Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Let these smart thoughts inspire you and motivate you to power through whatever is blocking your path to success. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. I’m happy.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it. Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article Imagine you’ve just proposed to the love of your life. But what can American Assassin teach you about leadership? Let’s take a look at the leadership lessons in American Assassin. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From American Assassin. You’ve gone up to the bar to order drinks.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models. One current leadership style is the Alpha Woman Leadership Style.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models. One current leadership style is the Alpha Woman Leadership Style.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Disapproval is the hammer of perfectionistic leaders. Leaders who can’t accept themselves are sure to look down on others. Perfectionism is self-rejection. Arrogance, humility, pursuit, and perfectionism: Pursuit is energized with humility and… Continue reading →

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2015

As the leader, they failed to provide any clear directions or consequences, and yet are ready to drop the hammer in disciplinary actions for a mistake. Every team needs a qualified and quality leader if their goals are progress and success. The fulcrum between Boss and Friend is Leadership. Third, Be the Means to Their Success.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Authority as a hammer: Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have… Continue reading → If you didn’t have authority, how would you hold people accountable? Don’t demand what must be given.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by Liz O’Donnell, founder and creator of the HelloLadies.com website, to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

It also proved to provide insights into leadership, if you looked deep enough. Leadership Lessons From Pixels. You can do the same thing with leadership. Who would have thought a movie about aliens attacking us with video games could give us a leadership lesson regarding our marriages. Caution: Pixels Spoilers Ahead.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The times have changed, but the tools that determine success or failure have not. Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. Indeed, there are plenty of sub-segments of these key success factors such as creativity, teamwork, and recruitment.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s not true, however, in terms of how you can use the annual review process to set you and your team up for success. If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership. An innovative mindset reevaluates the nature of innovation and shows how a change in perspective can lead to more dynamic, successful endeavors.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Anderson of The Glass Hammer shared three ways executive search firms can help to increase the number of women on boards as explained by study co-author Claudia Pici-Morris, U.S. Head of Research for Egon Zehnder: 1.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 30, 2020

The months ahead will be a high-pressure exercise in change management, and success will depend on an organization’s flexibility and capacity to adjust its trajectory. Employees have settled into the work from home world. Our collective disorientation in the wake of a pandemic has given way to a new normal.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

Conflict is inevitable in any human enterprise; how we handle that conflict is where leadership comes in. To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. leadership Click To Tweet.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leadership principles that worked for me as a CEO continue to apply to the current era of light speed communications and decision-making. The times have changed, but the tools that determine success or failure have not. Joe and Jane represent the majority of the work force.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 29, 2013

My daughter Alison is now a successful broker in a financial services company. It’s a type of personal leadership that makes someone truly stand out from the crowd. Ask people who''ve achieved great success, and they’ll tell you that most of the things they attempt don’t work.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. Knowing why CoachStation exists has been paramount to my success to date. Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference. Why do you do what you do?

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 Ironically, as an organization grows larger and larger the systems that helped to make it successful can spin a web that tangles and impedes workers from doing their jobs in the most effective manner possible.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. This question from Jen: “How do you make succession planning a ‘real thing’? How do I get the leadership team to see this as important? Any guidance or best practices around making succession planning real would be very helpful.”

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you want to learn what it takes to become a great mentor, one place to look is at the great mentors who’ve influenced your success. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Then I could map my solution to what makes them successful,” said Benson, who now is founder and CEO of Badger Maps.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. Here, I think it starts with gaining an understanding of what a truly successful and highly functional team looks like. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Through many years of business experience, I learned some great lessons on what it takes to produce a successful partnership. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Always remember that people talk and that first impressions are critical to making a deal successful. Know your customer.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Two challenges exist in creating successful, high performance, customer focused teams. Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out. Shared leadership. Members feel deep concern for each other’s personal growth and success. Clarifying the rules and developing standards.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 28, 2019

You’re probably familiar with the saying that if you’re good with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. First, if you’re wildly successful in your communications, what happens at the end? That approach may work in construction but it doesn’t in communications. What do people know, think, do, feel, believe or agree to?

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you want to learn what it takes to become a great mentor, one place to look is at the great mentors who’ve influenced your success. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Then I could map my solution to what makes them successful,” said Benson, who now is founder and CEO of Badger Maps.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. Members have to want to make the team successful. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance. In the process of development, teams most often get stuck in Stage 2. Points to Remember.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. So how can we set goals that won't disappear faster than a politician's promise? Focus is the key.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Why aren’t Asian Americans advancing into leadership positions? Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

They were also an example of the power of community in leadership. We often think of leadership as a solitary task. Buying into Thomas Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history , we speak of leadership in solitary and personal terms. First, great leadership often starts in community. Mahatma Gandhi, and Harriet Tubman.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

By then, we had a more experienced team thanks to the success of Tap Fish. If you are in a new market and don’t have anything to show yet, but have a team that has had real success before (by selling a company), or you are a team that worked together at Google, then the killer slide is the team slide. I call it the killer slide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. Equally important, if less obvious, is the need to protect the leader from success, as well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

Failure is a part of living and, often, the very thing that makes success so exhilarating, if only by contrast. So, if you are new to leadership, know that to be a good leader, sometimes you’re also going to fail. First , they focus on success. Failure is a REQUIRED ingredient for success. Thanks for posting this!

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. It can get pretty complex. How they manage conflict.

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