Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Here are some leadership rules derived from how great teachers work. And I was there during what I’m convinced was the Golden Age of New York City public education. Here are two more leadership rules based on the example of great teachers. Leadership lessons don’t just come from leaders.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The higher the education level, the more books they own. For example, among 31- to 35-year-olds, 8% of people whose highest level of education is a high school diploma own at least 100 books, compared to 25% of people in the same age range with postgraduate degrees. Sorting books by color is more popular among younger Americans.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Learning and applying these lessons can provide management insight and superior leadership qualities. Music education provides people with multiple advantages and lessons and is an industry that should not be overlooked. Here are some excellent leadership lessons that we can learn from musicians.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

JH: What is the number one leadership competency required in this fast-paced, unpredictable world we now find ourselves in? . An example could be that you notice a teammate who has been underperforming and lacking energy. Key Leadership Takeaways: The leader’s ability to make a human connection is key. Interview Summary.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

I am a Boomer, so my view regarding trust, authority, and truth, for example, is different than those generations that came after me. Our education has a huge impact on how we believe the world does and should work. Their worldviews are different, so they see the world through different values, expectations, and motivations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

Do you experience genuine concern in your leadership? Do you lead by example and does your team feel like they are in the V.A.U.L.T? on what leadership is, how to handle high-pressure, high-stress situations, and how every person on your team can make a difference. As a leader you want everyone on the team to feel this way.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 18, 2016

Just about all of us are Monday Morning Quarterbacks when it comes to leadership. Here’s the thing: if you wait until you receive a leadership role to get a leadership education, you may not last long. Execution is the bottom line of leadership effectiveness. Everyone has an opinion. What Results They Get.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

In medicine, law enforcement, education, and almost every profession, communication failures lead to lasting negative impacts. For example, “Pat is just our assistant,” “You need to just figure it out,” or “Just wondering if you’ve looked at the proposal.” This word becomes problematic when we use it in the context of people.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Mehdi Tazi Chief Executive Officer at Beassur Marsh , a Morrocan based insurance brokerage during our global leadership tour. JH: In a recent international leadership survey, over 80% of CEOs answered that they do not have the talent to execute their current corporate strategy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Guest post from Leo Bottary: Leadership lessons exist all around us, all the time. Let me offer two examples – one is about growth and the other involves the power of declaring victory. One of my favorite fictional characters provides a profound lesson in leadership in a wonderful book called The Offsite by Robert H. (Or,

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 10, 2014

It was created out of a need to reduce what we called customer education service calls, which involved one of our technicians returning to a home a second time (after an initial installation), to teach a customer how to use the remote control and channel guide, or set up voice mail and/or e-mail. Leadership'

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Bad Boss Behaviors Cause #2: Unclear Expectations We covered the first cause of Bad Boss Behaviors, Lack of Education , last week. Given the lack of formal education, new bosses are often left to their own devices to develop leadership skills. Welcome to the insanity of modern leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. The impact of women’s presence in boardrooms and leadership positions is difficult to measure accurately as it requires considerable time to determine the real outcomes.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

One of the leadership questions I often hear is this: how can I be a leader when I’m so young? I can’t think of a better example to share than this month’s leadership profile Malala Yousafzai.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2022

How do you define “ leadership presence ?” . In reviewing this week’s “Aim Higher” panel discussion about building your leadership presence, I realized that we apply confirmation bias when reviewing leaders who are already successful. When you think about great leaders, what comes to mind, absent the specifics of their success?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

For example, the word “trust” means one thing to one person and something different to another person, based on their experiences. In my journey of leadership, this is a concept I fell prey to early on. As I began to develop this theory of Alignment Leadership, I realized the real win was much deeper—employee fulfillment.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In his book, Education is Freedom , author James W. Plus, Keyes states that Education Is Freedom provides the “what,” “why,” and “how” of learning. He outlines the importance of education for all humankind and the power of education to change our world. He covers: Discovering what customers truly care about.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

What this hopefully demonstrates is that effective leadership is born not out of what leaders do or what behaviors they engage in, but first and foundationally in how they see and interpret the situations they find themselves in. The answer to this question is the foundation of effective leadership: leaders’ mindsets. Until now.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 16, 2017

A management scholar and executive-education lecturer with a PhD in Organizational Behaviour, Barrett is also an accomplished jazz pianist and the author of “ Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz ”. Laura Montgomery is a higher-education expert who blogs for The Economist Careers Network. Say yes to the mess.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2012

Leadership development and failure go hand in hand. One of the traits of all successful people is resiliency – the ability to fail, learn from that failure, and incorporate new skills into your leadership repertoire. One of my favorite leadership development stories the legendary story about Tom Watson Jr., Thomas Watson.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As I watched the documentary, I was struck by how closely the story mirrored case studies from the business world, and how perfectly it illustrated the points I try to emphasize in the leadership and innovation class I teach at MIT. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership).

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Lead by Example: Effective leaders lead by example, and this applies to promoting diverse thinking as well. This education promotes empathy and understanding among team members. Successful leaders understand that a culture of diverse thinking fosters innovation, problem-solving, and ultimately, business growth.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 1, 2019

From time to time, I’m asked how my military experience informed my leadership. ” You might be a new soldier with his first leadership assignment or a new executive getting thrown off the deep end. ” Examples Galore. Life or Death Leadership. Here is a small sample of my lessons learned. No Excuses.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While those major brands display leadership and commitment to their values, the NFL chooses instead to show a failure of conviction. The NFL could lead the charge and set an example of what it means to stand up for what’s right. The Kaepernick saga was a missed opportunity for the NFL to show true leadership in social justice.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 13, 2018

Modern leadership training is being taken over by a clever but misguided trend. It will fail because it leaves the heavy lifting required in actually impactful leadership cultivation relegated to the role of little more than an afterthought. Leadership training should be based on the development of a safe space.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re employed in a technology-first corporation, oversee operations in a retail chain or run a healthcare organization, every sector demands effective leadership. Even in situations where a person has been in leadership roles for years, the need to constantly be learning and upskilling never disappears.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As we move towards a new decade, my mind turns to the leadership practices needed to make transformational change a reality. At the heart of the first leadership practice lies the notion of intent. So, my second leadership practice is creating a culture in your organisation to match your intent. These are my observations.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 17, 2023

Talk with the leadership about questions such as these to learn more about what they do so you can incorporate that information and feeling into your training. This is not to say, however, that older individuals are unable to comprehend such information, but is only offered as an example.) Another example involves recent graduates.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To restore integrity in leadership, holding leaders accountable for their actions and promoting a culture that values ethics and strong moral principles is essential. This can be achieved through education and training programs and by promoting leaders who embody strong ethical principles. Lead by example.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I advise my clients on various aspects of leadership, and one topic that has been gaining increasing importance in today’s rapidly evolving business is the role of ethics in artificial intelligence (AI). Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school. Executive leadership training programs can offer support and meaningful dialogue to master new challenges effectively. What is an Executive Leadership Training Program?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When it comes to improving the way we lead, there’s a number of approaches that have been championed by both leadership experts and researchers looking into understanding what makes someone a successful leader. One example of this is the idea that we need to be “more authentic” in our leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

For the Cherokee Nation and most organizations and governments, the greatest adversity is lack of leadership and the greatest opportunity, of course, is to develop leadership, in other words, to get some “horses and fishes.” Leadership defined The dictionary defines “lead” as “to take or conduct on the way”.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Stress and resilience have been my most requested leadership topics for over a year now. It’s not covered in most higher education programs. In fact, in our Leadership-in-a-Box® program for Stress Management, we have leaders identify their own sources of stress first, to make it easy to acknowledge the reality we all face.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2018

For example, let’s say you have a friend who’s a skilled mechanic. To start, leadership decisions are much more subjective because there are few absolutes. Leaders must adjust their leadership styles accordingly. Training is a great tool that helps people deal with objective decisions. He is the founder of KiVisions, Inc.,

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