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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What they’re typically more concerned about losing is the power and influence they’ve accumulated. So, third, there’s usually a period of time when they spend a good bit of energy strategizing about how they can keep that power and influence. That’s understandable but it’s almost always the wrong move.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Let’s hear it for Doug Elmendorf! It’s possible that, as was the case with me until yesterday afternoon, you don’t know who Doug Elmendorf is. He runs the Congressional Budget Office and was the star. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The power comes in asking them, giving yourself space to reflect on the answers, and creating a roadmap for how you want to approach your year as a senior leader. Based on your lessons learned from 2023, what are your keep, start, and stop doing personal routines for self-management this year?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most powerful quotes I’ve ever read has stuck with me for years. It’s from Robert Greenleaf in his book, Servant Leadership , where he wrote, “The most difficult question to ask oneself is, ‘Does what I have to say improve upon the silence?’” The fact of the matter is that a lot of people in leadership roles talk too much.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Let’s hear it for Doug Elmendorf!   It’s possible that, as was the case with me until yesterday afternoon, you don’t know who Doug Elmendorf is. He runs the Congressional Budget Office and was. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

What if you had a powerful resource right down the hall or a Zoom click away that could help you be an even more effective leader day in and day out? And what if that powerful resource was free and yours for the asking? My guess is you’d be asking, “Where do I sign up?”.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

One of the mentors I feel very fortunate to have had in my life was the late Richard Neustadt , a founding professor of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and author of the classic book Presidential Power. That’s likely at the essence of the power of persuasion that Dr. Neustadt wrote and talked about.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Preston moved to Florida a couple of years ago and, with his wife, Christen, opened a studio called The Power Yoga Tribe. Mindful Mondays Personal Presence Preston Scott; The Power Yoga Tribe; leadership presence' From what I’ve seen on their web site, it looks like a great community. Click headline to continue.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your goal needs to extend beyond more money and more power; it needs to incorporate the value you want to help create for the business. If you want to be promoted to VP, let key senior leaders, including your managing executive, know that that’s your goal. And while you’re expressing that goal, say a bit about why it’s your goal.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Talk About the Big Picture and Where Everyone Fits – One of the perks of a leadership role is the power to convene. The key, though, is to use that power wisely and creatively. One of my executive coaching clients recently used that power to call a town hall meeting for everyone in his part of the company.

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MARCH 23, 2021

The first is knowledge is power. With those ideas in mind and the hope that it will be useful to you, I want to share the apps I’ve been using and how I’m using them: First, the power of fitness and health and wellness apps in 2021 is that through a technology called API’s they can all share information with each other.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Meetings like this require a lot of participant energy and brain power. If the meeting starts at 8:30 am or 9:00 am, respect the body clocks in the room by ending no later than 3:00 pm. The diminishing returns accelerate after mid-afternoon.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

They do the work – My own shift in moving away from the heroic model of leadership started in graduate school under the tutelage of two powerful mentors in my life, Ron Heifetz and Marty Linksy. We’re a team of 5 million,’ I think it was very powerful.”

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JULY 5, 2011

Earlier this year, I was with an executive who was proudly showing me the Power Point presentation he had prepared for an upcoming strategic offsite. We got through three slides and he turned to me. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JULY 2, 2014

Here’s what everyone of those organizations seems to have in common – the “little people” view the senior leaders as if they’re the great and powerful Oz (and by Oz, I mean the man behind the curtain, not the doctor on TV). Any sense of humor remaining is solely of the gallows variety. General Leadership Personal Presence leadership'

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APRIL 25, 2017

Lolly gives us a look into how we all embody the seven leadership archetypes as well as how each archetype not only has powerful abilities to create success, but also a polarity that can prevent us from achieving the success we desire. Listen in to our conversation to learn more.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

I’d say that this is the secret super power that fuels her effectiveness. The cool thing is that it’s a super power that almost all of us could adopt if we chose to. That’s when and where she does her self-observation of what’s working in her life, what’s not and what adjustments she needs to make.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

If that’s the case, then we need to do all we can as leaders and people to make sure those stories are positive, powerful and extraordinary. It’s be written that, “We are the stories we tell ourselves.” A Practical Guide to Discovering and Living Your Extraordinary Story.

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MAY 29, 2013

Even for the most powerful leaders (think of the President of the United States for instance) getting stuff done is more often about influence than it is authority. Effective leadership is all about getting stuff done through and with other people.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back in the days when I led leadership workshops in physical rooms, I would illustrate the power of transformational listening by having my leaders break out into groups of three and take five minutes each to answer the question, “What are you grateful for?”.

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MARCH 11, 2013

This week, I’m sharing a simple but powerful idea for gaining the perspective that will help you be more productive and effective. As I explain in this brief video, my goal with this series is to offer some simple, practical ideas that you can apply immediately to be a more mindful leader. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

To accommodate the schedules of two high powered CEOs who agreed to speak during the lunch session, the meeting organizers scheduled two keynote addresses during the meal. Not to get all Dickensian on you but it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That was the case at a conference I attended recently.

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MAY 20, 2013

Music can have a powerful impact on mindfulness. Certain songs or genres can be totally distracting or annoying while others set you up to remember why you do what you do as a leader. Likewise, there are distracting and annoying things about smartphones and there are also very useful things about the devices.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

At a conference this past weekend, I was introduced to a simple but powerful way to think about that by a new friend, Christopher Kai. It’s a simple but powerful combination. What’s really going on when we listen to someone else completely and without any agenda other than to connect?

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Listen along as Wayne shares fascinating research on how to ask for help and simple, powerful and proven ways to make the ask. I was fortunate to recently have a conversation with Dr. Baker and am excited to share it with you. Among other topics in the conversation, we talk about: What keeps people from asking for help?

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Power wardrobes and other appearance-based factors have become a lot less important as casual Fridays at the office have become casual Mondays through Fridays over Zoom. One of the things I’ve heard a lot from leaders during the pandemic is that it has leveled the playing field for the people on their teams.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

It’s a simultaneously entertaining and depressing account of the power elite in Washington, DC. While travelling this week, I’ve been reading This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in in America''s Gilded Capital by New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich.

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APRIL 13, 2012

This week, I’m highlighting links on how how conductors use their whole bodies to lead their players, an exercise for being more present, the power of speaking up, and the importance of saying no, and a roundup of lessons from Peter Drucker. Click headline to continue.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Make a declaration – And, finally, there’s enormous power in publicly declaring to yourself and others what you’re going to do, when you’re going to do it and why it matters. Since most of these folks go to school with each other, they’re really well positioned to help each other follow through with ongoing coaching and connection.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When I asked communications expert, Dr. Nick Morgan , for his one best piece of advice for anyone who wants to be a more effective virtual communicator, his answer was quick, simple and powerful, “Don’t assume the worst.” Here’s the back story on why Nick offered that advice and how you can apply it for positive outcomes.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

If you’re in a position of leadership you have that power. As they say, with power comes responsibility. It is a powerful way to move. I will create as I speak. What impact do you want to make with your words? I mention a simple example from my work at [link] Posted by: Klsoren | January 10, 2011 at 03:21 PM Well said!

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JULY 13, 2021

It was powerful and moving. A couple of weeks ago, I got a lump in my throat reading a story a client of mine named Holly shared on LinkedIn in which she wrote about how exciting and meaningful it was to return to her company’s headquarters in Boston for the first time after spending the past 15 months working online from her home in Chicago.

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JUNE 15, 2021

I hope they’re helpful and make a difference in increasing your influence and impact: From Pleasing the Few to Engaging the Many : Lots of superstar individual contributors spend their time and energy focusing on pleasing the powerful people in their enterprise. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Allow Your Body to Override Your Brain – Pick a work out like HIIT, a run or power walk or a well-taught yoga or Pilates class that is so appropriately challenging that you quit thinking about what you’ve been obsessively thinking about. Rinse and repeat on those until you feel a difference and then move on the next.

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JUNE 17, 2020

I shared two of those from Trevor Noah and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a recent blog post and this powerful video from newly appointed U.S. There are countless videos and articles that have been released in the past few weeks that share the experience of being black in America that are must-views and must-reads. Brown, Jr., on LinkedIn.

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JULY 17, 2019

Their editors and writers were ruthless in leveraging “the way we do things around here” for laughs whether it was a mock catalog of worthless junk sold through direct mail, a take-down of the power and light company or any number of other absurdities you encounter in everyday life.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Giving to – My friend John Baldoni has done a lot of great writing and videos on the power of giving each other grace. Regular sustained movement is vital to maintaining not just your productivity but your health and well-being.

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