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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Week by week, Fox and his staff have made adjustments in the game plan to take advantage of Tebow's strengths. You have to give them credit for that because a lot of coaches wouldn't. There are a few. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

This is the time of the year when I spend a day with my C-suite clients to give them some space to get up on the balcony to consider what success will look like 12 months from now and what they and their teams need to focus on to make those outcomes more likely. Here’s the list: Looking back at last year, what are you proudest of?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

There was a vastly underrated road trip movie last year starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. called “Due Date.” Downey plays an uptight businessman and Galifianakis plays a goofy but lovable stoner. They take a cross-country trip together. Hilarity ensues.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

What does overall success look like from your perspective? What’s the highest and best use of your time and attention in alignment with the picture of success you’re trying to create? What’s your take on the highest and best use of your team’s time and attention in alignment with the picture of success you’re trying to create?

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APRIL 4, 2023

Build Relationships – Undoubtedly, the success of your strategic plans will depend on your success in building strong relationships with the key influencers and stakeholders in your market. Incorporate that dynamic as part of your strategic plan and leverage your visibility as an enabling factor in the success of your plan.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Start each day in a way that sets you up to be successful for the rest of the day. Let’s say, for instance, that the small step of taking a little time each morning to set your day up for success leads to a week with a five percent better outcome. Like Brad, I’m going to keep it simple.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Some companies have been successful in pivoting quickly, while others have found it more challenging. The successful pivoters are either reinforcing existing cultural norms or are creating new ones that make it feel safe for their leaders and people to do things differently. What’s the difference between the two groups?

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JULY 11, 2023

A leadership team that understands their roles and supports each other’s success. What have you learned about how to make progress on success factors like these? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of essentials that you need to have a traffic enabling culture: Clear communication and understanding of the key goals and why they matter.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Sleep for Success : In spite of knowing better, I fell into some bad sleep habits in the second half of 2021 – the biggest of which was regularly staying up past my bedtime. Looking for ideas on where to start? Check out two of my more popular recent posts – How to Decide Which Meetings to Skip and How to Get Ten Hours of Your Week Back.

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APRIL 12, 2022

The team spent time identifying everything that stood in the way of success and then whittled the list to the top three most broken items. Weed the Garden : After making that initial investment in his leadership team, Seth turned everyone’s attention to what he called weeding the garden.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Showing up with confidence is so important to success and effectiveness that I wrote a whole chapter on the topic in The Next Level (Chapter 2: Pick up confidence in your presence; let go of doubt in how you contribute). Run Your Proven Playbook : You’re in the role you’re in now because you have a track record of success.

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MARCH 22, 2023

For the high performers, you’ll want to talk about what’s next for them, how to leverage what’s on their agenda for the good of the organization and themselves, and what they need from you for continued success.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

More often than not, my most successful clients have tapped into the transformative power of systematizing simple things. They’re almost always fun conversations because the vast majority of my clients show measurable improvement in the leadership behaviors they’ve focused on in their development plans.

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JUNE 28, 2022

High achieving, ambitious leaders want to blow right past the strengths that have enabled their success and dive right into what they need to “fix.”. And there’s one thing I’ve seen again and again in so many of those feedback conversations. Big mistake. Having once been a high achieving, ambitious leader myself, I get it.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your organization’s culture is the leading indicator of whether or not your strategy is going to be successful. In this post, I want to share a short checklist of things senior leaders need to think about and do to shape and drive cultures that make strategies successful. Culture needs constant attention.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Asking for help is often the one simple act standing between us and success. That’s a quote from Dr. Wayne Baker in his new book, All You Have to Do is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You’ve had a track record of success and the people who selected you for this role view that past performance as a predictor of your future performance. There are just too many variables and unknowns. If you’re waiting for all the information, you’ll never make a decision. First, prep and learn.

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JUNE 29, 2021

By putting themselves in their colleagues’ shoes and then shaping their communications around those insights, my ahead of the communications curve clients set themselves apart as people who reduce the collective stress level by eliminating surprises and setting others up for success.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

General Leadership Personal Presence ambition success talent' There are often fascinating long interviews with newsmakers in a feature called “Lunch with the FT” and usually some interesting reviews of books I won’t read but am interested in learning a little bit about.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a public service to both groups, I’ll share my own observations drawn from a few decades worth of experience as an executive, executive coach and someone who’s written a book about what it takes to be successful at the next level. Then spend your time and effort on actually creating those proof points.

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JUNE 12, 2019

In each of these examples or a dozen others that you could come up with, success depends on getting people to change their behaviors. Here they are and what you can do to increase your odds of success: Too much solution, not enough acceptance : Years ago, I learned a simple little equation about change management developed by leaders at GE.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

How do you want them to feel while they’re there? What kinds of connections do you want to foster? What do you need to provide in terms of space, guidance, equipment, support, and your own involvement to successfully execute on your plan?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When they were successful in their pruning, Starner would get around 10 hours of that week back that she could use to do the work during the day that she had been pushing to her evenings. She wasn’t always successful in finding ten hours a week, but she could almost always find at least four or five hours she could get back.

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JULY 12, 2022

If you’re a leader who regularly communicates with your organization’s senior executives, it’s vital to your success and theirs that you communicate in terms of an ongoing narrative and not just give them the random episode of the day. It’s all really more than most human beings are equipped to process in a day or a week.

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JULY 11, 2018

This post is adapted from the forthcoming third edition of my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Successful leaders create that bandwidth by leveraging their teams and managing themselves effectively. Collectively, they roll up to successful leadership. Manage yourself. Leverage your team.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

If I’m completely successful with this next exchange, what happens at the end? That involves thinking through and, in some cases, visualizing. your answers to questions like: What am I trying to accomplish in the bigger picture? What am I trying to do in this next conversation or meeting to support that goal? What do people know?

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MAY 1, 2019

Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. Because your operating environment, opportunities and challenges are always changing, you should always be assessing your next move to invest in the success of your team.

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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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MARCH 27, 2019

Who gets a say in defining success? How will you know if you’re successful? You can convey a picture of success in a one or two day program; it takes time for people to groove the behaviors that actualize the picture. For your program to be successful, it needs to feel clearly relevant to your participants.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Have the conversation about what success looks like and why it matters early and often. Here are some suggestions for how to do it: Answer Two Questions : Pulling the thread through begins with answering two questions for your team – What are we doing and why does it matter?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Doing that work led, in 2006, to my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. I’d love to include your story of growth and success as a leader when I look back on the difference that Next Level Leader: A Proven Plan to Increase Your Influence and Impact has made for the people who took the course.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To be successful, we have to stay flexible and adapt to the situation on the ground. Going forward, I think it’s going to be at the top of the list of the most successful leaders. That’s going to continue to be especially true for leaders going forward. Personally, I think that it is. What are some of yours?

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JANUARY 15, 2020

She’s started some amazing programs which have proven to be very successful. To reach that place, though, she’s got to leave the launchpad that’s brought her so much satisfaction, impact and success.

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APRIL 11, 2013

We were talking recently about what he’s learned in a long and successful career that has spanned some of the top organizations in the private and public sectors. That’s a big factor in his success. In his current company, he’s noticed that career success is all about how quickly you put points you on the board.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is what success looks like. Hitting your main points clearly and efficiently makes it easier for people to determine what they need to do. Here’s a high-level outline that’s worked well for me and my clients over the years: Here are the gaps that I’m seeing and the impact they’re making. Here’s how I think I can help you close the gap.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The audio edition of my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success has arrived and is ready to stream through your earbuds. For everyone who likes to get their leadership development through their ears instead of their eyes, I have good news.

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JUNE 2, 2021

When I was writing that book, I interviewed several dozen highly successful people from the CEO of Hilton to the former Commandant of the U.S. If you’re successful with that on a daily basis, you’re going to feel 25% to 35% better in a week and, in a month or two, you’re going to feel amazing.

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