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August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Marcella considers: “ Being aware of your power and how power alters your and others’ perceptions and responses helps to handle power better. Check out these great tips on formal and personal power at work. Ken writes: “ Many managers are promoted as rewards for sales, production, or technical prowess.

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Phenomenal Tactics For A Hassle Free Business Expansion

Strategy Driven

However, much of the hassle can be avoided if you manage the expansion right. What that means is you need to invest in market research before you plan to expand. Additionally, market research is not the only information-gathering exercise that you should do before deciding to grow your business. Do your research.

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Are You Ready for Your “Second Act”?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Starting a second career in a different field has similar challenges as a business that is making a huge shift into a new market. You need to expand your resources, make more complete use of them, and connect them for faster results — what we call a Resource Power Up. He had a “personal brand’ problem.

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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

The consulting market across the world is valued at 262 billion dollars. Change Management. They can identify the need for change, manage the change program or support the change. Vested interests and personal power plays may at best limit thinking. Expert Advice. Independent Party.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior. Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting. Changing just behavior is at best temporary.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

And along with this increased transparency, you’re held accountable for areas you know less about: new technologies, new markets, new cultures and geographies representing new stakeholders. But possibly the biggest adjustment for leaders of today is a power shift that is requiring major changes to how they think and work.

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Who’s Responsible For Employee Engagement?

Lead Change Blog

The scene was a corporate cliché – the annual management meeting. I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. The guy beside me leaned over and knowingly whispered, “He doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the managers here tonight.”

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