Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 21, 2013

'The talent you count on as central to your brand could rub people the wrong way. What you do well, may not do you well. After two decades participating in talent reviews, I’ve noticed a pattern. The talents candidates count on as central to their brand, are often talked about negatively when assessing their readiness [.] The post Talent Reviews: What They’re Saying Behind Closed Doors appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2013

'Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Imagine Their Surprise “The whole department has quietly agreed never to mark anything but good scores on the damn thing!” I was talking with Joan, an employee of a large medical service provider and this…this was her ultimate response to the last round of employee surveys designed to improve morale and motivation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 21, 2013

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. There is little in Donald Rumsfeld newest book, Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life , that anyone in leadership would dispute. The book is an outgrowth of management and leadership aphorisms that Rumsfeld wrote and put on 3×5 notecards. Now gathered in book form, Rumsfeld’s Rules explores how to serve an organization and how to lead it.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2013

'Posted in Light Your World [link] Isn’t it amazing how we complain about our federal government’s lack of guts to do anything about the entitlements and yet we do nothing about it in our own organizations. Have you looked at your own organization lately? I’ve looked at a bunch of them – and the sense of entitlement, the ‘right’ to not [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 21, 2013

'If there’s one ailment most of us can agree on that’s found in today’s workplaces it’s a lack of engagement between employees and their work. Specifically, a lack of connection between what we do and what matters to us – both professionally and personally. Now, thanks to the recent study “Philips Work/Life Survey” conducted by Philips North America , we have additional insights into why organizations and their leaders need to address the issue of creating meaningful work

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2013

'Interested in a career in leadership development? There are a lot of ways you can make a decent living and have some fun developing leaders. Here are 25 that come to mind, in no particular order: 1. Mid-level or Senior Manager : m anagers developing the managers below them. 2. Leadership Trainer or Training Manager : c onducting or managing leadership and management training programs. 3.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 21, 2013

'Image source Top tier leaders develop their leadership; bottom tier leaders don’t. Lousy leaders don’t develop their leadership. Those who need it most – want it least. Those who need it least – want it most. Simple test: Ask yourself, “What am I doing to develop my leadership?” Lousy leaders don’t have an answer. Number […].

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 21, 2013

'One of the most difficult skills for a teammate or leader to learn is how to give people on your team advice that gets results instead of resentment. Like you, over the years I shared countless nuggets of wisdom that would have helped my players or teammates, but it often went unheeded – and unappreciated. The problem was not the ideas, but how I shared them.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 21, 2013

'It’s no secret; reply-all is one of the most infamous and often detested e-mail developments to come out of the computer age. It has triggered embarrassment, confusion, annoyance, and now for one company, a lawsuit. When I read this story I couldn’t help but think, are we not learning anything? Reply all’s day in court is long overdue. Especially since its trail of infamy has been inked (or typed) across headlines for years.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 21, 2013

'In reference to the problem your team / you are looking to solve; On a scale of 0 – 10 with 0 being you have some idea what to do; and 10 being you know exactly what to do – where are you on this scale? How do you know? When your team and you are stuck a stimulus will get you moving again! What do you think? Share your responses and practice being Solution-Focused. michael cardus is create-learning.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2013

'The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan Bibliomotion (2013) A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values If you were to ask ten different people to define the word “diversity,” you would probably get 7-10 different […].

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 21, 2013

'Among the many useful insights I took away from Gavin de Becker’s masterful book The Gift of Fear , one of the most profound was a deeper appreciation for the distinction between worry and fear. Until reading the final chapter, I had not pondered the difference. But the author not only defines them clearly, he points out why one is harmful and the other can be life-saving.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 21, 2013

'If you''ve flown Southwest Airlines you know they''re tops in airline customer service, driven by a leadership style that creates a company-wide culture where all employees own that culture. According to SWA Chairman, President and CEO Gary Kelly, as reported in the company''s in-flight magazine, "every company has a culture, whether that culture is supportive or stifling, active or passive, fun or discouraging.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 21, 2013

'Someone asked me recently if I had anything to tell coaches—executive coaches, business coaches, life coaches, athletic coaches, managers, and parents—anyone whose role it is to help others perform better. I''ve been studying the neuroscience related to learning and behavior change for 25 years, and I''ve learned a number of crucial insights that, in my experience, are not common knowledge among coaches.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2013

'Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee HarperSanFrancisco (1999) How and why, “if we have the individual will, we can collectively make of our world what we want.” I read this book when it was first published (in 1999) because I was curious to learn more […].

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Management Excellence

MAY 21, 2013

'It’s not easy to move from a self-focused professional to someone who suddenly is measured by the success and growth of his or her team members.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 21, 2013

'(I borrowed this picture from the Salvation Army website. Since I mentioned them below I hope they won’t mind.). Yet another tragedy. There are no words to describe the scenes we are seeing from the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma. No words. So don’t say anything. Just pray. Please, don’t try to provide answers when people ask why. Don’t pretend you know why.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2013

'Performance measurement systems monitor the behaviors and results of the organization’s workgroups and, in some cases, individuals; providing periodic reinforcement of the achievement of desired outcomes. This reinforcement can only occur when an individual understands his/her role as associated with a metric and receives and understands the associated performance information.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 21, 2013

'Bigger, Bolder, Better : In the expanded magazine read new columns on Fashion, Dining and Technology.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 21, 2013

'If you haven’t heard, Google Reader is going away. Quickly. It was announced a couple months ago, but it ends July 1, 2013. I was bummed, because I use Google Reader to follow most of the blogs I follow. Many people follow this blog through Google Reader. What to do? Well, short answer…it’s easy. Case solved. Sign up to have this blog emailed.

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Rapid BI

MAY 21, 2013

'The book – Leadership and Art of Struggle By Steven Snyder is an interesting and unexpected engaging read. For many leadership books “tout” perfect ways of doing things, they suggest that stress and conflict is only for the weak. Snyder takes a more pragmatic approach to explaining some of the tensions and how to navigate them. [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. In the search for blame, many commentators point to the absence of building codes, lack of workplace safety rules, and the greed of US corporations. Many of the solutions proposed are around paying people more to manufacture in the USA.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'As screens get increasingly getting cheaper and more ubiquitous, are we going to keep counting them? Not too long ago, I was asked to give a presentation on the state of digital media and how well brands are intersecting the worlds of marketing and technology. Prior to my closing keynote, there was a panel discussion about the state of media. One senior media executive was discussing the power of "a four screen world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'Tim Cook performed brilliantly in front of Congress today. He was authoritative, in breathtaking command of his facts, as he always is, and brought a unique perspective to each response. Senator Levin was out for blood, but "No one laid a glove on him," as Phillip Emer DeWitt wrote for Fortune. He put his questioners to shame. His response to the question of whether Apple was violating basic rules of fairness was brilliant: "I am a fair person.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'Most measures of creativity are based on the work of psychologist Joy Paul Guilford (1897-1987), who defined creativity as the ability to think differently along a number of clearly defined dimensions. Building on Guilford''s work, psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance (1915-2003), probably the international leader in creativity research, developed the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), which are used in the business world and in education to assess individuals'' capacities for creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'In an impressively short time, Kickstarter has quickly become the go-to high-impact mashup of crowdsourcing sensibility and entrepreneurial endeavor. If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

'Freek Vermeulen , associate professor at London Business School, explains how the newspapers improved sales by debunking an industry myth.

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