Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 13, 2015
Presenting to senior leaders can be nerve-racking at best: you’ve got a short window of time to articulate your passionate point of view or showcase the outcome of your team’s good work. Most of us have a story about a time we blew it, and our well-rehearsed intentions spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. Executives are naturally a tough audience.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 13, 2015
Guest post by Nigel Dessau: I have never met anyone who was successful in life who did not have at least one mentor. Having good mentors indicates that you have a great network—something every 21st century executive and leader should have. However, finding the right mentor can be a challenge. A few years ago, I worked for a company that was acquired by Sun Microsystems.
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 13, 2015
Fear only works when the big bad leader is present. The sigh of relief when jerk-leaders leave the room signals disengagement. The most effective leaders are authoritative, not authoritarian.
Women on Business
AUGUST 13, 2015
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
AUGUST 13, 2015
If you interrupt the struggle of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, it will be crippled for life. How do you know when help is not helpful? When do you offer support and when do you compassionately allow someone to struggle without interfering? In addition to my regular weekly blog, I am beginning “Thursday Thoughts” – an opportunity to pause and reflect on simple truths you might already know but don’t always remember.
Lead by Adventure
AUGUST 13, 2015
I’m a big advocate and proponent of customer service. As in a huge believer. Ever since my mid-20s when I worked in a retail store called Eastern Mountain Sports and went through some phenomenal training, I am sold out on quality customer care and training. Unfortunately in this day and age, well-done customer service is hard to find. Sometimes, next to impossible to find.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 13, 2015
Let’s start at the very beginning A very good place to start When you read you begin with A-B-C When you sing you begin with do-re-mi Rodgers and Hammerstein You can’t skip fundamentals if you want to be the best. The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether it’s proper technique, work ethic, or… Read More “Let’s Start at the Very Beginning” – Do You Lack Any “Background Skills?”.
Managing Communities
AUGUST 13, 2015
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Deming Institute
AUGUST 13, 2015
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics , page 35. One of the quotes you will see quite frequently “incorrectly” attributed to Dr. Deming is “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” I suppose you could say it is correctly attributed to him; after all that is a direct quote from the quote listed above However, I think it would be more accurate to say it is misattribute
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
Getting to the top of your field is a challenge, but it’s easier with the support of a strong peer network. A group of trusted colleagues – often known as a mastermind group – can provide honest feedback, help you refine your ideas, and share insights and leads. They can also inspire you with their successes and support you when you face setbacks.
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Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 13, 2015
When our youngest son was in college I realized he wasn’t reading all the emails he should have been reading. A few times we almost missed paying some fees he had due for college, which could have made him miss some deadlines for school. You see, Nate’s a busy college student. He’s consumed with school work, church activities, and a host of social activities.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
“Conflict avoiders are generally people who value harmony in the workplace,” writes Amy Gallo in the HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work. ”When they sense a disagreement brewing, they will often try to placate the other person or change the topic. These aren’t passive behaviors, but active things they do to prevent conflict from becoming an issue.” So what do you do if you naturally avoid conflict but a big part of your job is giving difficult performance feedbac
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
In an ideal B2B world, your happy customers would spread the news about your great products, generating all the well-known benefits of word of mouth. But your customers may not want their competitors to hear about you. If your product or service has become your customer’s secret sauce – putting them in a position to outperform in the marketplace — then spreading the word may appear to risk diluting the customer’s competitive advantage.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
The announcement that Google would be reorganized into a holding company named Alphabet has already been interpreted in multiple , often conflicting , ways. Joseph Bower , a strategy professor at Harvard Business School, offers up the simplest interpretation possible: The company’s leaders are doing exactly what executives have done, under similar circumstances, since the 1920s.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
As founder of the nation of “ Facebookistan ,” Mark Zuckerberg has his hands full with over a billion worldwide users. But as you may have heard , he has an even bigger dream — to hook up the 4.5 billion people around the world who lack internet access. The one-year-old Facebook-led initiative, called Internet.org , is designed to offer free access to a select set of websites like a “ lite version ” of Facebook, Wikipedia, and others, along with a limited number of
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
A number of reports in recent weeks have stressed that employment effects of the so-called gig economy—contract workers on software platforms such as Uber and AirBnB—have been overstated. At minimum, these reports indicate, any increase in gig economy employment hasn’t shown up in the aggregate statistics—at least not yet anyway.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 13, 2015
No sooner had my coauthors and I put the finishing touches on our Harvard Business Review article that holds up the U.S. military approach to cyberdefense as a model than news stories disclosed that there had been a serious breach of the unclassified e-mail system used by employees of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. But the incident actually heavily underscores our principal point.
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