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How to Get Your Team to Think Like You

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Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?” The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders. If you want to get more of the right things done faster, you need to get your team to think like you.

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How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most

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If there’s one topic I hear about all the time from the leaders I work with, it’s the challenge of keeping themselves and their teams focused on what matters most. The point of the discussion is to pull the lens back and get clear on what they and their teams need to start, stop, and continue doing over the next 30, 60 and 90 days.

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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

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When I talk about the ideas in my book, The Next Level , one of the first things I usually say is that the next level is any leadership situation which requires different results. The ideas I’m sharing in this post are the basics of a crisis leadership playbook that is something of a work in progress. When I was writing the 3 rd.

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How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

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For example, a study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership shows that 40 percent of new executives fail within eighteen months of being named to their positions. These sets of behaviors break down into three primary components of executive presence: personal presence, team presence and organizational presence.

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How to Stay Out of the Weeds

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A common dilemma for the leaders I work with is that, in spite of their best intentions to operate at a big picture strategic level, they find themselves regularly getting pulled into the weeds of day-to-day details that really aren’t the highest and best use of their time and attention. A month or so ago, he quit going first.

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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

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What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year.

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The Leadership Difference Between Being Accessible and Available

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The open-door policy implies that your team members or colleagues can come to you with anything. They do in the dictionary, but they don’t in the realm of leadership. Available leaders: Put team members and colleagues on their list of priorities. This is especially true for regularly scheduled team meetings or team one on one’s.)