Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Source: The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Their job is to make them more valuable and to keep making them more valuable into the future.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Source: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In short, even though we don’t really know what the issue is or what’s going on for the person, we’re quite sure we’ve got the answer they need.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Source: Noel Tichy and Ram Charan: Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch , Harvard Business Review * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If the analysis shows that brilliant work fails again and again as soon as it requires cooperation by others, it probably indicates lack of courtesy, that is, of manners.”

Consensus 376

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

Source: Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Heroes take action, which is why they are so good at experiencing meaning. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Learning-by-Doing 367

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Source: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Productive Failure suggests that making initial learning more difficult and challenging, where you may struggle and even fail to solve a problem or perform a task, can be beneficial learning.

Resistance 367

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

Source: Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Source: Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Connecting with the group you lead means demonstrating you are part of the group, understand its challenges, can do its jobs, and can stand the pressure and the heat.

Creativity 341

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

Source: Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. You have to define an alternative that is actually better, not just for those who agree with you, but for the vast majority of those who will be affected by the change you seek.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Efficiency 341

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Source: Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. 6 percent, not 6 percent, but 60 percent. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Uncertainty 333

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2025

Source: More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. AI can transform brainstorming sessions into question-storming sessions, which can be inherently more enjoyable and engaging and can ultimately produce a greater number of creative outcomes.

Brainstorming 333

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Source: The Contrarians Guide to Leadership * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. He may, by dint of circumstances, remain in power, but his followers would almost certainly be better off without him.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Source: Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In this regard, they both threaten and protect.

Shaw 332

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Source: Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Do the right thing and do wella new way of saying Do well by doing good. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Competitive Advantage 332

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Source: How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. When you can clarify your whyand by that, I mean the answer to every why do you do what you do questionyou can start to live and lead effectively.

Entrepreneur 341

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Celebrating Your Reader’s Choice Content of 2024 As is our tradition, we share your reader’s choice content of the year from our Let’s Grow Leaders blog, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, and Asking for a Friend Video series.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Source: Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life / Blog Post * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. You simply cannot free yourself from the conflict loop if you are unable to use your own emotions toward constructive change.”

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

John Spence- Thoughtfulness in Leadership In this blog, I introduce how swapping ‘mindfulness’ for ‘thoughtfulness’ can transform leadership practices. Do you tend to arrive a few minutes early or fashionably late? You probably think it doesn’t matter. But it does.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Source: Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Morgan Housel on incentives: “No matter how much information and context you have, nothing is more persuasive than what you desperately want or need to be true.”

Incentives 416

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Leading Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Source: Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. That is how you begin to write your best story possible.”

CEO 416

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

Source: The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The leader’s job is to energize and facilitate, not dominate and control.”

Power 429

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Source: Navigating the Impossible * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Because we keep forcing our minds to process, we never give them space to think, and by doing so, we take away their ability to solve.”

Process 423

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Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Source: Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The balcony is a place of calm and perspective where we can keep * our eyes on the prize.”

Power 434

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Leading Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Source: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. It is as much the product of circumstance as of genius.”

Innovation 416

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Source: Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. “When I focused on the other agents, scrutinizing their every move and comparing myself with them, I was quickly distracted from upping my own game.”

Stress 435

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Source: Emotional Capitalists: The Ultimate Guide to Developing Emotional Intelligence for Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Emotional Intelligence 416

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Source: Start with the Answer: And Other Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Taking the best of the past, and linking it to the present and desired future is the most dynamic way to build a business.”

Sports 416

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Stop Wishing Your Life Away * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. And there is a name for that: bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is the triumph of means over ends.” Source: Thrive! Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

Bureaucracy 428

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2024

Source: Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness—A Philosophy for Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Claiming your freedom is the ultimate secret for mastering your life.”

Power 416

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Source: The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Those experiences then feed back into the acquisition of even more limited tools and the formation of an even narrower stance.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Source: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. “Many of the profound and persistent problems we face stem from a lack of skill (which in turn stems from a lack of deliberate practice) than from a genetic curse, a lack of courage, or a character flaw.”

Creativity 416

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Source: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. It’s natural to want to repress dissent, but a good reaction to public criticism can be the very thing that establishes your credibility as a strong leader, and will help you build a culture of guidance.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2024

Source: The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The leader’s job is to energize and facilitate, not dominate and control.”

Cooper 416

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

Source: Ice Cold Leader: Leading from the Inside Out * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. As leaders, we put ourselves in a position to take conscious action by always being aware of the driving behind our actions: our emotions.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Source: Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. They focus on inputs, not outputs, and lose sight of the connection.”

Process 409

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Eventually, sleep loss affects manual dexterity, including fine motor control and even gross motor movements, such as the ability to walk on a treadmill.”

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