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. So, any change effort will be more successful when you focus on both performance and health. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful.

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Leading Blog

JULY 5, 2017

There is a third ingredient to business success, one that many companies undervalue: servant leadership. More and more people are disconnected from their company’s goals, even though they still report being satisfied with their jobs. Focus your organization on strategic priorities and simplify operations to accelerate progress.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

T HE KIND OF SUCCESS Texas Roadhouse has enjoyed didn’t happen by doing things the conventional way. Regarding that occasion, he said that his “emerging” took him thirteen years “from idea to rejection, from success to failure, and finally from failure to a glimmer of success.”. His story is told in Made from Scratch.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

I’ve learned both how to live with disappointment and how to keep the occasional success from changing my values.”. What is your personal operating system? Next to knowing one’s core values, the most important attribute an entrepreneurial leader can possess is a predictable, reliable, and intentional personal operating system.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful individuals and firms can never forget the importance of people, their emotions, the culture of the organization, and what cannot be measured. Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.” Upgrade Your Mental Operating System.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

The successful brand renegade has staying power and causes others to ask, “What are they doing, and how can we do it, too?”. To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. A brand renegade makes huge changes that everyone else turns their heads to notice.

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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. How we communicate with each other can help us to embrace variability and is our best shot at success. The correct balance of these two activities helps us achieve our goals.” No variations. It keeps the company relevant and solvent.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

He also emphasizes the importance of closing the "empathy gap" between management and staff in order to create a more connected team that operates to its fullest potential--and how developing each team member's unique dreams, goals, and abilities sets up the company for success. This is NPS 3.0

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Triumph over adversity using proven Special Operations habits and mindsets with this inspiring guide from retired Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Jason Redman. Overcome : Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors by Jason Redman. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

W E’VE HEARD that hard work is the secret to success. Creating an edge starts with pinpointing your basic goods and defining your circle of competence, and operating inside that perimeter.” Self-awareness, in and of itself, is an elusive goal. Don’t let success define you, but don’t let failure define you either.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

His call sign, CHAOS , was given to him by his operations officer, John Toolan.” Developing a culture of operating from commander’s intent demanded a higher level of unit discipline and self-discipline than issuing voluminous, detailed instructions. Commander’s intent provides a framework that everyone can operate from.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

In 1992, I was the G3 (Operations Officer) for one of the Army’s 10 Divisions – forward deployed in Europe. The goal was to pull the Warsaw Pact nations out of Russia’s sphere of influence and into ours. One of the keys to my success was rooted in the trust I showed my team. When No Trust Exists. and its former foes. In the U.S.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s about realizing that the goal is not to get by but to “always look for more ways to make an impact.”. The way to get better over time is to know where we aren’t good enough, what aspects of our life are not satisfying enough, which goals we’re chasing aren’t the right ones. The discomfort lets you know you are on the right path.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Our customer program managers were seeking to abandon us and find any other team to turn their spacecraft over to because they had lost faith in our ability to control costs, even though they still considered us to be the best operations team on the planet. It is about judging our behaviors and how well aligned they are to the team’s success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This is a guest post by Bill McBean, author of The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don't. He begins by saying that when it comes to business ownership, “the reality is very different from then dream, even when you are successful.” I think it begins with two macro concepts.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 29, 2018

Successful builders proactively develop behaviors that empower them to anticipate problems, overcome adversity, recognize opportunities, organize resources and take action to build something. The Rainmaker: Aggressive, optimistic, risk-tolerant, Rainmakers measure success by profitability.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The goal of resiliency is not necessarily to bounce back , but to bounce forward. We can design—and redesign—organizations, institutions, and systems to better absorb disruption, operate under a wider variety of conditions, and shift more fluidly from one circumstance to the next.” It’s engaging the world in a different way.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

There is the crisis where the issue is known, there is a procedure for handling it, and success in dealing with it comes down to proper execution of the solution. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. Because of this, we won’t get it right the first time.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Digital maturity should be the goal that most companies should aspire to in order to compete in a digital world. They note that the idea of tightly aligning an organization's people, tasks, structure, and culture is not new; it plays out differently because the conditions under which those management principles operate has changed.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

By understanding the human paradox of simultaneous continuity and change, ambiguity, and complexity, humanizing leadership develops the personality and conceptual skills for successful juxtaposition of opposites to find the sweet spot. Reflection Fuels. We are not above the organizations we lead; we are a part of them.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

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. Successful organizations are able to focus and execute according to purpose. Simplicity is the SEALs answer to a complex world.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. The goals are similar: support, development, empowerment and ultimately improved team results. T EAMS HAVE PERSONALITIES. You know this from your own experience. Teams go through mood changes. It’s in the air.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

They will view their current operating model and customer offerings as merely a means to achieve their larger purpose and should, therefore, be able to change direction more easily when market forces require a more radical shift. People don’t feel safe telling the truth because they don’t think it is smart or safe to do so.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. He set this as the measure of success for the company. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

“There are thousands of books on success. It gives people the wrong impression about what it takes to be successful." Failure leads to success—if you see it as a process. “If It’s because they have discovered a better strategy for success.” Before you begin a new task, ask yourself: Are you working toward your goals?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. We envy someone who has achieved success without think about what they did to earn it.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

And add, “As a committed leader, you need to develop a sixth sense for when people are setting goals that are too difficult to achieve or too wide-ranging; you also need to grasp when you’ve shrunk the purpose to the point that its achievement won’t have any real impact.” They share the good and the bad and the lessons learned along the way.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

Most of us think like what authors John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen call Performers because their success is tracked through performance. Producers are critical to any company looking to create massive value because they redefine what’s possible, rather than simply meeting preexisting goals and standards. They thrive in uncertainty.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. The goal of this experiential learning program was to shift leaders' perspectives by making them aware of their limitations, while increasing empathy for others. Lots of leaders are smart, but few are wise.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. It is a 123 page compendium of Dalio’s beliefs and processes that he believes will lead to a successful life and business that is well worth the read.). More than ever, it truly is learn or die.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? The ability to quickly master hard things. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

There are very few budding entrepreneurs that would not want to duplicate their success. So, we study what these people did to try and find the perfect checklist or formula that brings us the same kind of success. She says, “You are responsible as a successful person to pay it forward … period! And why not?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s the daily behaviors that add up to a successful life—to successful leadership. Empowerment—What did I do today to move someone else closer to a goal? A driver in New Orleans told Dudley, “We serve others whenever we help them move closer to one of their goals. Too many people in this world don’t have those goals met.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A S professor Jan-Benedict Steenkamp states in Time to Lead , “Everybody can improve their leadership qualities by reading about other leaders, how they resolved their dilemmas, and why they were successful.”. They are operation rather than strategic leaders.” (As Eagles are a combination of the hedgehog and the fox.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

But I’ve seen the pursuit of business opportunities cause irreparable harm to marriages, families, health—and those are some of the successful businesses! Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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