Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

The CEO had attended the session and from what I’d said he thought I might be able to help him with a VP who, though smart, dedicated, motivated, hard-working, and creative, was also a stubborn, opinionated, know-it-all. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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Sports Leadership Executive Coaching CEO 154

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Empowerment Leads to Positive Customer Experience. Perhaps a manager is present to take care of the problem, or maybe you have to wait for a phone call; either way, neither you nor the employee are pleased with the lack of progress during your interaction. Managers are asked to carry a lot of responsibility in the workplace.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers, HR’s most influential international thinkers, the world’s 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite social science writers.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups. In the 1940s and 50s, women represented a small portion of higher management positions, and this trend continued forward until the mid-1960s. Shifting the Norm.

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Company Automotive Diversity Metrics 100

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? Dan McCarthy, from Great Leadership : “ 25 Tips for New Managers.”.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Racially-motivated comments (even when directed at your own race). Then take a look at the culture of the companies where you’ll be submitting an application, and ask yourself: Would my current online presence create a positive “second first impression”?

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Letter Workshop Advice Career 194

Chartered Management Institute

JULY 19, 2013

It was Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) who first defined the terms ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership to describe managers who are strong on individual and group motivation and those who prefer to focus on goals, tasks and processes. The data was subject to a variant of Factor Analysis and structural equation modelling.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Analysis Motivation 72

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Why is positivity diminishing and hostility, stress, and depression increasing? When we over-rely on electronic communication such as email, we are unable to discern sincerity and hence we are uncertain of the other person’s motives. Loneliness Index: 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out. The Rise of Anxiety. Goldsmith.

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How To Bond Positioning Stress 111

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. Our positive beliefs about ourselves help us become successful. I behave this way.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 17, 2014

We met on Twitter after he gave me positive feedback about one of my blog posts. Federal employee chosen to manage a Government-wide executive development program and receive an invitation to the 2013 White House Youth Summit. Because your WHY will continue to fuel your motivation and drive when the going gets tough.

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Succession eBook Goal Career 87

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Empowering Employees Empowers Leaders.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. But that is just my opinion (not a position of The W. My believe is based on the damage done to the management of our organizations due to the practice of vastly overpaying executives.

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Execution Deming System CEO 45

Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

When it comes to characteristics of a good leader, being sociable, friendly, outgoing, and assertive are definitely positive ones. It seems logical: if your ideas about yourself aren’t that positive, the likelihood is that you don’t think you’re worth that much either. It’s all about your ability to ask the right questions.

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Schein Learning-by-Doing Development Influence 218

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

They identified clear side effects associated with goal setting, including "a narrow focus that neglects non-goal areas, a rise in unethical behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation.". Did this motivate employees? It motivated them to overcharge on a companywide basis.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A 2013 Wall Street Journal article indicated that as much as a third of internet purchases are returned, and studies have found that handling these returns can cost between $6 and $18 per item. This let us determine whether users saw reviews that were overly positive or negative. Positive reviews are not good or bad per se.

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Retail Review Positioning Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Managing Change : Because technology is constantly evolving, it is imperative that companies – especially IT organizations – adapt these new technologies and build an expertise around them.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Leading Blog

APRIL 29, 2020

We have to assume, as former CEO and Chairman of Aetna Ron Williams advocates, positive intent. We must assume that others are motivated by positive intentions. He writes in Learning to Lead that assuming positive intent is an “empowering strategy that disarms defensiveness and turns potential enemies into allies.

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Morale Politics Learning-by-Doing Crisis 337

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

How many times have you seen the wrong person in the wrong position because it’s easier to keep the status quo? Performance reviews become routine instead of being used to improve performance and reward truly exceptional execution. Too often the wrong people are kept in the wrong jobs, compounding problems. Consider leaving a comment!

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Delegation Metrics Execution Organizational Behavior 50

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

Leadership Insight #7 – Our compassion motivates us to listen and learn about what our employees need to be successful [ Share on Twitter ]. Numerous studies have shown that employees have higher expectations of their leaders to not simply be effective at managing tasks, but at developing people.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Environment Succession 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. New managers often carry a naive belief that the personal issues of employees are irrelevant to their performance on the job and something that can be ignored. But that would be in a perfect world.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

Playing To Win first defines the four basic personality types as positions on a football team – The Quarterback , The Running Back , The Wide Receiver and The Lineman. Readers are exposed to personality characteristics that are easily identifiable with each of the positions, making the concepts easy to remember. About the Author.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

Pleasure evokes positive emotion. ” Find their pleasure, find their purpose, find their expected outcome, uncover their true emotional motives – and you will find their wallet. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ten Questions that Motivate Engagement and Drive Greater Accountability.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Seminar Price 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. ” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Here are four observations about managing engagement in the digital age.

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Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

In decades past, the decision was easier, because a board seat was often a ceremonial position. They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. First: Am I passionate about this business?

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities.

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Politics Cooper Mentor Environment 8

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

He has been motivating others with his Word of the Week (WOW) since 2011 and has now compiled them in a single book, The WOW Book. He has positively impacted thousands of men in his coaching tenure. T ODD DURKIN is one of America's top fitness trainers helping people move beyond their perceived limits from the inside out.

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Mission Statement Leadership Hotels Sports 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The employees were asked to guess the salary of both their peers and their manager. Indeed, the data showed that when our peers’ salary was 10% higher than we thought, we reduce our hours by over 9%, when managers’ pay was 10% higher than we thought, our hours would raise by 1.5%. “It How pay transparency makes us feel.

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Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 115

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

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Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. Third, some stakeholder groups may want to see confirmation of the positive impact of a given move before consenting to continue on the chosen path. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Sometimes that’s meant eliminating positions, but we didn’t tell the affected employees to leave. When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. But the added employee motivation more than makes up for that shortcoming.

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Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The Chinese government has focused considerable energy on managing the Internet, most recently with a campaign against “spreading rumors.” On March 15, 2013, World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV aired a special report criticizing Apple’s i-Phone customer service policy in China for providing only a one-year warranty when Chinese law mandates two.

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Media Report Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2013 an activist investor criticized the board at ConMed for a “ culture of nepotism, patronage, and dystopian corporate governance.” We conducted a study to understand how reputation motivates directors to leave their board appointments. We controlled for other factors that could motivate a director to leave.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

On the positive side, referrals can result in improved job matches and reduced employee turnover. Specifically, we examined the personnel records of nearly 16,000 employees hired from 2003 to 2013 in a large U.S.-based It has been estimated that more than three-quarters of all jobs are found through social networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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