Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2016

What if you assumed that those people who work for you are in fact doing their best? As leaders we are quick to judge those we lead and when they don’t fit what we think they should be doing, we often get resentful and angry. I believe that most of us are doing the best we can. Our challenge as leaders is to help challenge those we lead to grow into what is the next level of “best they can do.” If they are not willing to become the next best version of themselves, kindly send them on their

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Women on Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 5, 2016

E very leader struggles with the desire to treat everyone on their team the same. They think it’s only right. It’s what we’ve been taught growing up. You have to treat everyone the same. It’s only right. But is that true? Can a leader really treat everyone the same way? My answer may come as a shock. It’s not traditional wisdom but it’s what I’ve found works.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 5, 2016

Disconnection invites skepticism – skepticism blocks influence. The tools of disconnected leadership are manipulation and coercion. Connection is the conduit of influence.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 5, 2016

There are twelve months in a year. That means Karl Krayer and I have to come up with 24 books a year to present at the First Friday Book Synopsis. And, so far this year, there have been a lot of books worthy of selection. (See my mid-year report blog post: 2016, It is a… Read More TED Talks; Lencioni’s The Ideal Team Player – Coming for the September 2, 2016 First Friday Book Synopsis.

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 5, 2016

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 leaders inspire and motivate, a study that shows how powerful good management is, employee turnover is an affect of leadership, the art of lean communication, and suggestions for asking more powerful questions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

To say that school reforms are a contested area is something of an understatement. There are some strongly held opinions in education about what improves a school, such as raising teaching standards and reducing class sizes. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs. To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Child

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Every company has stakeholders, though a few with their own proprietary interests chart the course in their own vision, or lack thereof. Within every corporate and organizational structure, there is a stair-step ladder. One enters the ladder at some level and is considered valuable for the category of services for which they have expertise. This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are opening in Rio de Janeiro amid environmental and health concerns ranging from the Zika virus to polluted competition waters. Brazil, which hosted the World Cup in 2014, is suffering from a deep recession and a political crisis. While the International Olympic Committee touts host cities’ economic legacy , the immense operational challenge of running a mega event creates intense logistical, security, and financial pressures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Everyone knows that mentoring relationships are one important avenue for professional learning. Young people are taught to seek out senior executives in their organization, function, industry, or geographical location who can help them learn the ropes, share knowledge, teach new skills, broaden their network and, in some cases, fast track their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

“Business model” and “strategy” are among the most sloppily used terms in business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 gigawatts of renewable capacity last year alone (a good chunk of all the capacity added*). These leaders, mostly consumer-facing brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, and IKEA, have been covering their roofs and filling giant fields with solar panels and wind turbines. To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

After a heated political campaign, voters in the United Kingdom decided by a slim margin, on June 23, to exit the European Union, leading to a change in government. Now that a new prime minister has taken over, the next big question looms: How will the UK and EU negotiate their split? I have spent almost 20 years researching, teaching, writing about, and advising companies and governments on how to negotiate when things seem impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

When people talk about work-family conflict, the mental image we see is often one of a harried mom or dad trying to get to day-care pickup on time, or a professional couple arguing about whose travel schedule should take priority. But in my role as a consultant and teacher, I often hear about another kind of work-family conflict: the tension emanating from parental needs or expectations that are incongruent with their children’s own values and plans.

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