Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Is inspirational leadership the holy grail of leadership? I define such a pinnacle – the holy grail of leadership – as that which engenders the highest levels of employee engagement and commitment. So, by that definition, then yes, hands down, inspirational leadership is the summit. Be custom-built contagious.

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Mark Sanborn

JUNE 8, 2020

The most successful businesses are driven by profit, innovation, efficiency, and effectiveness. The revenue and results built by your team are all driven by how people spend their time (effort) and expertise (knowledge and skills). Creating a vision requires passion. Mark Sanborn is a famous keynote leadership speaker.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

Because you know leadership isn’t about how well you are appreciated, but it’s about endlessly showing your appreciation of others. Leadership isn’t about how you feel, but how you make others feel. Because you are driven to produce and are accountable for it and expect the same from others. Everything you do matters.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 9, 2018

.” – Mahatma Gandhi Recently a CEO friend of mine said that the three key ingredients to building a great culture are: 1) belief in the mission, 2) clarity of the vision and 3) having fun while living the values. I take heed of the Conscious Capitalism Conscious Leadership tenet: “Conscious Leaders focus on ‘we,’ rather than ‘me.’

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

Even though the change is centrally driven, participants are given a sense of ownership. The passion and sense of purpose that drives the star performers is contagious. When others witness and come to understand this passion and purpose, they are motivated to become more like the stars. Motivate individual change.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Whether you’re talking about work, leadership, or life, the most rewarding experiences are rarely a solo act. If you want people who are driven, connect with the values that resonate with them. And if you and your team can be engaged in what you do, the work will renew your passions, and your passions will fuel your work.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 21, 2013

How gender impacts work/life balance and meaningful work While the Philips study found that men are slightly more satisfied with their jobs than women (47% of men compared to 40% of women), the more interesting finding is how men are more driven to find a connection between their passions and work than women.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The newer, younger work force thrives on more of a relationship-based leadership style and approach. Do you view the development of trust and relationship equity as mission critical items of your personal leadership philosophy? In order to build real relationship equity, you must display morally courageous leadership principles.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

In short, vision is a combination of three basic elements: 1) a significant purpose, reason for existence, 2 ) a clear picture of the future, and 3) the underlying core values. . They drive our behaviors and decisions, trigger our emotions, and can fuel a passion that drives commitment, even in the face of obstacles and change.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

And while these figures represent US households, the percentages are being exported due to technology driven globalization. Even though we live in a technology-driven world, it’s still a human world and relationships still matter. So the shift in business from informing to communicating provides great opportunity for women leadership.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 13, 2013

Leadership: It’s amazing how complicated leadership “experts” have made the topic. I am a senior ranking officer in what can only be called the Legion of Leadership Complexifiers (the LLC). We members of the LLC make our livelihood plumbing, parsing, and peddling leadership concepts. Passionate and reasonable.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: With the leadership change, Disney began to produce hits such as Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Care about people first.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

And it’s true that for most business and management and leadership success you do need at least some degree of talent. Tap into passion. Passion is the fuel that ignites dreams to become realities. Connecting with your passion is one of the most powerful engines of success. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Take control.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. Create Awareness 2. They expect them to act on the execution with the same commitment, drive and passion they have.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

” We don’t often consider the way decisions are driven by energy: anabolic (positive) and catabolic (negative). Today, we’ll explore how they relate to decision making and the Seven Levels of Energy that Bruce Schneider identifies in Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What’s more, with so many different personality styles on your team, finding leadership tactics that work across the board can be a challenge. By enthusing and motivating your group, they’ll be passionate about achieving success on their own. Learn who the introverts and extroverts are, and adapt your communication style to theirs.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 14, 2012

I also shared how if you are driven primarily by the Impact motive, you are more likely to be a successful leader. However, you are even more likely to successful leader if you advance beyond the first three stages of leadership. Ever had a lousy boss? A cold, domineering parent? “I’ll ask the boss about your request.”

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

They have a passion to want the truth and confront reality head-on. Yet the most important, yet hardest, aspect of leadership truth telling is being rigorously honest with yourself. Take inventory of the following 7 truths to get real about the present and to fuel your leadership changes in the future. That one trait is ….

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is Sustainable Leadership? Sustainable Leadership is a style of management that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in the world. It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 14, 2022

Storytelling All of life is story driven. Technique can save the day Ron Arden, the highly respected late speech coach, often said that the best actors weren’t always passionate. When all else fails, knowing how to create the perception of energy (or passion or whatever) is as important as actually possessing it.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Too many workplaces create rule-driven cultures that may keep management feeling like things are under control, but they squelch creativity and reinforce the ordinary. The more rules, the less passion–which means less motivation. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2015

However, as anyone who has endeavored to manage people in the past decade can attest – this model of leadership rarely shows up in the real world - certainly not in the modern age of business. We’d suggest that this is an opportunity for greater leadership, not less. So, what are the nuts and bolts of this kind of leadership?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

With our driven, goal-oriented nature, we tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves to do better, achieve more, and overall, work harder. About the Author: Sheri Staak is a strategic and innovative business leader at The Staak Report who has held key leadership roles at both large privately held and publicly traded global companies.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 27, 2009

They understand the need to work hard in areas for which they have great passion. That’s why leadership is an art, not a science. Regardless of how many things you want to accomplish, you must focus on the most important and let other things — which in the right context may be very good things — go by the wayside.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. 2 Degrees of Separation?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s from that vantage point that I sat down to put together my Top 10 leadership insights for 2016 as determined by you, the readers of my leadership blog. But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership? It’s an encouraging sign, and certainly a great way to begin a new year.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2015

With the ability to spur customer-driven growth and business transformation, Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) have become embraced as the go-to role for customer experience. Make the Customer Leadership Executive an Officer of the Company Ensure that the CCO is at a peer level of the leaders of the organization.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

They have a passion to want the truth and confront reality head-on. Yet the most important, yet hardest, aspect of leadership truth telling is being rigorously honest with yourself. Take inventory of the following 7 truths to get real about the present and to fuel your leadership changes in the future. That one trait is ….

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The Empowered Buisness

MAY 19, 2015

Make a difference in commanding leadership authority? Leadership authority is a by-product of 2 related aspects of yourself – your physiology and your emotional state. Call them the yin and yang of leadership authority. Your emotions and your body language are both driven by your mind. Want to feel more passion?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 5, 2010

They must learn to present their roadmaps with passion and work to convince their teams they are headed in the right direction. Leadership — what you leave » Like Be the first to like this post. Leadership — what you leave » Like Be the first to like this post. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2010

I downloaded the audio book and started listening on a run (podcasts and audio books keep me running a lot of miles these days; you can follow me on Daily Mile ) and was instantly drawn in to his discussion on leading ‘tribes’ of people in areas for which you have passion. More on this later too. My appeal to you: Keep me honest.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Among the many responsibilities that come with leadership, one that I’m particularly passionate about is facilitating the learning and growth of those you serve. This way, your organization won’t just be doing what it’s always done, but will be driven to continually look for ways to do things better.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2009

They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.&# -Seth Godin “Leadership is more than influence. by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.&# - Derek Sivers “Winning businesses have a common trait, an obvious and divisive point of view.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2013

Former NBC News President Reuven Frank gave a passionate speech about censorship of the media in the Gulf War and the resulting coverage reaching viewers in their homes: "We saw no people. Of Related Interest: Dilenschneider: Power and Influence. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.'

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