Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

W HEN WE THINK of success and influence, there’s more to it than just IQ and EQ. Your mindsets guide what you see as possible as desirable, which influences where and how you decide to apply your abilities.” Recognizing that you possess specific mindsets that influence your thinking and behavior is even more challenging.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

B ASED on the premise that leadership is influence and so we all are leading whether intentionally or not, Sam Collier writes in a short 68-page monograph, Find Your Voice , “You may not even know you’re being led. When you’re unaware that someone or something is influencing you, it leaves you in a very dangerous position.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This might sound silly or unnecessary, but clearly stating your intentions to yourself will influence how successful the negotiation will be. All of this will be influenced by your competitive orientation. Consciously deciding how you’ll approach the negotiation is a crucial part of your preparation.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Persuade : The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions by Andres Lares and Jeff Cochran with Shaun Digan. Persuade is perfect for executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders and will earn a place in the libraries of any professional who negotiates or influences on a regular basis.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Cultural connection point can influence healthy behaviors and attitude, or they can be complicit in unhealthy behaviors and attitudes.” Culture Connection Points A cultural connection point is where the design of the workplace acts upon our well-being. Subcultures do not have to be solely formed around work-related elements.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ed O’Malley and Julia McBride on asking, “What’s my part of this mess?”: “One person can see a problem, get more curious about it, and use their influence to make things better. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: When Everyone Leads: How The Toughest Challenges Get Seen And Solved.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Start Where You Have Influence. “No Major change occurs because enough people, in different spheres, lead where they have influence.” “Focusing on a common leadership challenge allows everyone to see and seize their moments to lead.” No one leads everywhere, so we need everyone leading somewhere. Start with Your Part of the Mess.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Source: Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed. Robert Dilenschneider on knowing your strengths: “By knowing your strengths and building on them in a hypercompetitive world, we can be more effective. You need to learn how to block out your weaknesses, prune them, and drive steadily from your strengths.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

William Ammerman states in The Invisible Brand , “ AI will play an increasingly important role in our lives in the years ahead as marketers turn vast amounts of computing power to the problem of influence people’s decisions.”. As a consumer, the challenge is to understand how this technology is influencing us.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Authentic Leadership: 5 Big Mistakes that Can Derail Your Influence by @LetsGrowLeaders. Leadership Word of the Day: DISAPPOINTED by @edbatista. What Makes Effective Leaders? An interview with @wallybock by @DebbieLaskeyMBA. Who Are You? by @artpetty. From Gavin Adams - How to Talk So People Will Listen.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

‘In the study of one’s personal language and self-talk,’ said Sidney Madwed, ‘it can be observed that what one thinks and talks about to himself tends to become the deciding influence in is life. For what the mind attends to, the mind considers.’” It only takes three seconds to empower yourself and do whatever it takes. “I

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

The Art of Being Indispensable at Work : Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done by Bruce Tulgan. Whether you are an author seeking an audience, a defender of truth, or simply someone interested in human social behavior, The Rules of Contagion is an essential guide to modern life.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Worse still, we leave ourselves wide open to those who profit by influencing our behavior, our thinking, and our choices. Confronted by the inherent unpredictability of life, many individuals and organizations have shifted subtly from trying to forecast our future to trying to influence us, using salesmanship and propaganda.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2020

These first three competencies require that you be present for the action and limiting your influence. The most successful leaders are influencing people far beyond their direct reach and are intensely aware that success depends on what happens in their absence.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

T HE CHICK-FIL-A corporate purpose statement goes like this: To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A. Choosing Personal Influence over Position Power. And the most important word in that phrase was “ by.”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram wrote The 100X Leader to help you become a 100X Leader in all spheres of influence in your life—leading yourself, a company, a team, or a family—and to become a Sherpa for others. These leaders have learned how to liberate in every circle of influence—self, family, team, organization, and community. “To

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

Leadership is influence. I define leadership as intentional influence so that we see it not as a passive activity but as a condition that we need to take responsibility for. If leadership is influence, then leadership isn’t a choice.”. Leadership Is Not A Choice. In that sense, that includes all of us, all the time.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. In most cases, leaders have a profound influence on their employees. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization.

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Leading Blog

JULY 29, 2020

They actively looked for subtle signs of emotion in order to influence the course of events. Consider How Your Own Behavior Influences Others’ Emotions. Most of the outstanding leaders were not just aware of their emotions or skillful in identifying what emotions other people were experiencing.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2023 that you will want to check out: 37 Rules for Maximizing Impact, Influence, and Performance by @AlanSteinJr Taking Over a Toxic Workplace by Michael Lombardi @mlombardiNFL Boss’s Tip of the Week: Look for the Pony from @wallybock Breaking Out of a Personal Creativity Slump—Restarting Your Idea Machine by (..)

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

These expectations come from all corners and influence us more than we admit. Bruce Feiler on our personal narratives: “Each one of us carries around an unspoken set of assumptions that dictate how we expect our lives to unfold. Our society tells us we should be basking in progress, but our experience tells us we are beset by slip-ups.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Every leader that aspires to be a good leader should read Bob Burg’s book on influence. Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success in any aspect of your life are limited.”. Leadership is intentional influence. Influence becomes manipulation when it is about you.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2020

The insecurity that leads to being overly critical of yourself can only diminish your influence and weaken your relationships. You’re constantly updating a catalogue of your own weaknesses, limitations, and imperfections. Other people’s abilities bum you out.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

by @PhilCooke Three Traits That Hold Us Back from @JohnBaldoni Designers, Make Communication Your Superpower by Fengbo Li via @uxdesigncc View every communication as an opportunity to connect, influence, and lead in the moment Paul McCartney Delivers A Master Class In Creativity from @JohnBaldoni Choices Are Everything by George Manners via @LeadershipMain (..)

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Whatever we’re feeling internally is generating an experience externally, and whatever is happening externally influences our experience internally. Which means we have great influence on creating a positive and productive experience and on being positively or negatively contagious. We proact and react. We project and receive.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders of the twenty-first-century “are likely to have less power, authority, and influence” than leaders of the twentieth-century making things “more complex and complicated than simpler and easier.” Leaders may not have less influence but they do have less power. Leaders and followers have changed in profound ways too.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Those two can then develop the top 20 percent of those they influence and so on. Developing leaders pays dividends to you, those you develop, and to everyone they influence. I add value to them, so they can multiply value to others.” It’s dangerous to think you’ve arrived as a leader.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect. . * * * Gregg Ward is the founder and executive director of the Center for Respectful Leadership and a highly sought-after speaker, facilitator, and executive coach.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Communication, trustworthiness, empowerment, networking, and likability are just some of the performance-based skills that you’ll need to optimize in order to influence others in the execution of your vision. Visionaries get others involved and use the talents that surround them.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Architect : Influence levers. Mobilize influence leaders, make the change personal for a critical mass of leaders, and maintain high-impact, two-way communications. Use four levers to reshape the work environment: role modeling, understanding and conviction, reinforcement mechanisms, and confidence-building efforts.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What we need is an upgrade in our understanding of what it really takes to influence others. Moonshot : A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Mike Massimino Learn the NASA Astronaut mindset to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity, and never give up when pursuing your wildest ambitions.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Erosion of Traditional Corporate Culture A strong corporate culture will influence how team members interact and conduct business. Businesses striving to adapt and thrive amidst these changes must find innovative solutions to the matter of maintaining a robust corporate culture.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

Core Principle 2: Engage a critical mass of pivotal influencers across the organization to reach a tipping point. Pivotal influencers are those 5 to 15% that others look to for cues as to what success looks like in the organization. The authors note that the actual capability building journey is only 25% of what is required.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. Why don’t we? Why do some people grow and learn, and others flounder?

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Here, in overview, are the nine rules with the author’s comments: Rule #1: It’s Not What Happens to You That’s Important, It’s How You Respond Realize that you can’t change others, but you can and do influence them by how you respond. How do you respond when stuff happens? You say, “Next!” Saying “Next!”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

There are behaviors and thinking that strongly influence our outcomes. “You can’t waste your mental energy looking for a way out or an alternative plan. All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” Wrong partners can derail you. And sometimes, you are not the one to lead the company forward.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In other words, organizations cannot be controlled through direct interventions, but they can be influenced by giving impulses rather than instructions. Fritjof Capra on making change in a living organization: “A machine can be controlled; a living system, according to the systemic understanding of life, can only be disturbed.

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