Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

For many of us, the problem is that winning is “trapped under a lifetime of fear and worry and doubt.”. You need routines if you are going to win these battles and manage the distractions. Over and over. Results are all that matter. Winning will cost you everything, and reward you with more.” You want to win?

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Brigette Hyacinth

JUNE 19, 2021

Working under a bad boss can make a good job even in the best company, unbearable. Here are the 4 types of bad bosses that make employees want to quit companies: 1) “Marionette” – In an age of uncertainty, many managers are yielding to this trap of just playing it safe to preserve their position and privileges.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 23, 2023

Crafted with the aim of enabling individuals to gauge whether their superior or manager is having an impact on their mental health, the guide provides actionable insights on how to mitigate the effects of toxic leadership. A leader needs to be able to proactively manage their emotions well enough to project calm and rational to their teams.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

This post first appeared as a guest post in SmartBlog on Leadership : Most of us know what it means to “go over your manager’s head.” So, you decide to march up one rung in the management hierarchy and take up it up with your boss’s boss. But I can assure you, this management phenomenon is very real. I dread his visits!

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 12, 2023

Article: Seven power skills business consultants need to work successfully alongside AI Written by David Smith FIC and Adam Riley Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Management consultancies will have to make human understanding part of their offer in the brave new world of AI.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By simply being willing to stop the madness and reclaim the asylum from the lunatics (inept leaders, lazy managers, and fee happy consultants), huge gains in morale and productivity can be quickly achieved. Don’t fall into the trap of allowing consultants to “install” a “best practice” process.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. “Uncertainty is here to stay.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

” This slice of life comment from Richard Stengel, former Time magazine editor, Under Secretary of State, and author, describes a way too common problem. Many people have fallen headfirst into the busy, busy, busy trap and can’t get up. I had been working successfully without medication for over five years.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 15, 2023

If day after day of stressful racing around doesn’t manage to actually kill us before our time, it will kill our health, happiness, and effectiveness. I once sat through a scarily high-energy presentation given by a professor specializing in knowledge management. This is solid life advice as well.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Consider the myriad leadership competencies you have been asked to develop over the years. I’ve met and worked with many brilliant and dedicated learning and development professionals over the years.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

Years ago, I noticed, when we started working with clients, that they often complained about being trapped in a Swirl in their workplace. got drowned out because managers and team members were just too busy keeping up. You can see why this might be very appealing to the managers. ” -Richard Hawkes. .

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2019

If you don’t know how to manage your energy it’s easy to become exhausted or burned out. Here are some of the most powerful tricks and tools I share with my clients on keeping their energy level high even through the longest and most difficult days: Manage stress. Being a successful leader can be exhausting. Snack smart. Get moving.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The book is directly applicable to those in supervisory or management roles. BUT…this reader fell into the trap of believing that power and authority come from position. Take the Lead in Managing Your Manager Boss management or leading upward is one of the most popular topics on our website.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Managing your first direct reports is one of the most challenging transitions a leader will ever have to navigate. If I was to sit down over a beer or cup coffee and mentor a new first-time boss, here’s what I’d have to say (over a series of meetings, not all at once): 1. SL is a must-have leadership framework for any manager.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2016

Although few doubted it was even possible, under his leadership, AIG repaid the $182.3 If you do not have that financial freedom, you find yourself trapped in life. And if you manage to do what you’re saying you’re going to do, if you can pull that part off, it will pay off for you over and over.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

By decreasing anxiety, meditation may be able to boost resilience and performance under stress. A mindfulness practice can help you slow down enough to manage your emotions and respond with empathy and logic. The Deception Trap of Leadership. Daily mediation can help you keep your composure and reduce the impact of stress.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. Of course, I have also worked with many leaders who make the opposite mistake of over-representing their employees’ performance (i.e.,

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

presidents, and author of over four dozen books and one thousand papers summed it up well, “There are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: Those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”. Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility. Yet another scary distortion.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

There are 10 more lessons arriving over the next 2 weeks. Practice Full Spectrum Management . Beware of the Accountability Trap. If you are a manager that has staff in other places, even a couple of thousand miles away, you need to go to those places once in a while. Teach Instead of Tell. Be an Enabler, Not a Disabler.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. Though these traps promise quick fixes, they often cause us to pursue one of them instead of the real cause of the original problem.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

If you’re like most of the managers and executives I speak with in my presentations, workshops and programs, you’re operating in a do-more-with-less environment. They’re really tuned into what they need in their life to lead and live at their best and manage their time and energy so they get that. They’re not slackers.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

The description that’s been going around under names like “The Narcissist’s Prayer” sums it up well: That didn’t happen. Don’t allow them to get under your skin. Narcissists thrive on getting a rise out of someone–especially someone they feel they have power over.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Baird and Sullivan further share that since 2020, over 40 million Americans have left their jobs. Wondering how to unlearn management and relearn being human? This means knowing what you stand for and what is important to you and learning to manage your own inner limitations. Why busyness kills your heart.

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2011

Or maybe you work under several managers, and you want to make sure that you are building rapport with the one who counts. A solid manager with ten years of experience in sales, for example, might be poorly suited for a generalist role that will require her to lead an entire division. At best, it tells only half the story.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We have come to believe that employees don’t leave organizations, they leave their managers. As you review the list of reasons for employee attrition below, think about which ones a supervisor could directly impact, and which are outside of that manager’s ability to effectively influence. Why Do Employees Leave Their Jobs?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Art Petty submitted Why You Should Obsess Over Challenging Conversations (and what to do about them). But when you get a new job as a manager, you aren’t told that.” of Burgis Successful Solutions provided Are You Stuck in The Leadership Trap? Communication. Find them on Twitter at @letsgrowleaders.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Becoming an effective, efficient manager, though, does not always come naturally to entrepreneurs. In fact, workers who struggle under the burden of micromanagement tend to be less productive, creating a twofold cost. Overly Demanding Customers. One problem many small-business owners face is a compelling need to exert too much control.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 20, 2012

Although I’ve discussed the lessons on teamwork and collaboration that we can learn from this seasonal migration , seeing these birds in flight over the weekend brought to mind some additional lessons we can apply in how we serve those we have the responsibility to lead.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Frey’s hypothesis is fleshed out in his recently published book The Technology Trap , in which he takes readers on a detailed exploration of the numerous technological disruptions that have emerged since the Industrial Revolution. go over relatively old ground one more time.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .   Below are five posts I recommend checking out from the week of June 21st - 27th, 2010.    Enjoy!

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The Empowered Buisness

MAY 6, 2014

While my details may be different than yours, how many times as a leader have you: Used brute force and over-efforting to achieve goals? To make tough decisions, manage never-ending changes and handle the demands of their roles, leaders rely heavily on willpower to make things happen. Trap of Excellence.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As a rule successful human beings tend to "over-weight" our own strengths and "under-weight" our own weaknesses when evaluating others. The more successful we become, the more we can fall into the "superstition trap", which, simple stated, is, "I behave this way. Why doesn't she act like me? I am a successful leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

First, as a leader of a team, department or business unit with people, budgets and resources under your control, you must follow through on organizational commitments. They often give tacit agreement in a meeting, for example, but then proceed to take counterproductive action once the meeting is over. This involves two elements.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

If you haven’t already done so, you must read the front page article by Alexei Barrionuevo in the New York Times on how the 33 Chilean miners trapped in the copper mine have organized themselves to survive. The miners were trapped in a collapse a month ago. Today was not one of those days.   Simple because it makes so much sense. 

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2013

When examining organizational performance, assessors too often fall into the trap of concluding that the absence of adverse outcomes indicates of a lack of underlying performance issues. This is an evidential fallacy. The text above is only a small portion of this article. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Interaction : Along the lines of number one above, if executives, management, and staff don’t proactively seek your advice and input then you have a respect problem. Over time, many fear-based leaders unknowingly train their team to think: “Why even try if there is no upside?

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