Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 17, 2015
I Googled “Death by Powerpoint” and got 12.6 million results. That’s a whole lot of frustrated ranting going on. Look, I get it. In most companies, if you’re serious about your project, you can’t show up to a meeting without a “deck” to explain it. But if people are glazing over, you’re not inspiring their best thinking.
General Leadership
AUGUST 17, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu. Recently, my sweetie and I were out at Creve Coeur Lake in St. Louis County, Missouri. There’s a paved path almost 4 miles long circling the lake and on any given day people are either walking, running, biking or blading on the path.
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
The unsung hero of a fully engaged, energized workplace may surprise you. To uncover this everyday tour-de-force, let us turn for a moment to perhaps the most challenging of all battlegrounds for maintaining attention and engagement—teenagers in a classroom. Sam Intrator is a teaching expert who spent 130 days shadowing and closely observing teenagers in a diverse California high school.
Women on Business
AUGUST 17, 2015
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Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 17, 2015
Why are there so many bad managers? It’s because organizations are designed to create bad managers. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to learn more.
Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 17, 2015
. It’s happened to you, as it happens to all of us at some point. You have an employee (or more) that you manage who is challenging you. When you’re honest with yourself, you just don’t like them and this bothers you. They are “average” at their work yet you sense that they have the potential to be even better. If you look closely at how your dislike for this person impacts how you interact with them, you notice that you avoid having the kind of conversations you n
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 17, 2015
Sometimes I put my foot in my mouth. Upon reflection, I’m a little embarrassed by a question I asked Bill George, author of the new and updated version of, Discover Your True North.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
The executive that signed professional golfer Jordan Spieth to a long-term endorsement deal with Under Armour should get a raise. In the year, since he signed on, the 21 year old Texan has won two major golf championships, missed winning the other two by a total of four strokes and, with his second place finish in the PGA Championship yesterday, captured the number one ranking in the world.
Kevin Eikenberry
AUGUST 17, 2015
Every leader deals with leading, championing or even driving change. And every book and article about doing that will talk about the importance of the vision for the changed state. There is a good reason for that – a vision of the changed state you want people to move towards is critical to a successful […]. The post Five Ways to Create Greater Vision appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Nathan Magnuson
AUGUST 17, 2015
My first job in high school was working at a small grocery store in town. I remember there were only eight aisles, so it wasn’t long before I had most of the place figured out. Unfortunately it wasn’t very complicated, and when I wasn’t assisting customers in the front, I was usually walking through the aisles pulling the products neatly to the front of the shelves.
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Marshall Goldsmith
AUGUST 17, 2015
With these choices, I’ve found that most of us want to be Happy. In fact, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. But how does an adult achieve a high level of contentment while living a frenetic and distraction-packed life? How do we not be Grumpy? It’s not easy. You first have to figure out how you’re spending your time personally and professionally. I measure this in two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit.
Chris Brady
AUGUST 17, 2015
1. Being Boring. Speaking in front of a group of people is as much about entertaining as it is about informing, sharing facts, or explaining. For some reason, most public speakers are entirely. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 17, 2015
“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” Bo Olson, worked in books marketing (at Amazon) – from the NY Times article There’s just nothing more exciting than that genuine feeling of truly admiring the people you work around. Kip Tindell, Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone… Read More Thinking about Amazon, “Bad Workplaces,” and Overall Business Philosophy.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
The executive that signed professional golfer Jordan Spieth to a long-term endorsement deal with Under Armour should get a raise. In the year, since he signed on, the 21 year old Texan has won two major golf championships, missed winning the other two by a total of four strokes and, with his second place finish in the PGA Championship yesterday, captured the number one ranking in the world.
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Anese Cavanaugh
AUGUST 17, 2015
I was leading a session with a group recently when the topic of feedback came up. The room froze. "What's your relationship with feedback?" I asked. "Fear, avoidance, dread, ineffective" were words that came up while the energy of discomfort and heaviness permeated the room.
David A Fields
AUGUST 17, 2015
A consultant asked me the following question: I am working with a prospect and as part of the Context Discussion, we agreed on the risk adjusted value of a project. Now, how do I go about establishing a fair price for the project? Do I charge 10% of the value? Do I estimate the number of days and multiply by a daily rate? What would your advice be to this consultant?
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 17, 2015
There is no doubt the impact of social media on our society. It’s huge. It seemed strange the first time I heard a news story refer to a Twitter feed as a “source” of information. Now it’s commonplace. Employers often review a person’s social media prior to hiring them. Friendships are made and lost through what’s posted online.
Deming Institute
AUGUST 17, 2015
Dr. Deming referred to Alfie Kohn’s work and ideas when he was consulting, giving seminars and in The New Economics. Alfie Kohn will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual Deming in Education Conference this November 6th to 8th in Seattle, Washington. In this article (and the embedded presentation included below) Alfie Kohn explores how misuse of incentives, driven by a failure to understand the psychology of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation leads to failure: Cash Incentives Won’t Make U
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Managing Communities
AUGUST 17, 2015
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
There’s no shortage of advice about how to react to negative feedback. Whether the critic is a boss or a co-worker, the same familiar guidance is consistently presented: Listen carefully, don’t get defensive, ask for time. There’s nothing wrong with these three suggestions, of course. But at the moment when an unhappy colleague is telling you loudly that the project plan you created left out some obvious key components, or your boss is taking you to task for the stumbles you ma
QAspire
AUGUST 17, 2015
Engaging people in knowledge world is not easy. While there is no single formula for engaging people, there are some principles that increase the likelihood of engaging people. I read the article by Dan Crim and Gerard Seijts on “ What Engages Employees the Most ” at Ivey Business Journal and created the following sketch note based on the ideas presented there.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
HR seems to have become every manager and employee’s favorite corporate punching bag, vying with IT for the dubious title of most-irritating function. We have seen a parade of articles recently calling for HR to be blown up , split in two , or at the very least, redesigned. Perhaps this is a good moment to evaluate what it is we really want from our HR leaders—and what we don’t.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
Frank* quite simply doesn’t know what to do. The newly named CEO of a highly regarded publishing company, Frank is a print guy through-and-through. He spent twenty years working his way up through the editorial side, and is excited about the challenge of bringing the company’s great content into the 21 st century. In fact, he knows one of the reasons the board has chosen him to replace the retiring CEO is his focus on finding new outlets and platforms for the organization’s wea
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
A few years ago, a colleague I’ll call “George” leaned in confidentially to tell me, “Take on a high-profile, low-stakes administrative task, then royally mess it up. They’ll never ask you to do anything like that again.” As a fellow law professor, George thought he was sharing his secret formula for writing scholarly books and articles – the coin of the realm in universities – while his colleagues did research on top of committee work like updatin
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
On the front page of a Cuban newspaper recently there was an item about a two-story home in the old city of Havana that crumbled—and that in the course of its collapse, killed four people. This is a harsh glimpse the physical reality facing many of the buildings across Havana and elsewhere in the country. But it’s also a metaphor for much of the Cuban economy.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
When people work for you, you want to do right by them. But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. How do you best motivate someone who you don’t have formal authority over? How do you keep them interested and excited about the work when they don’t get perks like bonuses or benefits?
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
Several of the great success stories of corporate ethnography have 3M engineer Richard Drew as their protagonist. In the 1920s, Drew spent several days at an auto assembly plant, observing how the workers were using his company’s sandpaper. Two-tone cars were all the rage at the time, and Drew serendipitously noticed that the plant workers were laboriously and often unsuccessfully using newspapers to shield the painted portion of the car while the second color was applied.
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