Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. Organizations undergoing transformations often operate diverse business lines across various markets, manage aging and complex IT environments, and navigate significant regulatory oversight. Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2013

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Here is the schedule it may change; 12/26/13 – Team Building & Leadership Articles. 12/30/13 – Team Building & Leadership Photos. 12/31/13 – Team Building & Leadership Activities / Simulations. Meeting Zombies.

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General Leadership

MARCH 26, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! 18 April 2013. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience. Guest Posts choice Leadership Lifestyle Martinez' Hermann Goering.”

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General Leadership

JULY 7, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! 28 Nov 2013. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience. Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 4, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! 11 Dec 2013. V is the next letter on our journey through Servant Leadership. Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. “Never tell people how to do things.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This post is by Linda Fisher Thornton the author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. Our understanding of "ethical leadership" has not been clear enough to guide us through today’s complex ethical choices. To one leader, leading ethically means carefully protecting the environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. I wholeheartedly disagree.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s from that vantage point that I sat down to put together my Top 10 leadership insights for 2016 as determined by you, the readers of my leadership blog. But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership? Read more on this leadership insight here: Is Your Leadership Based On Influence Or Authority?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. And it’s meant to be hard.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Schein believes that such attitudes have become newly problematic in a diverse global environment in which a growing proportion of individuals do not necessarily share those values, and in which teams are an increasingly common organizational unit. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.)

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

“Great leadership is only found in the world of business,” my seatmate on a recent flight pompously boasted, “Certainly not in the government, churches or education where we desperately need it.”. At HPU, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people.”. He was not. The Back Story.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2017

Army colonel Sean Hannah’s 2013 study of military leaders concluded that the brains of successful leaders are more complex than average. However building leadership does require the proper opportunity, environment, and support. . How can you build an environment of creative leadership?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the current environment, you’ll need to do more than present the goals and expect execution. Seidman, founder and chairman of an ethics and compliance company and an organization promoting values-based leadership, honed in on what the best leaders have in common: trust, hope and humility.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

If leaders know the culture they want, why do so many organizations struggle to create that environment? Between 2009 and 2013, while many in his industry closed their doors during the Great Recession, Encore's revenues and profits increased 300%, operating cost declined 30%, and the stock price rose 1,200%. Ask the Coach .

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the distinct honour of being recognized by two organizations for my work in the field of leadership. In terms of leadership, though, what this approach also helps us with is opening ourselves to a learning mindset, so we can be more adaptive to the changes happening within and outside our organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

Leadership is one of "those" important topics about which there is no shortage of information. But despite all that has been written or said concerning leadership, there are still some important areas that are all but ignored. Leadership always comes before management. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Gordon Berridge: What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? On with the interview.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

In part, my success came about because I am familiar with working within such environments. However, what worked best was modelling ethical leadership throughout, providing an alternative approach that most had never experienced. Why I believe in ethical leadership—and why you should too. It did for them. Why not for you?

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

But other alumni call Amazon’s internal environment a “gladiator culture” and wouldn’t think of returning. In its second-quarter earnings report in July 2013, Amazon said its ranks had swelled to 97,000 full-time and part-time employees, up 40 percent from the year before. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 14, 2013.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the NFL, the 2013 Denver Broncos were built to win, but couldn't handle the poised Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. There are many other examples of sports teams and company teams around the globe that had talent, leadership, and heart, but were unable to finish. I suggest these three integrated approaches. Test new approaches.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

To that end, as we make plans for what we’d like to achieve in 2016, here’s a look at my Top 10 Leadership Insights from 2015, insights that can help you to use your leadership to not only drive success in your organization in 2016, but create that kind of environment that will allow your employees to thrive under your care.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

” Diverse leadership. China was chosen in part because it has a high proportion of women in leadership roles, especially in the SME sector. There has been particular growth in the number of women involved in STEM-related roles in recent years, with numbers reaching 44% of middle-ranking and senior roles by 2013.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the past month, I’ve been running two or three online sessions a week with groups of leaders to provide them with some reference points and space to think about how to lead in our current environment. Leadership is always challenging. It’s more so during a pandemic when work routines and business plans are completely disrupted.

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Women on Business

MARCH 13, 2013

It didn’t take me long to find this Forbes.com list of The 10 Best companies For Women in 2013 , which led me to several other insightful, related reads, including this and this. And, hopefully you won’t forget about all the powerful women you know personally that are making a difference in—and out—of the business environment.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Undeniably, today’s global marketplace is a far cry from the insular corporate environment of the past. They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. I realized then that the same core principles could apply regardless of industry. Eich , Ph.D.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 24, 2012

I’m a sucker for leadership philosophies embraced by successful athletics coaches. Whether it’s John Wooden’s Leadership Pyramid , Vince Lombardi’s What It Takes To Be Number One speech , or just catching up with Coach Burton and Coach Mo (my own former coaches), I always come away with something powerful and enriching. Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Create a meeting environment where everyone puts their paddle in the water. In the United States alone, there are 11 million meetings daily (Koehn 2013). A guest lecturer in organizational change at Benedictine University, Emily also coached participants in University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Abusive supervision is considered a dysfunctional type of leadership and includes a sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors toward subordinates. UNH is offering two extraordinary leadership development programs in April and the Fall of 2013: The UNH Next Level Executive Development Program.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

In its simplest form, our noble goal is our personal response to the question: What context, atmosphere, or environment do I want to create for myself and others? When our motivation is exclusively centered on elevating our own “success,” we create an environment of distrust, competition, animosity, and separation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. In today’s environment, employees have to deal with complexity and ambiguity at a much higher rate than before. In neither case does it make you into a leader.

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