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How to Create Your Leadership Scorecard

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Like a lot of my executive coaching clients, I believe that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. When it comes to leadership development, measuring your progress doesn’t have to be complicated or burdensome. You can drive a lot of change and hold yourself accountable by creating a simple leadership scorecard for yourself.

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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

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When I talk about the ideas in my book, The Next Level , one of the first things I usually say is that the next level is any leadership situation which requires different results. The ideas I’m sharing in this post are the basics of a crisis leadership playbook that is something of a work in progress. When I was writing the 3 rd.

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Progress Comes Incrementally Then Suddenly

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Beginning my birthday with one this morning is an example of something I’ve learned through experience over the past decade – progress comes incrementally, then suddenly. Take large scale organizational change for example. The leadership team lays out a plan and goes to work. And, for me, that’s become a metaphor for life.

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The Leadership Difference Between Being Accessible and Available

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Ever had a manager who told you they had an “open-door policy?” They do in the dictionary, but they don’t in the realm of leadership. There’s a big difference between the two and the example of the leader who has an open-door policy but is never around to answer it explains the difference. Accessible and Available.

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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

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What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Together, they’ve been key components of the team that had to scale their leadership to meet the critical increase in demand for their services.

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How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

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For example, a study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership shows that 40 percent of new executives fail within eighteen months of being named to their positions. Managing yourself is at the base of the pyramid. Establishing a sustainable life rhythm is at the heart of managing yourself effectively.

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A Framework for Leadership Action in the VUCA of the Pandemic

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Up until now, the period following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis have been among the most often cited examples of VUCA environments. With that in mind, here’s a simple framework for getting started with VUCA leadership that I came up with last year when I was working with a group of global general managers.