Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In my last two articles, I’ve explored the concept of a team’s Conversational Capacity ®. Teams that have a high conversational capacity know how to stay in the “ sweet spot.” The fight reaction shows itself in team communication when people engage in “win” behavior. We should disband the team and use the resources elsewhere.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2021

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of Human Resources Leadership In this ever-changing business landscape, the role of human resources (HR) leadership continues to evolve and adapt to meet the demands of a dynamic workforce. Moreover, HR leaders must have a keen eye for emerging talent coupled with attracting and retaining top performers.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Formula 1 racing is an industry built on speed, innovation, and teamwork. Flexible Work Arrangements and Pay Flexible work arrangements are not commonly offered to F1 team employees, especially those in roles that require on-track activities, such as mechanics, engineers, and drivers.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Working with event professionals to deliver an entertaining event experience that provides useful content attendees can take back to their team to improve results and retention is something I am passionate about and enjoy tremendously! It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2021

Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to overcome these setbacks. 0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy-good price. Leading When Things Break. It’s unavoidable.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2019

When creating an innovation team, we often put a lot of thought and effort into bringing the right functional expertise together. Making sure we have diverse marketing, design, engineering, product supply, finance, research and innovation working together early in the process is certainly smart.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When Things Get Crazy, Look for Ways To Empower Your Team by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. Three Ways Leaders Can Solve the “People Problems” That Hold Teams Back via @KelloggInsight “I am trying to point out flaws in your approach. Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team's Engine More Powerful by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr.

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

Professional development has emerged as a vital tool for business owners and engineers alike to enhance their skills, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success. The Power of Lifelong Learning The landscape of business and engineering is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and market demands.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. Further, without empathy, leaders can’t build a team, inspire followers, or elicit loyalty.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. A big part of that is having a simple vision that teams can rally around and a strategic direction that leaders can buy into and articulate easily throughout the organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? 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 do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? 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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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Leadership requires passion. Before the [x] team starts pursuing any idea, it first checks to see if the idea fits into this three-part paradigm. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” Five Lessons'

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

How do I approach team building ; as a scientist? as a engineer? In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their view and use that to achieve results? How might I work with a team and people to be ‘humbly arrogant’? Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’. Gilbert ‘Human Competence’.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“People may just generally experience more of the positive stuff and are less likely to recall specifically negative leadership behaviors, especially if they’re overall happy in their workplace.” They asked them about bad situations with their bosses, like if their bosses publicly embarrassed their team or got very angry.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

After the first or second round of interviews, if the candidate scored high on the prerequisites, the team would gather for a reality check and ask each other: "Would you mind being stuck in an airport for 9 hours with this person?” In leadership, likability looks different depending upon the context.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. Leverage these gatherings to open your team to ideas for improvement, growth, or new opportunities. Flipping the conversation will prompt your team to think critically about things that need to change.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

In the face of rapidly advancing innovation, many organizations are grappling with the growing skills gap. Foster strong leadership: Today’s workforce is facing constant change, from the rise of hybrid work to generative AI and widening skills gaps, leaving over half of employees feeling burnt out. Change leadership is essential.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

To begin: In the digital age, competitive advantage is the ability to win the ultimate prize—the consumer’s preference— repeatedly , through continuous innovation on behalf of the consumer, and to create immense value for the shareholders at the same time. Their decision-making is designed for innovation and speed.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2024

Amy Edmondson Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation.

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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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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. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Guest post from John R Childress: In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and highly influential. Leadership is a responsibility!

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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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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. How could you use a variation of the Miracle Question with your team?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Team: If the other elements in the diamond-and-square framework are aligned, a weak team is unlikely to deal a death blow to the venture. Partners: As with decisions about team members, bad choices about partners rarely are the primary cause of a startup’s demise. How much innovation is too much? False Positives.

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