Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Helping executives and entrepreneurs solve their toughest problems over the past decade, Frei and Morriss learned that the trade-off between speed and excellence is false. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Usually, they’re being made within your executive team. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem. This, too, starts with the executive team. I call this a culture of feedback.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

S OME of my executive clients believe, instinctively, that content is king. When you focus on inspiration, not just information, you’ll find yourself engaging and inspiring your teams to follow your lead as well as your content. * * * Joel Schwartzberg is a communications executive, public speaking trainer, and author of Get to the Point!

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Build a strong foundation, cultivate a healthy respect for the unforeseen, and follow a business practice that includes proper preparation and execution, and you not only have the potential to achieve great things, you'll have a lot of fun doing so. * * * Stan Rose , PhD is an MIT biologist turned life sciences executive and entrepreneur who has created (..)

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

In Courage to Execute he writes, “Leaders of high-performing teams encourage their people to ask these two questions: First, is there someone on my team that needs my help in achieving our objectives? But among these, leadership comes first. Bad leadership will doom a team. Leaders hold themselves accountable for the team’s performance.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Leading Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Generating ideas and executing things is of course also important! Alex Kantrowitz on the burden of execution: “Drowning in execution work, today’s companies devote themselves to refinement, not invention. So they deliver a limited set of ideas from the top, and everyone else executes and polishes.”.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

When organizations send clients to me for executive coaching, the work usually focuses on one of two things: How the leader thinks about their job, and how they do that job. As a result, he would identify the solution, inform others, and tell them to execute. Tommy felt overworked and underappreciated.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc., In countless cases, leaders have missed opportunities to tap into the enormous potential associated with the development of character to create innovation and excellence.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

However, in high-stakes situations, our doubts, self-talk, low awareness, ill-preparedness, and instinct-led execution can make or break our attempts. Instinct-led execution. When the stakes are low — say, we botched the chance to change seats with another passenger on a plane — it’s not a disaster.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In spite of the times, some companies were pursuing excellence in the execution of their missions. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy. Rob Mathews is the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at Ball University. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Love and greed.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

You can become an empathic leader whether you’re a new manager, a C-suite executive, or you’re simply leading by example in any job even if you don’t manage anyone. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types. It is also for tough people in any field.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Executive coach Art Petty leverages this idea in his workshops. Rather, it is a process of mutual exploration and exchange during which the “teacher” and the “learner” become smarter. Interactive teaching/learning is a critical skill, and it springs from a curious mind. It comes across as freshness and openness on the part of the leader.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

And then they execute.” “The soon-to-be hot streakers first allow themselves to charge up by experimenting in a variety of areas, with varying degrees of success. After exploration, the individuals then prune back their efforts, laser-focusing on what they’re most talented at.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Perhaps there is a ‘parent’ room; an ‘athlete’ room; an ‘employee,’ ‘entrepreneur,’ or ‘executive’ room; a ‘community member’ room, and so on. You can think of identity like a house. You want the house to have multiple rooms. It’s okay to spend a lot of time in just one room, but you’ve got to ensure you keep the others in good enough shape.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re a manager or an executive, your stewardship obligations extend far beyond yourself and your family. Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Before somebody breaks the rules, before somebody breaks the law, before some executive gets into deep difficulty and becomes highly visible, there is a systemic fracture, sometimes even collapse, of integrity. Crisis management consultant James Lukaszewski on integrity: “Each scenario begins with and is made worse by breakdowns in integrity.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice we Heard in 2023 via @firstround Reaching for the executive ranks?

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

How do you execute and deliver the new idea? The core problem is that the imagining and executing mindsets don’t naturally fit together—in fact, they are often antagonistic. If we focus on execution and efficiency alone, the company becomes oriented around financial metrics. Step 5: The New Ordinary.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These challenges are brought into their highest and sharpest relief in the corner office, but they are hardly unique to chief executives. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Blog Post ). What helped? What didn’t?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Culture clashes, infighting among executives and engineers, dueling corporate traditions, and government maneuvering constantly threatened the venture. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Our thought processes are full of all sorts of cognitive distortions, from catastrophizing (thinking of small problems as enormous impediments) to perfectionism, where anything less than perfect execution causes intense frustration. Another cognitive distortion is dichotomous thinking (having rigid or “all-or-nothing” views).

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Leading Blog

JULY 22, 2021

In our experience, senior executives have the highest levels of followership skill and the greatest conceptual understanding of it, and are most likely to acknowledge followership behaviors.”. Being technically strong is no longer enough to shine. At senior management levels, followership becomes the primary consideration.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Executives at the highest level of the company are quick to check the big boxes. Did I say hello to a stranger in the cafeteria? . * * * Zina Sutch has been leading development and diversity programs for the Federal government for 20 years and currently serves in the Senior Executive Service. So, we rely on the leadership recipe.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Prioritize through Values, Rally Believers, Identify Fears, Commit to a Purpose, Execute your Action. Execute Your Action. When executing, you are either executing on a new offering or a new message. The Central Courage System teaches us how to make bold, swift decisions.”. Prioritize Through Values.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Innovation, then, is less about having original ideas than it is about being able to execute those ideas. Henry Ford didn’t have the creative spirit that led to the invention of the automobile, but his innovative leadership resulted in a level of execution rarely matched in the history of manufacturing.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

PG94 (Author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order ) “For me, an entrepreneur is someone who can combine the opportunity and the execution. There are a ton of people who are incredible dreamers but they can't execute. There are amazing people who can execute but they can't see the opportunity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

One-on-one coaching (or executive coaching) is tricky territory. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia. Some folks who want to share advice or questions for us to ponder don’t have our best interests at heart.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Power Moms : How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life by Joann S. Over the past several decades, women have made gains throughout executive suites. or can be inspired by Novelli's story to make the leap to somewhere they can.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

James Murphy says American business has an execution problem. Complexity is the mortal enemy of good execution.” In Courage to Execute , Murphy walks us through a simple process used by America’s elite military units that will improve an organization’s ability to execute and achieve goals. Because we make things complex.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Organizations thrive on activity-based goals such as “Develop the process for customer complaints,” “Move our data to the cloud,” or “Execute our digital transformation.” Most professionals are evaluated and rewarded based on whether they have executed an activity and not on what they achieved by doing so.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Source: Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life. They also managed with empathy. It’s a quality greatly valued by companies because they must operate in an increasingly complex and diverse global economy.”. Malcolm Gladwell on the birth of revolutions: “Revolutions are invariably group activities.

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Leading Blog

MAY 29, 2019

It refocuses the mind on the positivity, allowing you to spot new opportunities for innovation and execution. This framework (DPF) takes the basic concepts of vision, plan, execution, and feedback to a new level. It creates rapid compartmentalization, followed by immediate execution.” Trust: High trust is the key to execution.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In The Unlocked Leader veteran executive leadership coach Hortense le Gentil explains how superhero leaders can become effective human leaders. Helping executives and entrepreneurs solve their toughest problems over the past decade, Frei and Morriss learned that the trade-off between speed and excellence is false.

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