Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 21, 2013
'What motivates you? What would your friends say motives you? How about your mom? Your boss? Your kids? It’s been a while since we did some real work together at Let’s Grow Leaders. Today I challenge you to a short-term experiment that I picked up reading What Keeps Leaders Up at Night. More to come on [.] The post What Motivates You?
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 21, 2013
'Posted in Books Change Management Self Leadership Last week I signed up to write this blog post, and I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. I wanted to write a book review on The Outstanding Organization by Karen Martin. Although I read the book several months ago, Karen’s work has really resonated with me and has made a lasting impression. It’s not [.].
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Women on Business
JUNE 21, 2013
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Leadership Freak
JUNE 21, 2013
'The worst thing forward-facing leaders face is not making progress – feeling stuck. The solution for most is trying harder. Stepping on the gas feels right, but it’s wrong, when there’s no traction. Spinning your wheels, when you’re stuck, results in more stuck. The problem: The problem isn’t getting stuck. The problem is trying harder […].
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Women on Business
JUNE 21, 2013
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Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 21, 2013
' I love today’s quote, so I am going to get right to it. Read it carefully. Read it twice. “Ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do [.].
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Mike Cardus
JUNE 21, 2013
'Below are 5 Steps to ensure that team-work gets accomplished and everyone knows what to-do. Image Credit. “organizational structure, accountability systems, and working relationships are somewhat boring. It is much more exciting to focus on influencing the hearts and minds of people (leadership?)…So the quest for magical charisma goes on. As a result of this thinking, the efforts at improving performance in today’s organizations are never going to be as successful as they could be.”. - Stephen
leaderCommunicator
JUNE 21, 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.
LDRLB
JUNE 21, 2013
'The video from my TEDxReno talk “Citizenship at Work” is now live. I have to tell you honestly that they had some problems with audio that day, starting with my talk. They edited out the entire front end of my talk , so I share it with you again below so you can know how it really started: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Six Disciplines
JUNE 21, 2013
'Why don’t more employees do what they are supposed to do? . In a recent post by Banchard Leaderchat , author and consultant William Schiemann might have part of the answer—only 14% of the organizations he polled report that their employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. How would your company score on a similar survey?
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CO2
JUNE 21, 2013
'by Calvin Guyer Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. Energy Leadership (which I use in teaching and coaching) and Tribal Leadership have much in common. Their levels/stages follow similar trajectories, and both books help leaders understand and improve their organization’s culture.
Building Personal Strength
JUNE 21, 2013
'I once coached a 43-year-old man who lived at home and had never worked a day in his life. At the time, interest rates had fallen to all-time lows, so the annual interest on his trust fund principal had diminished considerably. To continue living in the style to which he was accustomed, he simply withdrew money from the principal. When his trust fund was all but lost, he asked his parents to replenish it.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 21, 2013
'Dr Mario Livio is an internationally known astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the institute which conducts the scientific program of the Hubble Space Telescope, and will conduct the scientific program of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and received awards and recognition for research, […].
Management Excellence
JUNE 21, 2013
'On the heels of yet another study indicating most U.S. workers are disengaged from their jobs, I recently had occasion to witness an interesting comparison and contrast in levels of employee engagement at two different organizations in the medical industry. One of those encounters provided an insight into what may just be the best measure of employee engagement.
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Ron Edmondson
JUNE 21, 2013
'If you are like me you love your weekends. T.G.I.F…right? If we are not careful, however, the weekend passes so quickly and we begin another work week feeling we wasted the weekend we had. Or we are so stressed by the week behind or the week ahead that all we do is catch our breath and we can’t fully enjoy the weekend. How can we help guarantee better weekends?
Rajesh Setty
JUNE 21, 2013
'Free rider in simple terms is someone who benefits ( takes ) all the time without ever thinking of paying for what he or she is getting. In other words, free rider is someone who takes the giver for granted. Free riders are part of your life. You can’t avoid them but if you don’t spot them early, some of them can turn you into a doormat and walk all over you.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. But our global survey of more than 1,000 corporate directors, conducted in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, said otherwise.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 21, 2013
'Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by by Matthew E. May for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, he explains why the best innovation strategies are rooted in the art of subtraction. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and […]. Bob''s blog entries Booz & Company Jim Collins Matthew E.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'People in a circular seating arrangement had a more positive impression of a travel ad urging them to make family and friends a priority than of an ad saying "Make yourself a priority" ( 3.78 versus 2.75 on a 7-point scale); but people in an angular seating arrangement, such as in rows at right angles, favored the self-oriented ad ( 3.82 versus 2.41 ), say Rui (Juliet) Zhu of the University of British Columbia and Jennifer J.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'In September 2005, Alphahealth*, a large American healthcare company acquired the British company Pharmateam*. Pharmateam was an ideal target. With just a few hundred employees, the company was relatively small and affordably priced, but it had a solid product portfolio, over a century of history, and healthy financials. Moreover, it was a private company so that at the right price, all the shares could be acquired quite easily and rapidly.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'It may be that everybody has a book in them, but not everybody is sure if they should try to get it out of them. Why should I write a book? How long does it take? What does a book do that a blog or Tweet can''t do? Does anybody really read books anymore? Do I have to write a book? These are the questions I get from would-be idea entrepreneurs — people who want to go public with a deeply-felt idea so as to influence how people think and behave and, as a result, create some kind of change i
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'Leave Your Title at the Door. Let''s say you have a coworker who’s disruptive or isn''t pulling his weight. Your company probably has a hierarchical process for deciding the proper course of action, and that process probably doesn''t put you at the center of the matter. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense).
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'If you stand in the plaza of P&G''s Cincinnati headquarters and look up, you will see something circling. Birds. Locals say they''ve been gathering for the last several years now. They''re hard to see. And really who cares. But now that A.G. Lafley is back as CEO, it might be time for everyone at P&G to go out onto the plaza and look up. Those birds are Black Swans.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'A quick thought experiment: name a leader in a position of power you (really) admire, trust, and respect. Not just the head of an "alternative" company or political party, but a well-known, mainstream, orthodox, leader of the status quo. Can you? Even after a few moments to reflect and consider, most people can''t name a single one. Obama? Bernanke?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'Every enterprise will be affected by the Internet of Things (IoT), the growing phenomenon by which not only people, but also "things" — vehicles, commercial and industrial equipment, medical devices, remote sensors in natural environments — are linked to networks that are connected to the internet. Expect the impact on your business to be profound.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2013
'The U.S. Supreme Court''s annual term is winding down, with key decisions still to come on gay marriage , voting rights , and affirmative action in university admissions. There''s been lots of speculation that, given who has already written opinions for this term, the remaining decisions are likely to be dominated by the court''s Republican-appointed majority.
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