Lead Change Blog
JUNE 26, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Sales managers are some of the most critical leaders at a company. A high performing sales team needs great managers not only to cultivate other great sales leaders within the company, but to also help create successful strategies for the business and push the sales team to perform at its best. Without great sales [.].
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 26, 2013
'Big goals. Frustrating roadblocks. Concerns grow into excuses. Venting fuels negativity. Weak leaders excuse excuses. Strong leaders reframe thinking. Growing leaders inspire possibility. A Few of My Favorites “We would sell more, if the product line were different” “Our attrition would be better, if our competitor wasn’t paying more” “My quality results would be higher, [.
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N2Growth Blog
JUNE 26, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Judgment, writes Schumpeter, the business columnist for The Economist, “is too often missing from leadership studies.” The reason is that it is a topic too hard to quantify with metrics but as the Schumpeter column notes, “[J]udgment is what matters most.” Judgment serves as a kind of equilibrium device that prevents us from getting too carried away with our ideas or ourselves.
Leading Blog
JUNE 26, 2013
'Leaders don''t always finish well or finish what they start. Leadership sustainability isn''t easy. Given the fact that we all know leaders that haven''t finished well, it''s surprising how many of us have no plan in place to consciously and specifically improve our leadership abilities. Most of the time we wing it. Leadership sustainability is about the commitment to change and growth that is consistent with shifting requirements, not just individually but for the organization as a whole.
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Lead Change Blog
JUNE 26, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development [link] Sociologists of the future will likely look back at the period we are living through right now, labeling it as a time of profound change in the way humans communicate. Each year, new methods, modes, and media are introduced… morphing the way information gets shared. Lines among formerly distinct forms of communication are now blurred, [.].
Leading in Context
JUNE 26, 2013
'By Linda Fisher Thornton When we think about ethical leadership as a performance system, we get a higher level view of what it takes to develop ethical leaders. This graphic shows what an integrated ethical leadership performance management system might look like.
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Women on Business
JUNE 26, 2013
'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].
Leadership Freak
JUNE 26, 2013
'We sit at the feet of successful leaders like children being cared for by parents. Our childishness speaks to lack of power, fear of failure, and the false hope that someone will take care of us. Adoration and need for nurture speak to lack, not sufficiency, when leaders are viewed as parents. Leader as parent: […].
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 26, 2013
'Last week, I gave you a metaphor to consider – the idea that we romance Clients or Customers to get them (like a first few dates), but after they are Clients, we tend to focus less attention on them (like 10 years after the wedding). If you want to avoid this tendency, both personally and [.].
Engaging Leader
JUNE 26, 2013
'Not convinced that, as a leader, you should be influencing people? Still bothered by the word “influence”? Frankly, so am I. So many people throughout history have misused their influence that it’s hard not to equate “influence” with “manipulating other people to think or do what you want rather than what they want.” Yes, a […].
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leaderCommunicator
JUNE 26, 2013
'Next week is the Fourth of July and like many of you, I’ll be heading on vacation. While I’m out I’ll be powering down from email, leaving my laptop at home and enjoying dedicated, uninterrupted time with my family. So as we think about how to make the most of our time out of the office to recharge, I thought I’d share my top six tips to ensure a week free of workplace interruptions : Set an example.
LDRLB
JUNE 26, 2013
'The newest issue of our sister publication, Strategic Leadership Review , was just released. SLR is a scholarly journal that aims to help practitioners lead smarter through research and conceptual papers. One of the articles, “ Leading Innovation: Organizational Structure Insights for Novices ” features some great advice for enhancing innovation.
Mike Cardus
JUNE 26, 2013
'Photo Credit. My solution will not work for you. I found myself in two uncomfortable positions: 1. Having great success with a management team and asking Where do we go from here? ; 2. Being stuck and saying I don’t know what to do, where do we go from here? to another management team. Both uncomfortable. Both require effort. Struggling and searching for what I thought was the solution to their problems.
CO2
JUNE 26, 2013
'by Calvin Guyer Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. The authors of Tribal Leadership tell us that 49% of American professionals operate at Stage Three: “I am Great (and you are not),” which is akin to “I Win and I hope that you win too” (Level Three of Energy Leadership).
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Deep Imprints
JUNE 26, 2013
'Lately I’ve been pulling together observations about how people connect with God. Here are some random thoughts – please take a moment to read, think and respond. Layer 1: People’s Love Languages seem to be connected to how they feel love from God. Layer 2: The way people receive information (audio, visual, kinesthetic) seems to.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 26, 2013
'I presented Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant at the June 5 First Friday Book Synopsis. The point of the book is clear – the more you give, the more you do not approach your life, or your career, as a “Taker” — the better it is, for you, and […].
Strategy Driven
JUNE 26, 2013
'From Workbook to Workplace: Smart Strategies for Sustained Learning Success. by AchieveGlobal. Designing and delivering an effective learning solution isn’t enough to guarantee results. Driven by a goal to help clients increase the ROI of training programs , AchieveGlobal set out to identify an improved approach to learning that organizations should adopt for maximum impact on business results.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 26, 2013
'Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured online by National Public Radio. To read the complete article, listen to a recording by WHYY, and check other NPR resources, please click here. Photo credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images * * * As New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano on The Sopranos, which ran on HBO […].
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Ron Edmondson
JUNE 26, 2013
'I recently wrote 7 Ways a Leader Has a Better Weekend. Read that post before you read this one. The most repeated response I received to that post, however, was “Where is the one for pastors?” or “Can you write one for pastors?” Actually, I thought I was writing for pastors too, but obviously I need to add a little clarity. So, here goes.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 26, 2013
'Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Once upon a time, about 3,000 years ago… According to Homer’s account in The Odyssey, before departing with his troops from his kingdom in Ithaca for Troy, Odysseus retained Mentor to supervise the education of his son Telemachus, heir […].
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
'Prepared-food products that require a few preparatory steps appeal to customers who want to feel as though they''re actually cooking dinner, rather than just opening a package, says the Wall Street Journal. One group of women studied by Kraft Foods Group made it clear they wanted to spend at least 15 to 30 minutes peeling or chopping, "to have it count," says Risa Schwartz, the food company''s associate director of consumer insights and strategy.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
'In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. Among other devastating results, the classified ad went the way of the dodo (and with it much of the revenue that subsidized printed newspapers). Now we''re in the midst of the next generation of such services, which make it possible for individuals not just to dispose of used assets but to rent, lease, or loan their belongings to o
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
'"You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something that they can''t have or do," wrote Nicholas Carr ten years ago in his controversial HBR article, " IT Doesn''t Matter.". Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a s
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
'Cyber attacks, once primarily directed against networks to steal confidential information and wreak virtual havoc, have begun to expand and are now directly affecting the physical world. For example, the recent hacking of the Associated Press''s Twitter account by the Syrian Electronic Army and subsequent tweet about an explosion at the White House caused the U.S. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
'Yesterday, President Barack Obama gave what Al Gore called the "best presidential address on climate change ever." It''s true: the actions President Obama outlined will likely reduce our contribution to climate change, possibly by quite a lot. And while the plan will have large impacts on business, it''s not a big enough vision to meet the scale of our climate challenge.
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