Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton I was noticing how many drivers seem to be in a hurry, and I realized that some people are rushing so quickly that they don't stop to consider their impact on others (on the road or elsewhere). They just want to get wherever they're going as quickly as possible. Some (who aspire to be) leaders act this way, too. While their purpose should be to enable the success of those they lead, they stop their circle of purpose at themselves and don't let concern for anyone else's w

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Self-importance blocks leadership. The difference between self-importance and knowing you matter is ego. Humble leaders know that others make their leadership. Humility enables confidence. Self-importance reflects ego.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

About six years ago when I started my post-doc programme at Harvard Business School and contacted several top executive search firms, the majority of them told me that social media does not affect their work at all. I was surprised and a little bit dissappointed, because my goal was to study how online networking platforms influence talent search activities.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Self-importance blocks leadership. The difference between self-importance and knowing you matter is ego. Humble leaders know that others make their leadership. Humility enables confidence. Self-importance reflects ego.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

We are pleased to have Leaders Made Here as our Lead Change Group sponsor for February 2017! Leaders Made Here: Blake’s Story. This month, Mark will be releasing his latest book, Leaders Made Here. This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. As Mark explains in the book, every organization dreams of having enough leaders.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. Pacing for Growth : Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-term Success by Alison Eyring. Stretch : Unlock the Power of Less - and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined by Scott Sonenshein. Extreme Teams : Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail by Robert Bruce Shaw.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven. That’s the number of “friends” Facebook tells me that I have. On one hand, it brings joy to my heart. There are 1,837 people that are connected to me on Facebook. The other hand feels sadness. A longing for intimate relationships that I don’t get from Facebook. Do you have these conflicting thoughts too?

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CoachStation

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

At the risk of over simplifying a very complex topic, the customer service experience we deliver is often only the service we expect ourselves. But, when providing a service in the moment it is easy to forget our own expectations. I have recently had several discussions with friends and family regarding the service experiences received from various companies.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

According to Wally Bock, “If you are responsible for the performance of a group, then you’re a boss.” Do you have direct reports? If so, you are a boss, and you have some unique challenges and responsibilities because your own performance is evaluated based on the performance of your team. Wally has spent more than three decades […].

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Face-to-Face conversations , emails, texts, phone calls, presentations…we are constantly communicating with each other in our business and personal lives. And with each communication, we make an impression. So how can we be more inclined to make a positive one? Well, it’s all a matter of CHOICE. Or rather, the six steps that this word represents! While you may not consider these steps on every communication you do, for those times when it really matters to make a positive impression, and especia

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

2017 is likely to be a year unlike any we've ever experienced. America has never been more divided, and many people are feeling alienated and anxious. Now, more than ever, it's critical to do what we can to build our capacity to be resilient. This means having the vision that enables us to see the beauty and compassion that's unfolding around us so we don't lose hope, while also staying grounded so we're ready to take the actions necessary to manage whatever comes our way.

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jesper (actual name of the consultant) tried for ages to land a project with Astra Zeneca (actual name of client; a.k.a. AZ). His firm had a history of work with AZ, particularly in North America; however, they had never been able to win an consulting engagement in Europe (actual names of continents).

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Furthermore, Greenwell shares that at the current rate of change, most readers of her book this year will be dead before gender balance hits fifty percent.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The People on Your Team I prefer to be a macro-manager. I like to lead leaders. This means I try to cast the vision for a team and get out of the way, releasing each team member to do his or her work in their own individual way. There are times, however, where more micro-management may be needed by senior leadership. More coaching, encouraging or correction may be needed for a season.

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Management

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. Part of the problem is that “diversity” and “inclusion” are so often lumped together that they’re assumed to be the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

“What do you think is the best way to deal with my father? What can I do to convince him that there are better ways of running the business? I have been trying to get him to accept my ideas, but he is a poor listener. I really do wonder how much he values my opinion. What grates on me is that he refuses to accept that the world is very different from the time when he started the business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Always. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. Today GE has once again reinvented itself, as “the digital industrial company” — not bad for an organization founded in 1892. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In the aftermath of the UK’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., globalization is seen as a political hot potato rather than a hot ticket to prosperity. This populist backlash reminds us that the rewards of globalization are not evenly distributed, and as a result there has been some questioning of the idea that borders should be open to trade — as well as concerns about what might happen instead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

President Trump’s action to deliver on his campaign promises has been swift. On the campaign trail he talked about the importance of creating jobs, reforming the corporate tax code, and improving national security. All of these issues are legitimate concerns of the American people and deserve to be the topic of serious policy debate. And now that he’s in office, Trump has every right to deliver on those promises.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The success of business and the success of the United States depend on each other, says former U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers, and they both rely on “global openness, absence of prejudice, and fact-based decision making.” Summers, who also served as Director of the National Economic Council under President Obama, has criticized some of President Trump’s protectionist policy positions and early executive orders, saying they will undermine the country’s economy and l

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