Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

We might think of them as blind spots that adversely affect our leadership effectiveness. Jim Haudan and Rich Berens hope to help you uncover five common leadership blind spots by exposing the underlying assumptions behind the consequences we see played out over and over again in all types of organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 23, 2019

I adopted my dog Louie five years ago, and not a day goes by without a leadership lesson from that silly dog. I came across Louie’s adoption file recently as I was attempting to purge old paperwork. I smiled when I saw the name Chandler (his original name), and rummaged through the papers I took with me for our first visit to the vet.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2019

If there was such a thing as a stress meter, I would have been afraid to know what the numbers were at the time. How in the world was I going to continue to lead my company and keep up with my duties at home (and anywhere else, for that matter)? Our culture is filled with more anxiety and stress than ever. Stress is a killer.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

Welcome to the April Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context provided 16 Answers to What is Good Leadership?

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2022

Armed with the right information, tactics, and strategies, this number can fall dramatically. Leadership Tip: recognize that your new team may require a different leadership than you’re used to. Leadership Tip: recognize that your new team may require a different leadership than you’re used to.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Some are farsighted choices as Steven Johnson calls them in Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. Most of us just tally the number of items on each list and go with the longer list. Most of us just tally the number of items on each list and go with the longer list. But not all decisions are of this type.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

He has curated ideas from 45 internationally–known doers and thinkers on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic leadership. Danny Lange: Becoming Truly Data Driven. Christian Ørsted: Authentic Leadership is Narcissism. J ONATHAN LAW created The GuruBook to change, refine, and enhance your thinking.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”. Science, math, and data do not excuse us from thinking. The story we create with the data makes all the difference.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Guest post from Leo Bottary: Leadership lessons exist all around us, all the time. One of my favorite fictional characters provides a profound lesson in leadership in a wonderful book called The Offsite by Robert H. The groundskeeper, however, serves as the perfect metaphor for servant leadership. This is how we grow.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2024

Employees, especially those who know their work and have a touch of an entrepreneurial expert in them, can move to freelance part-time roles if their organization is truly a terrible place to work. These sorts of employees may not be in large numbers, but they make a considerable impact when they walk out.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 7, 2017

For almost 10 years, I’ve been writing about leadership and in that time, perhaps one of the most significant shifts I’ve seen has been the willingness to recognize that the key to our success as leaders stems from the relationships we foster and nurture with those we lead.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 23, 2017

Leadership is much more than what you know or even what you do. These traits make up what I call your leadership gaps. Unless you can learn to integrate and leverage every part of who you are—especially your gaps—these hidden impediments will get the best of you, and your business and leadership will be impaired.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Because of this, we see large numbers of employees come and go. And that’s not good for leadership either. When thinking about surveying your employees, you need to decide which metrics actually matter to your team. Each of these areas matter to different employees. That’s not good for business.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Welcome to the May 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided 8 Steps to Avoid Flipping Your Lid in Challenging Leadership Situations. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Change: Drive Your Desired Culture.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 11, 2013

That is, we had drilled down hard on what I thought was a relatively insignificant metric, rather than look at the bigger picture of what was happening out there – improved morale, higher trust, and a turnaround on the “big stuff” (the overall customer satisfaction number, among them). ” Boom, there it was.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When it comes to improving the way we lead, there’s a number of approaches that have been championed by both leadership experts and researchers looking into understanding what makes someone a successful leader. One example of this is the idea that we need to be “more authentic” in our leadership.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 26, 2014

T here have been many people who were called leaders yet they never truly led. The only one who mattered was covering their own butt, numero uno. But, in his new book, Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek turns this leadership method on it’s head, and then kicks it hard to the curb. Not their team. Not their coworkers.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They can be young or old; it doesn’t really matter. Pride is number 1. The best leaders truly want to help the people they serve. Often this is called servant leadership. Those Who Care the Most, Sell the Most. How do top performers differentiate themselves? There is no secret to sales, no silver bullet. Mareo McCracken.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The key to success is knowing the foundational principles of leadership. If you don’t appreciate your people, they will leave you—it’s as simple as that, The US Department of Labor says that the number one reason people leave their jobs is because they don’t feel appreciated. They engage with people no matter what their position.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2011

Whether you have just been given a new leadership role, are currently in a leadership role, or have consciously decided to begin to lead from where you are, Pam Fox Rollin has created a concise guide for doing it successfully. A quick daily review will help to keep you focused on the agenda that really matters.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” If those numbers seem to reflect your team, you probably don’t need me to tell you that you’ve got a big problem. Whether you’re talking about work, leadership, or life, the most rewarding experiences are rarely a solo act. So what can you do to get your people more engaged at work? Focus on core values.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2018

So what does this have to do leadership? Leadership guru and author, Simon Sinek recently said, “To affect change inside an organization we must remember why people resist change. How does this impact great leadership? In reality, any successful songwriter is only trying to do one thing…connect heads and hearts.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

I decided to NOT make my keynote talk a discussion of the numbers. I wanted to talk about leadership. I framed it that day as group of 10 leadership battles that leaders will constantly face, in any quest to be great. They are moments where you literally plant a flag and say “This is it! This is where I’m going!!”

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2021

The research found that employees were confident in their ability to be productive anywhere, with around 40% of respondents saying it didn’t really matter if they worked onsite or remotely, or indeed a combination of the two. “83% of workers in our study said a hybrid model would be optimal,” the authors say.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. But try as I might, keeping meaningful personal connections with those 900 people (and that number was growing every day) wasn’t a sustainable strategy, and it nagged at me.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 17, 2014

One of the things I enjoy in writing about leadership is looking out for new insights into how we can become a better leader to those we serve, as well as discovering new examples that can help to illustrate what those measures might look like in action.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Warning : This series is also intended to exorcise excuses, infiltrate and stretch comfort zones, and push toward personal transformation so we can climb up the leadership stairs. On Becoming Being a Leader My lifetime of work in personal, team, and organizational leadership led me to define leadership as an action, not a position.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a timeless personal and leadership principle I call “ spirit and meaning.” Exercises such as my last post reflecting on key life lessons indicate our values and what’s most meaningful to us. Spirit and meaning is a missing link in many lives, teams, and organizations. Many with material prosperity live in spiritual poverty.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Tasha Eurich, a luminary in organizational psychology and bestselling author, unveils the profound impact of self-awareness in leadership in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. Join us as Tasha Eurich charts a course for shatterproof leadership, leaving an indelible mark on organizational psychology.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 10, 2018

Before jumping into solutions for the project, establish a relationship of trust that will allow you to be more comfortable with each other—it’s especially important for an employee to feel comfortable and able to express their opinions and ideas with their superiors (creating that kind of environment is just great leadership).

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 22, 2014

When it comes to leadership in today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, there’s no question that the only constant we should expect is change. However, it’s critical to remember that our ultimate success is dependent on how well we connect what matters to our organization with what matters to those we serve.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 30, 2016

After all, given the blue skies seen outside the office window and the ease with which family activities can be planned with children being on summer vacation break, the summer months do present quite a number of distractions that can impede one’s productivity and drive to push ahead.

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General Leadership

APRIL 9, 2014

Most notable, however, is that his finest moments came when leadership was thrust upon him in the bleakest of times. “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.”. Victor Frankl. Viktor Frankl was an incredible person by many measures. Finding Meaning through Service. Finding Meaning through Service.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2023

She serves on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School, and her speaking and DEI advisory client list includes Fortune 500 companies, international forums, government entities, and top academic institutions. “There are two pieces of debilitating thinking that hold women back: The first is waiting to be noticed or appreciated.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In Situational Leadership ® terms, ability is determined by answering the following question: “Is this person currently performing at a sustained and acceptable level?” Few would argue that we live in a dynamic world. That world is increasingly defined by disruptive , in many cases completely unforeseen, change. In reality, they leave both.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2011

With all the attention and emphasis given to leadership, I have a few questions for you: Why is it that so many people refer to themselves as leaders, but truly great leaders are so few in number? How do you measure great leadership? It’s not what you think that matters.

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