Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Making these types of connections helps you take the data one step further, determining if it’s going to have a short-term or long-term impact, if it’s suggesting the end of a trend or the beginning of a new one.” It is a mistake to allocate and measure time only in economic terms or numeric ways. Give it context.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Transparency is an admirable goal. But the real goal is to solve problems. Much of what needed to be done at GE were long-term propositions. These are people who see what is next without losing sight of what is most important today; they see the long term while still delivering short-term results.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They define leadership as “Achieving significant positive impact—by building an organization of people working together toward a common goal.”. The experience of achieving short-term results motivates teams to strive for even more. The Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook is designed to help you grow your leadership.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

They are discouraged by misguided beliefs that an executive’s tenure and an organization’s attention span are too short for meaningful transformation. Growth is the goal. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations’ cultures. But how do we grow? For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

W HEN YOU HEAR the term positive leadership , it is easy to get cynical and think it is all happy-talk and disconnected from reality. They assist when others fall short. Understanding that the whole person comes to work, positively energizing leaders invest the time to get to know the whole person – family, interests, and goals. “A

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Researcher Bethany Teachman says, “People with phobias want to avoid panic attacks, but that’s not the right goal to start with. The first goal is to stop caring whether or not you have a panic attack. They interpret one setback as a fatal mistake and imagine it, leading to the worst possible outcome. It’s a false alarm—a fear of fear.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The first two skills are about your goal— what you are trying to do. Make your goal big. When our ambitions are that sweeping, we need to give our audience something more lasting than short-term directions; we need to give them a Golden Rule—a guideline for what to do in any—in every—situation. Get Delusional.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They have the drive to innovate—the willingness to continually experiment, to test new ways of organizing and deploying resources, to abandon outmoded approaches when circumstances change; in short, to “make all things new.”. They must take full responsibility for them rather than attributing them to “the system” or “circumstances.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Remember, the goal is not to predict the future with certainty (nobody can) but to paint an impressionistic painting of it detailed enough to build clarity and alignment on what will have to be done to meet its challenges and opportunities. The tyranny of the present quickly pulls us back into a short-term present-focused mindset.

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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.”. On an individual level, we must never look to be Never Excellent Enough and build our own capabilities in terms of knowledge and capacity, strength and control, and accountability and orientation. Our reactions are critical.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Our ambitious goals versus reality. Short-termism versus Long-termism. We have a great ability to think long term but we are biased to act short term. We have a great ability to think long term but we are biased to act short term. Character is a long-term investment.

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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. The correct balance of these two activities helps us achieve our goals.” He clarifies: In short, the right balance of doing and thinking drives learning. No variations. We quite naturally like to reduce variability. Connect is love.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It leads to short-term thinking. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. That’s not the way to lead.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

As a leader, you can assign responsibility to another teammate in terms of the results that need to be achieved. In short, you can never fully hand off any of your responsibilities to someone else. In short, you can never fully hand off any of your responsibilities to someone else. Accountability Means Obligation.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

They possess little empathy for others because their goal is to survive where they perceive themselves to be unwelcome.”. One of my goals for the students is to have them stand back and face their own life path. The technical term for this cognitive process is asymmetric effect with a negative bias. Reflections.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2014

Paradoxes are recurring issues that are familiar and present throughout organizations today: the conflicting needs of purpose and profit, short- and long-term goals, local versus global demands, and the need for a flatter, more nimble organization that still executes with discipline.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2011

These demands may produce positive results in the short term, but they are not sustainable in the long term. Specific management practices detailed by the authors include: Create specific, measurable goals and clearly lay out what employees need to do—the precise behaviors and activities—to achieve them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2017

We recognize that we have not already arrived, in terms of our character, integrity, and accomplishments. The greater your goals, the bigger your potential blunders. Yu stop speaking up, stop advocating for what you believe, stop pursuing your own goals. In short, you start believing your own self-depreciating falsehoods.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The impact of all of that on short-term productivity and happiness and long-term health and well being is devastating. In the short run, all of that leads to anxiety, insomnia, poor decision making, lack of focus and generally poor health. It’s never too late to pull yourself back from the brink and reclaim your life.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Halstead helpfully provides examples of powerful questions to achieve specific goals. As a leader, the more you put everyone in the sweet spots of their talents, including you, the greater the likelihood of achieving short- and long-term exceptional performance. Delegating wisely both develops and uses those talents.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In a world filled with busyness and stress, I find that too often leaders can act like hard-charging, fast-driving bus drivers that have a vision and goal within their sights and they’ll run over anyone – even their own employees – to reach their destination. As John Maxwell said, “If you are all alone at the top, you are not a leader.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

The microscope helps the leader to focus in on what needs to be accomplished in the short term to realize the vision in the telescope. “If Have purpose driven goals. The truth is that numbers and goals don’t drive people. People with a purpose drive the numbers and achieve goals.”. Positive Leaders Have Grit.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you haven’t created an underlying ecosystem of excellence, short-term success is all it will ever be.”. Of Related Interest: 4th and Goal Every Day. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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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. Others have a long-term vision that enables them to differentiate various patterns and see how these will help them succeed. Both perspectives are limiting. What is your biggest limitation of today?

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2012

Strategy without purpose and values is a short-term plan that is directed toward shallow goals. Strategy starts with the results of today. Strategy, rooted in values and purpose, gives encouragement through times of ambiguity and uncertainty. When you.re the leader, it’s never about you, but it starts with you.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Profit is necessary, but it shouldn’t be the paramount goal. Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

McKee quotes Sarah Green Carmichael on this: “We log too many hours because of a mix of inner drivers, like ambition, machismo, greed, anxiety, guilt, enjoyment, pride, the pull of short-term rewards, a desire to prove we’re important, or an overdeveloped sense of duty.” We need to tune in to what really brings us happiness in life.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Eisenhower was immensely popular as president—and would have been readily reelected to a third term in 1960, were it constitutionally possible. So, too, JFK reframed the space race, urging the American nation to “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

Think Like a Rocket Scientist is about creativity and critical thinking—two skills in short supply today. Varol adds: Once you move from the what to the why—once you frame the problem broadly in terms of what you’re trying to do instead of your favored solution—you’ll discover other possibilities in the peripheries. Be very careful.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2014

For instance, your goal is to provide advice for a fee to potential investors. The problem emerges when people don’t understand the difference between strategic objectives and short-term tactical responses. But instead of tacking back toward their strategic end goal, they just continue on the same course.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, is a playbook on how to use social media to achieve a single, focused, concrete goal. They are: Focus : Identify a single concrete and measurable goal. Goals must be humanistic or based on an understanding of your audience, actionable, testable, clear and meaningful.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Smart business then, is when all participants involved in achieving a common goal are coordinated in an online network and use machine-learning technology to efficiently leverage data in real time to generate relevant responses. Strategy in a smart business is not long-term or short-term planning. It’s more like learning.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Looking back on my journey, I feel buoyed by this quote from investor Charlie Munger: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” Early on in my business life, I was naïve about the motives of some people.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2016

The ability to produce at an elite level , in terms of both quality and speed. (To An interruption, even if short, delays the total time required to complete a task by a significant fraction.” If you can’t learn you can’t thrive.). To produce tangible results that people value. What Seth Godin calls the ability to “ship.”).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

He offers 12 quotes from each followed by short explanations to provide clarity and context. Rich Barton: “It’s much more powerful long-term to make up a new word than it is to use a literal word. Reid Hoffman: “The network of people around you I what extends your ability to be effective regarding expertise and reaching your goals.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In short, getting people to act as one. They believe real leadership is about productivity, people and purpose—or As One Leadership —“leadership that results in a cohesive group of people working together effectively toward a common goal or purpose.” Thomas Malone, The Future of Work.

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