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Does Your Culture Engine Need a Tune-Up?

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In his new book, The Culture Engine, veteran leadership consultant Chris Edmonds makes the very valid point that many leaders focus far more on what their organizations do than how they actually do it. General Leadership Next Level Podcast audio Chris Edmonds podcast The Culture Engine'

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When Leadership, Ingenuity and Humanity Won the Day

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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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Are You Pulling the Thread Through?

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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. If that sounds at all familiar, one of your tasks as a leader is to pull the thread through.

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Your Checklist for Leading with an “Us” Mindset

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Most of my posts will touch on one of the three core leadership imperatives I discuss in the new edition of The Next Level : Manage yourself. You can read more about how I think about how the three of those work together in this post from last summer, How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid? Leverage your team. Engage your colleagues.

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Calm the Conflict with FaceTime and a Beer

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The show of leadership unity that was engineered over a virtual happy hour was a crucial component of getting things back on track. Later that day, he set up a FaceTime call with his colleague and they each had a beer while they talked things over. Thanks to my client for giving me the OK to share his story with you.).

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Three Things Every Leadership Offsite Needs - Next Level Blog

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In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones. Here, in my humble opinion, are three things that every leadership offsite agenda has to have: Context: You absolutely have to answer the question, “Why are we here and why does it matter?”

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Mindful Mondays – Two Resources from Google’s Jolly Good Fellow

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Even though he started out as an engineer at Google, Jolly Good Fellow is Meng-Tan’s job title today. Mindful Mondays Personal Presence Cheng-Meng Tan leadership mindfulness Search Inside Yourself' Click headline to continue.

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