Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are reevaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. Absolutely!

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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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. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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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. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2020. Real Teams Win : What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance by Thomas L. Overcome : Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors by Jason Redman. Scott and Lynda Gratton.

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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. Gallup's solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. It may become nearly impossible to create a culture of committed team members and powerful relationships at work. What if we had that job?

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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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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Leadership isn't easy. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. Effective teams need responsible and accountable leaders?the

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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

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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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Well, one collective deficit could, and did: The lack of effective leadership. Mental diversity strengthens teams.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. The Erosion of Traditional Corporate Culture A strong corporate culture will influence how team members interact and conduct business. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

In trying to understand the dynamics of team interactions, Les McKeown writes in The Synergist , that people tend to act primarily in one of three naturally occurring styles: the Visionary, the Operator or the Processor. (A Operators get stuff done. Get your team to take the assessment and talk about the results.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

No matter how big or small the change you want to make, if you’re a team leader, it all comes down to you. It’s easy to point the finger at top leadership—it starts with them. We need frontline leaders to help workers bring their best selves to work each day, to find out what’s holding team members back and how to address it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Reimagine core operations to deliver societal impact and hence long-term, sustained total shareholder returns rather than regarding social impact as an activity apart from the core.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2023

You need to be like a football team that is focused on getting that ball in the end zone. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. The leadership aspect of servant leadership is the responsibility of the traditional hierarchy. Leadership is the by-product and positional authority is, at best, an afterthought.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Soldiers morph into Rangers—individuals into teams—when they get a sense of who they are and what they’re a part of. Think exclusively in high definition and create a specific, detailed, granular, crystal-clear picture of what you’ll look like and how you’ll be operating when your organization reaches its intended future destination.”

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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. As his team grew, Musk infused it with his tolerance for risk and reality-bending willfulness. “If

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Patrick Lencioni has penned another leadership fable that follows the discussion of two CEOs getting to the bottom of why they lead and the results they are getting from their two different mindsets. When leaders are motivated by personal reward, they will avoid the unpleasant situations and activities that leadership requires.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They believe that “to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills” highlighted in these seven tests. Who should be on the team?

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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 quality of thought in a team or organization matters. He did both. It is a process.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2013

Applying the tools of design thinking to help your team conquer its goals doesn''t mean hunkering down on your own with an org chart in a dimly lit office to devise the perfect execution strategy. Design thinking is about engaging with your team at its most fundamental levels. Those creative shower moments rely on lots of data.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Entreleaders know how to blend their entrepreneurial passion with servant-like leadership that motivates employees through persuasion instead of intimidation. Here are just a few of his thoughts on leadership: The very things you want from a leader are the very things the people you are leading expect from you.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2020 that you don't want to miss: Teaching By Heart: A Guide For Great #Leadership This It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. 4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team by @DavidMDye. How To Invest In Startups by @sama Sam Altman.

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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. The Advantage of Team Chemistry. It takes time.

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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. The first step is putting together a triple crown team. Triple Crown leaders cannot remain stuck in their normal style of leadership.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. Assemble diverse teams with complementary skills and a shared vision. Learn more at roseventures.net. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. The most effective leaders get their teams, their colleagues, and their suppliers to emphasize their priorities. Because Tommy understood the business in such depth, he often knew the answers well before his team did. Tommy felt overworked and underappreciated.

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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. Partners: As with decisions about team members, bad choices about partners rarely are the primary cause of a startup’s demise.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. When this happens, I interpret this as meaning that our team isn’t working very efficiently. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

In 1992, I was the G3 (Operations Officer) for one of the Army’s 10 Divisions – forward deployed in Europe. military operates, where mission orders are issued along with the commander’s intent, thereby giving subordinates the freedom to operate within that framework. When No Trust Exists. In the U.S.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

T AKING ON A POSITION of leadership comes with assuming risk, encountering organizational challenges, and being a moral role model for an organization. Three attributes that are critical to taking on the mantle of leadership are decision-making, resiliency, and character. Character is the foundation of leadership.

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