Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

I’m not saying that having goals is completely useless. What I’m talking about is our relationship with our goals. We create plans and projections and proclamations — stories inside our minds about perfect statues and how high expectations are a requirement for high performance. If she doesn’t love me back, I’m a loser.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals. 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.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Take Satisfaction in Achieving Small Steps Toward Your Goal. Thinking too far in advance can cause you to stumble and give up because it makes your goals seem impossible to reach. Instead, set small, incremental goals that are realistic to achieve. You’ll make steady progress that way.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. Those who lack vision or don’t know how to identify and act on their vision will struggle with wealth attainment, achievement of goals, and personal fulfillment. Some of them came to fruition.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

But setting goals in functional silos and then hoping that everything works itself out across the organization is an unlikely path to success. One choice is to take the puck down the ice on their own to attempt to score a goal. They also may not trust their teammates’ ability to score a goal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

To initiate the changes that would make GM relevant once again, Barra overhauled the leadership team’s composition, culture, norms, and way of operating, converting the team from a group of disconnected individuals into an integrated group empowered to deliver on GM’s goals. As Darrell explained: I am planning to centralize a few things.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. The end goal of all of these principles is to cultivate excitement which enables you to love what you do. The common denominator among almost all company goals is their lack of clear and exciting outcomes.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly. At first, some senior leaders thought they could make all the big decisions on how things should run, but they were wrong. They came to realize that they needed middle managers more than ever.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Douglas McGregor on motivation: “The motivation, the potential for development, the capacity for assuming responsibility, the readiness to direct behavior toward organizational goals are all present in people. Management does not put them there.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These are things in your control, like how you set goals, behave, develop, network, present yourself, and manage your sleep. The 8 steps to high performance are: Step One: Set Big Goals. You can’t deliver big results if you don’t have big goals. And those goals should align with what matters most to the organization.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2023

The goal is leaders at all levels who all teach and develop other leaders.” No institution—religious, military, educational, political or business—can be great unless it has a great leader at the top who develops leaders at all levels of the organization.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Bear in mind: most of the people who are busy sharing opinions wouldn’t have the time to do so if they were just as busy as you, bringing their own goals to fruition.” Your goal is to thrive in it.” Share some details of your plan when you’ve already got it in place. Who do you need to have on your team?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Shockingly, 70 percent of such initiatives fail to reach their goals, which represents a massive risk with profound implications for those undertaking such a large effort. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy. This raises some pertinent questions. First, why do these programs fail?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Whatever the crisis, the Self-Aware remain even-keeled and committed to the goal.” Knowing yourself comes with a guaranteed pinch: (or more) of humility, so when a self-aware person is faced with a challenge, they can decenter themselves from the issue. Being self-aware is knowing all about you while knowing that it’s not all about you.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

R ESILIENCE is what carries us through life to reach our goals. Then in step five, make specific goals that are concise, realistic, and time-bound, starting with an objective statement like “I will never lose another job for underperformance.”. When working towards our new goal, we have to remove anything that stands in the way of it.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But, at the same time, you need to navigate other realities, too—like, for starters, figuring out your own goals and understanding and performing well in your job. Be sure to include current goals for workers’ performance and the ways in which they’re trusted and free to go about doing their jobs. Reinforce an autonomous narrative.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Here are the major limitations of traditional notions of accountability: Results only: The primary goal is achieving task or performance results. Individual responsibility is a vital aspect of accountability, but it runs the risk of people looking at situations through the lens of themselves only and missing the larger, collective goals.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2020

People who achieved their extrinsic goals didn’t experience any increase in day-to-day happiness—none. They spent a huge amount of energy chasing these goals, but when they fulfilled them, they felt the same as they had at the start….

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Any goal worth achieving, whether it’s a personal goal, a professional aspiration, or building a great workplace culture, requires a delicate balance of tenacity and extraordinary patience.” It’s about turning values into repeatable behaviors, into actions that become daily habits that are shared across the organization.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

What pulls it all together and contributes to our ability to show up and achieve our goals is the sum total of our experiences and what we take away from them. What we’re talking about is our Experiential Intelligence or our XQ.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

Boss’s Tip of the Week: Challenging work is interesting work from @wallybock How to Grow Out of Your Limiting Beliefs by @ThomasMcDaniels The Culture, Strategy, and Performance Killing Spiral of Poor or No Feedback by @artpetty Honor the Heroes Among Us by @jamesstrock Let's Build American Monuments Again.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Here’s a Goal: Set Better Goals by @MichaelCanic. Is it time to get serious about Bitcoin? What leaders need to know about the latest surge. Leadership Test: Will You Be Ready When the Challenge Comes? by Ken Downer @RapidStartLd. The Gentle Art of Asking Questions from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2021

If we make cleverness the goal—the end rather than the means—we usually fail. In the same way making “original” or “great” or “creative” the goal of any endeavor can be self-defeating. It is only cleverness in the service of the task at hand that is a worthy goal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2020

A Just Cause is more than a goal. Sinek notes, “It’s easy to mistake a BHAG (big, hairy audacious goal) for a Just Cause because they can indeed be incredibly inspiring and can often take many years to achieve. Simply choosing another big, audacious goal is not infinite play, it’s just another finite pursuit.” We are stewards.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Another way is to abandon happiness as a goal in our life. By asking questions, we may guide them through their perceptions and outcomes, as they see it , we can connect them to shared goals. Or we choose to ignore it. Happiness is a secondary and subjective reality that can lure us into thinking we see right when we aren’t.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Then, in a caring tone, they address any difficulties they are encountering and explore strategies together to reach their goal. Instead, they begin with appreciation for the person’s contributions to the team. Approaching a team member with empathy rather than provocation doesn’t make leaders pushovers, weak, or unable to set boundaries.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Matt Higgins on why you need to go all in: “Backup plans can make you feel safer and help you cope with uncertainty, but they also reduce the likelihood that your primary goal will ever be achieved. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day — to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Imagine what kind of world we would live in if everyone shared the goal of leaving others better than we found them. After all, humans are social creatures.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers. Because when you know what people want, you are in a far better position to match their ambitions and goals to the company’s goals. Aligning Goals Increases Workers’ Courage.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

There’s no way to reach a goal when everyone is rowing out of sync. Plus, these one-on-one meetings provide a great time to check in with employees and ask what they need, what their goals are, and how you can help them reach them. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem. This is what leads to employee turnover.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Even though you will be aware of the naysayers, the haters, those who will try to drag you down, don’t focus on them, but merely calculate how you will go around them or through them to get to your outcome and goal.” Source: Win When They Say You Won't: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success II.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

The goal is not to feel joy, inspiration, and happiness 24/7, but rather to identify all our emotions and to manage the resulting feelings in a way that way that enhances our overall health and well-being.” Our emotions signal to us that something important requires our attention. It signals a need to pause and reflect.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Choice Point : The Scientifically Proven Method to Push Past Mental Walls and Achieve Your Goals by Joanna Grover and Jonathan Rhodes When we choose to go to the gym at 6am, keep running that marathon, or stay up late to study, we are making conscious, value-based decisions that help us fulfill our goals.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

We take in ideas and inspiration that get converted into aspirations, goals, and projects, and at a certain point, if we’re not pushing them out in the form of finished projects, they start to back up on us. We don’t want to set any more goals or plans. And like physical constipation, at a certain point, we get toxic.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Principle 5: Goals Aren’t Achieved Without Priorities Put into Action. Break the goal down step-be-step. “To To ensure you don’t unintentionally veer of course, come up with the top priorities that will help achieve your big goal.”. Principle 6: The Instant You Lower Your Standards Is the Instant Performance Erodes.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

You want to believe that the hard work of practicing, training, and rehearsing for success will give you the right mindset to turn troubled times into valuable lessons that get you closer to your goal. The greatest competition you’re ever going to face is yourself.” You must adapt or die.

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