Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. The Five Graces of Life and Leadership by Gary Burnison. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. It leads to short-term thinking.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. That same year, Apple introduced the iPhone, which revolutionized the industry with its superior touchscreen interface and robust app ecosystem. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

The words we use matter, especially in a leadership role where our teams regularly react and listen closely to what we share. Her focus is consulting in strategic planning, organizational development, talent management, and leadership, including change management and culture evolution.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2021. In this empathetic and wise guide, executive coaches and gurus of gratitude Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton explore the causes of workplace stress and anxiety and the management practices that have proven successful in reducing tension and cultivating calm.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Through the lens of Disney, the reader learns the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The message from this literary cottage industry is that where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? Is it their ability to increase the company’s value?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2019. Schulze's principles are both versatile and utterly practical to leaders of every age, career stage, and industry. Employee engagement is shockingly low--but it's not an employee problem; it's a leadership problem.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. There’s been a lot of debate on whether leadership skills can be acquired in life or the person must be born with them. There are some people who seem to be born with great leadership skills, as well as those who developed them later in life.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2016

It is hard to let go of the thinking behind some of the management tools we still use today. David Burkus reports on a number of seemingly radical management ideas in Under New Management. As an artifact of the industrial age when managers needed to ensure that all shifts were covered, strict vacation policies were a necessity.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. In recent years, many industries have been disrupted by technological change. Take, for instance, the automotive industry.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Success Mindsets : Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership by Ryan Gottfredson. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 32 titles. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

M EDIA reporting veterans Felix Gillette and John Koblin trace the history of HBO’s humble launch on November 8, 1972, with “some 375 subscribers,” to the challenges it faces today in an industry they essentially created in It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO. ❧ Michael Fuchs: There’s no modern Dickens. .

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Ego Free Leadership : Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes “Anytime we know intellectually what to do, but our actual behavior is inconsistent or in contradiction, it is a sign we are being short-circuited by our egosystem. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2020. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“Football is ultimately a business, and as in any successful business the most important ingredients are a sound culture, a realistic plan, strong leadership, and a talented workforce.” So let’s look at some of the leadership lessons to be found here. Leadership. No one wants to follow a sulker.)

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? It’s not surprising that students of leadership often become disillusioned upon entering the workplace.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, professors at Harvard Business School, explore these changes in Competing in the Age of AI with examples of businesses in many industries. As these areas grow in a traditional business model, it also increases complexity and as a result, management challenges. But here’s the thing.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The authors spend a good deal of time addressing key components of crisis management: building a team, communication, gathering intelligence, creativity in working with what you have to work with, mental health, and relationships. Important, too, is to always be looking for the undercurrents in your industry. Where are you headed?

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

A 1995 Academy of Management Review journal article, “ An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust ,” is often cited for its breakdown of the factors of trustworthiness. Managing your reputation is key. Imagine representing the trucking industry as an attorney without knowing the difference between a truck tractor and a flatbed.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Being displaced from their physical work environments, missing their colleagues socially and collaboratively, and losing much of their managers’ usual support, they became increasingly disengaged. Not to mention that the pandemic caused unprecedented distress among workers. Have a digital nervous system. Create a project structure.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Or, they push for autonomy when their manager wants engagement. Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

As talked about in this Business Insider article , these trends have caused panic among leaders in all industries, who are now looking to combat these “new” issues, and consultants are right there with them, offering all sorts of “solutions.” Company leaders and managers must be able to communicate the same vision.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Dave Ulrich is the author of The Leadership Capital Index in which he details how equity or debt investors can systematically and predictably determine the quality of leadership to make faster and more informed decisions and gain a critical information advantage over their competitors. This is a post by Dave Ulrich and Justin Allen.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It about managing smart creatives in a family-type atmosphere. Leadership requires passion. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it’s a given the role for which you’re hiring is going to change. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry. He holds a Ph.D. Knox, Kentucky.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

And contractors in the construction industry have long used an extensive form of outsourcing. The Smart Car was an interesting example of this in the automobile industry, resulting from a joint venture of Mercedes and Swatch. Some outsourcing has been around for a long time. Often, both. Structuring in Sevens.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For the client who feels overwhelmed – create a self-care menu and use one entry daily; for one who manages a large team, document what wows you about your employees and where they need to improve to make giving feedback easier at performance review time.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2012

It needs continuous, not intermittent, leadership. The myth of the super-manager—that a truly good manager can prevail regardless of the circumstances—is hard to let go. First, you must understand the competitive forces in your industry. “It is not a problem to be solved and settled. It’s a journey. It needs a strategist.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate-Positive Offices In the corporate real estate industry, Duffy argued that the root cause of climate abuse by offices is the office supply chain and its incentives. Facility managers should be rewarded for maintaining highly sustainable environments, not merely reducing costs. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

That year, he championed Microsoft’s first $1 billion investment into OpenAI, the company that would shake the industry with its release of ChatGPT. Learn more at innovativeleaderbook.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Identify the potential inflection points in your industry and focus on the timeframe when they are likely to occur. In building it, you should measure dollars but also people and leadership mindshare, as talent and leadership energy are often more scarce in big companies than seed funding. Develop Your Vision.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

One of the basic tenets of product management is that it is better to solve one problem completely than address multiple ones partially. This holds true beyond the realm of the product manager. He has a diverse background covering sales, operations, marketing, and product management. Multi-tasking sounds positive.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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