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MAY 29, 2019

Remember, leadership rocks roll downhill.) Train – Who’s going to train your boss how to not micromanage? If you’re consistent in following your operating rhythm and get ahead of unpleasant surprises, then you’ll likely train your boss into asking for less and less that’s outside the rhythm. Who is their boss? Anticipate.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this short video , I draw on my training as a registered yoga teacher to teach you how to do that. Exercise your agency, improve your leadership effectiveness, and strengthen your health and well-being by taking back some of your overscheduled time. It’s important, though, that you know the right way to breathe.

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MARCH 18, 2024

I’ve been writing about leaders and leadership for more than 20 years. But, if you believe leadership is setting an example for others to follow, my mom was a leader. That would be the last picture I took of the five of them as my mom passed away suddenly about a month ago on February 21. She hated speaking in public.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. Much like the astronauts of Apollo 13, they showed grace and calm under pressure, maintained their discipline, drew on their training and supported each other to get through a crisis. Click Here.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. And once you picked one, the work of leadership was to align the culture with the chosen path. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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APRIL 20, 2021

It’s as true in business and leadership as it is in yoga and the rest of life. Part of the work of leadership right now is to have the patience to bring people together to do some scenario planning and diagnostic work on how the world and your marketplace has changed during the pandemic. They can, and should, work together.

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JULY 21, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. Posted by Scott Eblin on July 21, 2010 in Current Affairs , Leadership , Personal Presence | Permalink Technorati Tags : NAACP , Shirley Sherrod , under the bus , USDA TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Thrown Under the Bus. Thats Not Leadership.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. One of the most influential leadership gurus in the world, he is the author or co-author of dozens of books, including the international bestseller “The One Minute Manager.”

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MAY 2, 2016

Jim Lovell had spent thousands of hours as a pilot and astronaut both in training and on missions before Apollo 13. Think about the heroic roles that Hanks has played. The soldiers of D-Day practiced for months before the invasion. Captain Phillips and Sullenberger both had years and years of experience.

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APRIL 24, 2019

After spending a good part of my life in leadership roles and the past 20 years coaching, educating and writing for leaders, the death of my father, Dr. Jack Eblin , 10 days ago has me considering those questions anew. All of that is just a partial recitation of my dad’s leadership resume. How do you measure the success of a leader?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A good portion of the time that they haven’t been spending in planes, trains and automobiles has been going to their life partners, kids and friends. I spent some one-on-one time last week with a group of leaders in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program who were calling in from the road for the first time in a year and a half.

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JULY 1, 2020

As I’ve been conducting virtual leadership development sessions with managers and executives over the past month, I’ve been running a simple online poll – Have you found it easier or harder to control your mental chatter while working from home? Yes, you already do that but you’re probably doing it wrong.

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APRIL 8, 2013

He earned it by coming up with the most popular internal training course at Google, a program on mindfulness and meditation called Search Inside Yourself. Mindful Mondays Personal Presence Cheng-Meng Tan leadership mindfulness Search Inside Yourself' Click headline to continue.

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APRIL 9, 2018

And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog. There’s a connection and it comes from a client I’m working with in one of our leadership development programs. What’s up with the investment strategy tutorial?”

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MARCH 12, 2019

Sit In with the Front Liners – In our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program , we have high potential leaders shadow senior leaders for a day. The senior leaders got some on the spot training and mentoring from the experts and took live calls. The leadership team members didn’t lecture or drone on.

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APRIL 20, 2015

That happened to me last week when I spent time with my dear friend, Rae Ringel, at a training program for faculty members of the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program. One of the great things about having old friends is that they can remind you of things that you said once but have since forgotten.

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JULY 31, 2019

Happily, each of the posts addresses one of the three key leadership imperatives I identify in the new 3 rd edition of The Next Level : Manage yourself. For all the people who have a micromanager in their lives, this post teaches you how to Anticipate, Train and Show your way to a more productive and less frustrating relationship.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Don’t create information vacuums:   In the run up to the body scan and pat down changes,  the TSA declined to comment on what is different about the pat down procedure or how agents were trained to conduct them. Train and support your people to do the same.   If anything, it was faster. Click Here.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

specialist field is improving onjob employee performance without training courses. Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Brad is the second driver my wife and I have trained after teaching his older brother a few years ago. Anyway, Brad and I were practicing in the empty parking lots of a large government office center  It’s a great place for driver training because the lots are connected by marked two lane roads with stop signs at intersections.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    As the PATH train emerged from underneath the Hudson, I realized that we were coming up through the foundation of what used to be the World Trade Center.  Leadership is more complicated.  Click Here.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  From there, I caught a taxi to the train station, hopped on TrenItalia to Florence and was at my hotel maybe an hour later than originally planned.   Makes me wonder what the leadership opportunities are there. .    Makes me wonder what the leadership opportunities are there. Click Here.

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JULY 29, 2010

So, with the idea in mind that a good way to learn leadership is to do the opposite of what really crappy leaders do, here is an edited list of readers' suggestions for seven simple rules for creating a fear based culture: 1.   That isn't leadership it is management.    Kill the messenger. 

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APRIL 14, 2017

When does or when should human judgment override what the system dictates?

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Earlier this year in a leadership development program I was running, a three-time Hungarian Olympian swimmer named Tamas Kerekjarto confirmed for me what’s going through the athlete’s mind in those last moments. All of the best athletes do something similar whether it’s the swimmers, the runners or the volleyball players.

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JULY 23, 2010

Thats Not Leadership. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. In other words, the crew felt safe in calling out issues that were in their immediate control, but feared reprisals from the leaders in the home office if they ran their concerns up the chain of command.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Slater's supervisors could really have done to protect his back other than provide him and his colleagues with more training to deal with circumstances like the one in which he found himself. Why wasn't any "leadership" exercised onboard? How about that issue of stage presence? Click Here.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Today, I regularly give speeches and lead workshops on mindful leadership and self-management based on the content of that book. We’ve just certified and licensed 30 great coaches to lead workshops on using the Life GPS®, the self-management tool I unpack in Overworked and Overwhelmed , and are getting ready to train more coaches this summer.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Magazine | Main | 2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk » December 08, 2010 Requirements for Earning Your Leadership Merit Badge Last week, while teaching at Georgetown’s leadership coaching program ,  I was reminded of something that shaped me as a kid and a leader that I haven’t thought of in a long time. 

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

‘I would rather be doing this, what I trained to do and what I do best.'” When Lawrenson arrived at Oakmont the day before the tournament started he was surprised to find Palmer “in the professional’s workshop mending an old wooden club, repairing the binding that had come unglued. ’ he said.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Keep Breathing – In 2013, I did a 200 hour yoga teacher training program with a wonderful, highly experienced instructor named Birgitte Kristen. When I get seven to eight hours in a night I feel and perform a lot better the next day both physically and mentally.

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