Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

It is reorienting the competitive landscape — winners will flourish while losers will be at a severe competitive disadvantage, losing ground to competitors and frustrating stakeholders and customers. The loss of translation from leadership to implementation teams and across groups that have to collaborate can lead to costly implications.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a study by Gartner last year titled, “Reshaping Leadership for the Future,” 50% of leaders surveyed didn’t believe they’re well equipped to lead their organization into the future. In the past, leadership was all about what skills you had and your ability to get results.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 4, 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. Now, let’s get into the leadership lessons in The Pez Outlaw. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Pez Outlaw. You are not a loser. He learned the game.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.”. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Get stuck in or-thinking, e.g., either being a winner or a loser, either being right or wrong, etc. Validating yourself.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

They all share their methods, their successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And I’ve begged on my knees to bring civility back to leadership. Was I the loser in their destructive games? Because they’re virtually invisible, I worry sociopaths will continue conning their way into leadership roles, undetected until it’s too late. I’ve poked holes in the thin idea that nice guys finish last. Hard to know.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

That experience has led him to write Connecting the Dots as a way to help others to learn from the key events in his life and career as they navigate business and life. A reoccurring lesson he learned from the economic changes in his native West Virginia is one of the perils of success: doing the right thing for too long.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He is known by many as a lovable loser, has been often bullied, and called names (“You Blockhead, Charlie Brown!”). The post What Leaders Can Learn From Charlie Brown appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Charles Schultz, […].

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 10, 2019

One of the principal differences between a winner and a loser is that a winner always concentrates on what they can do instead of the things they can’t. Failure can be helpful in learning how to manage expectations. You learn to approach each day with realistic expectations and not get down when things don’t work out.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2016

Every day I am surprised to learn how many leaders out there don’t invest the time they should into the development of their people. Eric Thomas talks about how Winners Win and Losers Lose. He makes some very valid points about leadership and culture. The District Leadership practices humility and being human.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Such problems are usually incredibly difficult to effectively solve, with winners and losers often seemingly chosen at random. A new paper from INSEAD highlights how leaders have approached these challenges, and outlines the unique leadership qualities required to deal with wicked problems effectively. Exploring options.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Don’t let conversations turn into a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser. Learn to keep your tone neutral and to simply state what you want. With practice, you can learn to focus on the outcome. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Self-confidence is an essential part of leadership. Learn to leverage your self-doubt into confidence. My latest book, The Leadership Gap , includes a whole chapter on how to leverage your self-doubt. Lead from within: Confidence is as important to leadership as oxygen is to breathing. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 8, 2013

Classroom learning is fragile. If we can learn from them, they can make us antifragile. Our character should be antifragile. Random events should serve to make you better than before. Rules are fragile. Principles are resilient. Virtue is antifragile. Real life and experiential knowledge are resilient.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2016

A treasure for managing our choices, overcoming self-deception, and learning to act according to the true worth of things while keeping the common good always in view. Innovative Leadership: Scott Galloway (start at the 4:00 mark). Caring for the soul in this way makes not only better people, but a stronger society too.

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Lead by Adventure

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Last night, I was watching The Biggest Loser with my family. Learn more here. The post A Team Building Activity Adapted from The Biggest Loser appeared first on Lead by Adventure. I’m always looking for new ideas for team building activities. We find the show very uplifting and encouraging.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I read a book last night Leadership and the Art of Struggle - How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity by Steven Snyder. Or in the case of failure, held out to be complete losers. There are so many things I could do and want to do. At my desk in the office by 6:30 after a long workout. Perfect start to a day.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2012

Leadership development and failure go hand in hand. By its very nature, development involves trying new things, often in the form of “stretch assignments” in order to challenge yourself and learn new skills. It’s inevitable that in the process of learning, you’re bound to fall down and skin your knee. Thomas Edison.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Another game that can improve leadership and cooperation is blind drawing activities for employees. By leading and cooperating, employees can learn how to do the same during their team projects. Such games will ensure that your employees get to learn the truth about one another. In this game, there won’t be a winner or losers.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 24, 2019

You FINALLY take the time (often not that much) to learn a skill or connect with an expert and wind up with time savings that pay back again and again: You’re struggling to find a shortcut in MS Word that you think will save time. When we’re too busy to learn, we waste even more time. We need to slow down to speed up.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 7, 2014

I’m afraid I’ve come to recognize a serious leadership deficit today in America. The great tragedy is that the opportunity for true leadership, the kind that welcomes responsibility and takes courageous and necessary risks in spite of the unknown – that kind of leadership, has never been in higher demand.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 30, 2014

The issue here, as I see it, is that we need to be careful about how we define success and failure, winners and losers. He learned from the experience that all we can control is our own level of effort and that’s what makes a winner. He learned to focus on his own effort and not to obsess about the results.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Great Ways to Learn. Learning requires more than attending lectures and regurgitating what you’ve heard. It requires you to be both teacher and student, to learn from books and personal experiences, and to be able to apply lessons learned to real-world situations. Here are a few ways to learn: Act like a kid.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

Eleven Rings is a memoir that, for me, is more about leadership and relationships than basketball. I learned to dial back my ego and distribute power as widely as possible without surrendering final authority. The most in NBA history. Jackson''s principles are worth taking a look at. Bench the Ego.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Leadership lessons from The Book Of Mistakes I recently had the pleasure of reading The Book Of Mistakes. Skip Prichard, my friend and a leadership guru himself, penned this fiction book with success principles woven throughout the missive. Skip learned why the homeless man messed up his life. Isn’t that so true? That’s okay.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2018

My father didn’t want to work in the sand pits, so he went to trade school and learned to be a plumber.” Langone’s story is a story of putting himself in place to better himself, to learn what he needed to learn, paying attention, and building relationships. Neither of them ever got close to graduating from high school.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 25, 2022

Much of what I’ve learned in this post though I learned through suffering through my own bad decisions as a leader during periods of decline or plateau. I’d love for you to learn from my experience. It produces a whole lot of losers. People are waiting for leadership. Who wants to own this, right?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Meet and learn from people in other areas of operations. Organizations that remember – but blame, stigmatize, and punish losers – create a climate of fear. So the game becomes avoiding personal punishment and humiliation, not helping others learn or fixing the system. Are you looking for team building and leadership development?

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 23, 2019

Beyond a catchy tune, the song tells a story of a young man learning as he watched a seasoned gambler. While not endorsing becoming a professional gambler, I do endorse learning from those who have learned from experience. Every time I hear the song I think there are a few really good leadership lessons in it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

It is also not an endorsement of sports, where an obvious winner and obvious loser appear at every encounter, but rather an endorsement of thinking about how we reward and what we are trying to accomplish. Motivation to succeed at a level varies distinctly from individual to individual. What works best in your situation?

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 3, 2011

And you’re starting to equate the fact that you just lost with a sense that it means you’re a loser. As you spend the next few days working through the all of the thoughts and feelings that come with this, please keep in mind the following: Even though you lost an election, you’re not a loser. Hold your head up.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

And you don’t have to play a zero sum game where there is only one winner and a whole bunch of sorry losers. You can learn about how to connect the best of what you do with the best of what other people do. Max McKeown is an English writer, consultant, guru and researcher specialising in innovation, strategy, leadership, and culture.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 1, 2017

Today we’ll talk about what happened, and how we can apply what he learned to improve our own group cohesion. Each team rode in its own bus, established its own leadership, designed its own flag, and chose its own name. Losers got nothing. Robber’s Cave. Turned out it wasn’t too difficult.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 5, 2014

Employees should learn that – for their own best interest – there are several reasons why they should not engage in counterproductive boss bashing, even if they do have a bad boss. If you have this much time to waste, learn some new skills. Coaching Employee Engagement Leadership' When you boss bash: You waste time.

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Lead from Within

JULY 26, 2016

Leadership isn’t earned by a title or position, but great leaders need to understand the scope and boundaries of their responsibilities. Having a vision and taking responsibility are important to leadership, but not much can get accomplished without a strategy or goals. At its heart, communication is the real work of leadership.

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Lead from Within

JULY 26, 2016

Leadership isn’t earned by a title or position, but great leaders need to understand the scope and boundaries of their responsibilities. Having a vision and taking responsibility are important to leadership, but not much can get accomplished without a strategy or goals. At its heart, communication is the real work of leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 15, 2012

Beyond a catchy tune, the song tells a story of a young man learning as he watched a season gambler. I heard it recently and thought there were some good leadership lessons in the song. Some I’ve learned by experience…the hard, but valuable kind of lessons. I’ve learned this one the hard way.

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