Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. Those who lack vision or don’t know how to identify and act on their vision will struggle with wealth attainment, achievement of goals, and personal fulfillment. Some of them came to fruition.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. The end goal of all of these principles is to cultivate excitement which enables you to love what you do. There are toxic work environments that reflect on where you work and not why you hate your work.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

In Transforming the Clunky Organization , Samuel Bacharach takes on the two fundamental sources of organizational inertia —the tendency to be clunky and the tendency to be myopic. The clunky organization is characterized by a state of organized anarchy. The clunky organization is missing the big picture.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

Now, in his long-awaited book for leaders at all levels, bestselling author Mike Michalowicz reveals his proven formula to build an unstoppable team for any work environment. 1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. Watkins Michael D.

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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.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2015

It’s about how you can achieve your goals more fully and faster by expanding your limited view of reality. In reaching your goals we also need to watch our language because it influences the way we see things (and the way others see us too). Roth describes the flat organization of the d.school over the last forty years.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Some of these are genetic, and others are part of our environment growing up. These are things in your control, like how you set goals, behave, develop, network, present yourself, and manage your sleep. The 8 steps to high performance are: Step One: Set Big Goals. You can’t deliver big results if you don’t have big goals.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. Unfortunately, this can take a toll on employees if businesses focus on efficiency but don’t create an environment where people feel they belong. Achieving clarity of purpose.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful individuals and firms can never forget the importance of people, their emotions, the culture of the organization, and what cannot be measured. Each of these sections is full of practices to help integrate them into our organizations—to make them more human. Introduce art into your organization. It’s a balance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

They are fighting for what they want, and organizations that don’t meet them in the middle will simply be left behind. Organizations that stand any chance of making it to the future of work will do the following: Prioritize DEI and make it a clear part of your ongoing way of doing work - you have to walk the walk.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

In Positively Energizing Leadership , Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Kim Cameron, says it is about “how to capitalize on an inherent tendency in all living systems to orient themselves toward light or life-giving positive energy. They expect us to be better.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Without effective leadership in place, organizations can’t achieve their goals, and employees may start looking for jobs elsewhere. Closing the gap on leadership skills is the number one priority of 58% of companies , while only 18% feel their leaders are “very effective” at achieving business goals. Become more self-aware.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Done right, culture will engage something deeper within employees’ sense of themselves, ideally in ways that are aligned with business goals.” Even in institutions where the message never changes, the environment it is in does, and therefore delivery changes. It’s a good time to reimagine your organization.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

Scenarios are also collaborative—typically involving teams of people, often from various levels within an organization—and there is often a creative dimension, as opposed to being purely based on quantitative number-crunching. Scenarios provide longer-term, multiple futures based on unknown risks and uncertainties (e.g., the results of a U.S.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2019

Mark Miller says that “for many organizations, engagement is the final battle to becoming a high-performance organization.” Blake and his team define engagement as “a condition of the heart reflecting an individual’s level of genuine care for their work, coworkers, and the organization. Environment.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. The Growth Rings illustrate differing environments that exist in our world and how they either promote or hinder growth. Stagnation is a low-performing or low/no growth environment.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. Having effective leaders can help a company achieve its goals and maximize efficiency.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems. How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving by Amy E Herman. With Amy Herman’s Fixed., Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win.

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Leading Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Former lead solo Blue Angel pilot John Foley writes in Fearless Success : “In a high-performance organization, individual talents will come and go, but the culture and the process of the organization need to be so strong that change doesn’t negatively impact forward motion.” What the Blue Angles do is inherently unforgiving.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2018

In Fusion , Denise Lee Yohn makes the case that “you can unleash great power when you fuse together your organization’s two nuclei: your culture—the way the people in your organization behave and the attitudes and belief that inform then (i.e., “the Are you who you say you are? Denise offers a number of ways to do that.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Success today,” say Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni in Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go , “rests upon finding ways to continuously expand everyone’s capacity, engagement, and ability to contribute to the organization.”. Their framework for career development is organized around three types of conversations: Hindsight Conversations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted. And that feeds our approach in society at large. That’s not the way to lead.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

Leadershift #2 Goals to Growth – The Personal Development Shift. Rather than focusing on goals, focus on growth. Goals helped me do better, but growth helped me become better.” You have to put doing what’s right for your people and organization ahead of what feels right for you.” Begin on the inside.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Caught in the middle of all this were managers, the face of the organization to their teams. Creating a team environment with the tools available. They also have goals for themselves, personally and professionally. Presenting to a live audience on-site and a virtual group at the same time. #2. Advocating.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Entrepreneurial leaders must have the ability to learn fast in environments of ambiguity and change, while providing clarity and coherence for those around them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Stoller points out, Lean organizations outperform non-Lean organizations for two basic reasons: Brings Out the Best in People. A Lean organization is essentially a learning organization which makes it especially suited for uncertain times. A self-serving leader would never survive in a Lean environment.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

I’ve often told people in new organizations I joined that I trust them until that trust is violated. The goal was to pull the Warsaw Pact nations out of Russia’s sphere of influence and into ours. My leadership style needed to adapt to this very different environment, or I would fail. Stronger performance is often the result.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Jim Haudan and Rich Berens hope to help you uncover five common leadership blind spots by exposing the underlying assumptions behind the consequences we see played out over and over again in all types of organizations. An organization primarily focused on the hitting the numbers is a push mentality. Leadership Blind Spot #4: Trust.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They created a workplace environment in which my contributions mattered and in every human interaction with me demonstrated this. Humanizing leadership is about overcoming an outdated organizational view that taught us to define oneself and value to our organization by the closed and often fragmented black boxes on the organizational chart.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Trust levels differ from organization to organization. While trust levels are not fixed, ‘what tends to motivate people within any organization tells you what level of trust you might realistically hope for.” So low-trust organizations rely on fear and high-trust organizations are motivated by duty and love.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

As a leader you need to be concerned about the environment of the people you lead. The litmus test of a learning organization is being receptive to information that goes against the established way and a tolerance for failure and mistakes.” Frankly, I have never read about an organization with such radical transparency.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Moreover, it severely limits the organization. When you’re open and transparent about the answers to three questions — who made the decision, who is accountable for the outcomes of the decision, and is that accountability real — people in organizations spend far less time questioning how or why a decision was made.” It is an illusion.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He organizes the book in terms of the changing nature of his leadership responsibilities as he moved up the ranks. When commanding a large number of troops or a large organization, a leader must be able to communicate their intent in such a way as to allow people to act. Good character development is evident in Call Sign Chaos.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Profit is necessary, but it shouldn’t be the paramount goal.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

N O MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, our environment affects us in powerful, insidious, and mysterious ways. Our environment triggers behaviors or responses in us. Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

Clarity is the foundational fabric that weaves together dreams, goals, initiatives, concerns, challenges, and triumphs. Clarity not only defines an organization, but it also protects and stabilizes it too. Clarity should transcend your environment. As individuals and organizations we all have constraints.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

While not readily measureable, they can make or break leaders and organizations. Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. A learning organization that adapts well to change.

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