Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. Frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. All of us can have moments of wisdom.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 30, 2021

Your family takes time and energy to ensure that it is the healthiest and happiest relationship that it can be. Your workmates need the same time and energy to ensure that it is a healthy and functioning team. When a team is no longer functioning, it hurts the bottom line, the reputation of the company, and it can cripple a business.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Why does work have such a bad reputation? Or is it just my line of work that has a bad reputation? She was full of positive energy for her work, and I asked her, “What is it that you love about this job?” Purpose and meaning at work raise the energy level, commitment, and performance of the team.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

One of the most important points he makes in the book is that the outcome of your courageous move hinges a great deal on how you behave—how you present it—and your reputation. Build your reputation before there is a need to be courageous. Acting courageously requires good judgment, as well, as Detert makes clear.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They believe that “to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills” highlighted in these seven tests. Why is it important?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2014

Plus the wasted energy was exhausting all of us. Age isn’t necessarily a leadership competency. To enhance your reputation. Getting mired down in the debate over the small stuff will drain the energy for what matters most. When projects feel hard, they seldom blossom with creativity which is what we needed most.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

And even if your idea will make life easier, it still takes energy to consider doing something different. If you have a reputation for caring about your peers and supporting them in their efforts, they’re more likely to take you and your idea seriously. How do you get them to take your idea seriously?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. ” I’m thinking about the handful of managers I had over the years who were the epitome of a jerk at work — the bullies who crush courage with their toxic leadership behaviors or who seem to be lacking a moral compass. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

This is the fourth and final blog in a series dedicated to the connections between Situational Leadership ® and the employee experience. The second blog in this series explored the relationship between Situational Leadership ® and meaningful work. The third focused on links between Situational Leadership ® and strong management.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Modern ways of working require us to consistently tap into our cognitive powers, creative energy, and collective genius. The trick is to be ruthless in managing our energy so that it can expand and become boundless. Trust is earned with courage over time, and by reputation. It begs us to deal with more ambiguity and complexity.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. By contrast, when engaging with a large firm, Ms.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Your name is worth more than your money, time, and energy. Remember, your name and reputation are on the line when you do business and partner with others. If there hasn’t been, figure out a way to make a resolution viable. Make sure you’re working to keep your name clean when things go wrong. Make the right choice.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Leadership Acting versus Leadership Being Some people are good leadership actors. They can “do their leadership thing” and deliver convincing performances. Skin-deep leadership destroys trust and zaps energy. Reputation is what people think I am. We eventually see through to the real person.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Difficult employees aren’t the person who has a bad day and acts out in appropriately, they are the ones who have gained a reputation for being difficult. Don’t spend all your time and energy on the difficult person, just enough to know that you provided the person with the opportunity to make the needed changes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without losing your soul. Your source for practical leadership, inspiration, tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. How to be a less negative leader. See if this sounds familiar.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 27, 2019

This causes suspicion in the leader, a lack of empowerment in the followers, and wasted time and energy as people try to manage the business without all the right information at their disposal. Remember, one of your most precious assets as a leader and colleague is your reputation and good name. Withholding information .

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 9, 2020

People feel valued and truly part of a team, and they respond with engagement and energy. But making honest everyday efforts to bridge that divide will help you earn a reputation as a great leader. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whenever anyone asks me what leadership lessons I wished I’d learned sooner, I always have the same response. Advocates serve a variety of roles, from bolstering your reputation, “you know who’s the best at this?”, But don’t overlook the importance of a network of strong peer relationships. An Encourager.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 5, 2023

In their book, Learning to Lead , Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith, write, “To be authentic is literally to be your own author (the words derive from the same Greek root), to discover your native energies and desires, and then find your own way of acting on them. Reputation is what people think I am. Am I blazing my own path?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Reputation. As you think about your personal leadership style and how you’ll apply these decision-making guidelines, recall the words of Franklin D. Leadership requires you to make the tough decision and get your team moving. Failure to act saps time, money and energy. He’s written five leadership books.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2022

Conversely, if you are selling a sophisticated product or service to a customer you will actively engage with on a recurring basis, establishing and enhancing your reputation as a true partner is paramount (i.e., Move on: Refocus your energy and attention immediately. Reputation Building. Transactional.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2020

According a leadership survey conducted by McKinsey , U.S. companies spend around $14 billion on leadership development. That’s the thing about leadership. Vibrant culture leaders are a force of positive energy and see the good in everyone with whom they interact.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

” Values-based leadership. Research from INSEAD illustrates the benefits of this clearly, as it shows that when companies operate via local partners, they are prevented from building relationships with local stakeholders and building a robust reputation in the community. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

Reputations that took years to build can be destroyed in two weeks. Also, it takes more energy to proactively make a decision to buy than to make a decision to stop paying for something that has already been decided. In these times, customers are quicker to connect, let their guards down, and trust.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

As recently as 2005 leadership theory talked about personality traits that leaders possessed, debated whether leaders are born or made and focused much of its work on how to identify and groom leaders so they can take over and lead those who worked for them. It also has had an impact on the way leadership works.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Successful leadership is the product of several factors. The reality of leadership is this that yesterday’s results become today’s status quo. Inaction is incompatible with strong leadership. The best leaders put communication at the heart of their leadership. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

This approach often gives leaders poor results and a reputation for not being at their best. Without it, people spend their energy protecting themselves from harm. Often, trying everything achieves nothing because their efforts are uncoordinated and conflicting with insufficient resources to execute well.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Here are the ten most common that I see in my work as a leadership coach. Poor communication. Abusing power.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. Done well, it’s hard to top action learning for leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Real work gets done. Learning is contextual.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. Done well, it’s hard to top action learning for leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Real work gets done. Learning is contextual.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2024

Finally, there can be situations when the outgoing CEO becomes a key issue to mitigate in your transition plan and consumes a considerable amount of your time, energy, and attention. Exactly how much time, energy, and attention depends on the reputation of the CEO you’re following and how connected they stay to your organization.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

” A leader’s track record and reputation are the underlying “gold standard” of their trust currency. How the leadership team functions — or dysfunctions — ripples out to shape organizational culture. Leadership team dynamics are central to the organization’s trust account balance.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2016

These attributes contributed to his reputation for being thoughtful, and for possessing wisdom and good judgment. In addition to being a good listener, Lincoln also had a reputation for being slow to express anger. Now that’s real leadership. 3 Surprising Ways to Succeed in Self-Leadership.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Mindset is extremely important when it comes to great leadership. It burns people out and will lead to low morale and low energy. But great leaders know that to get bogged down in all the details and minutia is a waste of time, energy and productivity. Additional Reading: Reputation Matters But Character Leads The Way.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Chris Edmonds : Being around values mis-aligned people lowers trust, discretionary energy, and performance. This colleague (let’s call him Bill) had a reputation in the company for making fast decisions that served him and his team well. Guest post from S. 2) Observe the decisions and behaviors of others.

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