General Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This simple phrase defines a strategy to spark exponential growth and efficiency in any organization. When you are new to an organization, everything repetitive to others is new to you. The welcome-aboard meeting with each new member of your organization should include this simple task: question everything. ” Tony Robbins.

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This realization, no matter how difficult or painful to grasp, need not be a fatalistic view of your future, but instead the inspiration behind the desire to find the next-generation leader, capable and prepared to spring-board to organizational success from your mentorship and guiding hand. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 28, 2016

As a leader, you must realize no one is as committed to success of the organization as you. Your challenge is to motivate those you lead, those who do the work and enable success of the organization, to be truly committed to success of the mission as well as their individual success. Commitment.

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General Leadership

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As a leader, you must realize no one is as committed to success of the organization as you. Your challenge is to motivate those you lead, those who do the work and enable success of the organization, to be truly committed to success of the mission as well as their individual success. Commitment.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2015

Guest Posts Charity Covey example honesty levy organization Plato strength success Team Weakness Wisdom' As much as you would like to believe, you do not possess every quality required to be the perfect leader. … Read the rest. The post Strength through Difference appeared first on General Leadership.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The measure of our success is found in the success of those we lead. At the heart of this statement is a true selflessness in which you know the ultimate purpose of leadership is to build your organization a more capable leader to replace yourself. True leadership is not found in an individual, but the individuals developed.

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General Leadership

APRIL 6, 2014

” They are so worried about quickly making progress that no regard is given to intent, probability of success or the hazards encountered along the way. Never value their success over that of those around them. Fighter Pilot Saying. Too often, leaders choose to be “ Humvee leaders.”

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The founders (and those who would follow them) were so successful at everything they did they quickly became confidants and advisors to kings and emperors around the world. Deeply devoted to the value of lifelong learning, the organization these leaders built has become the largest higher-education network on the planet.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

He was all about building and shaping the organization based on the best fit of people and mission. He valued collaboration, relationships, maximizing engagement, bringing out the best in people, taking responsibility for successes and failures, and holding himself and others accountable more than anything else. 85% to be exact.

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General Leadership

JULY 24, 2015

A leader owes it to his organization to lead in a way that will benefit the organization in the future. If you want to leave a legacy, invest in people, and encourage those you develop to pass on everything they learn from you to others who will do the same. – John Maxwell. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

JUNE 26, 2015

Education, training, and experience of the workforce are three key linchpins necessary to organizational success, sustainment, growth, and enduring succession. Typically, we see organizations that have always done things a certain way and that has been good enough to keep them going. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A successful leadership experience can lead us to assume that these strategies will work at our next assignment if we impose it on the new organization. No organization is the same. It is the people in the organization that should determine our strategies.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 6, 2013

Raising more than $315 million dollars to end hunger and its primary accomplice, poverty, and disbursing over $43 million in grants to more than 1,000 organizations, Share Our Strength has positively touched millions of people all over the world. And the organization’s success is well known.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

As owner and lead consultant at Maiers Educational Services , her passion for literacy and technology to discover creative ways to assist schools and organizations in meeting their learning and productivity goals. Lori also serves as President of their local Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). The post Tune-in Tonight!

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 9, 2015

When one talks about being successful at leading people and resources, they really mean being effective. In most organizations the answer comes down to bottom line measures: is the work that needs to get done getting done? There are, however, plenty of organizations where the work does get done, but the leadership is lacking.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This month, I continue my series on successful leadership transition. When we accept a leadership position we accept two things: (1) stewardship of the people and organization we’re leading, and (2) the understanding that we’ll be replaced some day. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2016

truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking”. Do you think of an organization that lacks regulation, rules and policies, and a requirement to gather a large amount of information to be analyzed before making a decision? Read more at [link]. Malcolm Gladwell, from Blink.

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General Leadership

MARCH 27, 2015

I understand that my last blog, “ Heroe s” was well received by readers and I hope this article is equally successful as I feel it is very important for a leader to have the right team for any organization.

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General Leadership

APRIL 23, 2014

He understood that achieving extraordinary goals demands setting conditions for success before you begin. In other words, he innately understood that making the seemingly impossible, possible demands you consistently follow a deliberate series of steps that will set the conditions for your success. ” Steady. Consistent.

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General Leadership

JULY 7, 2015

In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience. That basic foundation is definitely important to success. Hermann Goering.” ” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In simpler words…the boss is the boss, and we follow their direction.

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General Leadership

MARCH 20, 2017

“In order for a business unit, function or organization to obtain heretofore unrealized opportunities it is often necessary to have executives who work in the white space and find these opportunities” Peter G. Read more at [link]. Spanberger, Ph.D. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

“Do not merely set goals for your organization…. Establish a culture which owns the success of the team.” ” Airman Knight used the reflection of the front door to do one last check that her Air Force uniform was perfect.

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General Leadership

MARCH 26, 2015

In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience. That basic foundation is definitely important to success. Hermann Goering.” ” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In simpler words…the boss is the boss, and we follow their direction.

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General Leadership

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

What about the organization? All have Cares: leaders, organizations, and team members, but do they align? Is it the same thing that your team members care about? What does it care about? As we discuss the tough (yet rewarding!) job of leadership here, we are defining a Care is the top motivating concern of an individual or group.

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General Leadership

MARCH 30, 2014

There was an important lesson in this for me, and for leaders of all organizations. Have you done everything possible to ensure that your workers have been trained to safely and efficiently perform their jobs to the best of their ability and to the high standards you have set for your organizations? Lessons in Empowerment.

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General Leadership

APRIL 18, 2013

For almost a quarter of a century, her organization has been providing best in class technology services to both national and international clients. One inspiring leader who is answering the call to do just that it Karen Ross. Karen is the CEO of the New York-based strategic technology, staffing and project management company Sharp Decisions.

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General Leadership

MARCH 29, 2017

In every organization, the relationship between leader and follower – boss and employee – is a two-way relationship. Leadership is often considered a downward directed affair, where the person in charge gives his or her vision to employees who follow the person in charge towards a common goal. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. ” William Pollard.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2015

“Delegating up” to the senior leaders in any organization is a sure-fire way to create organizational paralysis , but the responsibility to ensure decisions get made at the appropriate level fall on senior and junior leaders alike.… In the military as in many professions, we strive to solve problems at the lowest level.

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General Leadership

MAY 2, 2014

It is the responsibility of every employee to report back to his or her supervisors what they have learned and allow the organization to benefit from that experience. We are fulfilling this noble calling by connecting our authors,who each possess one certification which can not be purchased in the business world, successful military command.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 20, 2014

To be a great leader doesn’t mean one has to take the flag and charge into cannon fire or make a drastic change in the organization. Similarly, leaders can make a large impact with slow, steady inputs to their organization or people.… … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I’ve adapted this idea to graphically display the “battlespace” a leader has to understand so the team can achieve success. Leaders must harmonize the needs of their organization, their task, and individual team members to prevail. It’s a complex and people-focused job. … Read the rest.

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General Leadership

APRIL 30, 2014

Do you plow through your organization, spreading chaos and debris in your wake? If used at the right time, being a disruptive leader can be beneficial to an organization, but it must be a conscious decision. A supertanker leader can be a detriment to an organization if he is disruptive all the time. Is this bad?

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General Leadership

JANUARY 5, 2014

You see, for as long as I can remember, I’ve been working on becoming a successful leader. But for the thousands of hours I’ve invested in trying to become a better boss, I’ve spent very few working through what it means to become a successful follower. I’ve decided I need to work on becoming a better follower. Happy New Year.

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General Leadership

APRIL 12, 2017

One particular organization has produced more business owners than any other single institution in our nation’s history. If it is not obvious to you who this organization is, here are a couple more clues to help you figure it out: Leadership is a strong suit with this organization…not just talking about it, but teaching and practicing it.

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General Leadership

APRIL 12, 2014

It wasn’t until that single, clarifying moment when the Captain came over the loudspeaker that each passenger was gelled behind a common knowledge of where, when and how. And so it goes with organizations striving to progress from the “As Is” to the “To Be”…struggling to align the goal with the motivation, the vision to the plan.

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