Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

For example, “Pat is just our assistant,” “You need to just figure it out,” or “Just wondering if you’ve looked at the proposal.” The words we use matter, especially in a leadership role where our teams regularly react and listen closely to what we share. This word becomes problematic when we use it in the context of people.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

How well one leads, thinks, and engages with others depends on how well one manages and optimizes what’s going on in one’s mind, brain, and body. Visualize, for example, how you would behave to be kind. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. instead of adversaries. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. He demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier. Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

What this hopefully demonstrates is that effective leadership is born not out of what leaders do or what behaviors they engage in, but first and foundationally in how they see and interpret the situations they find themselves in. The answer to this question is the foundation of effective leadership: leaders’ mindsets. Until now.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Jacobs provides an instructive example from his family life: When we put our kids to bed at night, we’d ask them the same question many parents do: How was your day? I learned, for example, to turn my internal chatter to my advantage by reframing negative thoughts as useful data rather than objective reality.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It’s very easy to have what CEO Seah Chin Siong of the Singapore Institute of Management calls “goal erosion,” defining it as “Doing what is easy, going through the motions, but not doing the hard things the ultimate mission requires.” The people around us are different, and the issues we confront are likely to be more complex.

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Leading Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Marc and Samantha Hurwitz on the importance of followership on management performance as you move up the organizational ladder: “There is a lot less forgiveness for poor followership at the middle-manager level because much more of the job is about building partnerships, setting an example, and working in the larger organizational context.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. For example, they are decisive when they need to be collaborative. For example, they are decisive when they need to be collaborative.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Leadership begins by taking responsibility for the gap between what is and what should be. Ed O’Malley and Julia McBride believe that anyone can lead, not by being a leader, but by exercising leadership. We need to choose leadership over comfort. Leadership always starts with dissatisfaction. Manage Risk.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

When co-workers, managers, and their subordinates lose respect for one another, it negatively impacts their work and the work of the people around them. Some organizations respond with well-meaning exhortations to “just get along,” or they encourage private chats with human resources or senior management. Without a doubt, yes.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Without defined processes, you can’t scale, you can’t put metrics and instrumentation in place, you can’t manage. Example: Amazon Kindle Fire’s Mayday feature. “Well-defined processes help prevent bureaucracy or expose it if it exists.” Bezos believes, “Good process is absolutely essential. But avoiding bureaucracy is essential.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Ego Free Leadership : Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes “Anytime we know intellectually what to do, but our actual behavior is inconsistent or in contradiction, it is a sign we are being short-circuited by our egosystem. Grants example is instructive for us today. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. In ice hockey, for example, players have a decision to make when the puck is passed to them. When upper management leaders play their positions and trust their teammates to do what they say they’re going to do in their plans, something else happens.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, organizations use some services on contract — legal services, for example. In construction companies, for example, this would seem to be the capacity to secure contracts and choose the right subcontractors. For example, some hospitals affiliate to negotiate with suppliers for better prices.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

I am a Boomer, so my view regarding trust, authority, and truth, for example, is different than those generations that came after me. Though, given their worldview, led may be too strong a word – even manage may be too strong. Managers can use the SKS framework both to provide effective feedback: What should I stop doing?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

T HE GAP IN OUR LEADERSHIP arises as a result of the disconnect between how we think people are experiencing our leadership and how they are actually experiencing our leadership. And where we find that disconnect we limit or even derail our leadership potential. The “shadow” you. The Explorer who is fueled by intuition.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. Examples could be: “What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever made?”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

G RATITUDE increases our leadership effectiveness as drives out fear and blame, gives meaning and confidence to all, and boosts productivity. When it is genuine and specific, it is the “easiest, fastest, and cheapest way that managers can boost performance and employee engagement.” Gratitude is more than saying thank you.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

F Futurist Bob Johansen tells us in The New Leadership Literacies , that over the next ten years the world will become explosively more connected. To help prepare leaders for the future, he offers a list of five new leadership literacies. The military, for example, uses simulations to train soldiers. What Leaders Need to Do.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. Leadership Insight: How to Spot Fear by @KateNasser. The Power of a Strong Leadership Foundation by @DougConant. Leadership by What Example? Self-Awareness and Leadership: The Ins and Outs via @DDIworld. from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. The biggest challenge most leaders and managers face is deciding what to do when confronted with a new situation. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

W HAT ARE the defining characteristics of successful leadership? He offers the following chart to illuminate the effect of clarity and intentionality on our leadership effectiveness. The quadrant of No Leadership is negligent leadership—no direction and no way to get there. Intentional leadership is effective leadership.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. Management that doesn’t confront problems and make the necessary tough decisions to change, typically ends up with a culture focused on pride in the past and the protection of old procedures. In What’s Holding You Back?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Michael Lindsay observed that the best leaders have shown excellent management of the transitional events in their lives: “The challenge with life is that we have to live it moving forward, but we only really understand it looking back. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. A moral hazard exists when organizations and individuals are not required to bear the negative consequences of their failures.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stress. We become disengaged, demotivated, and unfulfilled. But in between is the Challenge Zone.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

You will find many examples others have used in building their culture. These mark our leadership. In the game of Culture , Miller offers three rules but says there are infinite moves you can make. There are an infinite number of ways to get it done when we think about how we want to shape and build the culture of our organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. But they are more likely to boost the odds of failure by creating yet one more serious problem for management to deal with. T HE FACT IS most startups fail. It is easy to blame the founders.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Understanding the difference and managing both is key to dealing with a crisis successfully. There is no script for managing it. Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process. A crisis management team needs to consist of three categories of people. A crisis calls for agile leadership.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. The next area to consider is the crucial importance of distributed Leadership, which follows naturally from the transpersonal perspective. Here is one example from a leader. Which might yours be?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies.

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