives them ownership of the future.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 4, 2015

T here’s an old saying you’ve probably heard. This idiom has to do with horseshoes and hand grenades: Close only counts in horseshoes (and hand grenades). You’ve heard of that expression, right? Image via Creative Commons. Well, I believe we can include leadership, or at least portions of it, in this famous phrase. Close Is Often Good Enough.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Disrespect feels like a pat on the head, followed by a closing door. Disrespect encourages your inner accuser to whisper, “You don’t matter.” Disrespect increase sick days, slow downs, and paybacks.

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Jason Womack

DECEMBER 4, 2015

What does it take to get yourself in the zone? You know. that powerful state of focus and productivity where distractions fall away, and you dial in what needs to get done. And do it. Click here to watch a.

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CO2

DECEMBER 4, 2015

How many times a year do you hear a story about a low-performing person who cannot be switched or removed from your department (or from the organization) because the paperwork hasn’t been done? Or because obligatory conversations have yet to take place? Or because what that person has done might not qualify as a fire-able offense? If this story sounds familiar, you (as leader of your department or organization) need to serve notice—not to the low-performing person, but to HR!

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Policies Human Resources System Metrics 78

leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 4, 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 read articles on how expecting greatness results in greatness, 12 ways to build leadership credibility and the importance of helping the next generation accomplish great things.

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CO2

DECEMBER 4, 2015

How many times a year do you hear a story about a low-performing person who cannot be switched or removed from your department (or from the organization) because the paperwork hasn’t been done? Or because obligatory conversations have yet to take place? Or because what that person has done might not qualify as a fire-able offense? If this story sounds familiar, you (as leader of your department or organization) need to serve notice—not to the low-performing person, but to HR!

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Policies Human Resources System Metrics 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is one of the most misunderstood concepts. It is not about gazing into crystal balls or reading tea leaves. It is not about vendor ‘solutions’ that quickly apply band-aid surgery toward organizational symptoms. Futurism is not an academic exercise that borders on the esoteric or gets stuck in the realm of hypothesis. Futurism is an all-encompassing concept that must look at all aspects of the organization… first at the Big Picture and then at the pieces as they relate

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I’ve learned pastors are often misunderstood. Especially people who haven’t known a pastor personally,me it really by many people. I can’t speak for all pastors. And, certainly, maybe since I was in secular work longer than I’ve been a pastor, I’m not typical. But, I suspect I’m not completely abnormal either. Here are 10 random things to know about pastors.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It was Groucho Marx who said, “ Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others. ”. These are mine and I have no others. No matter how weighty your message, or the credentials you bring to an interview, people won’t buy the message, or you, unless they like you. One sure fire way to bring your nicest self to the fore when it matters, is to rehearse.

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Management Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Each year, companies are spending nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in an effort to improve employee engagement — yet you’ll get wildly inconsistent answers if you ask managers what that means. Academics, consultants, and leaders have been grappling with that question for decades. Their working definitions range from the simple (“discretionary effort”) to the mind-bending (“complex nomological network encompassing trait, state, and behavioral constructsR

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I was about to start my presentation, and was told that we couldn’t begin until we had “the safety briefing.” I was intrigued.The team went into a well-orchestrated checklist delegating contingency emergency assignments and ensuring that everyone knew where the nearest exits and fire extinguishers were. “Okay, if anyone has a medical condition that could need attention, please write that down and put it into your right pocket.” “Raise your hand if you are CPR

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

When you’re running a meeting with people from different cultures, you need to consider your colleagues’ different needs and approaches. How do you brainstorm ideas, make decisions, and address conflict in a way that is comfortable for everyone? Which culture’s preferences should be the default? And how can you be sure that people who aren’t from the dominant culture participate and are heard?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I find it interesting seeing people wanting to be leaders like it is the first-place position in a race. Each one is vying for that coveted position to be able to lead and tell people what to do. A position that has an aura of power and authority that is bestowed upon them, that enables them to give commands that their people have to follow and carry out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It’s not unusual for executives enter a new job with deep-seated feelings of being an impostor. Our research studying thousands of leaders rising into bigger jobs revealed 69% feel underprepared for roles they assume. Forty-five percent had minimal understanding of the challenges they would face, and 76% said their organizations were not helpful in getting them ready.

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Follow-up Micromanagement Cooper Execution 11

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. Car and Driver magazine celebrated it as a “green” car that even an auto enthusiast could love.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We know that creativity and innovation fuel new products, services, even strategies. But too many executives make the mistake of assuming creativity is just reserved for a certain department or just the white-collar knowledge-workers in their firms. New research shows how important it is for all employees to be creative, even if they’re not high up on the org chart.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. That may sound counterintuitive, but it’s true. For many years, private-sector providers and other business interests have responded to a combination of patients’ actual needs and market opportunities while trying to optimize earnings.

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