Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2021

Leaders and Gardens Grow by James Albright @LeadershipMain. Leadership is taking responsibility for something that needs attending to. It is stewardship. It is not a position. Interview with @LeadershipNow by @DebbieLaskeyMBA. If This Is The Worst That Happens. from @JohnBaldoni. Did you know curiosity comes in different forms?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

“Your mind is like a garden: Whatever you plant will grow. And you, just like a gardener, Can choose which seeds you’ll plant. ” - from The Garden of Your [.] She is a co-author of The Character-Based Leader, as well as the author of the Random Acts of Leadership blog. Your thoughts are seeds you’re planting.

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CO2

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leaders set the stage by demonstrating that every question is a key that can unlock new ideas. This culture actively cultivates personal growth; it serves as a garden where we sow the seeds of continuous learning and collective advancement through the art of inquiry.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

To get my garden in world class condition and ready for the competitive eye of my neighbor is exactly what every leader must do: seed, feed, and weed. But the smart leader watches the sky, reads the clouds, and can tell when there are shifts to indicate a new season. The flowers that are in full bloom are wonderful. Sell, sell.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2017

However, if properly tended, you might have created a garden of bountiful flowers, a vine that produces wine, or a tree that bears fruit. Even with that, some so-called leaders have such emotional insecurity and fragile egos that any “failure” will be recast as blame on someone or something else. The answer: perhaps.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2019

Spring is a great time for gardeners in the Northern Hemisphere to reflect on growth. I enjoy perennial gardening in our yard. As I have tended our gardens over the years, I am struck by how some plants will do well in some locations and terribly elsewhere in the garden. Highly effective leaders are always on the grow.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Sam knows that if he creates the right conditions for growth, his gardens will flourish. Sam knows that if he creates the right conditions for growth, his gardens will flourish. Sam’s approach to nurturing his garden is what great leaders do to build successful enterprises. All we have to do is pay attention.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2012

Over the last two summers, I’ve been working on renewing the various gardens around my house. Connect the changes you make with the vision you have for your organization As part of my plans to rejuvenate the garden, I wanted to transplant some of our perennials in order to make room for some new ones.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

The first Olympic 26.2-mile mile marathon, back in 1896, was won in just under three hours. Roughly a century and a quarter later, the record now stands at a blazing-fast 2 hours. By 2050, will we see a record of 1.1 Is it possible? Is it significant? And, more importantly, why are we so focused on it? Sometimes metrics become meaningless.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some of the biggest influencers in the world are musicians, and they can teach us a multitude of ways to guide our own career and leader positions. To be a leader, you need to have followers. Leaders inspire trust from others and provide people with value to continue to follow and stay loyal to them.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

The best leaders recognize this danger and protect their self-care practices. These three practices are certainly foundational and should be part of every leader’s routine—all the time. If a full year of traversing the fog of pandemic has left you drained of energy and filled with stress, you are not alone. Pursue off-screen hobbies.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

All year long I hear leaders say, “I could really use a break.” When you interacted with people, were you the leader you longed to be—or more like Michael Scott from The Office ? When you interacted with people, were you the leader you longed to be—or more like Michael Scott from The Office ? How busy were you?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As the HR leader of your company, you have a responsibility to not only guide your employees towards success, but also to invest in their personal and professional growth. Turn off the laptop, ditch the suit and tune into nature at a ski resort, beach or lake. Why Plan A Corporate Retreat for Employees. Professional development.

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CEO Blog

MAY 9, 2016

I like to garden. I know I track my steps with a Fitbit and it gives me about the same credit as a stroll but for some reason I get much sorer gardening. I know I track my steps with a Fitbit and it gives me about the same credit as a stroll but for some reason I get much sorer gardening. And that starts with the leader.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2011

As a gardener, I enjoy this time in the summer because you get to step back from your garden and appreciate what all that hard work you did in the spring and early summer has given rise to. Now, it wasn’t always the case that we had a thriving garden full of multi-coloured blooms and various kinds of foliage.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 30, 2015

Of course, renewal and rejuvenation is something that summer has also brought to my garden which, after several years of trying to grow various flowers and shrubs, is finally the kind of garden I had hoped to grow since we moved into our house many years ago.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 8, 2020

Weed the garden. We can’t do normal social things we used to do all the time. Some of us are shut up with the other people in our family. Others are all alone. Either way, it’s a challenge. One mom emerged from a teleconference to discover her son had cut up a lizard with her favorite scissors. There’s vanishing cash flow.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 11, 2022

As a gardener, I love this time of year. My office looks over our back gardens. After looking at a brown, dead landscape for the past months, the garden is alive with spring flowers and vigorous green growth. ” Again, this spring I’ll be in the garden pruning winter kill and nurturing growth. .”

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 9, 2023

And ultimately, wonder makes a leader more effective. Take advantage of the chance to explore parks, gardens, or natural landscapes. In the hectic pace of daily life, it’s easy to lose our sense of wonder. By embracing it, we can infuse our lives with joy, inspiration, and appreciation for the world around us.

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QAspire

JANUARY 13, 2020

I had heard and read about Ikigai and wanted to dive deeper into the underlying philosophy because I feel that finding our Ikigai – our reason for being – is vital for us to be better human beings and hence leaders. Ikigai is the Japanese art of living. My Review of the Book. Key Highlights.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2014

Of course, with the return of warm weather and sunny skies, there is a strong temptation to rip apart the brown and tired masses in our gardens in order to make room for new plants already in bloom. That in looking ahead, we connect the motivational drives of those under our care with what we plan to fuel our organization’s growth.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2019

That culture ripples out from the leaders. An unfiltered feedback system keeps leaders from confusing their desired culture with their actual culture. It’s a virtuous circle — better leaders make better cultures and better cultures make better leaders. That’s brand management in many companies.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 1, 2013

Guest post by Mike Gardener. And what are the essential characteristics of leaders that can inspire others to succeed in challenges that would otherwise seem impossible? Honesty and willingness to accept defeats can go a long way – and, together, they can help leaders turn a bunch of skilled workers into a true team. Dedication.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree. Read the reviews here and here ).

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It’s not surprising that an organization’s culture often is compared to a garden. OK, it’s probably better to plant the right seeds in the best soil, nurture the garden with love, and celebrate your fruits, vegetables, and blooms. After all, culture and cultivate share the same root word. Value cultural fit.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2012

Use these to introduce your next leadership development program, build the business case for leadership development, inspire your coaching clients, motivate your employees, or just inspire yourself to develop further as a leader: 1. “To Just substitute the word “leader” for “pilot”. Leaders aren't born, they are made.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 2, 2014

If Caesar were reincarnated to lead the masses today, I’m sure he would: a) listen better and b) learn his lesson and decide to read these great leadership posts (thus being a much better leader and living a longer life the second time around). Why leaders should read this: Tired of losing top talent? What a great concept.)

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CEO Blog

MAY 7, 2011

Gardening is a good time to think and I just finished a couple of hours. Some of my thoughts: Gardening is a poor hobby for someone with hayfever (like me) It is a strange world we live in where people need to go to the gym to get exercise then they pay their gardener. Do I run 3 miles or 5 later today. I became established.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 7, 2013

Recently Erin was asked to give a presentation at an organic gardening Conference. To ensure a successful presentation, she used the Big-Little Outcome Scope, one of the tools featured in our e-book, 8 Communication Tools for Leaders. Recently Erin was asked to give a presentation at an organic gardening Conference.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

A leader’s legacy doesn’t come easily. While a leader may be focused on tomorrow, that future will be based on what they do today. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or in a simple garden you tend. Experience more. Serve more. It doesn’t have to be a bridge—or a symphony or book or a business. Insist on heroes.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2020

The authors cite the potential for the vast number of underused rooftops in many cities to be transformed into rooftop gardens, for example. On the flip side, pollution has been down, and parks have been more active with people taking exercise where they can get it. Changing mobility. Greener cities.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I’d love to hear your stories about the leaders in your life who made a difference to you. Workforce leaders have a central role in helping to define how people feel about their work. This labor day, I’m reprising a post from 2010. Work – labor – is a huge force in most people’s lives and in our society as a whole.

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General Leadership

MARCH 23, 2014

The examples provided by great leaders are meant to be inspirations for our own climb to greatness. Planting a garden? Does anybody send cards to the President on President’s Day? Greatness comes from dreaming great dreams, and creativity and innovation is the spark which ignites dreams into action.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 28, 2013

What does storytelling reveal to us as being the key attributes leaders everywhere need to exhibit to encourage employees to follow them both in good times and in bad? Erika is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. for Canadian readers).

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One of the greatest movies of all time (or at least of the time between March 21st and March 23, 1985), The Last Dragon , has some insightful tips for leaders from the 1980′s to the present. Great Leaders are Often Misunderstood. Similarly, great leaders are dedicated to their role of service to their organizations.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 4, 2011

With the anticipated return of flowering gardens and bright shiny leaves on the neighbourhood trees, I couldn’t wait to get to work on the garden, clearing away the debris left behind by the retreating snow. Leadership is about putting the needs of others ahead of yourself.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. Yet, do less better isn’t something most leaders embrace. Mired in the complexity of an unrelated product line, Campbell’s leaders keep plugging along trying to do more of the same, only better. Do Less Better is the name of my book. 1 Big Idea

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