Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson on leading together: The dark truth of success is that if we make it all about ourselves, our own egos, our individual performance, it eventually breaks down. It wont have staying power.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 14, 2025
Episode 294: What if being a more flexible leader could help you make better decisions and lead with more confidence? The world is moving faster than ever, and leading through uncertainty can feel overwhelming. The same leadership habits that worked before might not be enough now. What if you had a framework to adapt, lead with confidence, and reduce stress all while staying true to your values?
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 10, 2025
In Times of Chaos and Low Morale, Lead Yourself First You love your work. Youve dedicated so many years to serving your people, the mission, and making a difference. But now, everythings changed. Day after day, you face a new set of decisions that make little sense. If anything, they seem to oppose the very work youve committed your life to. Your team is suffering.
Rich Gee Group
MARCH 11, 2025
Listen to the interview. When Bill Gates was propelling Microsoft to global success, he scheduled his calendar in five-minute increments - every second was prime real estate. But behind this frenetic pace stood his Executive Assistant, managing a constant stream of emails, calls, and logistical details that could bury any top executive. Without that support, Gates would have spent a huge slice of his mental energy on daily firefighting instead of transforming the software world.
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Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
Stop Fooling Yourself If you expect to scale your business model, nothing and I mean NOTHING matters more than having a mission, vision, values (purpose) coupled with the right people doing the right things right. Hope is not a strategy. Your hiring process is broken. You believe you are good at picking talent, but the frank truth is your gut instincts are literally costing you millions.
Leading in Context
MARCH 12, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton The first post in this series,The Missing Domain: Ethical ThinkingexploredWHYleaders need to fill the gap and help people develop ethical thinking. This post will begin to unravelHOWto do that.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 11, 2025
You could be a bad leader for doing the right thing! Servant leadership doesnt win popularity contests in authoritarian environments. Showing up as a humble leader in a dysfunctional culture makes you the problem. Here are seven ways to be a "bad leader" in a good way.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 11, 2025
Luck Is Not a Strategy Success in business is often attributed to a combination of skill, strategy, and timing. However, there is an uncomfortable question that every founder and CEO must ask at some point: Are we successful because we are truly good at what we do, or have we simply been lucky? The answer lies in what you do with luck. Every company encounters moments of fortuneboth good and bad.
Anese Cavanaugh
MARCH 10, 2025
When you think about leadership, what comes to mind? Do you picture someone leading a cause, marching ahead with a clear vision, tackling challenges with focus and determination? Or perhaps you envision a leader setting the course, bringing people along, taking risks, and empowering others? These images are common representations of leadership but they aren't the whole picture.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 12, 2025
To be most effective in todays environment, leaders must be human leaders. Human leaders must be able to lead not only with their heads but also with their hearts and souls, says veteran executive coach Hortense le Gentil , author of the new book, The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in the World.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 17, 2025
The Key to Alignment: Build a Team Agreement (AKA “Couth Code”) If your teams expectations arent clear, or people arent meeting them consistently, you dont just have a frustration problemyou have a clarity problem. One of the best ways to fix this is by creating a Team Agreementor, as we like to light-heartedly call it, a Couth Code. We started calling it a Couth Code after countless executives asked us the same exasperated question: How do we teach couth?
Leadership Freak
MARCH 12, 2025
The thing I hate about planning is the feeling that something is getting done. Planning is talking, not doing. Acollective sigh of relief at the end of planning sessionspredicts disaster. Plans dont work, people do. You plan a disaster if you rely on plans made annually. Short-term plans distill into behaviors. MORE.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
MARCH 11, 2025
Most people wake up knowing what to expect from their day. Yet, all too often, before you can say why me, a surprise derails your plans. Whether its a sick child, computer issues, or a friend in crisis, your carefully laid plans can quickly go out the window. Sound familiar? If these disruptions were rare, they wouldnt be so bothersome. But when they seem to happen constantly, they can turn your life upside down.
Leading with Trust
MARCH 11, 2025
Trust is one of the most valuable currencies in relationshipspersonal and professional. But have you ever stopped to think about how you trust? Do you lead with your head, relying on logic and evidence? Or do you trust with your heart, leaning into intuition and emotional connection? The truth is, we need both. There are two types of trust: cognitive trust (head trust) and affective trust (heart trust).
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HR Digest
MARCH 11, 2025
Were only in March, and 2025 is already shaping up to be the official year of layoffs! Tech giants? Slashing jobs, left, right and center. Media companies? Downsizing layoffs like its a sport. And now, NASA has decided to trim the fat because even rocket scientists arent safe from budget cuts. NASA layoffs have begun in earnest as the agency announced a series of job cuts and office shutdowns on Monday.
QAspire
MARCH 16, 2025
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with a group of bright engineering students at Nirma University about the evolving world of work. While technical expertise remains essential, the accelerating pace of AI and automation in nearly every field means that adaptability, creativity, and collaboration will be even more critical by the time they graduate.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 13, 2025
The problem with wisdom is the young arent interested and the old think they have it. I know Im not wise because I think I am. I am better off than he is, for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. Plato 10 wise questions even fools can use.
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 15, 2025
Scaling a company is not just about increasing revenue, adding employees, or expanding into new markets. It is about eliminating the barriers that slow growth, erode efficiency, and stifle leadership effectiveness. One of the most powerful frameworks to address these challenges is Gapology.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 13, 2025
Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more conventional teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling even an obsession. Value members cultural fit and ability to collectively produce results. Pursue a limited set of vital priorities less is more.
HR Digest
MARCH 11, 2025
Congress is once again playing a high-stakes game of Will they, wont they? with the governments funding, and the clock is ticking. If lawmakers dont pull off a last-minute miracle and pass a funding bull before March 14, the government shutdown will come faster than you think. So, what does that mean? Well, if youre wondering, Will I get paid during a government shutdown, or When the government shuts down, do they get back pay?
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 13, 2025
Corporate boards often consist of bold personalities who help push new products and initiatives. But when it comes to groundbreaking technological innovation, a recent study from the WHUOtto Beisheim School of Management shows that overconfident CEOs need to be balanced by a strong, knowledgeable board of directors. The researchers focused on U.S. companies in high-tech industries listed in the S&P 1500, as these firms depend heavily on breakthrough innovationsthose that create new markets o
Leadership Freak
MARCH 10, 2025
Toxic teams spiral inward and downward. Reaching high requires high-functioning teams. How to lead a toxic team: Assume silence is agreement. Question motives. Avoid tough topics. Tolerate drifters. Interrupt each other. Get lost in the weeds. More.
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Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 12, 2025
Are you caught in the relentless cycle of ‘eat, work, sleep, repeat’? According to my guest for this episode of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast, the problem we face with this cycle of busyness is not a lack of time management, but a lack of clarity over what our personal.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 12, 2025
When you get a better understanding of the problem you’ve been asked to solve, you’ll find the solutions you come up with are going to be bigger, better, and more exciting. So many times when we’re asked to look into an issue,we just rush off and start solving itwithout really thinking throughwhat’s causing the person to ask me this questionin the first place.
HR Digest
MARCH 10, 2025
As of March 10, 2025, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a shift in its approach to Social Security overpayments recovery. The SSA is now reversing previous leniency and launching what many are calling a Social Security overpayments crackdown. Starting March 27, 2025, the SSA will begin withholding 100% of monthly benefits in order to recover overpayments.
Lead from Within
MARCH 11, 2025
A World Economic Forum report predicts that while AI will automate 85 million jobs by 2025, it will also create 97 million new rolesmany requiring human leadership, strategy, and decision-making. The real threat isnt AI itselfits leaders who lose sight of what makes leadership uniquely human. AI can process information, but it cant replace the human touch that builds trust, inspires action, and fosters real connection.
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Leadership Freak
MARCH 14, 2025
Show people they matter before they close their heart. An open heart strives to grow, enjoys being coached, and welcomes honest feedback. Feeling significant fuels motivation. Genuine interest in team members energizes engagement. But when people feel devalued, they focus on daily minimum requirements. How to use a 6-panel storyboard.
CEO Insider
MARCH 14, 2025
Were past the point of asking whether employees are engaged. As I stated in a recent SHRM webcast, Employee Engagement is Dead. Its an idea that served us in the past but no longer meets the needs of todays workforce or business landscape. The real question is: if employee engagement is dead, whats next? The […] The post Employee Engagement Is Dead: Why Fulfillment Is the New Metric for Workplace Success appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 11, 2025
Simplicity can drive outstanding results. Providing your organization simple guidance and a clear desired outcome enables your people to spend more time executing instead of wasting time on unnecessary activities. Todays post is by Gary Morton, author of Commanding Excellence. The principle of Occams Razor has influenced many of humanitys most powerful scientific breakthroughs. “Other things being equal, simpler explanations are generally better than more complex ones” is a powerful
HR Digest
MARCH 13, 2025
The real magic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives isnt in the buzzwords; its in the transformation they spark. Across the globe, forward-thinking companies are proving that DEI programs arent just feel-good gestures. Take Costco, which offers membership perks to underrepresented employees, or Apple, which champions equitable access to tech.
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