Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There is something we can do to put joy back into our work. On the next occasion, you find yourself asking for something urgently, ask yourself whether you really do need it ASAP. I think the way that we’re approaching knowledge work we’re going to look back at in maybe fifteen years from now and say hat was disastrously unproductive.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Lessons from the Titans : What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success br Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer. Today’s leaders can learn a great deal from their successes, as well as their missteps. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 9, 2024

What were they thinking? Although it pales in comparison …How often do people overlook illegal activities, cover up abuses, fail to stand up for injustice, or sit idly by while people bully their victims? If your boss tells you to do something unethical does that let you off the hook? They personified the worst of humanity.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And every time someone chooses it, I learn more about how leaders can make smart choices around what needs to be perfect and what can be good enough. Instead, we need to do what economists call “satisficing.” More and more of the leaders I’m working with are learning how to let go of their version of “perfect.”

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 19, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Mark Zuckerberg If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. It’s about them.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

“What do you do after you go home at night?” We talked over the day and the week, and how we were doing. Everybody who wants to get ahead works hard. What makes the difference is what you do after you leave here.” If you only do one thing on this list, do this. Just do them.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 5, 2019

Think about this for a minute – a plumber deals with pressure and flow all the time –in this case as it pertains to water. And that’s where a leader can learn a lot from a plumber. There’s a role a leader must play that in this day and age is even more important than being a teacher or mentor. Yep, a plumber.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

Building trust is a skill that can be learned and developed, and once you have those skills, you can be intentional about acting in ways that build trust with others. They assume others view trust the same way they do. Everybody has their own view of what trust means, based on their unique personal experience.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Maxwell offers six As to guide us: Assessment of Needs (what do you need?), Having a leadership table means creating a place in your organization or on your team where people have a place to learn, an opportunity to practice leadership with its successes and failures, and a chance to shine.”. Learn their perspective.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Shallow thinking might lead you to say, “Well yeah. And—I’m living proof—it can work for anybody and everybody. Absolutely anybody is entitled to dream big, and absolutely everybody should dream big. Absolutely anybody is entitled to dream big, and absolutely everybody should dream big. What do I do?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

Cal Jr, learned from his grandfather the value of listening. He was convinced that everyone he met was smarter than he, and that he needed to learn something from each of them. If people are keeping an eye on what you’re doing,” he said, “then you might think twice about doing something you shouldn’t. ”

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Strategic Planning Teamwork Retail Learning-by-Doing 153

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How to perfect the do-to-say ratio. Regarding the do-to-say ratio, Bryant shares that one of the easiest ways to set yourself apart is to build a reputation for reliability and follow-through—somebody who always does what they say they are going to do. That book, in essence, is about what leaders do.

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Decker Communication

JUNE 3, 2021

Then it’s followed by “what can I do about it?”. Before diving into “what can I do about it,” it’s always important to first understand why is this happening. In the work we do, there is an obvious pattern with clients. Oprah was once asked, “in all your years on your show, what did you learn about people?”

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2024

David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle provides a foundational framework for Experiential Learning formats. David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle provides a foundational framework for Experiential Learning formats. How do facilitators strike this balance in a Learning Experience?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer. What should I do?” 00:37 So today we’re talking about a question that came from one of Let’s Grow Leaders Asking For A Friend segments, which is something we do in our leadership development programs.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In other words, it creates greater job satisfaction for everybody. Everybody learns differently, and this means that we’ve got to be more valuable in terms of how our employees absorb and retain information. A lot of the time we tell employees to do X, Y, and Z, and expect them to get on with it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

My success came about through a combination of hard work, continual learning, fortunate career choices, and a bit of luck—by being in the right place at the right time ,” writes Ron Williams. In Learning to Lead , Williams shows how anyone can grow and succeed as leaders. Do it for you and build a reputation. “

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A lot of meeting leaders think they know how to “run” a meeting. They may set an agenda, do most of the talking and make the decisions. Facilitation” skills can be learned. Then, they need to learn and practice some new skills: meeting facilitation skills. Most people think they already know how to brainstorm.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 19, 2023

Reacting to his quizzical look as they walked into the theatre, Mark’s Mom said, “It’s OK, son, everybody does it.” As he waited for the number, he said to Mark, “It’s OK, son, everybody does it.” “It’s OK; everybody does it.” “It’s OK; everybody does it.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

Bryant shares what Tachi Yamada of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program had to say about feedback: “One of the things I’ve learned is that it doesn’t matter how many good things you say, the one bad thing is what sticks….Everybody Everybody has their good points. Everybody has their good points.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

At the same time I couldn’t help but think that if everyone were as ambitious as he, they would all be lining up for his job. We need people who are happy to do those jobs. Managers, why do you think that some of your very talented employees are satisfied with being in the middle of the pack?”. The work isn’t bad.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2022

When it comes to boosting our business profile, a lot of people make the mistake of getting the right tools and thinking this is enough. Analyzing your data is invaluable to companies of all shapes and sizes, and this is why you need to learn how to analyze your data better. You need to learn how valuable this data is.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

As Niall Ferguson observed in The Square and the Tower , “Often the biggest changes in history are the achievements of thinly documented, informally organized groups of people.”. It is an insightful book with engaging examples of what has worked and what hasn’t. Forced change is not sustainable. He begins by explaining how small groups work and why.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There are any number of reasons to pay attention to primaries, one of which is you can learn a lot about leadership communications strategies and tactics by watching how the candidates do what they do. And, by the way, what do they already care about?) What do you want people to do next? So What? –

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This is why the work we do is often bad for our wellbeing, when it should be making us happier and healthier. This is why the work we do is often bad for our wellbeing, when it should be making us happier and healthier. Life is about what you do that improves the world around you. Life is not what you get out of it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? How do you respond? Help Your Team Solve the Right Problem 00:54 How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? When someone walks up to you and says, can I talk to you for a minute?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The antidote to compromise is to “ work twice as hard on your character as you do on your competency.” After all, we’re encouraged to think of others as better than ourselves. Irrelevance happens when what you do no longer connects to the culture and the people around you. But here’s the thing. It’s not really just for leaders.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 19, 2023

They assume people trust them by virtue of their title or position, when the reality is they aren’t as trusted as they think they are. Building trust is a skill that can be learned and developed, and once you have those skills, you can be intentional about acting in ways that build trust with others.

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Leading Blog

MAY 28, 2021

Consequently, it’s routine to ask clients: How long do you want to continue working? Do you have someone in place who could lead the firm if you either live too long, die too soon, or become disabled? They’re asking themselves: Do I want to sell the business? Do I want to turn the business over to one or more of my children?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The problem, decision, or plan has to be something that affects the entire team and that everybody has some expertise to contribute. Sometimes, however, organizations need to control when information is released – they want everybody to get it at the same time. They can be as painful as a two-hour root canal!

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And, in so doing, they taught anybody that was swept up in the wave of their accomplishments a whole heck of a lot—about leadership! And, please, do not take my word for it! So, I ask you to think about how much these kids had to practice and fail and practice some more, to get where they wound up. Double plays! Diving catches!

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Davis asks, “ How do great coaches turn a collection if individuals into a coherent us ?” This is really the task of every leader, but interviewing sports figures is a good place to start learning about building teams that can perform at a consistently high level. They each had to learn to do what was right for them.

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Meyer Sports Learning-by-Doing Quality 165

HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

EVOLVING LEARNING FOR A TRANSFORMED WORKPLACE. Lawmakers working with education providers and organizations themselves could do more to improve fundamental STEM abilities through the educational systems and improved on-the-job training. An enhance emphasis on creativity, life-long learning, and critical thinking is required.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Do you have a business card?” Cayla replied, “I know you think you don’t have time for this. Elephant thinking.”. Okay, I understand that I have assumed constraints about this scissors and card trick, but what’s that got to do with my work situation?” Cayla asked. Sure,” Steve said. I apologize. It’s a challenge.”

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a great opportunity to learn, and she expected to be working at the confectionary giant for a couple of years. I had to continue to learn in every role I did in Mars,” she told CMI CEO Ann Francke OBE, in a recent edition of The Leading Issue. “I Want to learn more about Fiona's management journey? She was 21.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

Lying by Example: Actions Shout Louder Than Words My blog, Being the Change We Want to See in Others , updated Jack Griffin’s classic story of family hypocrisy entitled, “It’s OK, son, everybody does it.” But they do expect synchronized leading — leaders who are the change they want to see in others.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 26, 2014

Sometimes a leader needs to think like a plumber. Think about pressure for a minute. And that’s where a leader can learn a lot from a plumber. Everybody gets unhappy with something at one point or another. Yep, a plumber. A plumber deals with pressure all the time – in their case, water pressure.

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