Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

In my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Comes Between You and Your Greatness , I illustrate what it takes to be a great leader. Much of it concerns how not to get stuck spinning your wheels with skills that may have been useful in the past but are no longer relevant to your life or leadership. Be agile and flexible.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 11, 2011

He has been pleasantly surprised at the level of help and cooperation offered by leaders in the outgoing administration. He personally received feedback on his own leadership behavior. Kent worked hard at improving himself and set the example for all of his executives who also did the same thing.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: The Right Culture Matters. In this post, Chris shares a real-world example of a client that did some “culture refinement” to improve employee engagement and customer service.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

million employees globally over a 12-year period found, for example, that while 63% of extremely stressed employees reported above-average productivity, this number rises significantly to 87% amongst those who say they are not at all stressed. Develop mental agility. The Global Corporate Challenge study of over 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Investors, attributes his ability to invest wisely to his meditation practice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized. But, they can also represent a significant cultural challenge to implement and require strong leadership and cooperation from your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Second, there has been a cooperative attitude from the people in San Ramon, who are bringing new expertise and pushing the businesses, but listening. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

How can hundreds of people at a company like Pixar Animation Studios , for example, work together to produce blockbuster after blockbuster over nearly two decades – a record no other filmmaker has ever come close to matching? Edison’s example illustrates the collaborative nature of the innovative process. Creative agility.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

Senator Mikulski felt this to be a very powerful tool to break down barriers to cooperation and to provide a common ground that will serve as the relational foundation for working together. The International Space Station program is a good example of the power of finding the common ground.

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