Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Self-centeredness, quid pro quo machinations, political one upmanship—behaviors that come naturally to individual climbers in hierarchies—will be discredited if not punished as selfish wastes of time. Humble Leadership at all levels will be needed to link workgroups and teams.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Self-Directed and Communal. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development. It’s business as usual.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 29, 2021

USA Archery Training and Education Manager Richard “Guy” Krueger specializes in encouraging athletes and coaches alike to be uncomfortable and grow. Guy Krueger (left), USA Archery Training and Education Manager, teaches others the power of a Growth Mindset. Focus on Self-Awareness. They have growing pains. Olympic team.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Several years ago I was working with a management team in the United Arab Emirates, helping them becoming Multipliers – leaders who bring out the best ideas and work from their teams. This leadership team understood that self-awareness as a leader comes by understanding the perspectives of those we lead and serve.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

McKinsey’s 2012 Women Matter study measured a 41 percent higher return on equity and a 56 percent higher earnings before interest and taxes margin for companies that have the largest share of women on their executive committees. . When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women . . Related articles.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 11, 2015

Building employee skills, capability and awareness to be ready for leadership is ideal, yet is rarely applied well in practice. It is timely to revisit the message and challenge ourselves as business leaders to ensure we provide the most promising base for our leaders and managers to succeed. 1) That is only part of the story.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. Such asymmetry historically gave salespeople and managers an edge. Schein and Daniel H. Pink being the standouts.

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Chart Your Course

JULY 17, 2018

1996-2012) are now in college and beginning to enter the workforce. Self-Learners. Colleges and businesses seeking to recruit Gen Z need to be aware of this and prepare to foster this entrepreneurial approach to learning and work. Gen Z is proving to be practical and self-focused in their views of the future.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 18, 2012

Minds at Work in Cambridge, Mass, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Lisa Lahey, a development psychologist who also teaches at Harvard, guides executives through a step-by-step process of self-examination and gradual behavioral change. Source: The New York Times, March 18, 2012.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Behavioral assessing is expensive, time-consuming and not easy to manage because it deals with personality variables. Behavioral assessments typically focus on competencies related to managing priorities, managing others , managing priorities, managing for results and managing change.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 3, 2012

The psychology of stewardship is a hot topic in management studies. Therefore leadership is about making the best decisions under pressure with “an ongoing sense of obligation or duty to others based on the intention to uphold the covenantal relationship” (Hernandez, 2012). The act of leadership is, at its root, a selfless act.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I found a good 2012 white paper from CCL based on some research (a survey) that they did called Expanding the Leadership Equation: Developing Next-Generation Leaders. 24% Multi-cultural Awareness. 22% Self-motivation/Discipline. 5 Years old or younger. 21% Ages 6-10. 29% Ages 11-17. 40% Ages 18-21. 7% Over 21. 20% Collaboration.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Successful management is the result of understanding and accepting your own humanity. In a 2012 study of 361 top-level executives from 53 countries, by the Center of Creative Leadership, 19% of respondents stated that leaders are born to lead, while 52% believed that leaders are created; 29% said that both factors are equally important.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 27, 2012

Since leadership development is not an event, that's a significant investment in classroom activities that may or may not produce company leaders or even better managers. Managers need ongoing coaching to get in the habit of being good leaders. Bottom Line: Leadership development is self-development.

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The Office Blend Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Ultimately, managers are caught off-guard, and a response in the moment is difficult. This may help managers understand where things fell apart and offer clues to a possible resolution. But, the process inexplicably stalled in upper management with no direction toward a resolution. What can a manager do in these situations?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2020

Perhaps most pertinent of all has been the plight of British prime minister Boris Johnson, who announced on the 28th March that he had been infected by COVID-19 and would self-isolate for 7 days as a result. The researchers explored the financial performance of firms whose leaders are hospitalized, and found the impact is significant.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

When working with my clients it is this type of understanding that comes from increasing self-awareness and honesty with self that is the baseline for development and growth. We do this by developing awareness, skills and capability at an individual, business and organisation level.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 5, 2012

Day 5 and I’ve been super aware, perhaps more now than ever, of how much power we have to support ourselves and set the tone of our lives by “getting in front of it” with energy leadership. Seriously, try it – I’ll bet you can find 10 reasons why 2012 is rockin, and 10 reasons why it sucks – check it out.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2012

It's so powerful I wanted to bring it back again this year as 2012 comes to a close. It is really hard to change a behavior, but it is possible if you are aware, patient and persistent in making a change. Some people say they are just too busy to do these things, but taking time for self-renewal shows self-awareness, not selfishness.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 30, 2012

Self-awareness - Honesty - Vision - Proactivity Self-development - Integrity - Intuition - Initiative Self-confidence - Trust - Optimism - Effort That's a dozen personal strengths. Copyright 2012. Personal strengths are behavior patterns that help you strive against adversity to do the hard things in life and work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Research by Hay Group, culled from its 17,000-person behavioral competency database in 2012, finds that when it comes to empathy, influence, and the ability to manage conflicts in the executive level, women show more skill than men. So why, despite these strengths, don''t we see more women in senior management?

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Many contest entrants described how, in an effort to get unstuck, they developed new skills or discovered ones they weren’t aware existed. by Maria Gonzalez | Submitted Jun 09, 2012. Second Place: Economy had me down … by Jonathan Hamilton | Submitted Jun 09, 2012. by James Cook | Submitted Jun 28, 2012.

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

Not to mention that consistent excellence on the field — i.e., dynasties (yes, I am aware of salary caps) — has become a thing of the past. Goal-setting narrows focus, which, contrary to popular opinion, limits opportunities and shrinks the perceptual field (awareness). Then see if any of them make sense for you.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 17, 2012

I learned about him through his books, Excellence (1961), Self-Renewal (1964), In Common Cause (1972), On Leadership (1990) and others. It's often called the "executive" part of the brain, because it coordinates functions such as evaluation, logic, intuition, creativity, problem solving, decision making, planning, organizing and managing.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

And yet, too many distressed managers believe employees are out for themselves and motivated primarily by money. At the extreme end of the company circle (in blue) are the managers who indulge in what I call “harmful self-interest” when they focus exclusively on short-term sales, at the expense of their people and their values.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2012

As I write this on April 5, 2012, the Dow is above 13,000 and all indications point to signs of recovery. When this happens, problems occur, but awareness offers the first step toward remedy. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Notice the disclaimer, ‘As I write this.’ Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

And yet much of our pain is self-inflicted, the product of online and professional pressures that are at least as much perceived as real. Five years later, you may be heading into 2012 with cellular-level awareness of how many people retweeted you today, or how many +1s you got for your latest blog post.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. Mid-Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The school summarized its decision in a revealing 23-page investigation report , which serves as a useful case study for the way organizations, leaders, and individuals fall victim to moral biases — rationalizations for behaving unethically usually due to one’s self-interest. Gain awareness. Performance over principles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We’re all well aware of the fact that marketing is shifting from a landscape where marketers can utilize mass media to speak at consumers, to one where marketers are simply part of the crowd themselves. Dove’s content engaged strong emotions – even difficult emotions – but managed to win by presenting a more important overarching idea.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

One psychological process that can heighten individual team members’ contributions and the team’s outcomes is relational self-affirmation , I recently found in my research with Julia Lee of the University of Michigan, Dan Cable of the London Business School, and Brad Staats of the University of Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. Overwhelmed?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

But the startup could not keep pace with the development and scale of established battery makers, and production defects led to a $55 million recall in 2012 and contributed to the company’s bankruptcy later that year. The company developed lithium ion batteries that helped convince automakers of their value for hybrid vehicles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Too many leaders placed self-interest ahead of their organizations' interests, and ended up disappointing the customers, employees, and shareholders who had trusted them. I often advise emerging leaders, "You know you're in trouble when you start to judge your self-worth by your net worth." I don't use the word "practice" lightly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Until his championship 2011-2012 season, NBA cognoscenti viewed James as a phenomenally gifted loser. You also need self-awareness and smarts. Self-improvement in teams requires teams. But how many of us have committed to measurable self-improvement based on analytic insight? No, you can''t hire Hakeem Olajuwon.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

You want people who are self-confident and not afraid to express their views, but if the talk-to-listen ratio is anything north of 60%, you want to ask why. Is it because this person is self-important and not interested in learning from others — or just because he is nervous and rambling? What is the talk-to-listen ratio?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

team that masterminded the campaign comprised veteran media activists and fundraisers pursuing a common enough goal (a criminal's arrest), but using skills and means unique to the digital age: a viral message, built on a 30-minute video, self-replicating among millions of real-world and online partisans across networks. Emergent, yes.

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