Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

S OME of my executive clients believe, instinctively, that content is king. They maintain that “useful information” is a crucial driver of effective leadership—that their job is primarily to educate and inform their teams with facts and figures. Focus on what they want to say, not on what their team needs to hear.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The physics of a prism can also be applied to leadership: In an agile work environment, it is valuable to slow down and reconsider which leadership angle to take in particular situations. The PRISM Model offers five angles to leading people and forms the bedrock of leadership excellence. What is your purpose in life?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. 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.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Come Up for Air : How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? Come Up for Air is that blueprint.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2023 curated just for you. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Because, leadership is an activity―small actions taken in moments of opportunity. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. They are not.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. As they have excelled, so have their businesses and teams. Fast Forward will help you and your teams create the life you want this year and every year. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. The Five Graces of Life and Leadership by Gary Burnison. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

E LEVATING your leadership game is a mindset. In Peak Leadership Fitness , author Timothy Tobin writes, “A leadership mindset is essentially the belief in yourself and your abilities as a leader. A negative leadership mindset is rooted in self-doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inquiry. You are in control of your mindset.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Leadership isn't easy. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. Effective teams need responsible and accountable leaders?the

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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. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. Marquet offers four ways to execute the Improve play. No variations. Collaborate, Not Coerce.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. He shares these in Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff. Five Types of Leadership. Secure a Team 4.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Executive coach Daniel Harkavy on the core coaching competency of discernment: “Discernment refers to the ability to see what is not visible, to understand what is not being said. Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. The End of Leadership as We Know It : What It Takes to Lead in Today's Volatile and Complex World by Steve Garcia and Dan Fisher Maximize your leadership impact with the latest insights and research from the field of adaptive leadership.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2021. The CEO Test is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniquely qualified to tell the stories. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire? Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and a fulfilling life. What helped? What didn’t?

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Effective leaders use communication as a critical competency to build trusting relationships, align team members around a vision, lead necessary change, and drive action. The best leaders maneuver these five steps in a way that leaves their teams feeling heard, understood, and valued. Using just risks making others feel insignificant.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In Voyager, women finally had a realistic representation of female leadership aboard a Star Trek vessel, one that was determined and decisive but also empathic and willing to listen. In fact, she’s almost a prescient paragon of what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. So what exactly is going on?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Sport executive Scott O’Neil on keeping what’s most important front and center: “What matters more than anything else to you? Your WMI might change, and it might be different for you today than three years from now, and it might be different for home with your spouse or with good friends or coaching a team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2021. Anxiety at Work : 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles. If so, you may have had anxiety at work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2019. The authors share three critical performance drivers, along with the four high-growth activities that coaches must execute to build a team that is motivated to achieve at the highest levels. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. In Leadershift, John C.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. Further, without empathy, leaders can’t build a team, inspire followers, or elicit loyalty.

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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. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem. This, too, starts with the executive team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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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? by @JenniferVMiller Never Give Up Hope: The Detroit Lions Community from @JohnBaldoni See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The context of leadership has changed, but the fundamentals of leadership have not. It is in this spirit that the authors state, “the best way for any aspiring leader to succeed and to navigate turbulent times is to tune out the noise and refocus on these fundamentals” of leadership. It is still working with people.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As I watched the documentary, I was struck by how closely the story mirrored case studies from the business world, and how perfectly it illustrated the points I try to emphasize in the leadership and innovation class I teach at MIT. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership).

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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? They can inform all three in return.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

M ICHAEL LOMBARDI has been an American football executive for decades. As a three-time Super Bowl champion, Michel Lombardi provides lessons in organizational culture, team building, strategy, and character. His philosophies on how to build championship teams were foundational for the teams built by both Walsh and Belichick.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2019. The authors introduce readers to the pragmatic model and methods of Meta-Leadership. They show you how to understand what is happening during a moment of crisis and change, what to do about it, and how to hone these skills to lead high-performing teams.

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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

MAY 8, 2020

Where did your behavior hinder the highest levels of team performance? Hess is Professor of Business Administration, Batten Fellow, and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business and is a top authority on organizational and human high performance. Personal Daily “Inner Peace” Practices. What triggered that?

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Simply put, Noel Tichy writes in The Cycle of Leadership , “The company that fields the better team with the smarter people and has them working most often on the things that create the most value will win out over its competitors.” Executive coach Art Petty leverages this idea in his workshops.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. It unlocks new ideas and solutions, and enhances team performance. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Develop leaders!

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