Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future , she writes that “Overwhelmed with complexity, we seek simplification and too quickly reach for binary perspectives, just at the moment when we need broader ones.” As a model or a forecast is designed to do, we become “recruited into an army of believers.” “The

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

“Abilities are specific competencies that bridge your mindsets with your know-how. Your abilities represent broader approaches to how you do what you do, so you can apply what you know how to do in different contexts. Know-How: Your knowledge and skills.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

T HE SCOTTISH POET Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry,” in a poem to a mouse whose nest was disrupted by the plow. The implication is that things rarely go just the way we want. Disruptions fall all along the spectrum from “the whatever” to “the paralyzing.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

How to Develop a Family Enterprise Owner’s Mindset at Every Age. Gaia Marchisio is a family enterprise researcher, consultant, educator, speaker, and writer with 25-plus years of impact across global family enterprises, academic institutions, corporations, and public-sector organizations. Their new book is Own It!

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Here’s the problem. At the very moment, we need to thoughtfully address the situation and select the behavior best suited for it, we instinctively do the opposite.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

Laura Huang explains just how to gain that advantage in her insightful and encouraging book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. W E’VE HEARD that hard work is the secret to success. But all too often we see that hard work is not enough. We need an edge.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To get your head around how to make Exciting Outcome-Focused Behavior or FEOs part of your normal way of operating at work, you need to understand that your work tasks have nothing to do with whether you love them. What makes a work task or activity lovable is how you think about the result you want to achieve.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

P ROBLEMS come our way. They always do. And too little of the associated stress is not good. We become disengaged, demotivated, and unfulfilled. But with too much stress we become overloaded, and we just feel like shutting down. But in between is the Challenge Zone.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

In the first stage, we learn how to ignite our thinking. Think Like a Rocket Scientist is a content-rich and very practical book. Varol offers nine principles in three stages to help us to reacquire and build our creativity and critical thinking muscles. Stage two is focused on propelling the ideas we created in stage one.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

His new book, Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars that Drive Results describes how to create a companywide foundation of trust. David has advised leaders and delivered life-changing presentations on six continents, with audiences ranging from FedEx, Toyota, MIT and global governments to the New York Yankees and the Department of Homeland Security.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How well we think, learn, and engage in the human tasks of the future depends on how well we manage and optimize what’s going on with our minds, brains, and bodies. S TAYING relevant in this Digital Age requires that we learn, unlearn, and relearn as a way of being. Ed Hess calls it Hyper-Learning.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

S OMETIMES you can see it coming. More often than not, you can’t. But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. James Burstsall, the CEO of Argonon, an independent production group, offers what he calls The Flexible Method. It is a way through the next crisis you will face.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

However, there is a kind of conflict the seems to reoccur no matter how hard you try to resolve it. C ONFLICT is inevitable. It is part of life. Some of it is good for us. We grow from it, it moves us forward, and it makes life more interesting. And some of that becomes self-perpetuating as we react in ways that cause even more conflict.

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Leading Blog

MAY 20, 2020

Executive sessions are the times when the board grapples with if, when, and how to get involved. Whether the founder is young and inexperienced, or just has not been exposed to key functions, the board has the responsibility to provide guidance to the CEO on how to supplement their leadership toolbox. Curate the culture. Be contrarian.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

He chronicles them in The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes: And How to Avoid Them. Lawyer, CPA, and serial entrepreneur, Patrick Burke, says he has made most of these big mistakes and has (barely) lived to tell about it. Some of the lessons learned are timing issues.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The first part of the book discusses how to become a 10x company and attract 10x talent. Part two is about how you can become 10x talent. There is the talent, and then there are the people managing and developing that talent. Importantly, those managing the talent should be working to become 10x talent themselves.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

For these organizations, the question is how to turn this spike into an ongoing relationship. Video communications, headset manufacturers, content creators, delivery services, and manufacturers of cleaning supplies, face masks, and toilet paper are inundated with new demand.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Plant this seed within your core Provide it space to sprout, and tend to its rise Ensure it penetrates through each organizational layer Cultivation, participation, and appreciation will be your essential tools Allow this seed to transform into a solid footing A personal and organizational launch pad This mighty seed has significant yield A vigorous (..)

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

T ECHNOLOGY was supposed to give us more leisure time, but instead, it distracts us. We are pulled out of the present and into lists of things we feel we should be doing. Instead of getting time away from work, we take our work with us. It’s a trap to make us feel time poor.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

I N THE WESTERN WORLD, we often do not have an accurate picture of Africa as a growing marketplace. We frequently imagine a continent of villages and stories of corruption and violence dominate our perspective. Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2020

F ACING OUR FEARS is often what is standing between us and success. Touching the Jaguar is a cathartic memoir by John Perkins about confronting the things you fear to make the necessary changes in your life. In this memoir, he touches on the value of altering your perception to change your reality. It’s a valuable lesson expressed in a new way.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Cramer has created a 3-step process for reframing what we see, say and do so that we operate more from a positive outlook than a negative one.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2018

Reaching your fullest potential—professionally or personally—requires you to understand how to enlist reinforcements when you need them. But the truth is we need the help and support of others to succeed. To be sure, leadership is fundamentally about asking people for help.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

‘Tis the season of gratitude -- for friends, for family, and for delicious turkey dinners. But what about gratitude in the workplace? November and December are notorious times for organizations to express gratitude to their employees -- holiday parties, annual bonuses and accolades they save up for this time of year.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

We really can’t learn how to make progress toward that outcome until we start doing something.”. A small step towards your outcome keeps you from becoming overwhelmed. You don’t need the whole path laid out before you do anything. You just need to begin—and learn as you go. “We Four qualities of a good start are first, short enough.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. Leaders must be coaches. Any growth but especially growth leading to high-performance requires a degree of discomfort. It is the job of the coach to maintain a healthy discomfort for those on their team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

V ENTURE CAPITAL is not right for every business. But if you determine that it is right for you, you should read Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor, the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. It is a book for those with big ideas.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2018

T HERE ARE LIMITS to our attention. There is only so much we can focus on at any given time. So it becomes critical what we allow in our attentional space if we want to get anywhere in life. And heads up. Your attention space shrinks as you age—but your mind wanders less.).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Empathy Edge definitively answers these questions showing how for-profit leaders can use empathy to gain the upper hand. Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2014

Enhancing relationships: Sarah’s “most immediate concern is how to negotiate the rift between the content she must teach and the real-life experiences of her students.” Without structure it doesn’t work. We need organized chaos. We need some way to manage the mess. Structure and order free me.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2013

As leaders we need to understand how to make our ideas catch on. This is most effectively done through word of mouth and social influence. It''s more persuasive than advertising and is more targeted to an interested audience.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

T HE WORLD IS full of drama. Rather than deal with reality in a constructive way, we engage in drama. It’s easier than working on what we need to deal with. It makes us feel like we are doing something. We like it, and we bring it to work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

Blindspots. Those problems that are right in front of us that we fail to see. We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard. In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Plus, you will gain even further insights from them on how to leverage technology to gain to tap new markets, gain market share, and enhance the customer experience. I want to understand your vision and values so that I know how I’m making an impact. Align Vision and Values. “I

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In Create Distinction he discusses how we got here and how we can create distinction for ourselves and our organizations. S COTT MCKAIN wrote the book on creating distinction in a world of homogenization. Having passion, product knowledge and commitment is not enough.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

T HE GAP IN OUR LEADERSHIP arises as a result of the disconnect between how we think people are experiencing our leadership and how they are actually experiencing our leadership. And where we find that disconnect we limit or even derail our leadership potential.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Your WHAT is the “single most crucial element of your life that needs to be identified, defined, and fulfilled,” says Steve Olsher in What is Your What? Here’s why: Your unfulfilled WHAT will absolutely affect you in a variety of unexpected ways. It could be the source of your high blood pressure, the reason you don’t feel “good enough.”

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