Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This rigorous and ever-deepening research provides hard evidence for the catalytic power of “ soft skills ” in personal, team, and organizational performance. EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron. Too many are bully bosses.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Work closely with the support team to assure your products meet customer needs.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Next to ethical and morally proper treatment, that means ensuring you are constantly helping your team members focus on where they should be at in 3 to 5 years in the future. Then, as regards your team members: to what extent do you have attention for the continued development of their sustainable qualities?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. Sometimes, the team gets over-excited by this grand vision and get stuck. The bad one."

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Supporting innovation.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 12, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 This Is ‘Out Of The Box’ Thinking. Apple engineer rebuilds an ancient Greek mechanism — the oldest known computer – known as The Antikythera Mechanism.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. These leaders surround themselves with the team that will help make the vision a reality, and inspire their team to achieve it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

“Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right? economy and its continued leadership around the globe. It’s a problem tackled in a new report from Accenture and Girls Who Code. “And half of young women who go into tech drop out by the age of 35.”

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Work with the sales team; understand how they sell your products. Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. Work in tandem with the customer support teams to monitor product acceptance and make changes where necessary.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami? Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. Establish A Contract With Your Team. Happy Birthday IBM!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Hewlett-Packard, a company that started out as an example of moral leadership with “The HP Way” in 1939, has proven itself vulnerable to an unscrupulous CEO when Mark Hurd recently resigned. Am I acting ethically in this situation?”

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As part of our baseline assessments of every client, my team and I use Launchbox’s proprietary assessment tool, BRIDGEdex, to identify where the significant disconnects exist between millennials and managers—between employee expectations and what they are experiencing in the workplace. Poor work ethic. Sense of entitlement. Impatient.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: “As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. by Marshall Goldsmith. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The teams that have people who work together win. — The Product Management Perspective: The ideas for this post came from a question posed to me about how an engineer can become a product manager. Think of something you never would have considered and do it; even if it’s riding a bull. Make the effort; take the steps.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete. Within two years I was speaking and writing fluently. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership grows and develops through building effective relationships. I highly recommend It’s Not Just Who You Know as guidebook to building effective relationships and increasing your leadership potential. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 25, 2009

Teenagers and cars: When parents buy their teenager a brand new car for his 16th birthday, he’s no doubt happy to have the car, but too often doesn’t take good care of it and crashes it or burns up the engine (or does something else to ruin it). Too often the business fails because the heirs did not learn the value of hard work.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

Through his work, his publications, the work of his team, and a network of Human Behavioral consultants certified to teach his material; he has reached millions of people around the world. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. It is just like any other tool.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger recently told 90 of his colleagues: 'As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. In fact, organizations that best develop leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development.

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ReImagine Work

MARCH 27, 2016

Whether you are a manager, parent, team leader, co-worker, or someone who needs to get stuff done through others in any way, try this creative approach. That doesn’t work for me, not only ethically, but it’s also bad management. My sister and her husband are educators. Items have “disappeared” in the past.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

I’ve teamed up with Caridan Marketing on the following offer for Lead on Purpose readers: Caridan Marketing Labs is an interactive and social media marketing firm based in New York City. Scope creep, unclear requirements, and inter/intra team miscommunication can become a recipe for disaster!

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With core values, you can guide your business in the ethical direction you want the business to go. Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash. Otherwise, your team will begin to look at the leadership as hypocrites. However, when failures happen, team members discover that it’s curiosity that the leadership wants.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

To Help Others, Start With Yourself General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: 'Last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. Organizations that crank out great leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are actively involved in leadership development.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. They learn that the absence of psychological safety keeps team members from disagreeing with dominant opinions. These executives lead teams in which globally dispersed people from multiple organizations collaborate on critical tasks.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. The business you’re in. About the Author.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I’d always appreciated the Code of the West ( from Jim Owen’s book, “Cowboy Ethics” ) – I saw it often on posters in the offices of many of my staff in Wyoming: Live each day with courage. That customer’s trouble call got escalated, correctly, to one of our engineers in the NOC. We can’t fire that engineer Terry”. “I I know.”.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

By Monica S Flores This post is for women business owners who want to expand their brand using social networking tools.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance.

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