Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

01:32) Meet the Expert, Andre Martin : Andre, with his rich background in organizational psychology and talent management, shares his mission to align careers with personal values, igniting a discussion on finding satisfaction and purpose in work. (02:41)

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Leading in Context

JULY 26, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton I resisted playing the wildly popular game Pokemon Go as long as I could, but the world was playing it (including my teenagers) so awhile back I decided to give it a go. As I learned the basics of the game I noticed that its structure is aligned with some of the principles of good leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. How Help a Manager Become More Strategic.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When there is peace and economic prosperity, leaders can do well, but their main role is one of management — making sure things stay stable. King showcased morally compelling, truth-telling leadership and drew attention throughout the nation and around the world to the persistence of segregation and racism.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 6, 2011

One of my clients used this phrase and I thought it was a great way to describe what great managers do better than struggling managers. Managers who struggle are often consumed by their daily to-do list (wild fires) and spend less time around the corporate bonfire. Spending time fighting wild fires will not get us there.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Research shows no one is happy with annual performance reviews—not executives, not managers, and not individual contributors. Even HR teams responsible for performance management aren’t convinced annual reviews provide value. Even HR teams responsible for performance management aren’t convinced annual reviews provide value.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Keep that perspective in mind as our change management back story. While the food in the wild would never be as scrumptious as the gourmet treatment it received at Camp Sherman, it bridged an important barrier to change. Change Management Starts With Compelling Rationale. Change Management Turns On Perceived Emotional Worth.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

And it’s a key skill for our 21st-century workplace. * * * Steve Wunker is the managing director of New Markets Advisors, a global consulting firm focused on innovation, and co-author of the new book The Innovative Leader: Step-by-Step Lessons from Top Innovators for You and Your Organization. You know this company.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And he was glad he did—he found old photos from wild college parties on his Facebook account, and some ancient blog posts sharing way too much detail about his personal life. Careful online reputation management will ensure they see only your best image. In 2016, it was 60%—that’s an increase of 10 percentage points in one year.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The hardest part is taking the first step. * * * Aaron Salko, Founder and Creator of The 9th Stratum, is a Sales Management Professional with the innovative solutions-based company Stephen Gould. This is the essence of creativity, although it goes well beyond problem-solving. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2019

No wonder 71 percent of senior managers view their companies’ meetings as unproductive and inefficient. Getting the most out of meetings is easy if you know how to effectively design them. One of the biggest black holes in workplace productivity is the poorly designed, poorly run meeting.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 25, 2011

His drive to achieve in class and in sports kept him on mostly on track during the wild ride of his teen journey. He was busy "sowing wild oats," experimenting with drugs until he dropped out of high school. He sketched out an alternate system and presented it to his boss, who showed it to top management. Lucky for him!

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LDRLB

AUGUST 26, 2010

Every manager would be a leader and leaders would inspire and engage their employees by reminding them how their job ties into a larger mission. So what should Buffalo Wild Wings do? “I get a ticket for each person enrolled, and every week we have a raffle. The winner gets out of clean up duty.”.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 3, 2012

The psychology of stewardship is a hot topic in management studies. Emotional intelligence takes the practice of awareness a step further; true leaders control their emotions and manage the emotional turbulence around them. Paying attention can dramatically change the way people respond to you. Over to you.

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Niagara Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re a first-time supervisor with only an employee or two in your charge or a middle manager with a large group of direct reports, if you’re questioning exactly how to show appreciation in the workplace, let us introduce you to the 5 Languages of Appreciation.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2015

And at the 880-seat Tabor Opera House, patrons enjoyed John Philip Sousa, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera stars, Harry Houdini, and Oscar Wilde. The nearby town of Climax got television reception even before Denver. I found myself wondering if better contingency planning could have mitigated the damage.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

I have a doctor who I like and respect, but I am suspicious of ‘big medicine’ and the machinery of disease management. ’ I am reflecting and considering the possibility that we need to listen to experts, consider laymen, embrace wild ideas and make our own disruptive choices. That trust isn’t universal, for me.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

and a development manager at Oracle Corp. She also manages JLL’s corporate offices around the world, with a focus on creating spaces that promote engagement, collaboration, and wellbeing. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. Carol is cool under pressure- very cool.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Of course, the last thing I needed as I was working to establish credibility in my new role overseeing 110 stores, with limited sales experience was a bunch of distracted store managers trying to figure out if their new boss was getting in on with a direct report. That’s quite a wild story.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Just as a failed cancer drug proved incredibly useful for managing the AIDS virus, a past failure can become a wild success in a different context. Record What You’ve Tried. Keep a track record of failures, with detailed information about what people tried.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Research from the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management suggests they may have more than an element of truth to them as the researchers find that the powerful are not only more likely to blame others for their own shortcomings but are also far more comfortable with inequality than the average person.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2011

As such it may appeal to the more mature leader or manager who sees the writing on the wall in terms of the sustainability of current, social, economic and environmental trends. This book deals with the sense that there must be something more than “success”. Reviewed by Gordon Harris. You are not watching this post, click to start watching

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 3, 2023

The global advertising company seeks increased client spending for their AI platform, but their account managers and product people can’t explain how the AI platform works. While the strategic imagination can run wild, the greatest danger is to not run it at all.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Not just in terms of design but management. User friendliness must be your first and last concern. Work to your product. No two ecommerce systems should work alike. In fact, if they have different products and different target markets, they should be wildly different. But attention to detail should go deeper than that.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 30, 2017

When I hear of the exploits of amateur climbers who somehow manage to summit Mount Everest, it makes me wonder – how many more times has his guide been to the top?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Working with consultants from GISC, he deepened his commitment to quality workplace by honing his own management skills. In order to delegate more effectively, he arranged for his managers to develop their leadership skills further as well. I wanted to be back in the kitchen, and developing my managers enabled me to do that.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a cofound VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

We hear so much now about the building and managing of one’s “Personal Brand” as the key to success. Coca-Cola’s brand is micro-managed by teams of professionals working on nothing else. A look at social media will tell you about people’s ability to credibly self-manage their own brands.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Since “Mozarts” live in the big picture world it is key they be given an accurate view at the macro level but not be micro managed. They can be successfully led but are poorly managed. However, like wild ducks and wild horses, they should never be domesticated. It could be the mantra of a “Mozart.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2014

Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its engagements “with” its clients, instead of “to” them.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2014

David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior. David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most of you will take weeks and months to do this work, which is perfectly reasonable. What we don’t want you to do is take years.” They encourage readers to be patient.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 31, 2013

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” Oscar Wilde. There’s no way to institutionalize or ‘corporatize’ niceness—your HR department is never going to come up with a management structure that magically creates a collegial atmosphere. Henry Ford. Warren Bennis. Peter Shankman. —.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The Triumph of Trust – It’s when you no longer feel the need to peer over shoulders, or micro-manage, or take on work that others should be doing. And if these tests can be passed with flying colors, you’ll be well on your way to greatness.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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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. As entrepreneurs this should be the easiest thing in the world for us to do, after all entrepreneurs are eternal optimists right? Well yes and no.

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