Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

Guest post from Karin Hurt and David Dye: You’ve asked your team for their great ideas. Before her first meeting, Laura sat down with a customer service rep and asked the rep “Can you show me your favorite part of the new system?” The rep looked apologetically at Laura and said, “I’m sorry to waste your time. I’m approachable.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 “If your past is limited, your future is boundless.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a veteran leader or a millennial recently promoted into a leadership role, leading your younger team members can feel like an endless struggle. Your younger team members can be an incredible source of talent, energy, and productivity. We discussed: What you really need to know to develop your millennial talent.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Karin Hurt. Karin is a keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and MBA professor. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. . I am just passionate about helping people discover their true authentic leadership style and helping people to grow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In my work with thousands of business leaders across industries, geography, and over many years, I’ve repeatedly seen people lose their influence because they don’t address this one thing. What is this leadership heresy?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. 02:14 When people know and embrace your values, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of these two invisible conflicts.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Without Self Discipline, Tools are Useless. Filling up your digital agenda with assignments only works if you prioritize them bearing in mind the factors of time, importance, and necessity. But to win the war you should be focused on priorities. Take Joy in Your Work. Close your eyes, calm down, refresh your mind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

I’m not sure why so many people in positions of power think sarcasm is a leadership competency. Sure a quick wit, used well, can energize the team and lighten the load. Before long, your clever comeback has turned into a caustic workplace where negativity reigns. (At You give permission for everyone to do it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2015

Ling (not her real name) bravely raised her hand in my Masters level leadership class tonight. Yours is too. Working title is Winning Well: How to Lead Your Team to the Top Without Losing Your Soul. Her journey is hard. You can be the guy who “accomplishes something great.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2016

She’s also the very first person to have purchased a copy of our new book: Winning Well – A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. The Fastest Way to Energize Your Team. Dale Carnegie once said that the sweetest sound in the world is the sound of your own name.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They want clear expectations, accountability, a “rich purpose,” ongoing feedback and, well, coaching. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. The one who really should be studying how to move that needle is, well, you. Why do I use the expression “soul-sucking?” How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

T HE IDEA of work is not always well received. Ambition is not a bad thing until it drives us to be ultra-competitive and focused on winning. When we will do anything, compromise anything to come out on top without regard for the collateral damage, we are in trouble. That is soul destroying.” The “Should” Trap.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With nearly five million readers, FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and is among the most frequently shared items on the Internet. This is a book that deserves a place atop your reading stack. Do you arbitrarily set priorities, make choices, or act without intention? I’m too busy.”

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Most leaders who want to get better at leadership do it the way Roger tried to do it. If you’re like most leaders, you focus first on how you’ll talk to our team, how you’ll run your meetings, what you’ll do to address performance problems, how you’ll train, coach, encourage and do all the other things leaders do. The Real Problem.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

Leadership can bring with it a sense of isolation. You seem to be the only one bearing the burden of responsibility, setting the standard, and trying to balance the demands of your boss with the realities on the ground. One common cause comes when you have been promoted from among your peers and now are responsible for leading them.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2014

As such, I’d like to share the following four words from languages found in different parts of the world to not only show how these diverse viewpoints can benefit your organization, but also how they remind us of the underlying commonalities that we all share.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Six weeks ago you met with your colleagues, had invigorating discussions, examined alternatives, and came up with an impressive plan. That corrosive malaise will eat away at your people until you have a group of zombies shuffling through their day without any meaning or purpose to their work. Did you follow up on that plan?”. “No,

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 19, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article Previously, Angelina Jolie brought the video game Tomb Raider to the big screen. You’ll also find leadership lessons in Tomb Raider and Lara’s adventures. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Tomb Raider. Gotta make something happen – Leadership lessons from Tomb Raider Click To Tweet.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? These 3 areas of health are critical to your success and I’m glad to see a recurring theme among the answers. Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The power of getting small, a small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. Where can you get small and be the leader you’d want your boss to be? Getting Small.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2019

But, regardless of your age, if you’re doing anything productive you’ll learn something knew everyday. Whenever you’re making decisions – like the really big decisions of life – you’ll seldom be absolutely, without any reservations, fully convinced it is the absolute best decision. Some will agree.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

Truman is known for a great quote about leadership. Today, I want to share with you the books that impacted my life and a leadership lesson I took away from each book. The Elephant To Hollywood by Michael Caine – Caine is a well-known name in Hollywood. She liked the cover and thought I would as well. Are you ready?

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But, regardless of your age – if you’re doing anything productive – you’ll learn something knew everyday. Whenever you’re making decisions – like the really big decisions of life – you’ll seldom be absolutely, without any reservations, fully convinced it is the absolute best decision.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent explains why your employees may not see you as a leader…and what you can do to change their hearts and minds. But many times they’ve actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. We’re going to get very personal today – How’s your family life?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. In the text that follows I’m going to ask you to do some soul searching – up for the challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

Leadership recognizes that it needs professional systems and the professional managers to run them. In our experience, leadership teams too often overreact as they add new talent and professionalize the organization. We’ve observed that leadership teams make a number of common mistakes: They try to codify their genius.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 31, 2015

This weekend, on a flight out to Bend, Oregon to film am exciting project (coming soon), I clumsily dumped the manuscript for my upcoming book, Winning Well, on the lap of an older gentleman with sparkling eyes sitting beside me. Hmmm… I wonder how I get Cliff to cover Winning Well. No, no, that would be a tragedy).

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