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How to Humanize Leadership
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Leading Blog
The 10 Stories Great Leaders Need to Tell
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
W E KNOW GREAT STORIES are the foundation of great communication. It’s not the idea but the story about the idea that begets followers. The question is, are you telling the right story?
Looking for Ways to Improve Innovation? Improvisational Comedy Can Show You How
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
D ISRUPTION is happening in even the most stalwart industries, leading business leaders scrambling to create a culture of innovation in their organizations. Coming up with amazingly novel ideas isn’t an innate ability but can be a learned skill that leaders and their teams can develop.
The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
H OW DO YOU get people to think ahead? In a time characterized by wide-ranging change, we need to think through the consequences of what we have wrought. We need to think ahead. It is reckless not to. We can’t predict the future, so it’s hard to think about the future.
11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation
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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2019
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2019. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Call Sign Chaos : Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis and Bing West.
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
A FTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS on September 11, 2001 and on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Major General James Mattis needed to connect with every member of the 1st Marine Division.
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The Best Mentor You Can Find is Up to You!
Leading Blog
AUGUST 28, 2019
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli. W HEN I WAS a young Army lieutenant, I met with my Assignment (Personnel) Officer, Major Tom Montgomery in Washington D.C. on my way to Germany in the summer of 1977.
Artificial Persuasion: The Invisible Brand
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
M ASS MEDIA has been replaced by mass personalization through the rise of Artificial Intelligence.
Jerry Colonna on True Grit and Other Advice for Leaders
Leading Blog
JULY 15, 2019
J ERRY COLONNA helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed—molding them into highly accomplished individuals—yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being.
Exploring Your Internal Landscape
Leading Blog
JUNE 26, 2019
T HE CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL and leadership environment is changing at such a pace that leaders need to develop quickly. Coaching, more than training, focuses on an individual’s specific development needs. Technical skills and talents aside, how we lead is a product of who we are.
Quantifying a Culture of Innovation
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Building Company Culture: Alignment Leadership
Leading Blog
AUGUST 22, 2019
Y OU PROBABLY HEAR the word culture a lot, but what does it mean? We’ll discuss it here but I can definitively tell you this: Without a strong company culture, you can’t create a fulfilling environment for your employees. In fact, the whole idea of culture is a moving target.
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Feedback (and Other Dirty Words)
Leading Blog
JULY 29, 2019
F EEDBACK HAS A LOT OF BAGGAGE associated with it. Feedback is not always well-intentioned and is used to punish, demean, or manipulate. When well-intentioned we don’t always do it right. We dump on people, we’re biased, we miss the overall issues, and present it in a way that doesn’t sound helpful.
Do You Trust Your People?
Leading Blog
JUNE 17, 2019
T HE GREAT WRITER Ernest Hemingway once said: " The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. ” I’ve often told people in new organizations I joined that I trust them until that trust is violated. This puts a healthy kind of pressure on them NOT to violate that trust.
The 24 Hour Rule: Is Your Current Pace Sustainable?
Leading Blog
JULY 3, 2019
A S LEADERS, we can and do introduce stress into the workplace. Charles Fred initiated a study of over 4000 post-startup business to find out why, after they had experienced early growth, had stagnated.
Five Leadership Lessons: Think Like Amazon
Leading Blog
JUNE 3, 2019
L ONG-TERM THINKING is the key to what goes on at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has said, “ What we’re really focused on is thinking long-term, putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn’t work.
Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It
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Cracking Complexity
Leading Blog
JUNE 13, 2019
T HERE ARE complicated problems, and there are complex problems. Complicated problems are technical in nature. They are linear, orderly, and predictable. Complex problems are adaptive challenges. They are messy, unstable, and unpredictable.
7 Principles to Lead with Imagination
Leading Blog
JUNE 5, 2019
I MAGINATION is about seeing what others don’t see. In a disruptive world, we need leaders with more imagination. We all have the capacity for imagination and applied it has the power to unlock or fullest potential.
How to Be an Engaging Leader in a World of Robotics, AI, and Digitization
Leading Blog
JULY 10, 2019
M ANY of today’s leaders are saying: I know leadership is about people, not tasks; effectiveness, not efficiency. However, the rapid increase of robotics, AI, and digitization are a disruption. It’s leading us to increased depersonalization and disengagement with our employees.
How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups
Leading Blog
JULY 25, 2019
W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. New startups appear out of nowhere and challenge not only established companies, but entire industries.
Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conversations.
Great Leaders Have No Rules
Leading Blog
MAY 10, 2019
T HERE ARE well-intentioned behaviors and assumptions about leadership that we have accepted over the years that really don’t serve us well. Kevin Kruse has identified ten such assumptions and provided effective counter-thinking in Great Leaders Have No Rules.
Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?
Leading Blog
APRIL 24, 2019
W E’RE not in Kansas anymore. Unlike Dorothy in the movie version of the Wizard of Oz , there’s no going back. Many companies experience digital disruption in the same way as the tornado in the Wizard of Oz —swept up by forces beyond their control.
The Gift of Struggle
Leading Blog
JULY 23, 2019
B OBBY HERRERA has a message and the message is “We all struggle. Inside every struggle is a gift. Leaders share their gifts with others.”. We tend to not share our struggles or the lessons we learn from them. They are painful and very personal.
Cascades: 6 Principles for Creating Transformational Change
Leading Blog
MAY 3, 2019
T HE NATURE OF POWER has shifted from top-down to the center of networks. Networks are key to understanding how to create transformational change.
Becoming a 100X Leader
Leading Blog
APRIL 22, 2019
A 100X LEADER is a 100% healthy leader who multiplies that mindset to those they lead. A leader that climbs their own Mount Everest every day and acts as a Sherpa to others at the same time. A 100X leader has become a leader worth following and builds leaders worth following.
Nincompoopery: Making Organizations Safe for Employees & Customers
Leading Blog
AUGUST 8, 2019
N INCOMPOOPERY is the crazy stuff we do (or don’t do) that drives our customers crazy and makes life difficult for employees and keeps organizations from getting what they want. There are nincompoops, and there is nincompoopery.
Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers
Leading Blog
APRIL 5, 2019
O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see?
Business Lessons from the Top 0.01%
Leading Blog
MAY 29, 2019
M ORE THAN 400 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest. There are currently 2450 active Navy Seals. 536 astronauts have journeyed into outer space. But since 1946, only 257 pilots have flown as Blue Angels. In other words, 0.01% of all U.S.
10 Guiding Principles That Will Lead You to Future Happiness and Success
Leading Blog
JULY 17, 2019
W E SPEND SO MUCH TIME focusing on credentials, experience, intelligence, and presentation.
6 Tips to Improve Your Hiring Process
Leading Blog
APRIL 17, 2019
O NE OF THE MOST significant ways a leader can impact their business is through the quality of their hiring, yet this is rarely listed as a critical leadership competency and often overlooked.
Do You Need an Attitude Adjustment?
Leading Blog
MAY 17, 2019
H AVING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE is a critical element of leadership. To some, this comes naturally. Others must constantly work on it. Since my earliest memory, I have had the sense that anything worth doing… worth pursuing… must be passionately pursued. A positive attitude naturally follows.
How to Tackle Big Challenges in A Networked World
Leading Blog
JUNE 7, 2019
T ACKLING THE BIG CHALLENGES when there is no single, simple, rational answer can rarely be done by a single individual or company working alone. Certainly, this is true when facing global, national, or community issues, but it is increasingly true within organizations and small groups.
First Look: Leadership Books for June 2019
Leading Blog
JUNE 1, 2019
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2019. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek.
Grace: A Leader's Guide to a Better Us
Leading Blog
JULY 5, 2019
G RACE, a concept present in all of the world’s major religions, has a divine meaning. Grace, in a secular sense—that is on a human level—is about perspective. A perspective larger than ourselves. A perspective that reaches to a purpose beyond who we are alone. In short, our connectedness.
Fail More
Leading Blog
MARCH 27, 2019
E VERYTHING YOU DO involves risk. The only questions are what and how much. Poor choices lead you into failure, and good choices take you out of failure. Success and failure both leave room for improvement.
Do Ethics Really Make You a Better Leader in Business?
Leading Blog
MARCH 29, 2019
E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Many companies have a set of values and company policies. However, very few companies educate leaders about ethics and encourage leaders to discuss ethics with their teams.
How to Use Discomfort to Drive High-Performance
Leading Blog
APRIL 26, 2019
I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. Leaders must be coaches. Any growth but especially growth leading to high-performance requires a degree of discomfort.
You Might Be a Bad Leader If…
Leading Blog
MARCH 11, 2019
N ONE OF US would readily admit to being a bad leader. We see ourselves as pretty good or at least well-intentioned. But people don’t experience our intentions; they experience what we actually do.
Stop Getting the Wrong Things Done
Leading Blog
MAY 27, 2019
T HERE IS a counterintuitive mindset behind Michael Hyatt’s productivity system. Productivity is not about doing more faster. Rather it’s about achieving more by doing less as a result of focusing on getting the right things done. It’s about what you are not doing.
Leadership at Scale the McKinsey Way
Leading Blog
JUNE 19, 2019
B EFORE YOU BEGIN your next leadership development program, read this. It is not uncommon to hear leaders complain that leadership development programs are not delivering the effective leaders necessary to execute their strategies and purpose.
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