Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

Do I feel sick or nauseous when working with a particular colleague or manager? If you have a cocktail of the above going on, chances are you’re dealing with some degree of workplace bullying, or at the very least toxic management or bad team culture. Are my efforts consistently undervalued or disregarded? My new CEO is there.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it? Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2013

What you can do is learn how to manage your triggers; once you know how to manage the things that make you stumble you will find that you stumble less. I agree with that to a point and as you mature in business, you understand that you don’t have to show up to every fight you’re invited to.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If, as the pace quickens and the work becomes more complex and the stress level rises you become less curious, you’re stuck, and probably on the path to failure. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. You’re not managing your energy well.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Maturity and brain function. It’s thought that REM sleep may help their maturing brains. The “natural alarm clock” that allow some people to wake themselves up at will is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. It’s thought to be an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

Let’s dive: Entrepreneurship can be very stressful. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. As for the “rat race,” while entrepreneurship is very different, it’s a competition like no other.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Speed Traps: Lead Smarter, Not Faster I once sat through an author’s frantic, high-energy presentation on knowledge management. He’s peddling dangerous advice, leading to high stress, reduced effectiveness, and exhaustion. Living in the gray zone between black and white is a sign of maturity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. What does maturity look like in practice? Most important, the alignment of risk awareness and management practices, from strategy to business operations, enabled the company to monitor risk developments more effectively.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Training Remote Managers. Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams. These numbers are supposed to increase in the coming year and will be challenging for team leaders and managers. LearnOps uses data, analytics, and technology to manage learning processes.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It is a mature person who can sit back and formulate a plan for positively harnessing fear. For me, the first step would be to manage the stress that fear causes. To harness it requires thought and energy that most people simply do not have since the fear itself saps energy and creativity.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 1, 2015

Simply speaking, default behaviors are those behaviors that we routinely resort to, particularly under stress. As you mature or have aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder, the more important self-understanding becomes. Manage Your Default Behavior. Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are promoted with the belief that “ they have potential” or “they are smart and will mature into the position” or “she has been here so long, and no-one knows this department as well as her, she will figure it out” plus many other nonsensical reasons. Why do you still continue to believe this? Find the person who is right, right now.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Full Spectrum Management . Leaders need to exhibit a mature, wisdom infused demeanor that inspires greater respect. It is now my daily filter, and as I mentor those teammates who are on their own leadership journeys, I always stress to be “ ever the statesman “, no matter how tough and frustrating the circumstances may be.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Losing your temper only shows a lack of maturity and self-control. Avoid conflict – Successful leaders know how to effectively manage conflict in their teams. Good leaders learn how to diagnose the situation at hand and use the appropriate conflict management style. You might be a Frankenboss if you…. Knock it off!

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Jason Womack

JULY 3, 2011

Of course, we often talk about the "stroke of insight" or the "sudden" epiphany.what I realized in reading this book by Professor Pease was that the process Dr. Seuss went through was just as tedious, labor intensive and stressful as any management position in a major corporation. Words create.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A majority of people at workplace today seem to be struggling to cope with severe stress resulting from conflicting work priorities, hyper-connectedness, onslaught of notifications and information overload. How do we cope up with this stress? Thus, our ability to manage our mind becomes critically important.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions. In an office environment, tasks like sending out invoices, processing payments, and managing payroll can also be automated fairly easily.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Thankfully, I’ve matured and now I can say the more stressful the season the more I discipline myself to exercise and get away from the office. Leadership isn’t needed if we simply manage status quo. Burnout is almost always a result of leaders who fail to say no or are never still. Ignoring the hard decisions.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you experiencing the “heat” – the stress of leadership? At 20 years of age, I was thrust into a management position, because the manger left suddenly. By default, I was given responsibility I had bluffed upper management into believing I was prepared to do. And I think the phrase applies in leadership.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

I recently met with a group of HR professionals and line managers to debrief employee termination situations. Emotional instability – Part of being a mature adult is being able to manage your emotions and it’s critically important in a professional workplace.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Time for a re-boot on how we manage and think about business.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. I can’t tell you how many times a manager has come to me for advice after they’ve made a technically authentic, but clumsy move: Storming out of a staff meeting in anger. Of course, you want your team to be real with you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Managing people is never easy, but when the animosity between two of your direct reports escalates to the level of hatred, how do you minimize the drama and keep your team on track? Before you call for a professional mediator, remember that this is a fundamental part of your job as a manager. Managing a Negative, Out-of-Touch Boss.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 22, 2012

Are you experiencing the “heat”; the stress of leadership? At 20 years of age, I was thrust into a management position, because the manger left suddenly. By default I was given responsibility I had bluffed upper management into believing I was prepared to do. Do you feel you are in over your head? I wasn’t.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 18, 2016

Are you experiencing the “heat” – the stress of leadership? At 20 years of age, I was thrust into a management position, because the manger left suddenly. By default I was given responsibility I had bluffed upper management into believing I was prepared to do. And, I think the phrase applies in leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 18, 2017

Thankfully, I’ve matured and now I can say the more stressful the season the more I discipline myself to exercise and get away from the office. Leadership isn’t needed if we simply manage status quo. Burnout is almost always a result of leaders who fail to say no or are never still. Ignoring the hard decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? But you need to motivate your people to get things done.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

It is also the best antidote to work stress and it matters in every job — because all jobs involve dealing with people, and people with higher EQ are more rewarding to deal with. Our ability to identify and manage our own and others'' emotions is fairly stable over time, influenced by our early childhood experiences and even genetics.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

As the group matures, you can change it up as required. Share this: This entry was posted in Career Management , Coaching , Networking , Teamwork and tagged how to start a peer advisory group , MasterMind groups , Peer advisory forums , peer roundtables. Any longer and the group can lose momentum. So stay tuned! Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

With wage inflation already eroding China's ability to compete on labor costs, I don't see much evidence that Chinese entrepreneurs are capable of generating profits through core competencies , as companies in mature economies do. In other words, everyone thinks his or her country and situation is unique — but that's not true.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They break under stress. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer "anti-fragile" — that is, they get stronger when stressed? Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Surveying thousands of people across countries and industries to explore the relationship between self-awareness and several key attitudes and behaviors, like job satisfaction, empathy, happiness, and stress. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Clearly any manager-employee friendship is fraught with traps. Work Friends Make Us More Productive (Except When They Stress Us Out). Here are five tips on how to manage a friendship with one of your employees. Mariah points out that both parties must be mature and have enough self-esteem to build trust over time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Should managers on meds oversee delicate or complex operations? But as someone who has suffered, sometimes silently, from a mental illness for more than 30 years, I can speak personally about how it can be managed on the job. Like many people with a mental illness, I don’t handle stress well. Am I happier now? Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

Since this response is at least partly hardwired (more on that later), it’s not something you tend to outgrow as you mature and gain perspective. Research shows a strong correlation between your genetically conferred physiology and how likely you are to crack under stress. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness Stress'

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