Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Too Shallow: “We spend little time self-reflecting and stay stuck in negative emotions, shackled by old baggage, resulting in little understanding of ourselves.” Too Narrow: “We don’t challenge our outdated assumptions, which limits the power of our expansive minds.” Without it we tend to be reactive, disengaged, an unimaginative.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Given the multitude of other events that have occurred this year—social unrest, natural disasters, a tumultuous election, and more, if my friend were to ask me that same question today, my answer would be slightly different: to be alive and to be a better person. Taking care of ourselves is important. So is taking care of others.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

They are on a path that embraces their uniqueness so as to lead deep and fulfilling lives. They are on a path that embraces their uniqueness so as to lead deep and fulfilling lives. We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Enter the shaper. Taking a Cue from a Comedian. “No

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 4, 2017

As a people person, I always enjoy visiting new places and new cities as it provides the opportunity to meet new people and spark new conversations, some of which can lead to some very thought-provoking discussions. As my conversation with this leader continued, it became clear that this was the concern he was having.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2021

Other times, the choice to open the door and make the unknown known is barred, controlled, or discouraged by others through practice, fear, ideology, or regime. To those of us in the booth across the aisle, she was enchanting. A dark-haired girl, maybe five or six years old, full of spirit and inquiry. Curiosity is something special.

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Leading Blog

MAY 22, 2018

It’s also easy to think that there’s only one way to lead. In this sense, anyone can choose to lead. A multidimensional view of leadership allows for anyone to lead. It begins with taking responsibility for who you are, knowing your values, and then leading in alignment with those values. Opening our heart is not enough.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2017

As we talk, I keep thinking about how narrow-minded the person is and how I could help them see the light if they’d only let me. As we talk, I keep thinking about how narrow-minded the person is and how I could help them see the light if they’d only let me. That’s not a very strong leadership position to be in. Umair Haque, author.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2019

How in the world was I going to continue to lead my company and keep up with my duties at home (and anywhere else, for that matter)? My heart was broken but there was no time to grieve. Guest post from Janelle Bruland: There is a growing epidemic that is killing us as leaders, and it’s completely curable. Stress is a killer.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Others describe it as improving lives, so people suffer less and feel valued. Curmudgeon , bellyacher , and old biddy are but a few of the unflattering terms people use to describe those who have the strength and spirit (lots of it, sometimes) to call out pretense, bad behavior, hypocrisy, or the pitfalls of conventional thinking.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Leaders need to question “who they are being while they are leading.” This need for leaders to rethink who they are gets to the heart of what Rosamund Stone Zander describes in Pathways to Possibility. We are not “trained to think of ourselves as governed by stories made up by younger iterations of ourselves, frozen in time. ”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In order to manage and protect ourselves, it is easy to become defensive and judgmental. Closed-mindedness, miscommunication and misunderstanding are at the heart of the uncertainty hurting relationships, bottom lines and lives. I-Importance: Now that you are open, focus on what is important to the other, you and to both of you.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 31, 2020

For leaders at every level, in every situation, bringing out your best means leading from within —thinking of others above yourself. If you’re feeling isolated and fearful, remember that many others are experiencing the same things. And it’s something we all can practice right where we are. Don’t fix, just listen.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 20, 2013

Life is never without struggle, and the way to live it on life’s terms is to accept ourselves as we truly are, and embrace the journey. The heart of struggle is an important part of our leadership’s journey. Life makes senses when are centered in our heart, it leads us to our own unique journey. Experiential HEART.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Leading Change. Kate Nasser of Smart SenseAbilities brings us Leaders, Leading Change Within Yourself Changes Everything. Bob Whipple of TheTrustAmbassador.com brings us Leading Change Initiatives. Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares Accepting Change. Follow @joy_guthrie. “Change is the law of life.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Guest post from Christy Whitman : Above all other qualities, vision is the most essential to extraordinary leadership. Great leaders hold tenaciously to the reality they envision in their hearts — even in the shadow of previous failures, and even in the absence of tangible evidence that what they want is possible to achieve.

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General Leadership

APRIL 9, 2014

Despite enduring the atrocities of four Nazi concentration camps, the most infamous being Auschwitz , and losing his wife and parents to them, Frankl managed to find what few others could during such a dark period in our world’s history: a meaningful purpose for living. Victor Frankl. Finding Meaning through Service.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 21, 2023

Doug Conant’s Story: Being Honored and Honoring Others Doug Conant is the leader who turned around Campbell Soup Company when he served as President and CEO (2001-2011). Doug Conant’s Story: Being Honored and Honoring Others Doug Conant is the leader who turned around Campbell Soup Company when he served as President and CEO (2001-2011).

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But do you think your job is done when you get what you want, or do you feel any obligation to others? For example, do you have a responsibility to lift others up, share your good fortune, or leave a better world for the next generation? We live in an interconnected world, but we frequently make decisions that solely benefit ourselves.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That means stopping some good things to start others. It also requires a motivational shift each time we catch ourselves clinging to what success has already built. It also requires a motivational shift each time we catch ourselves clinging to what success has already built. Revisit the Master Plan. Reconnect the Core Team.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

Whether leading yourself or an organization, a family or a community, you have a sphere of influence and from that influence you impact and lead others. Listening requires attending behavior, reflection, paraphrasing and astute questioning plus an ability to focus on what the other says versus your response.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Bernd Geropp provided Leading in times of crisis. Bernd asks us to consider: “How you can stay calm and positive within the storm, and how can you engage the hearts and minds of your people in times of crisis?” Welcome to the May 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! Communication. Find Sean on Twitter at @leadyourteam.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Perhaps now more than any other time, the need for inspirational leadership is critical in the workplace. And, shows you how to inspire those you lead. Evocation :We are receptive to an influence beyond ourselves that creates the inspiration within us. Keep an open mind and let conversations flow. Be Personal.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2014

When it’s loose, it devours confidence, strips logic and reason from our mind, and steals happiness from our heart. We can, however, proactively position ourselves to greatly diminish the power self-doubt can have in our lives. You are in first place going into the final round. If you perform well, the gold medal is yours.

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Lead from Within

MAY 2, 2017

Have you ever wondered how some leaders are more creative and innovative than others? One leader thinks that in order to create something new, they must use their analytic mind to be creative. The other kind of leader who want to try something new they use their intuitive mind to be innovative.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I was meeting with a potential church planter and some wisdom from the years of experience flooded my mind. Some of these were given to me by others. Others were learned firsthand by experience. All of us need assurance at times from other people what we are doing matters. We didn’t want to offend other churches.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A few more people in a stinky van wouldn’t hurt as we all rode peacefully to each leg of the race to cheer each other on. Leaders have to lead through challenging times. He had put together a team of runners to run the Ragnar Michigan relay. This run takes runners from Muskegon, Mi to Traverse City, Mi for a 200-ish mile run.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

She said, “Your heart might be pounding, you may be breathing faster… but what if you viewed them as signs that your body was energized and it’s preparing you to meet this challenge.”. Can Self-Compassion Reduce the Unrealistic Expectations that Lead to Stress? The Role of Mindfulness in Personal and Professional Happiness.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2012

Our potential to LEAD FORWARD has never been greater; but it is obscured by a primal tendency, a human default pattern of being drawn to what is not, rather than looking at what is and what CAN be. Technology cannot not save us from ourselves. Problems, physical maladies that were death sentences are being turned around.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 10, 2013

We are afraid to use our heart’s voice because: We are afraid of being reprimanded. When we’re wrapped up in pleasing others, the idea that we will hear something harsh in return keeps us from speaking up. We tend to align ourselves only with those who think and believe as we do in order to avoid conflict.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2013

Great leaders often pride themselves on having a great mind. It is part of your mind that protects its own thoughts and identity. When you feel separate from others and isolated within yourself, you are in the company of ego. It means replacing the mind of your ego with the heart of your authentic self.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. Creativity, Inc.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Gratitude puts you in the right mindset to lead. They reinforce each other. French philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville wrote, The narcissistic leader or “the egoist is ungrateful because he doesn’t like to acknowledge his debt to others and gratitude is this acknowledgement.” Gratitude helps us to protect from ourselves.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In my experience, if you aren’t receiving any criticism — you probably aren’t leading. I know others do – and that’s okay for them – but I don’t automatically dismiss criticism because someone doesn’t sign their name. They are afraid you won’t like them if they tell you what’s on their heart or mind.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2016

He asked if I heard the news and with a sinking heart I said that we hadn’t. He then told us that our good sailing buddy John Ridsdel had been murdered by beheading by the Abu Sayyaf terrorists who had kidnapped John and four others off the docks of a marina in the Southern Philippines September 21, 2015.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s an interesting exercise because it not only lets me know what ideas and topics garner the most interest and engagement from my audience, but it also reveals some interesting patterns about what’s on the forefront on the minds of today’s leaders.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

We can say many things–good and bad–but we all want to be able to say things that will make us feel good about ourselves and our influence on others. I followed my heart. The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had. I treat others the way I want to be treated.

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