Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Science, math, and data do not excuse us from thinking. Rishad writes in Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data , that we can have too much math and too little meaning. Data can spawn new and better data. D ATA without soul is harmful. The story we create with the data makes all the difference.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. The Art of Statistics : How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter. Beyond Collaboration Overload : How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. Other people are thrust into a leadership role and must spring into action in a sink-or-swim environment. Other people are thrust into a leadership role and must spring into action in a sink-or-swim environment.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2016

361 days ago, I pressed “publish” to bring the first Lead Change post of 2016, the January 2016 Leadership Development Carnival , to life. In the intervening days, we have produced 269 blog posts, including 12 Leadership Development Carnivals. Caveat: I hope I did the math right! We have received 750 comments.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Creativity isn’t a “nice to have” leadership trait. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Not so much.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Leadership instability feels more pervasive than ever right now. When leadership around you is unstable, you have what it takes to drop an anchor and influence others to do the same. Here are three anchors you can drop anytime you’re caught in the swell of leadership instability. Nebulous succession plans. Maybe you have too.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 21, 2017

Seven years ago, I accepted a leadership position at my school and asked the Lead Change community if having a title would matter. For seven years I have held the title of Math Department Chair and led a team of ten wonderfully talented and dedicated teachers. The new job does not include a titled leadership position.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause. Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In September 1904, the New York Times published a story on “Berlin’s Wonderful Horse.” The Times quoted several scientists, who endorsed Clever Hans and his math skills. I’ve had several dogs in my life, but Toto is easily the smartest. That doesn’t mean that she’s smart like my grandson. She’s just smart for a dog. It amazed crowds.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

Start Here 00:02 Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without Losing your soul, your source for practical leadership, inspiration tools and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. Culture Change Not Working?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2019

A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. We get results. And we love the feeling of accomplishment that comes with crossing things off our “to-do” lists. The tougher the task, the better we like it. We revel in being that person people bring the undoable to and then conquer. No whining.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Expanding Leadership Effectiveness with Learning Styles. Thinking: Use disciplined logic or math to generalize and account for biases. Initiating: Initiate new courses of action. Focus on new opportunities. These styles are dynamic ways of navigating the learning cycle, emphasizing some parts of the cycle over others.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Of the array of skills that comprise leadership, the ability to craft and communicate strategic vision is simultaneously the most valuable and least well-practiced. That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The following is a guest piece by Jeremey Donovan.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 10, 2014

That had to get better, so I immediately set a goal on this new metric  98%. And this month, we hit our goal of 98%. After saying this, I sat back in my chair at a quarterly review meeting feeling pretty good about myself, and awaited a positive reaction from my colleagues. A week later, we got the first batch of results.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Push Down a change in policy (or a new policy) “as is” without any context (the “why?”). Moving on to a new task or goal without a post-mortem (and any approriate praise and/or coaching) on the last one. Quick aside – it was quite a cool car for its day, check out the pic).

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 18, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article Almost 14 years ago, the original Incredibles movie released. Incredibles 2 is also filled with great leadership lessons. Incredibles 2 is also filled with great leadership lessons. Let’s take a look at the leadership lessons in Incredibles 2 and what they mean for you. Incredible (Craig T.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Did you know there are many great career paths that are ‘hidden’ from the normal news mainstream? We all know the common and famous careers out there. Careers we probably know exist if we really thought about it, but we tend to forget them when we look at the entire career picture. Put on your seatbelt — here we go!

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Tasha Eurich, a luminary in organizational psychology and bestselling author, unveils the profound impact of self-awareness in leadership in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. Join us as Tasha Eurich charts a course for shatterproof leadership, leaving an indelible mark on organizational psychology.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2017

W HEN IT COMES TO KEEPING New Year’s Resolutions, the stats aren’t good. It comes from Rick Peterson, the former Major League Baseball pitching coach (of Moneyball fame), who guided the New York Mets and the Oakland A’s to great success. Surveys show that while some 40 percent of us make them, only 8 percent of us keep them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Do that math, please. Cheerleading each time for the “new reality” through all the uncertainty, when I too had fears and uncertainties, was exhausting—like lost sleep you never catch up on. Let’s talk about culture,” said the new VP at our first leadership meeting after acquisition number eight. We want to be happy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2014

Guest post from Bruce Rosenstein: The recent executive shakeups at Microsoft have talking heads everywhere speculating on the legacy of Bill Gates, who has stepped down as chair of the company and is taking up the role of technology advisor to Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella. But how useful is it for you to focus on this chatter?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

During the past six of the fourteen years I’ve been an executive coach and leadership educator, my observation is that my clients are generally more stressed each year than they were the year before. If you’re doing the math at home, you recognize that most people are raising their hands at least twice, maybe three times or even four.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Industry News. Regulatory News. read more Source: USNRC – News Releases Published on 2018-11-18 18-005: NRC Proposes FY 2019 Budget to Congress. read more Source: USNRC – News Releases Published on 2018-11-18 18-052: NRC Announces Senior Leadership Changes. Sustaining Nuclear. The Economy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A business is a reflection of its leadership. When leadership encourages employees to schedule routine fun throughout our days, weeks, months.everyone’s productivity and engagement levels significantly improve. How we choose to take charge shows up in company culture, for better or for worse. They are real and soul-refreshing.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity. I have had the privilege of building innovative social service programs for at-risk children and families.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The number who are paying (and paving) their own way to greater self-awareness, skill development and leadership capacity building is growing. Coaches of leaders in the executive leadership team will likely start between $500 and $650 per hour but can range into four digits. What holds you back most from getting a professional coach?

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 7, 2013

If you are good at math, you stay on the honors track through middle and high school to become a “math person” Even later, with a liberal arts education, I felt swayed to identify myself solely as a “biology person” There was never room for another subject like art, no space for speaking two languages fluently.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments. STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; STEAM = STEM + [Art + Design]. A man alone in a lab?

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Mills Scofield

MAY 20, 2013

We are in a new age of education, and just leave it our students to make sure they are front and center! Nicholas Primary School show off their math prowess. Last Friday was no different: with 15 minutes left, I walked over to David, a 10-year old math whiz. I was stunned by his image of an expanding universe.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 16, 2013

Win the Race for Talent. Gordon - 5/10/13. I strongly encourage you to read this article. This is the FUTURE of the workforce! can no longer count on influxes of foreign talent to meet skill needs. Organizations in countries that traditionally exported top talent to the U.S. According to the U.S. The labor participation rate of 63.6

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Ben Lichtenwalner presents Digital Media and the Future of Leadership at Hope College’s Critical Issues Symposium. Leadership is not easy, but digital media makes it easier than ever before. I recently spoke at Hope College’s Critical Issues Symposium, on the topic of Digital Media and the Future of Leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 24, 2011

My friend Rob Mathes is flourishing in part because he brings truth, beauty and goodness into the world through his music. Over the last year, Rob composed an amazing orchestral work entitled “At Night Song Is With Me,” co-produced “Symphonicities” with Sting and produced Matthew Morrison’s new CD (and I’m sure much, much more).

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Having just finished what I thought was a pretty good math lesson, I asked the class if there were any questions. Guest post by Dr. Doug Stilwell, Drake University. Julie sat in the last row on the right-hand side of the classroom near the window, two or three seats from the front. Julie’s hand immediately went up in the air.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 24, 2016

I had a private presentation by Alex Tapscott on his new book - Blockchain Revolution - How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. I had a private presentation by Alex Tapscott on his new book - Blockchain Revolution - How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

Note: This is the 4rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. . It was a marker I could meaningfully connect to a higher purpose of employee happiness -one of the key principles of More Human Leadership. Failing the Supermarket Test. That image really hit me hard.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2015

We want to give up when we feel our leadership is not producing results : We’ve been taught that results are the product of our effectiveness. And they left a message… There are better subscriptions about leadership. Jon Acuff calls this hater’s math and it can make a leader want to quit. I want to give up!

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Listening = Love Listening = Leadership Therefore, mathematically Leadership = Love. that’s leadership). If you aren’t sure of my “new math,&# try this experiment. I include quotations that will challenge and inspire readers. Such is the case witht he quotation I discovered today. so do others).

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