Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? Catch up here.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. However, high-performing leaders know that leading organizational change has as much to do with wha needs to be done as it does with how things are done. What Exactly Does Leading Change Management Mean?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The best leaders are proactive, strategic listeners. They recognize that knowledge and wisdom are not gained by talking, but by listening. Talk less and listen more. Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 15, 2014

Not surprisingly, in most countries, one area we often disregard for leadership guidance is the political arena, as most politicians tend to represent examples of what not to do than what leaders should be doing to engage and enable those they serve.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

They are active listeners, fluid thinkers, and know when to press-on and when to back-off. Leaders who do not possess a bias toward action, or who cannot deliver on their obligations will not be successful. Frequent readers of this blog can find a veritable plethora of tips on becoming a better and more effective leader.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

While creating successful teams isn’t as simple as mimicking the processes of emotionally intelligent groups of people, what you can do is create the necessary conditions in which team members can develop their emotional intelligence. Show a willingness to change – leaders learn from their mistakes and failures so that you can grow.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The ability to recognize conflict, understand the nature of conflict, and to be able to bring swift and fair resolution to conflict will serve you well as a leader – the inability to do so may well be your downfall. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses active listening skills to understand others’ perspectives. Takes calculated risks and encourages others to do the same. We’ll also explore the art of crafting effective performance appraisal phrases, providing insights into how to provide employee review feedback that truly drives performance.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

When we treat our clients kindly we keep them longer, hear about problems (rather than lose them to competitors), are offered new ideas to monetize, and have brand ambassadors to offer free marketing to connections who may become clients. I also required them to take off one day a month to do volunteer work. I was just respecting them.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

It’s necessary to listen using a different part of our brain (not Active Listening) that we’ve never been taught to use intentionally. This is why relevant solutions in sales, marketing, coaching, implementations, doctor’s recommendations etc. For those interested in learning more, I’m happy to chat, train, and share.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The most significant lessons that I learned in my business life from mentors, verified with experience, are shared here: You cannot go through life as a carbon copy of someone else. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ It’s not when you learn.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. Managers learn a structure and skills similar to those mediators know and use, but it also takes into account managers’ responsibilities, both to their companies and their employees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. But where and how do you start? As with any new endeavor, we have been learning as we go.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

It was a simple technique that disciplined him to listen intently for the important content and focus follow-up questions on points that really mattered. Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

With the best of intentions, I’ve seen smart leaders charge into sensitive interactions armed with what they believed was a combination of deep empathy, attuned listening, and self-awareness but was, in fact, a way to serve their own emotional needs. Which Do You Need to Work On? ” You and Your Team Series. Tasha Eurich.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Organizations might recognize the interpretations and perspectives individuals and groups bring to learn with change effectively. By encouraging collaboration, embracing and listening to perspectives, and recognizing the transient nature of patterns; organizations can navigate change and notice conversations.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Question: Why do you believe readers have reacted that way to your book?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Having managed a department at Univision’s Fusion Media Group meant to champion such approaches — which showed promise but failed to have the staying power necessary to have true organizational impact — we want to share some lessons we learned along the way.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Question: Why do you believe readers have reacted that way to your book?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Question: Why do you believe readers have reacted that way to your book?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I selected this book because the book is easy-to-read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Question: Why do you believe readers have reacted that way to your book?

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 65

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

When Jared walked into a meeting to discuss a new marketing approach for a product, the conversation didn’t play out well. Our review of research and company examples suggests there are three things you can do to avoid communication breakdowns like this. There was too much other work to get done! Be Present (Really).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. For billions of people around the world, sports are a matter of passion, touching lives by offering a depth of human engagement unparalleled in other activities.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full What To Do When Your Boss Makes a Decision You Really, Really Disagree With by Starbucker on November 11, 2010 You walk into your supervisor’s office with a chip on your shoulder. “ Why did you do this??

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. Clear indications from marketing science underline how chatter affects sales, brand health, and even stock performance.

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