Leading Blog

JULY 29, 2020

In one example, “Yolanda did not try to minimize the emotions stirred up by this situation. Put Yourself in Others’ Shoes. Leaders ideally should maintain an even keel in order to help others manage their own emotions. In short, it is usually better for leaders to express emotion but maintain control.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 15, 2014

If you want to be innovative as a young leader, you’ve got to rid yourself of the mindset of safety. Hold up there partner! Find something that will stir your soul. Stirring your soul can stir your imagination. Build something : A great joy of mine growing up was building model cars and planes.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 3, 2018

GO ON THE DEFENSIVE: Google yourself. The first step in cleaning up your online image is to find out what potentially embarrassing items are out there. Google yourself and see not only what sites come up, but what photos come up as well. Untag yourself. If your friends tag you in a photo, untag yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Changes at work can stir up anxiety, anger, and frustration. In this article, the author outlines six strategies to try to help yourself stay grounded amidst uncertainty. Being affected by these dynamics isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s normal not to feel normal for a while.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

“Before you can inspire with emotion,” said Winston Churchill, “you must be swamped with it yourself. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” Before you can stir ardor for a vision, you must first clear up your own. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. Was forgiveness spoken or just implied?

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 8, 2016

However, I know you have to choose the right bus for yourself. We made an impact in their lives by showing up every Wednesday night to share the Gospel with them. It’s up to you to realize this. It’s also up to you to know when it’s time to change buses. You will begin to feel a stirring in your spirit.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You know the conditions are ripe for destruction and devastation, you just don’t know exactly where the tornado is going to hit, which way it’s going to turn, what it’s going to sweep up in its path and destroy and what it’s going to leave standing. Get up and move every hour. Put on your own mask first.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Why Ask Yourself? You come to a point where you ask yourself Why? How To Ask Yourself Why You Lead. There’s plenty of ways to ask yourself why you’re leading. Ask yourself why you’re leading : This is the straightforward question. You need to look at yourself and your motives for leading.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Keep it up! Inspiring others isn’t a “just do it” sort of thing (that comes off as phony); it takes a purposeful intention to work on yourself first and then find ways to express your inspirational “way of being” to others. What obstacles are you up against? Good for you! Keep gravitating.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 17, 2018

You’re comparing yourself to the highlights of other leaders, not their day to day lives. Don’t compare yourself to someone else’s highlight reel. You can easily find yourself replaying your screwups in your mind. Your memories of failures will come easily when you doubt yourself.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ll see yourself stepping up, strengthening up as you go through your crucibles. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart): Don’t give up on them, Eric. During their confrontation, Professor Xavier asked his friend not to give up on non-mutants. Instead, we need to learn to embrace them. She protests.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2015

I’ll bet you have been asked this or a similar question, or maybe you even use the phrase yourself sometimes. I suspect that this phrase is much like 110 Percent – it sounds great and stirs up some folks quite nicely, but does not make any sense when you think about it. Are you all in on this?”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

One solution is to create an app to improve your internal workflows so you don’t spread yourself too thinly and wear yourself out. Also, when creating your app using Azure DevOps, back up your codes and data with Backrightup.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 3, 2012

While viewing, I noticed a button on the TED website that you can click called “inspire me” to call up inspirational presentations by TED presenters. I’m an inspiration junkie who wants to be stirred; it makes me happy (and helps me to feel less of the elliptical burn). I click it often.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2011

As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. You don’t have to defend yourself every time one of your imperfections is pointed out. The Law of the Garbage Truck is straightforward: Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2014

Feeling undervalued or unappreciated usually ends up as a lack of motivation. Motivation stirs the heart; it is the driving force of our achievements. Lead From Within: To find your motivation, you must constantly make an effort to understand yourself and provide yourself with the means of addressing your own drivers.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Being a good leader — or even a great leader — is just not enough if you want to keep moving up in your career. You must do great things — not once or twice, but continuously — in order to stand out, get noticed, and propel yourself to the top of your company. You must be so remarkable that no one can help but notice you.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 29, 2021

When I read this text there is often a stirring in my stomach. Here’s the passage: And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2012

I don’t think money stirs creativity. I think if you are naturally creative, you end up doing it because you cannot do anything else. Surrendering Yourself. It cannot be forced and you don’t know where it comes from, but in surrendering yourself to the process, you make discoveries. David Halberstam. Nandan Nilekani.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 14, 2013

First, by absolute independence of mind, which springs from the ability to think everything through for yourself, and to treat whatever is the current consensus on any issue with skepticism.    Second, having made up your mind independently, to act – resolutely and consistently. 

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Worship the way you do when you are at home by yourself.”. If you go first, you will stir those around you to hunger for a greater revelation of God.” Note: If you enjoyed this post, I suggest you pick up Jason Clark’s new book, Prone To Love. You can pick up a copy by clicking HERE. I complied. Now worship.”

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 13, 2015

Think of yourself as Jane Doe, Inc." Like it or not, you need to be continuously promoting yourself. Identify and work to improve any weak characteristics that stir up negative emotions. When your name is mentioned, something specific comes to people''s mind. To do so, will require some important inside-out work.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

If these environments stir your senses, then you and I are kindred spirits. Even when you pull ahead, run up the score. Increase your lead, and while they are catching up, you are embracing the next innovation. But don’t be so obsessed with them that you allow yourself to be drawn into an emotional price war.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Are charismatic leaders who can stir strong emotions more effective leaders? Questions about these intertwined leadership characteristics recently came up in workshops and online discussions. If they could shut up long enough to learn, they might discover that it’s a vital trait for great leadership.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 24, 2023

The buzz around a movie often starts long before its release, with teaser trailers and posters stirring up excitement. Watching it on a large screen allows you to immerse yourself fully in the film’s visual world. Thankfully, with a quick online search, you can access a treasure trove of information.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 22, 2022

If you want to be successful in leadership long-term, you have to learn to “lead up” or, in other words, influence the people who lead you. Try to put yourself in your leader’s shoes. A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Some who are 10, 15, even 25 years younger than me.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 4, 2020

If you panic when crisis occurs you’ll almost always make bad decisions and cause yourself more pain. Reflecting on those days, I wish I had stayed the course, because when I gave up, so did those I was supposed to be leading. This includes kicking yourself for being in the crisis.). There is always time to pray. Refuse Help.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 19, 2016

When we are placed in a position similar to that negative experience, strong emotions are stirred up, and the ensuing reactions can lead to emotional difficulties—maybe even regrettable outbursts. Sometimes strong emotions come up and we have no idea what triggered them. Distract yourself by giving yourself a time out.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 10, 2018

Today we’ll look at 25 techniques to sharpen your thinking that will help you level-up as a leader. Even better, put a goal on your thinking session, like coming up with five new ideas in the next 30 minutes. Separate yourself from the usual and surround yourself with something different. Set the Conditions.

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Lead from Within

MAY 26, 2015

About to give up, the trees made one last attempt and asked the bramble. How many times are you approached with a new project, new product, new venture, new idea, and as a result find yourself jumping from circumstance to opportunity? Ask yourself the following questions… What makes me different? I will not.”.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 26, 2011

We walked up stairs because we didn’t have an elevator or escalator in every store and office building. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power dried our clothes. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline to cut the lawn.

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Tim Milburn

APRIL 30, 2012

In difficult leadership situations, we are often tempted to ignore or isolate individuals whose personalities rub us the wrong way or who have a knack for stirring up trouble. Avoid the temptation to denigrate malcontents and keep your personal opinions about people to yourself — and your closest advisers.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You can steer yourself any direction you choose. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. Eighty percent of success is just showing up. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Never give up and sit down and grieve.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While these articles tended to stir the pot a bit, they were in my opinion mostly missing the mark. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. So, what do you do if you’re not in leadership and find yourself in a toxic work environment?

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

1) The biggest lie you are telling yourself is “I am attracted to my affair partner because of things that are wrong with my spouse.”. Don’t fool yourself; it’s going to be uncovered and made public. The current betrayal and abandonment they feel in reaction to your actions will stir up old hurts. You may hate yourself.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 24, 2017

People are loving what Christopher Nolan has offered up in Dunkirk. You have to speak up and identify yourself. By identifying yourself, you’re letting your team know what to expect. While it sucks, you will find yourself in a position where you have a choice. Yet Dunkirk is stirring emotions in others.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

And if you’re like most leaders, you find yourself frustrated at some point in that process because you struggle to get the buy-in or create the cohesiveness and commitment that would inspire your team to meet the goals that were set. You want something that stirs emotions and gives them a challenging and worthwhile purpose.

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