Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2023

The way this is done is through an interactive teaching/learning process, not a lecture. Rather, it is a process of mutual exploration and exchange during which the “teacher” and the “learner” become smarter. Great teaching is a two-way street—both become smarter through interaction with each other. It isn’t about alternating roles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Upshifting Mentality The upshifting mentality is the switching process. This is opposed to convergent thinking , which is the process of figuring out the most effective answer to a problem. Crafters —understand and experiment with social, physical, and technological processes. When all three are present, we have Upshift.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Here is an overview of his five-step process: Step One: Define Your Culture You must be ruthlessly clear about who you are as an organization. And changing mindsets and behaviors, especially at scale, necessitates making people feel like they are a vital part of the process rather than relying on old engagement methods.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

T OO MANY grantors feel that just preparing the documents for the passing on of the wealth — such as setting up a trust — is the end of the process. This metaphor captures the process and the spirit in which we need to take on that process. Grantors need to share what they’ve learned about managing wealth.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Reinforce standards and processes. ” Murphy offers a Good Team Leaders Checklist to ensure you are creating a positive team environment on a daily basis: ○ Take responsibility: A team owns success; a leader owns failure. Enforce accountability for themselves and their team members. Model an Appropriate example. Listen actively.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Richard Winters on collaborative decision-making: “A top-down process for decision-making by edict may work fine in predictable situations or during times of crisis. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A very structured process is essential for hiring the right people who are not only qualified to do the job but are also compatible with your organization. A meticulous process may require extra time on the front end but will save enormous time, energy, and money on the back end. But making do with a mediocre candidate never works.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

To be more present, O’Neil offers a four-part process: Find Perspective “Perspective is the foundation on which we build a life where we can be where our feet are.”. 7 Trust The Process. I don’t believe the good life is about finding balance between work and home. It’s about living the moments we have where and when we have them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process. We must learn to push through the fear and trust in the process. The process consists of the people you bring together and the way they interact.”. Fear reduces clarity and trust in the process. We don’t know, and that’s part of the process.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

We now have the opportunity to deal with new realities, but that calls for an entirely new approach to half-century-old strategic processes. And too many organizations hold on to processes and procedures that not only will not help to reach the vision, but will usually impede progress.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, the gap-closing process falls apart quickly when the company compels employees to change their behavior in order for the company to arrive at its future desired culture. Data clearly indicates that this does not work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Living out their own code becomes critical to that process, especially in a political environment with really no code. Compassion provides the necessary balance to what could be an otherwise harsh and cold process. Credible preservation of principles happens when the process is codified, objective, and comprehensive.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Delete any part or process you can. You are responsible for the production process. The Algorithm “I became a broken record on the algorithm,” Musk says. But I think it’s helpful to say it to an annoying degree.” It had five commandments: Question every requirement. You may have to add them back later. Simplify and optimize.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2020

Sometimes the process of reframing leads us to discover that what we thought was the problem is not really the problem at all. He recommends that we “modify the reframing process to fit the size of the problem.” In other words, you can either use all seven steps in the process or scale it down according to how much time is available.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Processing a negative event and obsessing over it again and again does not serve us well. In short, “ people are not making as many changes as they should.” When bad things happen to us, habituation has a part to play in our recovery—our resilience. Rumination hinders our ability to habituate when we need to.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Great leaders also know that great teams form when there is a sifting process. But when someone is bitter, they are rarely open to the process required to find healing.” Great leaders are not afraid to define what it means to be on their team, organization, or movement. A leader, you cannot make decisions based on who you have.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Manage initiatives with an explore, envision, and discover process so senior teams and innovation teams can learn their way to success together. Develop Your Vision.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

And it’s that process that is the magic. And as you get into all these things, designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain, these concepts, fitting them all together, and continuing to push to fit them together in new and different ways to get what you want. And so, we had a lot of great ideas when we started.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Someone who is procedures-oriented is motivated by pattern, process, and the “right” way to do something. On the other hand, those who are procedures-oriented will want to find the “right” way to do something and then avoid changing the process that brought about the “right” end result.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sleep helps to beat negativity : “Negative stimuli get processed by the amygdala; positive or neutral memories gets processed by the hippocampus. Source: The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It. Sleep deprivation hits the hippocampus harder than the amygdala.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Mark Sanborn on why culture matters: “Culture is a corporate immune system that protects against variance, decline, or abandonment by identifying and combating threatening forces like toxic partners, disjointed processes, and bad decisions.”. Source: The Intention Imperative. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Process versus Bureaucracy. Creating Processes That Scale. Well-defined processes help prevent bureaucracy or expose it if it exists.” Bezos believes, “Good process is absolutely essential. Without defined processes, you can’t scale, you can’t put metrics and instrumentation in place, you can’t manage.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

For sustained learning to occur, it is important that coaches manage the emotional flow of the coaching process. First, believe that individual change is a process, not an event. While the coach manages the process, “the fundamental reason for the process is to help the other person—not the coach to share his advice or experience.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

An emphasis on both performance and health can be mace part of the change process by applying what they call the Five Frames of Performance and Health. Create a compelling long-term change vision, set midterm aspirations along the path, and guard against biases in the process. An equal focus on health would have mitigated these issues.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ambiguity may exist in the world around us, but we should never be ambiguous about our purpose, our priorities, our process, our performance, our problems, or our communication. A problem orientation injects clarity into the process, because everyone can see for each priority what the starting point is and where the organization wants to go.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Our thought processes are full of all sorts of cognitive distortions, from catastrophizing (thinking of small problems as enormous impediments) to perfectionism, where anything less than perfect execution causes intense frustration. What an easy create an optimistic frame of mind! What was the best part of your day?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing these hand-picked team members becomes a highly unpleasant process, one that CEOs avoid at all costs—despite clear signs it’s necessary. But once the CEO has been in place for a few years, this dynamic changes. Does the executive team reflect the CEO’s goals, mandate, and vision for the future? Should the CEO clean house?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

This lengthy excerpt lays out the nature of the issue that leaders of traditional operating models face: Digital, AI-driven processes are more scalable than traditional processes. As digital operating models continue to displace traditional industrial processes, they also remove traditional operating constraints.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

This learning process may deepen our own thoughts, give us concepts to build on, and start great conversations. The ideas of others have the power to slow us down and consider perspectives beyond our own. Left alone, our thoughts become too narrow—too vulnerable to blind spots.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Second is their belief in the process of self-improvement. It’s a three-step process in which you commit to doing what it takes to make yourself better, then you do the hard work to improve your performance in EVERYTHING you do, and then you maintain that performance over time.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s hard and requires a deliberate process. Kubieck and Cockram guide you through that process. The process requires a long-term commitment. Having the humility to “commit to a process of uncovering our weaknesses. You don’t become a 100X leader by accident. And How do I help them get to the next level?”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This process is not just applicable to business but is useful in finding solutions for personal problems as well. In the book they apply the process to individual problems such as, “Should I put solar panels on my roof?,” “What career should I choose?,” Business examples range from “Should my startup raise its prices?”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Being a Winner via @TheDaily_Coach The Path to the Top by James Albright via @LeadershipMain A Sling and a Miss: 6 Keys to Building a Growth Mindset by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr Take 5: Not So Fast!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tobin believes that a 360-degree assessment—a process through which feedback is solicited from peers, subordinates, superiors, and yourself—is the best place to begin. “Leaders won’t perform at their best if they do not focus on their development to development activities that advance their skills.”. Where to Begin?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The remedy may be a return to the process of rational thought.”. Our bewilderment has resulted from our notion that salvation depends on information. Source: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Convocation Address 1933. * * *. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

You could also say it is based on a dynamic sequence of interacting events, causal processes, and critical decision points. Forecasting is a less creative process and does not anticipate significant shifts in the business environment, which can cause considerable challenges for organizational strategy and a firm’s performance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. Your great manufacturing process is driving your employees away. He abandoned the traditional hand-building process that involved each worker performing a number of different tasks to put a car together.

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