Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Wouldn’t it be nice if a new year truly ushered in a fresh start? The optimism we may have ordinarily had in past years as we turned the calendar to January and considered all of the new possibilities that lay ahead of us is a little harder to muster up this time. The Covid-19 pandemic, now in year three, and other stressors have taken a toll.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 26, 2020

S OMETIMES after you’ve heard it all and seen all of the memes telling you that you can win, you can be anything you want, and the universe is just waiting to hand it all to you, you need a jolt of the very opposite. Sometimes a book comes along and does just that. Second place is merely the highest point a loser can reach.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

for most of you,” she writes, “it will be about positioning yourselves as an antidote to stereotypes, which will allow you to guide the perceptions of others, delight others, and ultimately will result in others seeing the unique value you can provide.”. “for W E’VE HEARD that hard work is the secret to success. We need an edge.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

F ULL-SPECTRUM THINKING is not common, and never has it been. And as the world becomes more complex, confused, and scrambled, it has never been more critical. In Full-Spectrum Thinking , Johansen writes that “the future will punish categorical thinking but reward full-spectrum thinking.”. Full-spectrum thinking will be required in order to thrive.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vixwerx for the great pic. “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” ” - Will Rogers. Humor and Leadership. ” – Dwight D. Follow @rwhipple.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 2, 2021

Burnout can be like the weather. Everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it. I’ve been thinking and talking about burnout for a long-time. It’s one of the reasons I wrote my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed , back in 2014. Seven years and a global pandemic later, burnout is an even hotter topic (pun only slightly intended).

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It has served as a lasting lesson to me, however, that a thoughtful and correct diagnosis at the earliest stage can identify an antidote that will prevent much trouble, pain and possible heartache. Several years ago, when we were newlyweds, my husband was diagnosed with the flu. This is incredibly relevant for leaders today.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2019

W E ARE ALL DISTRACTED, and we are faced with more and more reasons to be distracted. And while some distractions seem to be adding to our life, they are actually undermining our growth. Distractions take us away from what we should be doing and kills our momentum. But the problem with distractions goes deeper than that. It’s an emotional issue.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

What is the first emotion you feel when you receive an email, text, or phone call from your boss that says, “I need to speak with you?” Is it interest? Or a positive sense that something good is about to transpire? Or is it dread? A foreboding sense of doom or even outright fear? My experience has shown that most people’s reaction is the latter.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

The antidote is remembering that leadership is not a position but a role. It takes a personal toll and if we are not careful, we can begin to make it about us. It’s not a difficult position to rationalize. The problem with “I deserve” is that it changes our perspective. It creates a lack of proportion. It’s a gift and it is temporary.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It is a short book but full of great insights and perspectives on hubris and its antidote, humility. T HE LEADERSHIP KILLER is in all of us, all of the time, just waiting to strike. It doesn’t discriminate—neither gender or race. The ironic thing is, we give it permission to kill. It’s our choice. It’s hubris. We are above the rest.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2021

The antidote for these ills is a virtual receptionist, an answering service that fosters an immediate connection between the customer and your business. Conventional wisdom states you must have a medium to large size business in order to justify having an answering service. The results might surprise you.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Since many years, I had a 1993 edition of this fantastic self-help book titled “Thoughts to Build On” by M. Kopmeyer which, for reasons unknown, I could never read. Finally last week, I noticed it when I was clearing my bookshelf and was hooked to it. Life isn’t going to give you any more than what you ask for. Keep moving.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2018

The antidote to our lack of self-awareness is: Go Deep. The antidote to our lack of self-awareness is: Go Deep. A WARENESS is the ability to have knowledge of or are conscious of yourself and your surroundings in real time. Without it we tend to be reactive, disengaged, an unimaginative. Conscious is the new smart.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The antidote for this kryptonite is simple strategic planning. The antidote for this kryptonite is simple strategic planning. Today’s leaders — whether in business or nonprofit — are expected to be entrepreneurial. The kryptonite that threatens to kill the dreams of every entrepreneur is strategic planning.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. It’s that good. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list.”

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

5) Channel your positivity as an antidote to the “bad news” virus. “Let me embrace thee , sour adversity , for wise men say it is the wisest course” – William Shakespeare, from Henry VI, Part III. Leadership is hard. It took me a long time to come to grips with that notion, but it really helped me when I did.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Two years ago, we kicked off the new year and inaugural publication of The Leader Letter on LinkedIn with Antidotes for the Pessimism Plague. .” ” Two years ago, we kicked off the new year and inaugural publication of The Leader Letter on LinkedIn with Antidotes for the Pessimism Plague. .”

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2014

Before making an important decision, prudent managers evaluate the situations confronting them — and often fall into one of the eight traps of faulty thinking. Researchers have identified a series of flaws in the way we think when making decisions. They are hardwired into our thinking process, so we often fail to recognize them. .

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

There are no guarantees in life. We can be proactive, but there are some things that are completely outside of our control. So if we can’t be proactive on everything, we can, Mark Sanborn suggests, be interactive. We must learn how to interact with the forces in our life that are bigger than we are to create the outcomes we desire. Produce Value.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

T HE GAP IN OUR LEADERSHIP arises as a result of the disconnect between how we think people are experiencing our leadership and how they are actually experiencing our leadership. And where we find that disconnect we limit or even derail our leadership potential. The gap is always there but at some point it comes the surface to sabotage us.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s one of the greatest antidotes to selfishness there is. Obviously there is no shortage of needs both locally and globally. I’m also convinced that it has never been easier for the everyday leader to get involved. But the potency of individual generosity is far surpassed by the momentum organizational generosity can build.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

“Unprecedented” is a term most used to describe year 2020. It was a year that brought a major shift in our perspectives about things we often take for granted including our health, wellness, family, relationships and work. My 2020 Story. Whatever remained was packed for movement. Now the flights were canceled and curfew was imposed.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 4, 2023

Today's FLASHBACK to earlier in the year: It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. It’s that good. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. Leadership comes in moments.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

Dr. Murthy recommends boosting social connections as an antidote to stress which will also help reduce incivility, bullying and workplace violence. The nature of modern work has caused stress to rise to unhealthy levels at a time when people are also struggling with increased isolation. Consider the following data. Former U.S.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The antidote to blind spots is to ask for input—whether as part of a formalized process like a 360 feedback tool or through asking others for candid input. The antidote to blind spots is to ask for input—whether as part of a formalized process like a 360 feedback tool or through asking others for candid input. Blind spots.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 10, 2014

The best antidote to “executive exuberance” is also the best way to tap more of your corporate brainpower. Here is what happens: analyses start to show that deciding to go forward will produce good benefits at reasonable costs and risk. Those reading the tea leaves see that the top of the house is leaning toward a yes.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. It’s that good. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. You’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 30, 2020

Service small and large is the antidote to self-absorption. We don’t get to choose what we go through in life and what we are experiencing right now is the biggest case in point in our lifetimes. The ultimate choice is how we go through it. Even if you’re heard or read it before–as you likely have–it is no less true.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Three critical questions will save you time and improve decision making with fewer headaches In a world with a constantly growing AI presence, where data is cheap, and you can easily outsource routine tasks to large language models, your decision making ability plays a more vital role than ever. Who owns this decision? You don’t need everyone.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 23, 2019

The trust-building antidote to volatility is for leaders to be reliable and consistent in how they respond to change. Everywhere you look in leadership circles it’s VUCA this or VUCA that. A recent internet search on “VUCA leadership” returned over 347,000 references! But what exactly is VUCA?

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 14, 2017

What does it take to question the status quo and produce something original? That’s the question that author Adam Grant poses in his 2016 book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. The answer he reaches might surprise you. Along the way, he dispells several myths that even he once held true. Is it Quality or Quantity?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2020

Controlling the accounts all through the day would be an impossible task; the trading bots came as an antidote to this issue. By traveling at an untraceable speed, the face of technology has witnessed several transformations over time. Automated Trading. The roots of crypto trading robots extend to the concept of automated trading.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 4, 2011

Help others: One of the best antidotes to self-pity and fear is to help other people. Help others: One of the best antidotes to self-pity and fear is to help other people. Something about turning over the calendar causes people to take a hard look at what they can do to improve on their current situation. Confidence is key.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 20, 2020

Separating ourselves because of COVID-19 comes at a time when America and many other nations are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness whose antidote is greater positive social connection. Collectively, we understand the goodness of “flattening the curve” by each of us doing our part to slow the spread of the virus.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 16, 2022

Which dot is bigger? It looks like the right dot is quite a bit larger than the other one. But they are the same size. Go ahead, measure them. The framing around each dot changes our perception of its size. Close one eye, hold your thumb close enough, and you can block out a full moon at night. That’s what makes doom scrolling so addictive.

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