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. Health is about the how.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Should you process risk? All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” Through the examples of people who had to cross that barrier of doubt and fully commit to their potential, you will find parallels to your own experience. Absolutely. If that is survivable, then burn the boats.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Cote shares in Winning Now, Winning Later , a practical example of playing the infinite game. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. The process begins by defining reality and banishing intellectual laziness. It is a process. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For example, knowing that your staff members, Michael and Afua, are motivated by high financial compensation is important. For example, Michael and Afua both value money, and they both negotiate strongly for more compensation in performance reviews. Are they moving away from or toward something money offers them?

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

You could also say it is based on a dynamic sequence of interacting events, causal processes, and critical decision points. Forecasting is a less creative process and does not anticipate significant shifts in the business environment, which can cause considerable challenges for organizational strategy and a firm’s performance.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Recognizing that confidence and fearlessness were attitudes that could be adopted and taught by example, Churchill issued a directive to all ministers to put on a strong positive front. ‘In Erik Larson commenting on Winston Churchill’s belief that leaders should make people feel “loftier, stronger, and, above all, more courageous:”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Drawing on real world examples to introduce complex issues, he shows us how statistics can help us determine the luckiest passenger on the Titanic, whether a notorious serial killer could have been caught earlier, and if screening for ovarian cancer is beneficial. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. The correct balance of these two activities helps us achieve our goals.” When people think of their achievements in terms of mile markers in a journey, they are more likely to continue the behaviors that resulted in them reaching that goal.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process. We must learn to push through the fear and trust in the process. The process consists of the people you bring together and the way they interact.”. The process consists of the people you bring together and the way they interact.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Then, you need to direct your thinking and feeling patterns, and the behaviors that result, to evaluating reality clearly, making the wisest decisions, and accomplishing your goals. Its cognitive processes take place mainly in the amygdala and other parts of the brain that developed early in our evolution. So how do our minds work?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

This process, Mukunda calls the Leader Filtration Process (LFP). A given LFP will filter candidates through a process designed to find those who conform to a specific value system—a Modal or standard leader. The military’s promotion system is an example of a tight filtration process. EXTREME LEADERS.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, professors at Harvard Business School, explore these changes in Competing in the Age of AI with examples of businesses in many industries. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We can become so narrowly focused under pressure that our ability to process information shrinks, and our ability to absorb helpful information diminishes. In peak pressure moments, the goal is simple: perform.” That’s the paradox of pressure. When the moment is over, so is the pressure. “In Long haul pressure is different.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

Asking the right questions helps us figure out what matters, where opportunity lies, and how to achieve our goals.” Example after example demonstrate how often off-beat “why” questions were at the foundation of many innovations. It brings some order to an otherwise chaotic an unpredictable process.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience, many companies view “growth” as increased top-line revenue or sales, additional product lines, or entry into new markets, for example. Agility and flexibility are replaced by process and a mind-numbing disconnect from business goals. Culture and process are inextricably linked.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Competing agendas often complicate the process. By asking more of these questions – of yourself and others -- you articulate goals, set benchmarks and assess risk. They ask about long-term goals, interests, and priorities. Is the goal in your best interests? Complete certainty is seldom possible. Who will it help?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

If we wish to perform better, we should examine our own selectivity process. The typical inside-out view, by contrast, measures work according to whether we have completed our tasks and goals, regardless of whether they produce any benefits.” They become lone crusaders for their efforts—and they exhaust themselves in the process.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For example, the amount of incoming communication is staggering. We still need to reach our goals, meet deadlines, and produce results. Space for their brains to percolate and process the mounds of the information they’ve been packing in. Through the process of letting go, you can find time you never knew you had.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

We can be so focused on the goal that we forget the process. If we don’t, we make poor judgments, we misplace our loyalties, confuse priorities, and forget the well-being of the people we lead and the example we provide. Lost in the agenda, we forget who we are and those we serve. We move so fast we can’t hear our own values.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Halstead helpfully provides examples of powerful questions to achieve specific goals. If this is the case, Halstead recommends that we walk them through the process so they can see what it will take to get the job done. opens the door to additional thought but closes the door on the conversation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Marshall Goldsmith , executive educator and coach: I believe that the process of reflection is more important today than ever before. Most people's immediate action will very likely be an automatic non-conscious process that they're not aware of. For example, “I have this meeting with my boss and I know he’s upset about something.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

Ashby’s Law says you need to bring a matching amount of variety to the solving process.” Example: “What must we do in the next 12 months to drive necessary changes in mind-set, action, and behavior to fully realize the benefits of…?”. Target A Requisite Variety of Solvers. Involve the right people.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 8, 2014

He places the development of leaders into a five-step process: Establish a Relationship, Engage a Follower, Embrace a Team, Coach an Apprentice, and finally, Mentor a New Leader. Those of us who are leaders are the models, the ones people look to as examples. But receiving credit should not be your goal.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In a world filled with busyness and stress, I find that too often leaders can act like hard-charging, fast-driving bus drivers that have a vision and goal within their sights and they’ll run over anyone – even their own employees – to reach their destination. As John Maxwell said, “If you are all alone at the top, you are not a leader.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Examples cited by Smith include: Ike appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren and four other Supreme Court justices who would usher in a what is fairly seen as a “revolution” in civil rights jurisprudence. Eisenhower completed the long overdue process of desegregating the armed forces. Ike: Civil Rights, Space. He was a skilled writer.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2011

When we first set a goal we’re clear. But between here and there the process become difficult and someone on your team becomes unhappy, and, “instead of focusing on the island we are trying to reach, we’re now concentrating on pleasing the one person who is upset. Too often this is where we get stuck. In her terms, “we see the island.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The goal is to achieve collaboratively what you could never achieve individually, and to do that, you need to care about the people you’re working with. When people embrace the fullest meaning of compassion as a process of “struggling with” others in creative conflict, they can transform lives, companies, and the world. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Their credibility is based on their example. Leaders at this level understand that the highest goal of leadership is to develop more leaders, not to gain followers or do work. Leadership is influence and it is a process. A leader is tasked with getting things done. They get things done. Level 5 leaders develop Level 4 leaders.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Failure informed the process and thus spurred them on. French aviator Léon Delagrange wrote, “Wilber Wright is the best example of strength of character that I have ever seen. That way, if one were to be killed, the other could still carry on the work.” Determination. They knew how to deal with failure.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2011

Once you experience the gratification of triumph in the pursuit of meaningful goals, the virtuous cycle of realizing potential becomes a regenerating flywheel that is transmitted to others.”. A person’s potential can only emerge as an active process, consciously cultivated through a fluid, ongoing exchange between leaders and their people.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Millennials, for example, are observed to prefer jobs that make a difference over those that provide a large salary, and their iGen counterparts show less interest or movement toward independence. This entails: 1. Building and maintaining a strong family dynamic. Family members give and receive feedback openly and constructively.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You can reach new goals, grow, and make meaningful contributions in life and in business even in the throes of change and unpredictability. Delve into the reasons behind an organization's decline through in-depth analysis and real-world examples.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

In Never Stop Learning published by Harvard Business Review Press, UNCC professor Bradley Staats provides the processes we need to follow to become perpetual learners. Learning is a process that requires your constant attention. Learning Requires Process Focus, Not Outcome Focus. Learners focus on how they got to the result.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

These are the people who inspire and motivate and encourage people to do their best work towards a common goal. Their definitions were all over the board and included things like leaders being able to drive business success and reach goals to human skills like connecting with people and being humble.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For example, “health is equated with hospitals, education with schoolhouses, news with newspapers, spirituality with the church, a city with city hall.” Advanced Leadership is a different mindset than single-minded leadership furthering its own goals within a single organization. And we look to these institutions for solutions.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The process typically ends with a vision statement that has no connection to the employees, customers, or community. While competitive dominance and service excellence are nice goals for senior managers, they do not motivate frontline employees. Some have even gone so far as to copy and paste it to their email signature.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Take a look at the pillar of clarity for example. A doable goal also facilitates engagement and optimism. Leaders must be actively engaged in this process, taking their teams from start to finish, then circling back around to repeat the process. Clarity increases trust instantly.

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