Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2018

When goals are fuzzy or non-existent, energy is diffused and productivity suffers. But when goals are clearly defined, people’s focus is sharp, effort is purposefully directed, and productivity accelerates. MasterChef Junior Example of Clear Goal Setting. MasterChef Junior Example of Coaching. Evaluation.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Successful entrepreneurship and productive leadership require a sharp focus and high effectiveness. Try to avoid the energy-crash cycle and maintain a steady blood sugar level by eating protein, good fats, and complex carbs. Work around your needs and energy level. 9. Manage your energy. Learn to delegate.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Forget “change fatigue,” Altman says; instead, think of “change energy.” Despite an initial surge of enthusiasm, nothing ever changes.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Here’s an example. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The problem is that it takes time and energy to really think through the implications of a set of goals and facilitate a thoughtful process to vet them. Doug Sundheim is a leadership and strategy consultant with over 20 years experience in helping leaders drive personal and organizational growth.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Leadership , Marketing , Strategy. ” For example. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 8, 2020

We have placed so much energy investing in the next generation of leaders that we’ve left a ton of leaders my age wondering how to remain relevant and useful. Here’s one example. I was at a conference representing Leadership Network. We had just announced a new initiative with a super-sharp millennial group. ” Wow!

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. The best firms are diligent about uncommon things — for example, asking creative questions.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. For example, I analyzed the lifetime prize money won by over 450,000 poker players and over 24,000 ATP tennis players. That’s what Atta Tarki shares in his new book, Evidence-Based Recruiting.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I think we also need to look to children as examples for what it means to be eager to learn. Speaking with the credibility of decades having developed her leadership skills side by side with Tony, Pat initiated an important message by asking for a show of hands of husbands present with their wives (visually we could see many were not).

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A classic example is buying something we would never otherwise have spent money on — and will never use — simply because it's a great deal. Take a cost reduction program at a mortgage company, for example. Irrationality is a basic part of being human. It's not as hard as it sounds. When Gordon M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. It can be a good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Income inequality has, for example, become a hot topic. You might think that the dwindling away of an institution that devoted much of its energy to equalizing incomes would be a big part of that discussion. This isn’t exactly news, and professors and pundits have for years been dissecting the causes of labor’s decline. It hasn’t been.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

She is professional, articulate, sharp, and enthusiastic. ” If Maria stumbles, or can’t seem to answer a seemingly simple question, such as “can you describe your leadership style?” How would your staff describe your leadership style?” Practice on-the-spot coaching. You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

You'll see much more creative energy. Often, in a desire to get the ball rolling or maybe because of the leadership's own imperfect understanding of their company's problems, jamming teams are often given broad, ill-defined problem statements. If that's what you're doing now, then stop. And keep the jamming teams small.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Why the disparity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Leadership & Managing People Book. Having published a theoretical paper on this idea, Coviello, Ichino, and Persico went on to study a compelling real-world example: Italian judges who typically get more cases than they can easily handle. Further Reading. Getting Work Done (20-Minute Manager Series). Add to Cart.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Build a Re-Founding Team. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Does your workplace reflect a relative balance of males and females in leadership positions? Three Examples of Workplace Authenticity. In each example from the Italian town, people went beyond what we might expect from their roles. Immediately the intoxicating wave of energy hit him. What do you see?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

In the wake of his recent retirement, much has been written about Steve Job's peerless leadership and how he transformed not just his company, Apple, but the way we interact and live with media and technology. Put the wines in different types of glasses and the differences become that much more pronounced for them.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Blog Post ). Stephen M.R.

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