Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. Innovation requires clear goals to reach toward. You know this company. Nadella changed that.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2023

John Bogle asks us what rabbit we are chasing: “[We need to] ask ourselves whether we’re chasing the fake rabbit of success or the real rabbit or meaning, defined by the contributions to our society that stem from principle, virtue, and character. The goal is leaders at all levels who all teach and develop other leaders.”

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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. All were worth the effort and journey, and I realized very early on that visionary thinking was a major contributor to the success levels I had attained. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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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. The second and more important question remains: How do organizations achieve success? This raises some pertinent questions. First, why do these programs fail?

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Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2012

Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl present a valuable commentary on success in Team Turnarounds. Success is oftentimes wrongly associated with external gains, such as social standing, a high profile, an influential job title, a trophy that proves one team is better than its opponent, or a car that symbolizes wealth. Why we do what we do.

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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. Happiness and Success Are Never Permanent and Are Not Tied to Wealth or Ambition.

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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

APRIL 1, 2024

Mentorship Unlocked : The Science and Art of Setting Yourself Up for Success by Janice Omadeke What is a mentor? Why is having a mentor crucial to success? Living with a mindset of false narratives will keep you stuck, locked in a prison of unpursued dreams and goals. Or how do you make sure that you're a good mentor?

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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

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. You spend too much of your emotional energy on contingency planning instead of on success.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

Through Fistitude —each finger representing a success attitude—author Sean Glaze presents five lessons to build leaders and teamwork. Here, described in brief are five success attitudes: Frustration is a symptom of higher aspirations. When you share your goals and dreams, two things happen.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the “natives’” point of view — through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If my mind can be structured for failure, then it can also be structured for success.” McManus offers twelve mind shifts we can address to create the mental architecture for success. We can become so focused on our goals that “the people in our life may quickly go out of focus.” Success has a price tag. It’s a choice.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. 1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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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

MAY 31, 2023

Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own. Will AI Kill Human Creativity? by @UzziLeadership via @KelloggSchool What Fake Drake tells us about what’s ahead.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

W HEN WE THINK of success and influence, there’s more to it than just IQ and EQ. 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

MARCH 12, 2024

I've learned that from my nearly forty years of working with scientists and clinicians to transform inventions into successful commercial products. Establish a culture where people with aligned goals can thrive and have fun. After several successful ventures, he was suddenly diagnosed with a life-threatening genetic disease.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The most successful companies adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time. In How To Work with (Almost) Anyone , Michael Bungay Stanier shares a tested process that sets up working relationships for the best possible success.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The foundation for doing that is found in five success principles that have worked for Falk and others he has shared them with: Never go to work or school, or anywhere important) running on autopilot. For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it.

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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

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. 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

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

MARCH 10, 2023

You throw away your backup plans and you push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own success. They are envious because your success makes them look bad in their mind. All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” You’ll always have detractors.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

Randy Komisar on personal success: “Considering personal risk forces us to define personal success. We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Source: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Without effective leadership in place, organizations can’t achieve their goals, and employees may start looking for jobs elsewhere. Closing the gap on leadership skills is the number one priority of 58% of companies , while only 18% feel their leaders are “very effective” at achieving business goals. Communicate effectively and often.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Confidence is about managing your self-doubt in order to do what you need to do to achieve your long-term goals. As the old saying goes, success breeds success. Be sure that your success will never rise higher than your confidence in yourself. Cling to success thoughts. Our thoughts matter.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

They do so by targeting weaknesses, pursuing stretch goals, and relentlessly pushing the bounds of their abilities. Source: Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success. It’s the only way to improve at a task you already perform reasonably well and elude the grasp of automaticity.”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

Success and failure both leave room for improvement. Inside every success, there are remnants of failure, and in every failure, there are pockets of success” writes Bill Wooditch in Fail More. Fail More will help you to work past your fears, the obstacles, set realistic goals, and learn from every result.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. He’s achieved extraordinary success and emerged as one of the greatest marketing minds of our time by doing things differently.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? A striking feature of Roosevelt’s political success was that he became an admired champion of the poorest Americans. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful. It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Executive communication coach and author Laurie Schloff, whose clients include Bain Capital, Fidelity Investments, and Allstate, says that although many of her clients are experts in their fields, their greatest communication successes pair knowledge with inspiration. The information: Statistics. The inspiration: The impact of the statistics.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

How To Be Successful by @sama. The Structure Culture Development Connection : The Key to Success for Organizations of the Future by @Julie_WG via @JesseLynStoner. 5 Reasons You Should NOT Set Goals by @JesseLynStoner. The Difference Between Mission Vision Purpose Strategy and Goals by @JesseLynStoner.

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