Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings. And, and it’s not uncommon for people to glorify leadership over management or strategy over tactics. What are some tactical questions that can help you avoid injury?

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Lead from Within

MAY 16, 2024

By clarifying your priorities, you can focus your energy on what will have the most significant impact. Delegation is a powerful tool that can help you distribute tasks and responsibilities to your team members. What are the most critical objectives for your role as a leader? Look for opportunities to streamline and simplify.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

Powerful Conversation Starters Get a Distracted Co-worker to Pay Attention to Your Great Idea You have a great idea. And even if your idea will make life easier, it still takes energy to consider doing something different. Second, when your peers are on board, it’s more likely that your manager will take the idea seriously.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2019

All of the energy in the room gets funneled in the direction of applying the bandage, and even if there are important observations about an element that contributed to the fire that needs to be addressed, it's all too easy to set that aside in favor of the immediate actions that must be taken. It's easy to fall into the trap of this belief.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

They know how to make the most of available resources, build strategic partnerships, and optimize operational procedures to enhance the overall functioning of the institution. Academic leaders must clearly articulate their vision, motivate and inspire others, and manage conflicts with diplomacy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Similarly, if even small decisions require multiple layers of approval, your team will lose energy to try new things. No fancy budget.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Only you , as a senior leader, have the power to direct your company to continuous and sustainable success,” says Scott K. A couple other key takeaways from Edinger’s incredibly helpful book are: Leading results versus managing tasks is often a matter of distinguishing what to do from how to do it. His book explains why that is true.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

This week around 600 million people experienced wide power outages throughout the country. These cuts are some of the biggest in the worlds history and have left millions of people stranded and unable to get home as the power outages impacted trains throughout the country. He needs hard cold cash.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. So Declan was frustrated, but so was his manager. (

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Both revolutions were about the potential of new experimentation tools, processes, and cultures and what companies should do to unlock their power.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. Or, they push for autonomy when their manager wants engagement.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The researchers wanted to explore the feasibility of those jobs transitioning to clean energy jobs in each location. Energy transition. Given the seriousness of the climate emergency, there has been considerable attention given to the need to transition towards cleaner forms of energy. Renewable jobs.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They’re portrayed as uniquely powerful individuals — able to overcome, through sheer force of will or ruthless intelligence, the obstacles they faced. How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Warren Buffett. Carlos Slim.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 15, 2019

Open plan offices are renowned as being terrible for our productivity and efficiency at work, but they’re also pretty awful in terms of energy efficiency. This allows a lone worker operating in an office to have a fully lit workstation, with the surrounding desks then slightly dimmed, and the remainder of the office dimmed even more.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Leaders with a balanced ego are aware of their power but confident enough in themselves that they prefer to minimize its unnecessary display. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

The authors say three components characterize effective teams : Sustained Performance (are able to generate positive results over time), Team Resilience (can work through challenges and can quickly bounce back from adversity), and Vitality (can maintain the energy, vibrancy, and resources needed for future success). Coordination.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

We’ve had many leaders, managers and clients around the world approach us with different cross cultural leadership challenges including: “In my culture, we need sound and music to do our best, but my office is silent as a graveyard. It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I This starts with your mission and values.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. Vision overcomes the power of criticism. It is still and has been a passionate focus of mine for many years.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

.” This extends to being active participants in each of the regions in which they operate. 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.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 5, 2019

His new book, Grace: A Leaders Guide to a Better Us , is about the power of leaders serving others and creating a culture of kindness that impacts others in profound ways. Your book is filled with examples and stories that are powerful and moving. If you operate with a scarcity mindset, you hoard resources and power.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it’s natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to’s. It’s natural to focus on building a great relationship with your manager. And I was his HR and team development sounding board. Highly reciprocal.

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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. Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). The trick is to be ruthless in managing our energy so that it can expand and become boundless.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. “I’m excited to be joining StrategyDriven during this time of unprecedented change and uncertainty within the energy sector,” says Gaskey.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S. to achieve its climate change goals.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2023

Any shrewd and knowledgeable business manager, along with always ensuring complete legal compliance and the continuous quality of the products and/or services they provide, also has one eye on the performance of their close industry rivals. Luckily, there are several effective ways to do so.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Chris Edmonds : Cornell University professor Dr. Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

To maximize profits, cut down the expenses as much as you can without compromising business operations. Check Your Energy Consumption. As professionals from Olympia Lighting will inform you, energy costs can be managed or reduced by LED lighting. Faulty and old machines need more energy to power them.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This means that people will always have money to spend on food, which results in greater spending power for businesses operating within the sector. Energy utility industry. The energy utility industry is another one of the safest industries to invest in as a whole. There are two reasons for this. Property industry.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is an excerpt from Management Productivity Multipliers by Gerald Kraines, MD. Their departments and their managers suffer because they are not getting the full value from that position. Yet, even with a powerful CPU, if the energy source is not sufficient to power the processor, no work can be done.

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Lead from Within

MAY 19, 2021

If you’re in the habit of speaking over others, interrupting, and making statements without allowing others to respond or express their own thoughts, you kill the energy and ideas of your team. Instead, try dedicating your energy to helping others be successful. Spotlight your people instead of yourself. Talk less and listen more.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 10, 2020

The average company loses more than 25 percent of its productive power to organization drag , reports the authors of the book, Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power. To combat organizational drag the first step is to practice good talent management.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

In Leading Clarity , Brad Deutser states that “Clarity operates on the truth that everything is connected.” When we are in clarity, we can maintain a constant flow of energy and maintain connections. The powerful point is that the box is of your own making. Operations: Do we adapt well to change? We are in clarity.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. Form Strategic Alliances to Amplify Voices In any power dynamic, there is strength in numbers.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently. People are yearning for human connection, with one another and their manager. Henry Mukuti of Insakanet contributed Do Not Underestimate the Power of Your Actions. Henry writes: “ Never underestimate the power of your actions. From worse to better.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. This powerful reflection and guidance can help executives identify blind spots they might be missing. How is that possible?

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