Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 27, 2016
Are you working too hard? Does everything fall apart when you’re not around? Do you find yourself bailing out your boss, your peers, and your team? If you can answer YES to any of these questions, it’s likely you’re being held back by the “Best Damn Doer” syndrome. Be careful. I know. I’ve felt the guilt of being promoted over people working longer and harder than me.
Leading Blog
APRIL 30, 2016
Here are a selection of tweets from April 2016 that you might have missed: FT: Beware the inspirational boss. Go Disrupt Yourself via @stratandbiz. Digital strategy: Understanding the Economics of Disruption via @McKinsey. Where Startups Lead, Corporates Follow – Why Co-Working is the Future via @GuardianUS. FT: A stirring reminder of shared values. 3 Ways To Avoid Being 'That Guy ' by @JohnBaldoni.
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General Leadership
APRIL 29, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It is the men behind who make the man ahead.”. Merle Crowell. Leadership is a continual journey through actions and growth, not merely a journey’s end for a resume. Search your favorite online bookstore for ‘leadership’ and you will find in excess of 22,000 books.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 29, 2016
What does “Performance Feedback” mean to you? A painful waste of time, or a great opportunity? Both have been said about the same experience. How? I’ve learned it is possible to find value in even the most poorly delivered evaluation, no matter where it comes from. We can all process feedback so we can benefit from it rather than reject critical comments.
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Rich Gee Group
APRIL 25, 2016
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi. The funny thing is, it happens ALL the time. And people wonder. ‘What Happened?’: I went to work every day. I was there on time. I did what they told me to do. It’s all about PERCEPTION. I know I’m going to get a lot of flak for say it, but it really comes down to how your superiors, your clients, your colleagues, and your team perceive you.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 17, 2016
The concept of execution in the business world is a multifaceted exercise, especially from the perspective of the leader. I call it “checking all the boxes” – moving the machine hour by hour, day by day, and year by year, towards its ultimate goal. Because it’s obviously important to do this, it often can overwhelm our brains and put us in a position where we operate as if our “job” is: Get Stuff Done.
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Leading Blog
APRIL 26, 2016
This is a post by Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky authors of Outmaneuver: OutThink, don’t OutSpend. Every executive knows that speed is important. Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard declared recently that “the future belongs to the fast.” But is speed enough? If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future?
General Leadership
APRIL 27, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”. Peter Marshall. Avoiding stress in professional life is like achieving work-life balance or eliminating risk: it’s not possible.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 28, 2016
“ Identify someone with a problem and you’ll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That’s self-deception – the inability to see that one has a problem. ” . (The Arbinger Institute in Leadership and Self-Deception , 2nd ed., p. 17). We are “in the box,” as the Arbinger folks say, when we engage in certain behaviors which create or reinforce our self-deception.
Rich Gee Group
APRIL 22, 2016
Just posted my 700th article online . WOW! I NEVER thought I would be here – when I first re-launched my WordPress site back in late 2009, I decided to include articles to let viewers, prospects, and clients know what’s inside of Rich Gee’s crazy mind. 6½ years later, I have 700 small peeks into the wacky & wild world of Rich Gee. If you subtract weekends, you get approximately 260 working days each year (no holidays or my 6 weeks vacation time).
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Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 29, 2016
D id you know that you have the ability to determine how your day will go? It’s true. While we can’t make people do what we want. And we can’t change how others treat us. We can make sure we have a good day. You may be wondering how this could be. It’s simple, yet difficult, to implement. We have control over the biggest influence of how our day goes.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 22, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival celebrates the launch of Winning Well and is all about leaders sharing what winning well means to them.Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Want to learn more about Winning Well? You can download the first few chapters for free here.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 28, 2016
Guest post by Ron Wallace: When you envision the best boss you ever worked for, what character trait comes to mind? Determination? Integrity? Maybe optimism? What about humility? Contrary to popular opinion, humility is not a sign of weakness -- it is discipline and strength personified. In my more than 40 years of working at UPS International, the values that UPS holds dear became second nature to me and the company’s culture of "we, not me" has inspired generations of employees to create one o
General Leadership
APRIL 25, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If a leader can’t describe the culture, the organization will never achieve it” – Todd Hirneisen. As leaders, we are aware of the importance of culture. Leaders are continually looking for ways to evaluate the culture in their organizations.
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Lead Change Blog
APRIL 27, 2016
In many ways, there is no longer a need to make a compelling case for business blogging in 2016. After all, there are a myriad of statistics which support this practice, with businesses that commit to regular blogging known to generate 67% more leads than those that do not. Marketers who prioritize blogging are also thought to be 13 times more likely to achieve a positive Return on Investment (ROI), and this underlines the reach of the cost-effectiveness of publishing branded content.
Leading in Context
APRIL 27, 2016
By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to talk openly with leaders about what "good leadership" means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget. Those things are all important, but "good leadership" requires much more.
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 27, 2016
E veryone will experience hard times in their lives. These are the times when it seems like you can’t get ahead. Maybe your bills are piling up. Or it could be the initiatives you’ve launched have failed. Hard times try us. You Will Have Hard Times In Your Life. The last couple of years have felt like a mighty battle has been waged in my life.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 18, 2016
“It’s amazing how many times people are working…HARD.,, and when you ask them what they’re really trying to accomplish, they’re really not sure.” -Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, reflections on Winning Well. While out on our Winning Well Tour, David and I had an opportunity to visit with Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, to hear his perspective on what it means to win well.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
APRIL 26, 2016
The true test of a vision is whether it continues to inspire and guide people after the leader is gone. Consider the seamless transition at Southwest Airlines when founder Herb Kelleher stepped down compared with Disney’s two decades of floundering after the death of Walt Disney. Time and again, we see examples of companies that […]. The post The True Test of a Vision appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
General Leadership
APRIL 22, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi. Today as I write this my brother-in-law is in a hospital ICU fighting the fight of his life; leukemia. Now, one could say that he is fighting against cancer, but I say he is fighting for life.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 26, 2016
Forgive and forget…. If we want to be seen as good people, that’s what we do every time someone has caused us pain. Maybe she didn’t hand in that report you needed on time, so you had to work an extra three hours, missing your daughter’s volleyball game. Or maybe your coworker cut you off mid-sentence in a meeting and then later reiterated an idea of yours that he claimed as his own.
Leading in Context
APRIL 27, 2016
By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to talk openly with leaders about what "good leadership" means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget. Those things are all important, but "good leadership" requires much more.
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Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 25, 2016
T here are a lot of sparkly things out there to get our attention. From the latest productivity app to the newest course by the big name leader to the latest and greatest book on leadership, there’s always something vying for our attention. Most of the time we give in. We grab the shiny, new object and adore it. Until we’re finished… Then we put it aside.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 21, 2016
Guest post by Judy Nelson Let’s face it, every office has, at least, one character. If they’re harmless and carry their load, most coworkers tolerate characters or even protect them. If they’re abrasive and add to the burden of others, coworkers don’t—and you might have a tricky situation on your hands. There are important Dos and Don’ts as the manager of a character that can have significant consequences for your organization.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
APRIL 19, 2016
As mindfulness comes more and more into the mainstream and business world, I am often asked where vision fits. Since mindfulness is about being fully present with the experience of each moment and vision is about a future you desire, how can you do both at the same time? Do you have to choose between the present and […]. The post Mindfulness and Vision are Complementary appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
General Leadership
APRIL 20, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”. Mark Twain. I find it most interesting what inspires me to write my leadership posts. Recently on Facebook, my attention was captured by a posted short video of our President of the United States (POTUS) entering the official helicopter, Marine One, on
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Lead Change Blog
APRIL 25, 2016
Several years ago I was coaching an executive sales team. During the meeting, someone brought up that the salespeople in the field were struggling. The VP of Sales said something like, “I have been meaning to address that for some time. We really do need to do a better job of training our people.” I was present a couple of months later when one of the directors walked into the room before the meeting began and threw a huge three-ringed binder on the conference table as he exclaimed, “Here it is.
Nathan Magnuson
APRIL 18, 2016
When was the last time you gave an assignment to one of your employees with the full confidence it would executed without your active involvement? It just doesn’t get much better than that. Unfortunately, for many bosses, it’s a rare event. They key is empowerment – but it’s not as easy as you might think. Empowering your people takes time, focus and courage.
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 22, 2016
T ake note, young leaders. This is a million dollar question. Especially if you’re able to get the answer. New leaders need to be curious and intentional about discovering what makes a leader good. Answering this one question will set you on the right path of leadership. You may find that there are many answers to this question. And I think there are.
Leading in Context
APRIL 20, 2016
By Linda Fisher Thornton Previously, I blogged about the first 5 of 10 Ways the Leadership Relationship is Changing, and today I want to explore 5 more.
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