RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 5, 2017

What happens when you set a goal and fail to achieve it? In January of this year I set a personal goal. Does goal failure make me a failure? The goal was to complete the Mile Run Trail Challenge Half Marathon on April 1 st in under two and a half hours. Set weekly and daily sub-goals. I missed the goal.

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RapidStart Leadership

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But if you ignore the environment the bridge is built in, you risk spectacular collapse, as the engineers of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge learned in 1940. Whether you are building a real bridge, or bridging the gap to your goal you need a span that can withstand the pressures of life; here’s how. Building on the Cheap. Click To Tweet.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2020

Now, the types of leadership qualities that show up on list after list are there for good reason. However, when you look closely, you discover that it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. This is the power of empathy at work. The POWER of Empathy?

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

When you do that, leadership becomes longitudinal, not episodic. I began to write about that question in a pre-pandemic post I wrote back in 2019 on five principles for designing great leadership development programs. And when you do, be explicit about how the latest victory is contributing to the ultimate goal.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

The Scope and Significance of Global Executive Search Securing top leadership talent is essential in the dynamic and fast-paced business world. Their reach extends beyond borders, tapping into a wider pool of talent and thus making their services invaluable to corporations seeking to fill critical leadership roles.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

They do so by targeting weaknesses, pursuing stretch goals, and relentlessly pushing the bounds of their abilities. Source: Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success. It’s the only way to improve at a task you already perform reasonably well and elude the grasp of automaticity.”.

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Art Petty of Art Petty provided Leadership Power-Up: Make Time to Think Deeply.

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

Listed below are ten books released this year that will entertain, make you think, and improve your leadership. Their goal in writing the book is “to start conversations, not end them, and to provide guidance and frameworks to help refine your thinking and strategies on the aspects of leadership that matter most.”.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

as a engineer? When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Goal Alignment – Once strategic clarity is reached, leaders must constantly assess the degree to which projects, goals, tasks are aligned to your organization’s declared strategy. Also, leaders must ensure that all staff proactively commit to their performance and values goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2018

Fowler & Noal McDonald: Leadership is a complex idea: one that is not consistently easy to wrap our minds around. We know good leadership when we see it. If we think of what these experiences have in common, we might think of this quote by Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell: “Leadership molds individuals into a team.”

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 30, 2023

High-performance leadership isn’t just a goal; it’s the engine that propels us forward. Let’s explore how you can take your leadership skills to the next level as a high performing leader. Let’s explore how you can take your leadership skills to the next level as a high performing leader.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

Transformation is the natural byproduct of this type of leadership. Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree. Begin to Position Your Passion in Your Leadership Style. We as health consumers benefit. Conclusion.

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Experience to Lead

JULY 31, 2019

Shaping the Future by Learning from the Past The engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center have a tough job – to build the biggest rocket in the world. Their budget, [ ] The post How Adaptive Leadership Built a Giant Rocket – And Will Help You Meet Your Giant Goals, Too appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

One key aspect of leadership that people often skip over is motivation. You find that whatever was pushing you towards your goal simply ceased to exist. Vision and the awareness of long-term goals are the keys to internal motivation. Even if it is mentioned, the description lacks depth and useful tools. But then it stops.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Ron Schutz : Confidence is my #1 trait for leadership as an entrepreneur. As a leader, he had a clear vision of what he wanted to accomplish, yet he was willing to get off his white stallion and take a place of an MP directing traffic to keep his vision moving forward toward his goal. #3 4 Delegation.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

If your time goals are going well, reward yourself. Apps like Beeminder “takes $5 from your credit card for every goal you don’t meet.”. Engineer Defaults. Several of my colleagues already do his by engineering an auto-response in email to say, ‘Thank you for your message; as a rule, I check email once a day at 8:30 a.m.’”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

I was first introduced to the statement ‘leadership is a relationship’ in the book The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner. You have a common goal and a consistent purpose. The Product Management Perspective: Product managers depend on others in engineering, marketing, sales, etc. for their success.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal. Here are the five frameworks for health : Aspire : Health goals. Advance : Leadership placement.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

BetterWorks began with the simple, but deeply held goal of helping people feel like they are winning at work. Their enterprise goals platform, based on “Goal Science” thinking, is designed to engage, empower, and cross-functionally align workers. There are five key pillars to goal management: Connected. Progress-Based.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

It is by building into others and through assisting others in reaching their goals and objectives that you will find success. Generally speaking there are two types of spheres of influence…those that just evolve over time by default, and those that are strategically engineered.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

You asked for a sample goal. As long as we’re breathing and learning, it’s never too late to make positive change. * * * Michelle Gladieux is President of Gladieux Consulting , a Midwest-based team known for the design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Striving : Leadership questions if the business is on course. You are willing to learn new techniques and you want to make it easier to hire more high performers to help reach your goals faster. Some systems are designed for engineer personalities that crave a high level of detail. Deep down you know something isn’t quite right.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

The devotion that many leaders feel for their businesses infuses everything, from company culture and engineering to the snacks in the kitchen. Questions to ask include: What does the future of my company need from its leadership, given where it’s headed? Can I still help my company achieve its goals?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To compete as a world-class company, world-class executive leadership is required. And while finding this elite leadership who will take your organization to its desired future state is critical, top-tier candidates probably aren’t going to walk through the front door. Step 1: Discovery and Synthesis. Relationship-centric.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why is it that our feelings of accomplishment diminish so quickly after we achieve a goal or target? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why is it that our feelings of accomplishment diminish so quickly after we achieve a goal or target? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2017

Think of all the professions that people go into that require years of honing their craft: musician, doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher, scientist….the Although leadership has yet to acquire the title of “profession” (even if it should), it similarly requires continual awareness, learning, and fine tuning in the craft of leading others.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Rapid-action, agile automation engines have emerged as the only resource for businesses to become fully functional, integrated, robotic enterprises that can adapt with the dynamic economy, consumer demand, internal logistics, business goals, and social landscape. About the Author. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft.

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