Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. To make this happen, we put a system in place with six key focus areas: 1. Previously, the leadership team had only met on a monthly basis.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. These core systems either boost or block performance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Teams go through mood changes. No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. It’s a team experience. It’s mostly invisible, but it affects team performance. There’s an opportunity for leadership in that experience that is generally overlooked.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. He shares these in Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff. Five Types of Leadership. Secure a Team 4.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2023

When Sarah, a promising team leader at SmartTechCorp, began spending more time with her superiors, her team started to notice a shift in her priorities. Meetings with her team became less frequent, and candid conversations dwindled. Leadership is a complex entity, shaped by more than just individual drive and capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Doing the right things to get the right things done requires a GPS system to achieve high performance-driven execution.

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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. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. As they have excelled, so have their businesses and teams. Fast Forward will help you and your teams create the life you want this year and every year. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Invest in Technology.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. Most leaders do not have titles.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

” Digital Healthcare System Integrations Implementing digital solutions in healthcare is challenging due to the lack of integration between various software applications, databases, and devices used by various health providers. The pressure on its client services team grew as the organization grew.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

This month’s festival is all about team time. The question for the month is: What is an area of growth you are focusing on, either professionally or personally? This month’s question was: What tips do you have for working well with a team? You may discover that your team is nothing more than a committee in disguise.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. What if we had that job?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2023

If you look at the articles found in various business outlets these days, it would seem organizations are facing an existential crisis when it comes to how today’s workplaces should operate. At the heart of this debate is. Click to continue reading To offer remote work opportunities or not to offer remote work opportunities?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Many of us are missing the days when collaboration was as easy as stopping by someone’s office or arranging a face-to-face team meeting. Here are some of the foundational elements for successfully collaborating as your team works remotely. The Leadership Gap. Shift the mindset. Ensure psychological safety.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Team dynamics is one of the overlooked parts of a business. Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. If a team is out of sync or out of flow, things happen slowly or at worst not at all. Michael Jordan.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 13, 2023

The principles of SERVANT-Leadership and The Great Game of Business (GGOB)* share many traits. GGOB (also known simply as, “The Great Game”) is an approach to business management where you ensure all stakeholders understand the core business operations, high level financial statements, and key numbers. Simplify Concepts.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Mental diversity strengthens teams.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Businesses now have powerful tools and technologies to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and deliver customer value. This will allow these leaders to identify and develop the competitive differentiators to drive growth and systemic impact across their organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

This business process management software makes it easier to manage a complex business because integrated applications help automate a number of back office functions and coordinate all operations. An ERP management information system integrates areas such as planning, purchasing, inventory, sales, marketing, finance and human resource.

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Art Petty

MARCH 7, 2023

For many years, I've had the pleasure and honor of submitting my Leadership Caffeine articles to the monthly Leadership Development Carnival coordinated by the great team at Weaving Influence. The post March 2023 Leadership Development Carnival appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

And while individual leaders are key to an organization’s success, collective leadership effectiveness carries the day. This means that companies are poised for even greater success when they scale their leadership, that is, when they grow leaders throughout the organization and align them into a collectively effective leadership system.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Particularly during times of uncertainty and change, one of the easiest ways to know what’s really going on is to (1) get clarity about what you don’t know and (2) ask your team some courageous questions. Her team had been holding user experience calls each week and the feedback had been great! Laura’s jaw dropped.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Your silence may be doing more harm than good. An Evolving Definition.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

This year at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda, Team New Zealand beat the defending Oracle Team USA. What made their victory possible was a new team with a new approach. Great Teams Serve Each Other. Team New Zealand operates as a team. Great Teams Maintain Their Composure and Focus.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 24, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. This includes going to Fry’s Electronics and purchasing a surveillance system for the ranch. Included in all of this are the leadership lessons in Nope.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

In essence, business processes need not be limited by reporting lines or geography in this kind of operating model. Indeed, the success of cross-functional teams hinges on defining business processes that know no boundaries whatsoever. However, there’s more to the picture than fielding new systems and apps.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 17, 2021

It starts with strong and sustained leadership rippling out from the senior leadership team. Many divisional, departmental, branch, or other sub-unit leadership teams add to the tangled culture hairball by following along with a weak or dysfunctional culture or — even worse — wallowing in helplessness.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 12, 2024

The best know how to navigate this dynamic landscape effectively, drive innovation, and inspire their teams to thrive. Use data-driven decision-making to guide your strategic choices and optimize business operations. Empower Human-Machine Collaboration: Encourage collaboration between humans and AI systems.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. In Leadershift, John C.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. Background. Staffing Challenges and Planned Actions.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When it comes to leadership, the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. A leader’s primary concern is with building a better system, while a manager’s primary concern is with maintaining the current one. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When’s the last time you looked at the competency model for your job or for the members of your team? I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team. call center directors, team leaders).

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