Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 24, 2013
'I’m often asked which colleges are the best for “leadership.” The short answer is “most will do just fine.” As with most of life, it’s what you make of it. College is a great place to grow as a leader. Much of your leadership learning will come from peripheral aspects of the college experience. Being [.] The post 9 Ways to Maximize Your College Leadership Experience appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 24, 2013
'Posted in Light Your World Self Leadership Thought: Everyone makes mistakes or acts selfishly occasionally, yet by and large, you can trust someone you view as dependable – and that includes you. Thought: Your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. Impeccability of the word only creates beauty, love, and heaven on earth.
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Women on Business
MAY 24, 2013
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Lead Change Blog
MAY 24, 2013
'Posted in Workplace Issues [link] (This is the fourth in a 12-part series on the origins of Lean in the U.S. and my role as one of its pioneers.) By 1984 Omark was gaining wide recognition as one of the best companies in America. The company was featured in what I believe was the first book written in the U.S. [.].
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Women on Business
MAY 24, 2013
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Leadership Freak
MAY 24, 2013
'Your brain knows gibberish when it hears it. You can’t fool yourself. “I think I can,” sounds like a lie to someone who believes they can’t. Pretending you can doesn’t help, but pretending does. Expand skills and develop behaviors by pretending. Example: Fred’s performance stalled. It’s time for a tough conversation that you dread. Worse yet, tough conversations often […].
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Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 24, 2013
'I saw this quotation this morning and it stopped me in my tracks. It is so true – I have seen it in myself, my team, and others over and over. Read these two words, ask the questions, and take action – in other words, take the advice of the quotation itself. “Nourish beginnings.” - [.].
CO2
MAY 24, 2013
'by Gary Cohen. A dear friend of mine came over a few months ago for a glass of wine and asked me, “What’s the half-life of a strategic plan ?” She’d just completed one with her team. Everyone voted to implement it immediately, and yet one executive began to stray from it within a couple of days! “Half-life” brought me back to physics class and studying the periodic table.
Coaching Tip
MAY 24, 2013
'"I believe that everything you need to be a great leader is already inside. It''s in your DNA," says Robert S. Murray, author of the new book " It''s Already Inside." "I also believe that the leadership talent, which is innate within us , needs nurturing and practice to bring it out ," he continues. The world''s greatest organizations--the ones that have happy employees , satisfied customers and a growing bottom line-- all share a common trait.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 24, 2013
'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.
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Mike Cardus
MAY 24, 2013
'Consulting and coaching a marketing team of young, competent, successful, fun people I kept wondering why they told me how much their meetings suck. In the 1 on 1 coaching meetings and even as I saw them interact with each other, there was energy, enthusiasm and discussions…. Image Credit. Until I attended their meeting. It had all the necessary components needed for a good meeting : Competent Manager.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 24, 2013
'During its first 100 years of existence, more than 683,000 Americans lost their lives, with the Civil War accounting for 623,026 of that total (91.2%). Comparatively, in the next 100 years, another estimated 625,000 Americans died through two World Wars and several more regional conflicts (World War 2 representing 65% of that total). Using this […].
Your Voice of Encouragement
MAY 24, 2013
'Recently I was reminded once again how hard it is to change the way we think and the way we act, specifically when it comes to giving up a bad habit and adopting a good one. My husband Lee and I were at the Outer Banks of North Carolina with a group of enthusiastic bird watchers, and one morning we were having breakfast with another couple. The topic of food came up.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 24, 2013
'high touch: Dealing with a human being instead of a computer screen or voice response system. The term was coined in the early 1980s by John Naisbitt in his best-selling book “Megatrends.” Naisbitt pointed out the fallacy of automating every business transaction without human interaction at some point. There is no substitute for “the personal […].
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Six Disciplines
MAY 24, 2013
'On the National Baldrige Performance Excellence website, there''s a great article entitled " Why Take The Baldrige Journey? ". Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to effectively and efficiently meet their missions and achieve their visions. Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance, and get sustainable results.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 24, 2013
'McKinsey & Company has just launched a new series of video interview programs with high-tech experts. In the first, Eric Schmidt explores the technologies likely to have the greatest disruptive impact on economies, business models, and people. Later this month the McKinsey Global Institute will publish an assessment of the probable economic impact of disruptive […].
Ron Edmondson
MAY 24, 2013
'I might have discovered a secret to the success of Jesus’ disciples. And therefore my own ministry. I never caught it until recently. Read these verses and see if you see what I saw: They were to wear sandals, but not put on an extra shirt. So they went out and preached that people should repent. (Mark 6:9, 12 ). Remember what happened? And they were driving out many demons,anointing many sick people with olive oil, and healing them.
Rajesh Setty
MAY 24, 2013
'Let me first make a case for not cutting your hand by a knife? You should just prick your hand with a needle. It is less painful and you will probably bleed less. Does the above make sense? Probably not. Now, how about making such a case for Google Glass? Watch this video where Sergey Brin makes a case starting at 2:45. [ Note: I respect Sergey Brin for all the awesome work so these comments are only based on a particular storytelling incident ].
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Even before I released the disc, I knew it was a long shot. And, unfortunately, it was a clumsy one too. We were playing Ultimate Frisbee, a game similar to U.S. football, and we were tied 14-14 with a time cap. The next point would win the game. I watched the disc fly over the heads of both teams. Everyone but me ran down the field. I cringed, helplessly, as the disc wobbled and listed left.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Digital marketing is evolving as fast as any other medium on our tablets, smartphones, Google Glass and beyond. To learn about what the future may bring to this marketing genre, we reached out to Gerd Leonhard , an author, strategic advisor, CEO of TheFuturesAgency, and someone whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the leading media-futurists in the world.".
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Community is the heart of university. Students mix with other similarly aged people in an environment ripe with social activity, friendship, ideation, and discussion. It''s the most powerful element of college or graduate school — and also the most jarring to leave behind. Social isolation often follows graduation. I know firsthand. After college, I moved to Washington, D.C., and ended up living in the suburbs near work for a year, struggling to connect with others in a new city where few
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley explains why strategy has to be more than an aspiration. For more, see Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works , by A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin, or, from the HBR archive, his 2009 article, What Only the CEO Can Do.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'In the name of science, 2,500 people have participated in Harvard''s Personal Genome Project, anonymously sharing DNA data along with such information as histories of depression and sexually transmitted disease. But Harvard Privacy Lab director Latanya Sweeney demonstrates what "anonymous" really means. Of 579 participants who listed their birth dates, ZIP codes, and genders, her team was able to identify 42% by name using public records.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development, too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power. In order to engage in a conversation about leadership, you have to assume you have no power — that you aren''t "in charge" of anything and that you can''t sanction those who are unw
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Cool ideas for new businesses are a dime a dozen. That — plus all the new tech enablers such as instant websites and e-commerce platforms — makes it deceptively easy to start up a new venture. The bigger challenge is to start up a big venture that just happens to be small at first. Fortunately, real entrepreneurs are growth-obsessed: they cringe when you call them "small.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'In my research, I use eye-tracking technology, facial-expression analysis, and lab experiments to better understand why people choose to view online videos, what narrative techniques keep them watching, and what features prompt them to share videos with friends. Since writing about this work in HBR last year , I''ve received a steady stream of requests from companies asking: How can we put that research to use?
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'With former CEO A.G. Lafley returning to the helm of Procter & Gamble, I asked Rosabeth Moss Kanter for her analysis. She holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is a regular contributor to HBR and HBR.org.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'A.G Lafley is back as the CEO of P&G (nothing like the day before an American holiday weekend to announce a leadership change at a major company). There''s a lot we don''t know about this evolving story, but we wanted to give you a few insights. In Bloomberg Businessweek , Justin Bachman points out that one investor in particular has been increasingly irritated by the company''s performance relative to its earning abilities.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2013
'Good corporate governance is about many things — boards that act independently, robust shareholder rights, accurate accounting, reasonable and fair executive compensation, and so on. No single parameter defines good governance. It takes a village. But with board independence in the spotlight recently, it''s easy to overlook another aspect of good board health that''s just as important to performance: diversity.
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