General Leadership
MAY 20, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ No act of kindness , no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop. In this world of high technology, it’s important to give employees and customers what they want: High Touch! It’s all very simple.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 20, 2015
As someone who takes leadership and coaching seriously, I have been reading up on goal-setting, aspirations, and all that change stuff … As a coach, I help others identify, clarify, plan for, and achieve goals. Throughout my careers, goals have always been important elements of my work. However, as an employee and manager, I was usually responsible for meeting someone else’s goals.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
MAY 20, 2015
Creating a shared vision is one of the most important roles of a leader. But vision alone is not enough. Vision requires action. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese proverb. First: Do a “Vision Check” to make sure you really have a shared vision. ➤ Does your vision include all three keys to a compelling vision?
Women on Business
MAY 20, 2015
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Leading in Context
MAY 20, 2015
By Linda Fisher Thornton Have you heard the expression "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?" Eating healthy foods, exercising and getting enough sleep will help us prevent health problems. In the quest for good health, preventive habits make all the difference. It is generally easier for us to establish healthy habits than to resolve persistent problems once they start.
Leadership Freak
MAY 20, 2015
You don’t need position when people respect you. Respect amplifies leadership. Leaders who aren’t respected, depend on position, power, authority, and control.
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Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 20, 2015
Woo hoo, post # 1000! 1000 posts and 8 years are big numbers, especially in blogging, where the average blog life expectancy is about the same as a flea. I guess that makes me either persistent or stubborn. In any case, it seems like a good time to pause and reflect: First post: Welcome to Great Leadership! , published on 10/28/2007. This was actually my second attempt at a blog.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 20, 2015
I was recently invited to contribute to a fascinating project on the “meaning of life.” It features interviews with CEOs, writers, researchers, musicians, artists and community leaders on the broad but tantalizing question of where each of us finds meaning in life. I gladly participated in the discussion, and you can find my thoughts later in this post.
David A Fields
MAY 20, 2015
Should you always try to reach the CEO? Will building relationships with managers win you business? The 1.5-minute video below shows you the three criteria that determine your target. (Plus there’s a worksheet you can download using the button below the video.) Was this helpful? Share your thoughts by posting below. Text and images are © 2015 David A.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 20, 2015
In his own words… I’m an entrepreneur who writes. I’ve written three books. The End of Nice: How to be human in a world run by robots: This is a manifesto for human creativity in the age of machines, big data and automation. I wrote Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in […].
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Steve Farber
MAY 20, 2015
Vision from the heart is an expression of love; it’s not just more engaging and energizing–it’s energy itself. Most leaders in business underestimate the power of their own hearts. You have no idea how much energy you can unleash in yourself and those around you if you just cut through the banal, bureaucratic, buzzword-laden language and simply tell people why you love your business and communicate your authentic, heart-felt aspirations for yourself, your team, your customers,
Eric Jacobson
MAY 20, 2015
Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better. Look for new ways of reinventing the workflow in light of your company's changing needs.
Curious Cat
MAY 20, 2015
The difference between Toyota and so many other companies is obvious in many ways. One of the stark differences is how executives are paid. Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. How the executives pay themselves illustrates this very well. Even with a proposed 19% pay boost the top 21 executives at Toyota would get a combined US$14.9 million in the proposal for this year.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 20, 2015
This is a guest post by my son Nate : My name is Nate, and I’m a millennial. That means I must love liturgy, hate big production in church, want to ask really hard questions about faith all the time, go do organized “social justice” every Saturday, am nowhere near shallow enough (or I’m just far too clever) to attend a church with a hashtag campaign, want a pastor who preaches messages that are “on point” and filled with “authentic, hard truth”, think that the majority of Christians I grew up wi
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Rapid BI
MAY 20, 2015
For a long time professions such as Human Resources and Marketing have aimed to be strategic players. Often some functions are sub contracted, with the “strategic stuff” retained in house. Is this sustainable? What might be operational one day is strategic the next! IT is a great example of this. Can everything be outsourced? How do we know […].
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 20, 2015
I’ve spent many years in a “trust but verify” culture.” What this meant was that I, and every executive above me, were expected to constantly show up in the retail stores to experience what was happening as the customers would. Is there a bird’s nest over the front entrance risking bird poop falling on a customer’s head? Are customers being serviced in a timely way?
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
In this adaptation from his new book, the CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, shares advice for how to build credibility in an organization — especially if you are new to it, have a different background than others on your team, or are not in a position of authority. How would you be perceived in your organization’s meritocracy? Ask yourself if you command respect because people have to respect you or, rather, because you’ve truly earned respect.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
We’ve all heard the axiom that to persuade others effectively, we have to win both the hearts and minds of our audience. For people who are naturally persuasive (or overwhelmingly charismatic) this comes naturally. The rest of us have to cultivate the ability to persuade others. All too often winning hearts and minds feels like a paradox. Why?
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
In both our social and professional interactions, we commonly focus on managing the impressions that others form of us, especially when these others do not know us well. In fact, when we first approach these situations and stakes are high (such as during a job interview, a meeting with a new client, or an important first date), we often receive the same advice from colleagues, mentors, and friends: try to make a good impression.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
For many executives, a corporate board seat is a coveted opportunity. But any invitation to take one should not be considered lightly. While the business world is overflowing with advice for companies in selecting board members, prospective directors themselves have little guidance in determining whether accepting a board seat is the right move for them.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
Knowing where to draw the line between an employee and its workplace is becoming increasingly difficult. Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
In our ongoing preoccupation with digital overload , nothing comes in for more hatred than email. Colleagues compare email triage strategies with the fervor they once reserved for their local sports franchise, and an entire industry has sprung up to tackle email pain by offering solutions at both the personal and organizational level. But no one solution is likely to cure your email woes, because email angst isn’t just one problem: it’s several.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2015
At the end of April, the Silicon Valley startup Secret opted to return a bunch of venture capitalists’ money and shut down. Secret had created an app that allowed its users to share anonymous thoughts. They raised more than $35 million and were covered by every major tech publication, as well as some mainstream outlets. Although Secret did its best to close quietly, the controversial company was bound to attract postmortems, including an op-ed in the New York Times that blamed “cyber
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