Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Darth Vader wasn’t always a mysterious meanie, the Grinch’s heart didn’t start out two sizes too small, and as legend has it, Mr. Scrooge was once a charming and likable fellow. Chances are that jerk in your office didn’t start out as a horse’s behind either. So why do so many managers move to the dark side–putting their Winning Well common sense aside and becoming a destructive force for their teams?
General Leadership
DECEMBER 16, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm’s way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.
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Leading in Context
DECEMBER 16, 2015
By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is the second in a series of 50 Ways to Lead For Trust. Part 1 included the first 15.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2015
While I was still a computer science student at the University of British Columbia, I joined a young software startup called Robelle, named for the two founders Robert and Annabelle. I was the first employee. As a requirement of my employment Bob and Annabelle insisted that I had to write my first technical paper, submit it to the 1980 International Hewlett-Packard General Systems User Group, and if accepted travel to the conference to present my paper.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2015
The traditional approach to strategic planning might be obsolete in this fast-paced, unpredictable world. But it does not mean that planning is useless. Creating a dynamic strategic plan will enable you to respond quickly and to be creatively proactive. The problem with the traditional planning approach is – it doesn’t work. Recent research shows 60-80% of firms fail to execute their strategies, and fewer than 5% of employees are aware of, or understand their firms’ strategies.
ReImagine Work
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. – Martin Luther King Jr. What if you became a “thank you” machine? I ran across this fantastic campaign by TD Bank (they are not paying me to write this) where they made certain ATM machines, “thank you” machines.
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Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 16, 2015
People problems are the biggest challenge of leadership. Low performance and lost potential drive you crazy. The challenge and the answer is people. A stable of plow horses: Success begins with the horses.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 16, 2015
In one word, Connect. In four better words: Connect with the connectors. The fact is that small talk – the kind that happens between two people who don’t know each other – is the most important talk we do… The one trait that was common among the class’s most accomplished graduates was “verbal fluency” (from… Read More Have More Conversations; You Need More Conversations – (A reflection after attending Success North Dallas).
Coaching Tip
DECEMBER 16, 2015
President Obama issued an executive order today which the White House said will help to strengthen the Senior Executive Service (SES ). . The executive order, titled Strengthening the Senior Executive Service (included below), claims that it “continues to support executive departments and agencies to develop and implement a comprehensive, integrated, and strategic focus on diversity and inclusion as a key component of the recruitment, hiring, retention, and development of their SES cadre.”.
leaderCommunicator
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Like many of you, I’m starting to prepare for holiday break (away from work!), with my family. However, unlike many people , I’ll be disconnecting from work email during that time. By now you may be familiar with my thoughts on checking email during vacation and even my Email-Free Vacation Pledge. But have you made the commitment to yourself yet?
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Michael J. Silverstein is a leader of The Boston Consulting Group’s global consumer practice. He specializes in helping the senior team at large multinationals transform their companies through superior consumer insight, accelerated organic growth, and M&A. His clients include some of the world’s largest and most prominent consumer goods companies and retailers.
David A Fields
DECEMBER 16, 2015
At last count, there are 2,398 programs, vehicles and channels for you to market your consulting firm. Approximately. You can buy yourself some SEO tactics, media packages, space on a speaker platform or the perfect webinar system. Myriad spending choices all devoted to solving your biggest problem: You’re not in front of enough buyers. You need more visibility!
Change Starts Here
DECEMBER 16, 2015
This month’s guest, Marnie Green, is Principal Consultant at Management Education Group, Inc. and author of both Painless Performance Evaluations and Painless Performance Conversations. Listen in as she shares examples of organizations who have seen shifts in culture as a result of a new performance management process and supporting technology.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Need a performance breakthrough but don’t want to pay a high-cost consulting firm to evaluate your organization’s performance? Want a solution that can be used over and over again across your entire company? StrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program , an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Ron Edmondson
DECEMBER 16, 2015
I get asked frequently how I am able to get so much done and still take care of myself and my family. I pastor a large church. I maintain a separate non-profit ministry, where I speak at various conferences and events. I have an active online presence. I mentor about a dozen pastors – some in groups and some as individuals, plus I mentor 4 young leaders in our church.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Imagine the colleague with whom you have a very challenging relationship, the person who makes the most innocuous conversation tense and uncomfortable. Regardless of the topic, this person opposes you and approaches things as an adversary rather than an ally. Once you can visualize that person vividly and even viscerally, imagine the following scenario: You’re sitting at your desk working away when a message from that person pops up on your screen.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 16, 2015
What makes a great leader? While there is no cookie-cutter answer, there are certain characteristics that great leaders commonly exhibit. Not only do you need to be technically qualified, but you must be able to manage time, energy and staff efficiently. A great leader harnesses mind, body and soul, because leadership isn’t what you do, it’s who you are.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Andrew Nguyen/HBR Staff. In our contemporary offices and always-busy lives, alone time can be difficult to come by. But successful creative thinkers share a need for solitude. They make a practice of turning away from the distractions of daily life to give their minds space to reflect, make new connections, and find meaning. Great thinkers and leaders throughout history — from Virginia Woolf to Marcel Proust to Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak — have lauded the importance of having a me
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
For all the hard work to improve coordination and collaboration in health care, most hospitals are still organized into silos based on clinical specialties — and communication among them is uneven at best. Teams may function fairly well within silos, but coordination across them is often poor, which has potentially serious consequences for patients.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
The billion-dollar OpenAI initiative announced last week by Elon Musk and company recalls DARPA’s Grand Challenge, the X-Prize, and MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop Per Child initiative – innovative institutional mechanisms explicitly designed to attract top talent and worldwide attention to worthy problems. They can work well, and my bet is that the OpenAI will goad a similar competitive response — smart companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Baidu, and Alibaba wil
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Millennials now outnumber Gen Xers in the American workplace. According to data from Pew Research , they constitute more than one-third of all U.S. employees, and by 2025 they will make up 44% of the national workforce. Facebook holds the distinction of being the first Fortune 500 company to be founded and led by a Millennial, and we pride ourselves on having built a workplace that is designed by and for this generation.
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