Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age. Chances are, you’re one of a billion people that use its flagship software. We’re talking about Microsoft. You know this company.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

This test brings us to four questions: What is the purpose of the team? A couple of guidelines: Clarify what is not going to change, particularly mission and purpose, to make employees more open to new approaches for accomplishing their work. Mission should never be tinkered with. You mess with mission at your own risk.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2022

Some have tapped into how to maintain a higher energy output but the majority of us are still on this journey. Keith Smith, CEO of Vonco Products, is on a social mission to help those seeking to live a more empowered life, cultivate innovation, overcome fear, or become a more effective leader. Cultivating Infectious Energy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So, I sent a note out and said, “let us be Dickens,” let us look at contemporary society like no one else in the country. ❧ Their mission, in short, was to create quality noise. The thing about testing is it tells you about the past, not what the future is. ❧ Michael Fuchs: There’s no modern Dickens.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

At N2Growth, our executive search and leadership development expertise positions us as a valuable partner in structuring your board for optimum effectiveness. This includes comprehensive background checks, behavioral assessments, and alignment evaluation with the organization’s mission and values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. You might have a fantastic personal brand and a world-renown altruistic mission, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore your leadership and culture. The message it sends to your team about your loyalty and commitment to them will come back many times over.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

To us,” he explained, “that comes across as either you don’t like us or you think you’re better than us. People will certainly learn about one another slowly over time, but why wait? It means “have the conversation about the uncomfortable subject.”) It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2023

This can look like prioritizing long-term benefits by facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection, understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they’re serving us, or learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. Karin and I have the privilege to work with leaders around the world who inspire us every day with their commitment to their people. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. No Guilt Allowed.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Does Shark Tank teach us something about the way we pursue success that isn't true? Hustle culture is causing burnout and pain in our lives, making us feel divided. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. Why do companies kill creativity? But it's not true. But your enemies are a whole other matter.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By defining governance standards, boards can weave a framework that navigates their decision-making odyssey, ensuring it’s in sync with the organization’s mission, values, and long-haul strategies. So, what’s encapsulated in effective governance? How can the right board members be identified?

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 21, 2023

He was sincerely thrilled to be there and see each of us. His knack for surprising us kept us on our toes. Sometimes, he'd spontaneously invite us to sit in on a meeting with upper management, giving us a glimpse into high-level decision-making. Make it a habit to celebrate small victories.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2020

L EADERSHIP is never about me, but it is all too easy to make it about me. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss have written Unleashed to help us fix our perspective on unleashing the potential of those we lead. Be curious about what other people are thinking, feeling, and doing. You’re pessimistic about the future.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Why do we have this team and how does it contribute to the mission?”. As team connection erodes, you can feel in people’s words as members begin to ramble in their comments, using tiresome cliché’s and vague approaches to their work. Spend some time talking about these challenges at each meeting. Where are we going?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Life presents us with reoccurring patterns. This is not about the challenge coming at you. It’s about the challenge coming from you. Draw upon what is already within us. Further, they spread the mission through their daily actions, constantly reminding others: This is what we do. What’s happening to you is not new.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you had $3 billion to invest in any mission, cause or effort, what would you invest in? While also putting your personal time and energy behind it as the leader of that organization or mission? I think it was about 2% or so of his investment in the company. I think it was about 2% or so of his investment in the company.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They are the moral compass, the driving force, and the source of inspiration that propel individuals and organizations toward their greater mission. Defining Animating Values Animating values are the deeply rooted beliefs, principles, and passions that define us as leaders and what we stand for.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

As Figliuzzi advises later in the book, “ Sometimes taking a broader view of your mission can help you preserve your values. ”. A family, a company, or a country that’s shy about triggering established consequences can expect boundaries to be repeatedly pushed to the point of breaking. Consistency is about intentionality.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In teams, decision-making is about far more than gathering round to go over options and get to a pick. Ideally, about 80 percent of your team’s decisions should fall within Level 1. Learn more at betterteamhabits.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s about realizing that the goal is not to get by but to “always look for more ways to make an impact.”. Bush and Barack Obama, Mike Hayes, says Never Enough is about aiming for excellence, agility, and meaning in everything we do. T HE IDEA behind Never Enough isn’t perfection or even a state of dissatisfaction. Never Agile Enough.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Knowledge Internalization in Leadership and Learning For leaders, educators, and learners alike, knowledge internalization isn’t just about acquiring information; it’s about making it a part of our very being. This process of internalizing knowledge isn’t just about storing facts and figures.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. When organizations send clients to me for executive coaching, the work usually focuses on one of two things: How the leader thinks about their job, and how they do that job. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

R ESILIENCE is what carries us through life to reach our goals. Pain will always be with us, but if we can learn to lean into it and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, we can live a more fulfilling life. Resilience is what Brent Gleeson’s book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life is all about.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. You might have a fantastic personal brand and a world-renown altruistic mission, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore your leadership and culture. The message it sends to your team about your loyalty and commitment to them will come back many times over.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Today, however, workers have no choice other than to rise to the occasion: to do their jobs well, to make good and relevant decisions, and to clearly contribute to their organization’s mission and success. Be sure to include current goals for workers’ performance and the ways in which they’re trusted and free to go about doing their jobs.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

However, they utilize different approaches to bring about change. I believe there are four basic approaches leaders use to influence and inspire people to make positive changes. . Thought leaders stretch us by presenting ideas that help us see new opportunities and possibilities. Thought Leaders. Action Leaders.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Church fellowship: God made us to be communal. There’s something about gathering with other people to worship God and hear the word. We regularly forget about the greatest book ever written. The Bible is a wealth of information about our lives, how God loves us, and what part we play in all of this thing we call life.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. But implicit in this cliché is that the rest of us march to the same beat. Microstress doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Extraordinary people carve their own paths as leaders and creators.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

We believe in you, in us, and the mission. Every one of us has your back. Just tell us what you need.”. Our direct reports displayed incredible courage and compassion–for us. They gave us an opportunity to course-correct. I’m worried about what’s going to happen to me, to my team, to this account.”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

And your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way. The TV industry has felt the strain of these recurring events like all of us. Recessions. Natural disasters.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

No one in our industry before us had designed tattoo and piercing studios to look like high-end jewelry stores or art galleries. As Club Tattoo became established, other well-known brands approached us to collaborate on products in which we could add the “cool factor.” Create a mission statement that goes beyond the basics.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

Our focus is on the importance of human connection and cultivating a culture of connection in the workplace, but what we’ve learned about connection applies beyond the realm of our work lives. Matthew Lieberman, a prominent neuroscientist, refers to human connection as a superpower because it makes us smarter, happier and more productive.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 6, 2021

So you must first be intentional about creating a positive personal mindset. And if you want to develop that which is best in THEM, it starts with developing yourself by focusing on three things that will make you more effective as a leader : A Mission, a Map, and Momentum. A mission motivates. Let me explain each….

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some of the biggest influencers in the world are musicians, and they can teach us a multitude of ways to guide our own career and leader positions. Leaning on the support of those who can see your mission and cultivate your goals is an essential part of being a leader. Fuel Your Passions with a Clear Vision and Mission.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Most average leaders I have met can recite their company's mission statement but aren't necessarily in tune with their values – solid and unwavering values that drive them toward something bigger and serve as a lighthouse when faced with tough decisions. Teams spend more time together from Monday to Friday than with their families.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2018

Here’s what that cheese wedge looks like: My department is mostly remote, and even for people at HQ, our early deadlines mean many of us start at home. In response, one co-worker took to using this cheese-wedge emoji to signal that being alone in the office, as in “The cheese stands alone.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

P OLITE SOCIETY teaches us that passing judgment isn’t nice. We learned this the hard way in NASA Mission Control’s management team. Worst of all, most of their criticisms were well founded, and we had become culturally incapable of discussing and doing anything about them as a management team thanks to “no ripples in the pond.”

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