General Leadership
MAY 15, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Don ’ t explain your philosophy. Embody it. ”. Epictetus. I love reading all of the great blogs here on generalleadership.com. It is like having your own staff of great military leaders to learn from.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 15, 2015
The call went out about 2pm on April 27. Social media sites such as Twitter were at high velocity proclaiming a shut-down in Baltimore due to a threat of a possible riot. Major companies like T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason, and several others felt fear for their employees and advised them to get home quickly. I. was in class and our teacher was asked to step out of the room because of an emergency.
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Leadership Freak
MAY 15, 2015
You’re a black hole, if all you think about is what you need from others. Great leaders give more than they take. 4 things that drain people: Expectation without appreciation.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 15, 2015
T here are many things in life I wish I could do over. But I can’t. The past is the past and there’s no changing it. Image By Jason Powell. People will go so far as to say that we shouldn’t reflect on the past. It’s done and over with. No use crying over spilled milk. Or so the saying goes. The Wrong Attitude. From my experience, this is the wrong attitude to carry in life.
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Engaging Leader
MAY 15, 2015
Being an engaging leader starts with engaging your own work and life optimally. When you are fully charged, you get more done, your mind is sharp and creative, you feel fully alive – and you are a better leader, parent, spouse, and friend. Does that happen by accident, or are there specific actions that create […] Being an engaging leader starts with engaging your own work and life optimally.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 15, 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 building trust, organizational culture and how collaboration makes a great leader. These articles will provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 15, 2015
As James MacGregor Burns taught in his classic 1978 text, Leadership, the practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power. If I put a loaded gun to your head, I can get you to do things you might not otherwise do, but I’ve not practiced leadership; I’ve exercised power. True leadership […].
Steve Farber
MAY 15, 2015
As a 21st century Extreme Leader and life-long learner, you are constantly looking for ways to improve yourself, not just for your own advancement, but also for the greater good. You know that you alone can’t make a difference of consequence; you can’t change the World (or world) by yourself–the performance of your team, your organization, and your community is essential to actualizing your own personal mission and achieving the specific outcomes you envision.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 15, 2015
Named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News and one of TIME’s 100 “Innovators for the 21st century,” Linda Rottenberg is considered among the world’s most dynamic experts on entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Her pioneering work also earned her a host of nicknames: ABC and NPR declared her “the entrepreneur whisperer,” Tom Friedman dubbed […].
Eric Jacobson
MAY 15, 2015
When you start reading Mark Thompson’s and Brian Tracy’s book, Now…Build a Great Business! , you may feel like you are reading 200 pages of Blog posts, but the bite-sized approach to providing tools, practical steps and ideas, rather than theory, is precisely the authors’ intended approach. The book thoroughly explains the seven keys for how to achieve business success : 1.
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Strategy Driven
MAY 15, 2015
The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today's business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 15, 2015
To be successful today there are a few things we must have. We’ve always needed them. We need them even more today. Here are 3 must-haves for success in leadership today: Efficiency – There is never enough time or enough me. All leaders are pulled in so many directions. It’s easy to get distracted — and distractions are almost always things of lesser value.
My Own Coach
MAY 15, 2015
Whether you're giving or receiving feedback, it's usefu… The post 4 Stages of Receiving Feedback Emotional Rollercoaster! appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.
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Rapid BI
MAY 15, 2015
Some office fun for a Friday afternoon Office Cartoon 273 “Experts say that power napping can actually increase productivity. I want you to nap longer and harder than our competitors!” Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. See more office humor […].
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 15, 2015
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our May Festival is all about energizing leadership. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors, ! Next month’s Festival is all about beginnings, fresh starts, and launching well. New contributors welcome. Energizing Ourselves. We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels. – Silvia Cartwright.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
You need feedback to learn and grow, and if you’re waiting for your annual review to find out how you’re performing, you’re not getting enough of it. But how do you get the focused input you need? And if your boss is stingy with pointers and advice, how do you encourage her to give you more? Who else should you be asking to help you improve?
Anese Cavanaugh
MAY 15, 2015
I get questions from subscribers and participants all the time about random things that relate to leadership, presence, energy, collaboration, dealing with their mom, changing something that they're afraid to change, etc. All sorts of Qs. I try to respond to every single one. Sometimes these Qs inspire articles. Sometimes an exercise. Sometimes a post.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
Fostering a workplace environment that’s conducive to creativity is a top priority for many companies—and it’s no surprise why. The companies dubbed most creative actually outperform their counterparts in revenue growth and market share , and they’re 50% more likely to be market leaders. Some companies attempt to inspire bursts of creativity using crazy perks (for example, Google regularly invites famous people like Lady Gaga to the office for lectures), but there’s
Women on Business
MAY 15, 2015
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
More than 46,000 of you have completed this assessment to identify your personal productivity style. The questions sought to help users understand how they think, learn, and communicate best. In analyzing the data, I’ve noticed some interesting trends. So far, most of the people taking the test have been Priortizers (47%) and Planners (37%). These work styles (analytical, linear, data- and detail-oriented, organized, committed to honoring deadlines) align with the expectations and key driv
Leading Blog
MAY 15, 2015
“ Curiosity has been the most valuable quality, the most important resource, the central motivation of my life ,” writes Hollywood producer Brian Grazer in A Curious Mind. Early in life, Grazer began having what he calls “ curiosity conversations.” He began tracking down people he was curious about and asking them if he could sit down with them and talk.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
If collaboration is key to succeeding in organizations today, doesn’t it pay to play nice in the sandbox? You have to get along with others to get things done, right? Yes, this is true — to a degree. You want to be a cooperative colleague but you don’t want to be seen as an ineffective pushover. Persuading others matters as much as getting along with them.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. According to the first study, a survey of 1,195 executives, nearly half of those who had ascended to top-level positions in their firms said they were unable to align colleagues around the goals they set out in the new role, while more than a third admitted that they had failed to meet those initial objectives.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
Narratives are powerful leadership tools. By reframing and redefining the narrative, leaders can craft a vision to stimulate new actions. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Repairing America’s deteriorating infrastructure – crumbling bridges, congested highways, outmoded airports and train tracks, crowded runways – is important, but not enough.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
Photo by Andrew Nguyen. “After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. “Frankly, we’re often at a loss with how to help them.” If someone with Calhoun’s experience has trouble with this – he’s chairman of Nielsen’s board, sits on boards of Boeing and Caterpillar, and is on the management committee at Blackstone – I know he can’t be alone.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
Ten days after her husband died unexpectedly while on vacation in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg returned to work as chief operating officer at Facebook. She’ll work a modified schedule and avoid work-related travel, but she’s opted against taking a long sabbatical; by returning to work, according to reports, she’s hoping to provide a sense of normalcy to her children, ages 10 and 8.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
What is the difference between a CEO using the corporate “bully pulpit” to express her or his values, and just being a bully in forcibly imposing those values on others, specifically by threatening or imposing economic sanctions? What are the red lines between passionate protest by prominent individuals, responsible commentary by corporate representatives, and the use of economic power to impose one’s values on others?
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2015
NASA/ESA. Karl Taro Greenfeld’s The Subprimes taps deep into the roots of modern precarity. It’s light comedy about weighty subjects: wealth inequality, environmental devastation, the erosion of democratic representation, the creation of a hereditary moneyed class, and the disastrous false consciousness of the American populace. But, you know, funny.
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