Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

A specific, relevant thank you has the power to energize and keep people moving. In this episode, David shares a meaningful thank you and how you can encourage your people – even when you haven’t had a recent “win.” Why did it matter to her? ” Powerful Thank Yous. ( You restored my hope truly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2021

Guest post from Ruth King : How many times have you heard “It’s not my fault” from an employee when it really IS that employee’s fault? He is making excuses about why he didn’t do his job. If he really can’t do the job either training is necessary, or a career readjustment is necessary (my euphemism for firing someone).

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Over the course of a long leadership journey you occasionally get to experience one of those extraordinary days that you remember, and draw on as a valuable lesson, for the rest of your business life. It was quite a sight to behold. I was so impressed that I joked, “ well, guess we all just led our way out of a job here!”.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

Maybe I should just find a new job in a company with a different culture,” she said to a trusted colleague over coffee. “I In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. The company needs a shared vision.

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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? What matters is how those impacted by your leadership think and feel about you.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

And yet, try telling that to the American public or to the world when something goes really wrong. As we have seen, large-scale governmental failure becomes presidential failure, whether the president likes it or not.” — Elaine Kamarck, Why Presidents Fail. You can’t just appoint smart people.” Newt Gingrich, 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Their job is nearly impossible, but absolutely critical. That’s why I’m so delighted they’re receiving hard-earned recognition with this top 25 list.”

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When it snows in Colorado, it really snows. When it’s really deep, everything has a smooth, shapeless quality. In the job market, you are the product and the company trying to sell the product. These are your personal keys to conscious success in the job market: Presentation. What will people gain by working with you?

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

People are finding it easy to find jobs and unemployment is at a record low. The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. Gallup finds 60% of people are emotionally detached at work and 19% are miserable. (1) Why are people not engaged and can something be done about it?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ask yourself: What do I really believe? When vision emerges from several contributors, ownership rises, clarity increased and the full burden of leadership is shared. And you have a life people can really see – one that can embody the vision, not verbalize it. 4) REJECTION “What if people do not buy into the vision?” .

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2024

This is why we need to return to devising creative ways to retain employees to ensure organizations stay whole. There are always other jobs that skilled employees can find without too much of a struggle even in a cooling job market that appears dry of opportunity.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. Baird and Sullivan further share that since 2020, over 40 million Americans have left their jobs. In heart-based cultures, people feel safe pushing back and improving each other’s ideas.

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Brigette Hyacinth

MARCH 17, 2020

In this digital age, there is a big disconnect between leaders and the people they lead. Many managers think they are doing a great job but when you ask the people they lead, it’s quite the opposite. If we treat people only as the means to an end, we will never have their loyalty. Treat your people right.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. And it’s meant to be hard.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? It’s not surprising that students of leadership often become disillusioned upon entering the workplace. He’s right.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

Maybe I should just find a new job in a company with a different culture,” she said to a trusted colleague over coffee. “I In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. The company needs a shared vision.

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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. I had met over 900 people that were on our team in the field, many of them three or four times. The Leadership File And The Spreadsheet Assassin.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

Leadership is one of my life’s great passions – and I’m pleased to share with you my journey (in three parts in 3 weeks) to what I consider to be the heart of great More Human leadership – the success trifecta. Along the way I learned SO many things about leadership, because I had the honor of actually DOING it.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Motivating Your Team Do you really want your team to become more motivated? Motivated people are energized and ready to do work. They know their job and they’re ready to do it. From rewarding them for a job well done to helping them grow in their knowledge, motivation takes all different forms.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

It not really about always day one , but I presume he chose the title because day one is a mindset that is foundational to sustaining an innovative culture. That is why ‘visionary’ is still the ultimate compliment for the CEO today. This isn’t quite right. C REATING an innovative culture is not easy. It often defies convention.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Have we really degenerated to this point? News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. Identifying leaders?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 25, 2023

GenZ in corporate culture has a lot on their plates right now: they’re dealing with trying to figure out how they want their lives to look when they are 50; they’re trying to figure out how they want to spend their time and energy as adults; and most importantly, they’re trying not to let other people’s expectations ruin it all for them.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

In many fields, the workplace has become a candidate’s market where the best people have their pick of jobs. And it’s not enough to attract and hire top people—you have to be able to retain them too. They fall into six critical areas: Great leadership. When you get leadership right, you get the right people.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

A PEW RESEARCH CENTER study found that Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently done by humans. Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job. What Can We Do?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hard work is why I left our family farm. Whenever a job began to feel like work, I quit. I’ve put decades of long hours into my career without really working. These leaders love the people they work with enough to contribute to their growth and development. Envision our ideal job and find or create it.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Before you quit your job, here are a few things you need to think about: It’s hard. I loved this line: “Venture capitalists have one of the greatest jobs in the world. You’ve got to give people a really good reason to move from where they are quite comfortable to where you want them to be—a loyal customer.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Guest post from Chris Meroff: Investing in your people should be the end game for you as a leader. So, it makes sense that we as leaders would want to create a success plan for our people. Though they are sometimes lumped into the same category they are quite different. Their success is your success. What Is a Success Plan?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I ’m thrilled to introduce my friend Bob Burg to you in today’s Answers From Leadership podcast. Is there a difference between taking leadership and giving leadership? And, if so, does it really make that big a difference in your ability to lead? Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. .

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 30, 2018

Academia may lack degree programs in leadership, but Texas A&M University does an excellent job at introducing incoming students to servant-leadership. So the university offers a way for like-minded students to connect and learn about servant-leadership. Then they follow that learning with real-world practice.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 3, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article Baby Driver is a stylized, modern gangster movie. While there’s no real leaders in Baby Driver, there are leadership lessons in Baby Driver. The theme of bad leadership runs throughout the movie and you can learn quite a bit from the actions of the bad leaders and those who followed them.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Mission: Why does your company exist? Ernst & Young Purpose Is Deeper Than Profit Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. What Is Corporate Purpose?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Mission: Why does your company exist? Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Shifting Dynamics Make Corporate Purpose a Non-Negotiable. Ernst & Young.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 17, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article My mind is still trying to comprehend how there are now 8 Fast and the Furious movies. Two years ago I shared leadership lessons from Furious 7 … And now we’re on the eighth movie in the franchise. Why Fast And The Furious 8? Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Fate Of The Furious.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 5, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article I’ve often wondered what I would do if I was ever put into a situation like Bryan Mills from Taken or, now, Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) in the new Death Wish movie. Death Wish tells the story of Paul Kersey, a doctor whose job it was was to save lives. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Death Wish.

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