Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Culture Rules makes the case for why leaders should invest their time and energy on building culture and gives them three simple, actionable rules they must play by if they want to stay in the game and win! Most important, this book is not just another compilation of case studies. Almost everything we do involves words.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Leaders that understand and practice ethics at work are also better at motivating and empowering individuals in order to fuel collective progress. Positive communication and mindfulness foster focus and protect valuable energy. Ethical leaders know how to practice control of energy in order to cultivate focus and ease for their team.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Performance psychologist Jim Loehr on motivated reasoning: “The facts are facts, but we ignore, alter, or otherwise twist them to allow us to continue doing what we are doing. Because with their minds, they are expending huge amounts of energy. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Chances are, there are some reservoirs of genuine positive emotional energy lurking somewhere within your current cultural situation that can be harnessed if brought to light.” Complexity is distracting; comprehensiveness is wasted energy. You identify and make use of what already exists. But you need to keep it simple.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A powerful vision creates the will to make change happen and harnesses the energy that will be needed. It motivates individuals and organizations to commit to achieving the overall goal — no matter the number of roadblocks that get in the way. Who knows, maybe one of your visions could be the next Amazon.com.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Power Principle 1: Declare a Bold Vision You need a bold vision that motivates you to act—to go all in. Power Principle 3: Plan the Work and Work the Plan Be intentional with your time, energy, and focus. To help you on your journey, they offer five Power Principles to bring clarity and the inner strength to move forward.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

The brain uses so much energy to focus on the new threat that the previous pleasantness gets lost because of an effect called retroactive interference. Hell motivates us more than heaven. The fear of looking fat motivates us more to lose weight than the hope of looking slim.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2017

Conflict is energy, and can be used in positive or negative ways. economy by about $350 billion a year in lost productivity and wasted energy. It happens by stewarding the energy inherent in conflict to make something positive, even amazing.” Drama is the mismanaging of the energy of conflict. Resourcefulness.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Looking outward from inside our bodies, we see out into the world but can’t observe the effects of our own energy and behaviors on others as easily as those who are paying attention can see us. Don’t be too quick to believe praise OR criticism unless you’ve thought through the coach’s skill and motivations. So, buyer beware.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

president of Nelson Motivation Inc., Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and Results. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Get to know them and learn what they enjoy, and encourage them to do more of those things. * * *. This is a post by Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In Leading Through Uncertainty , Ray Davis writes, “Effective leadership is motivating, and it can and should be the energy that propels a company through inevitable waves of change. The negative energy created by worrying is replaced with positive, productive actions and attitudes.” People can handle the truth.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Businessman and former ambassador Donald Blinken explains the motivation behind this book in the foreword: This book was born out of Bob Dilenschneider’s concern about how demoralizing it is for many young people to consider their futures.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

And motivational talk isn’t part of it. You want energy. If you can’t summon the desire and energy to make I, someone else will. W INNING has its own language and its own code. Grover says winning is uncivilized, hard, nasty, unpolished, dirty, rough, unforgiving, unapologetic, uninhibited, and everything.

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Leading Blog

MAY 17, 2012

Robert Kelly, author of The Power of Followership , described the leader/follower dynamic in The Art of Followership , this way: Star followers think for themselves, are very active, and have very positive energy. Meanwhile, followers are imagined as inferior beings in need of the leader’s direction, motivation, and protection.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

If you know where you are coming from and where others are coming from you can begin to see what might motivate someone to join your change effort. We have our own motivations and our preferred ways of dealing with change. The chart below helps you to see how your motivation relates to the motivation of others.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2011

It gives followers a sense that their interests are being looked after, and this creates positive energy. Followers who sense that a leader appreciates them are motivated to carry out their duties in a more committed way.”. A leader’s passion or drive is important because it creates positive energy. Emotional Intelligence.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson. Growth is the goal.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

When we are in clarity, we can maintain a constant flow of energy and maintain connections. What motivates us? “Clarity become central to your ability to not only visualize, but actualize your performance.” Clarity should transcend your environment. Do we give timely and consistent feedback? Are we highly collaborative?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Of course there is the familiar purpose of giving the recipient encouragement, motivation and greater confidence, but recognition also promotes moral behavior through connection. Not only does this motivate her to do more and try harder, but it instills a desire to look out for the larger group….

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Finally, Detert writes, “The goal is to have your emotions be the motivation for action, but not the driver of how you behave.”. You can’t ignore others’ feelings, hoping they’ll just get over them, but letting this negative energy fester can be bad for the changes you want. After the Act.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Here’s another thing we all know: Because our people are free moral agents, they will not robotically assent and bring their energy to bear on the situation. Irv Hockaday, former president and CEO of Hallmark adds, “A CEO’s primary responsibilities are to provide vision, to motivate employees, and to develop leaders.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2018

Replace naysayers, doubters, and energy drainers with encouragers, winners, and motivators.” “If you want to take your life back, take your thoughts back.”. Surround yourself with the right people. Your friends determine your fate.” Explore outside your comfort zone. Mediocrity is the end result of too much comfort.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Early technology issues limited blockchain’s utility—it wasn’t scalable enough and consumed too much energy. Blockchains also introduce the idea of token economics, a mechanism for aligning the motivations of many parties involved in a value chain.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2015

This is built on a real understanding and acceptance of one’s uniqueness—personality, motivations, strengths and weaknesses—and a confidence that means ‘I do not need to pretend to be someone I am not.’” Responsible leaders have a guiding purpose that enables them to focus their energy and activity.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

In Google’s team study, they found what distinguished high-performing teams from low-performing teams is not team cohesion, motivation, or average IQ, but rather frequent turn-taking in conversations and high social sensitivity toward what team members are thinking and feeling. Get everyone together face-to-face. Eliminate the Noise.

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Leading Blog

MAY 23, 2012

Her goal is to help you to see and think differently about your strengths, your weaknesses, and mostly the subterranean habits of mind and motivations that drive you and others. It’s a journey of self-mastery. Appel observes that “most of us focus our attention outward and neglect our inner life. We think that change is out there.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

And that is where we must go if we are to motivate people not only to take action but to do so with energy and enthusiasm.”. Stephen Denning wrote in Telling Tales, “Analysis might excite the mind, but it hardly offers a route to the heart.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2012

Jim_Kouzes: People are most likely to be creative when intrinsically motivated say Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer. Good read from @tomasacker > A brand is energy made visible. @KevinEikenberry How Leaders Can Use Pinterest. A Silent Leadership Killer by @mjasmus. Read: Inspire People to Change by @greatleadership.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Part of what makes it work is that when we get behind the façades that we habitually put up, we begin to understand others better—their motivations, values, and beliefs. Where are you right now through these four energy centers? The authors suggest checking yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The authors note that “Knowing Thyself means bringing a fresh transparency to our hidden motives and identities.” Rule 4: “Do Not Waste Energy on Things You Cannot Change.” The larger issue though is that we all possess a “powerful tendency to obscure, distort, and fictionalize on behalf of a fabricated reality.” Aristophanes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us—and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Wasteful of people’s time, energy and talent in particular. Here are some ideas to reflect on: Lean creates the ideal environment for motivating workers. Stoller begins The Lean CEO with an exceptional survey of how we got to be so wasteful. Abundance often leads to waste and hides issues that should be dealt with.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2011

Joe will struggle if that is his motive or intention. Do you see that while this kind of clarity may not change all the drama, it will give you peace and free up your energy for more productive endeavors? However, Joe’s clarity will give him the essence of what he really wants.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Daily Questions can be a game changer because they reinforce our commitment, they ignite our motivation where we need it and not where we don’t, and they shrink our goals into manageable increments. Daily Questions remind us that success is the result of small efforts repeated consistently over time. OUR NEED FOR STRUCTURE.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

These are the people who inspire and motivate and encourage people to do their best work towards a common goal. When individuals are motivated and engaged, they naturally want to work harder and better, which brings financial success. Hopefully, most people have also experienced a great leader. Impact of Great Leaders.

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Sharing the goal in the form of a narrative that illustrates what the future will be like once the change is in place has the biggest positive impact on people for motivation and buy-in. Connecting the goal with benefits for each person is an important motivator. How will customers’ lives be different?

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