General Leadership

DECEMBER 1, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 30 March 2014. “We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!” President George W. Bush. All of us remember where we were on 9/11. I had one of the greatest jobs in the world of the Vice Commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC).

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

John Steinbeck’s 1952 family epic (and not-so-subtle Bible allegory), East of Eden , is impressive for the sweeping arc of its story and richly drawn characters. But it also includes insight on both the nature of the servant life and the pitfalls of complacency. At one point, the character of Samuel Hamilton converses with Lee, his Chinese servant, about his vocation.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The following is a guest piece by New York Times bestselling author, Kevin Kruse. Do you ever feel like you know what you should be doing as a leader, but there just isn’t enough time to actually do it? How do successful people create pockets of time so they can become a leader of people, not just managers of tasks? I recently had the chance to interview over 200 highly successful people including billionaires, millionaires and many CEOs who were leading small and large teams alike.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Go Slow to Go Fast : Tools to Disrupt Incumbent Strategy & Behavior to WIN your Competitive Landscape by Damian D."Skipper" Pitts. Driven to Delight : Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way by Joseph Michelli. Navigating Chaos : How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations by Jeff Boss.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Show me a leader who isn’t a control freak and I’ll show you a wimp. You were born a control freak. The tantrums you threw as a toddler were responses to losing control. You lost control because you lost control. Daddy didn’t give you what you wanted. Mommy said no.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I am excited to announce we’re working on the new edition of the Top Leadership Experts to Follow. Our first list of the Top Leadership Experts to Follow ( 2015 ), was extremely well received. In fact, the list was shared thousands of times and topped many search results for the topic. We were honored and excited to see so many people discovering and learning from such great thought leaders.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2015

You might not consider this a “disease”, but it can absolutely “infect” you and your team, destroying your focus and diverting your attention from what you need to accomplish. Check out this video to learn more. Tweet it out:Manage your ‘fear of missing out’ by focusing on what is most important to you and your […].

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Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. Too many jobs are perfectly constructed to elicit inhumane behavior. Read my book to learn how it got this way. The most fundamental lesson of our study: Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Even when asked […].

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I am excited to announce we’re working on the new edition of the Top Leadership Experts to Follow. Our first list of the Top Leadership Experts to Follow ( 2015 ), was extremely well received. In fact, the list was shared thousands of times and topped many search results for the topic. We were honored and excited to see so many people discovering and learning from such great thought leaders.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Aaron Olson and BK Simerson are the authors of Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results. In this interview, we discuss why leadership and strategy are mistakingly treated as separate topics and how effective leaders drive strategic change. Listen below or follow via iTunes or Stitcher.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s tough to maintain a good, everyone-wants-to-be-a-part-of, corporate culture. It’s tough to maintain this in the best of circumstances. It may be practically impossible when the leader who built such a culture, who nurtured it over the long haul, is no longer around. And, sometimes, “outside” investors can destroy what it took years to build.… Read More On Hedge Funds, Outside Investors, and Corporate Culture – (with a story about George Zimmer).

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 1, 2015

For those of you who follow my blog, you know I am email-free on vacation. It’s been a change for me from how I used to operate, and a very welcome one.

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 1, 2015

A consultant raised the following concern to me: You’ve advised selling an assessment project when it’s not immediately clear how much work a project might take. But I’m still not sure when I should sell an assessment project and when I should just help them figure out the scope as part of the process of winning an engagement. What advice would you give this consultant?

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Management Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Welcome back to the Leadership Caffeine Podcast series! While the series took a hiatus for an extended period during my last venture, the idea of bringing fresh voices to the important topics of management and leadership is an unyielding objective of mine here at the Management Excellence blog. I’m excited to return to the series and kick-off with Laura MacLeod, founder and proprietor of From the Inside Out Project, a firm dedicated to smoothing communications and relations between hourly employ

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2015

At first glance, warning against taking care of one’s employees appears contradictory to what most would believe is an important function of every manager. Context is important here. Too often, managers ‘take care of their employees’ during the performance review process. Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2015

As we near the second-year anniversary of the day Nelson Mandela died, I think about my favorite Nelson Mandela leadership quotes: "Lead from the back--and let others believe they are in front." "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." "It always seems impossible until it's done." "I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Every business leader and owner knows that training is critically important to the maintenance of a highly effective staff. What most managers don’t know is that staff training needs to incorporate a diverse types of training methods. Among these, e-learning is essential to both the staff and the company. Never heard of e-learning? Here are five reasons why you might want to keep your ear to the ground in the future. 1. 24/7.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Did you know there are sins which can cripple every marriage? Yes. There are. You realize there are no perfect marriages because there are no perfect people. Right? Let me repeat that. There are no perfect marriages because there are no perfect people. Every marriage will have seasons which are more difficult than others. I often encounter couples in our church who think they are unique.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

What determines whether the ideas we generate are truly creative? Recent research of ours finds that one common factor often gets in the way: we tend to undervalue the benefits of persistence. In a series of experiments we observed that people consistently underestimated the number of ideas they could generate while solving a creative challenge. In one, we brought 24 university students into the laboratory during the week leading up to Thanksgiving and asked them to spend ten minutes coming up w

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Expressing gratitude to others takes a certain kind of noticing. And getting from an intellectual agreement about the merits of gratitude to daily practice is no easy feat. Andy Mills, former chairman on Thomson Financial, and a mentor of mine, keeps a “gift notebook” in which he writes down little observations or things he hears from the people closest to him.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

World leaders and policymakers are meeting ( defiantly ) in Paris over the next couple of weeks to take on climate change. After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. The likelihood is high that over a hundred countries will accomplish something very important: coming to an agreement to cut carbon emissions dramatically.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Many executives pine for their internal IT systems to give them a more consumer-friendly experience. They point to the simplicity, ease of use, and hassle-free nature of the digital services they use in their personal lives: the apps on their smart phone that make services available at the push of a button, software that can be installed and configured with the click of an icon, the ability to plug a printer into a laptop’s USB port and have it ready to print, a tablet that can be connecte

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a cut-throat environment harmful to productivity over time, but that a positive environment will lead to dramatic benefits for employers, employees, and the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Around the world, 15.8 million people now have access to HIV treatment and in sub-Saharan Africa the rate of new HIV infections has dropped by 41% over the past 15 years. But HIV remains a global threat. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Why do medications cost so much, particularly specialty drugs that treat the most serious conditions? Mostly because U.S. drug companies can price them however they want. Some of their justifications are reasonable — for instance, high prices fund research. Others, like the notion that drug treatment lowers total medical costs, are far from proven.

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