Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2020. Steding presents his proven leadership process for achieving peak performance by accessing the untapped/unseen intelligence of deep imagination as well as the superior creativity and intelligence of the connected team. Scott and Lynda Gratton.

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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

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing these hand-picked team members becomes a highly unpleasant process, one that CEOs avoid at all costs—despite clear signs it’s necessary. 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.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. Doing something doesn’t mean you aren’t thinking, but the brain operates much more automatically.

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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. The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing Leadership Mentors. During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

He writes, “Jeff Bezos and Amazon have a remarkably consistent way to approaching and meeting challenges, operating their business and technology, and thinking about new ideas, markets, and growth.” Process versus Bureaucracy. Creating Processes That Scale. Bezos believes, “Good process is absolutely essential.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. The operating model is how that is accomplished. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

via @INSEADKnowledge The Right Thing Is Rarely The Easy Thing by @PhilCooke It’s the pursuit that’s most important How an Operating System Transforms New Manager Development by @artpetty Does Your Culture Support Your Strategy?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared. That comes last.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

With far too much failed leadership on display, leaders should commit to building a different brand of leadership— Triple Crown Leadership , say authors Bob and Gregg Vanourek. Leaders must engage all in developing the colors through a collaborative process, thereby increasing ownership and buy-in. Unleash “stewards.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. The process begins by defining reality and banishing intellectual laziness. It is a process.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Dave Ramsey defines EntreLeadership as “the process of leading to cause a venture to grow and prosper.” Entreleaders know how to blend their entrepreneurial passion with servant-like leadership that motivates employees through persuasion instead of intimidation. EntreLeadership is a book about how business works from a practitioner.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2012

He writes in The Shaping of an Effective Leader : Our understanding of leadership does not come to us all at once. Leadership development is a process. The implementation of these eight principle will have a profound impact on your leadership: The Necessity of Character. It takes time. The Importance of Competence.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. We simply don’t know.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

He understood that individual as well as collective scripts would stay hidden until the normal way that the organization operates is challenged. You’ve got to have the resolve, the courage, and the fortitude to see change through that part of the process, because it’s the most difficult part of the transition.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

It’s easy to point the finger at top leadership—it starts with them. After conducting a few million DILOs (Day in the Life of) across 30,000 organizational operations assessments, we found one thing in common. When you routinely connect with your people, you earn the right to discuss operational performance. Well, yes, she does.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

It is a process. That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there. Fill leadership roles based on measured performance rather than just rough judgments and personal considerations.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2011

Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, released its 2010 Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies develop current and future leaders. In the process, they are gaining important competitive advantages.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s hard and requires a deliberate process. Kubieck and Cockram guide you through that process. The art of leadership is the appropriate calibration of support and challenge at a specific moment, in a specific context for a specific reason.”. You want to operate in the top right quadrant—liberate—as much as you can.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He organizes the book in terms of the changing nature of his leadership responsibilities as he moved up the ranks. First, he learned face-to-face or direct leadership. Finally, he covers the challenges and techniques relevant to strategic leadership from a senior military officer’s perspective. It requires discipline and trust.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Living out their own code becomes critical to that process, especially in a political environment with really no code. A code that’s not enforced quickly becomes a lie that undermines your entire operation. Compassion provides the necessary balance to what could be an otherwise harsh and cold process.

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JULY 21, 2023

Reality can be hard to process. Up to now, you’ve operated on the stories you believe in, your own personal little dramas, your own soap operas that you act out every day. And that’s what it’s all about.” * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * Some don’t.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. An emphasis on both performance and health can be mace part of the change process by applying what they call the Five Frames of Performance and Health. Advance : Leadership placement.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Should you process risk? Maybe you are the Visionary, and you need a good operator—a Catalyst type—to make it happen. When we see ourselves in their life stories, we get the feeling that if they did it, we can too. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum. It’s also a very fragile process. In What’s Holding You Back?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

We can see how we do it (process). But we usually are not aware of the who : the inner place or source from which we operate.” The question for leaders is “ How does our blind spot show up in our leadership? That quality of time, if connected to, operates from [pre-sensing] the highest future potential.”. Our purpose.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. He knew the economics of his business and was able convert his skills into practical technology and process solutions. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ambiguity is a part of leadership. When clarity exists as a value, individuals and the organizations they work for operate in a way that places a premium on clarity and rewards the people who seek it. Many organizations “limp along with ambiguous, undocumented, wasteful, and poorly managed processes.” Like stress, some is good.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

To make the most of a turbulent world we need to be able to balance our emotions with a rational and deliberate thought process in real time that allow us to learn and thoughtfully and creatively move through the circumstance or what authors Jacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, and Michael Kruyt, call Deliberate Calm.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure. Connect with Shaara on LinkedIn and at shaararoman.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Entrepreneurs can avoid false starts by undertaking a thorough and thoughtful design process before commencing engineering work.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice. There, he mastered the technical aspect of organizational transformation and process improvement, as well as the cultural side of transformation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Have a process for decision-making that includes getting the broadest range of thought that you can. But the details don’t matter if you don’t have the right process. And if you do have the right process, you can go anywhere. What plays into agility is knowing how to think.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

In Leading Clarity , Brad Deutser states that “Clarity operates on the truth that everything is connected.” The box has four sides—Direction, Operations, People, Engagement—a bottom—Organizational Identity—and a top—Environmental Factors. Is leadership aligned with values? Operations: Do we adapt well to change?

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