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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Source: Going on Offense: A Leaders Playbook for Perpetual Innovation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. In the workplace, were comfortable ceding our power to the bureaucratic hierarchy so we can settle into a predictable, stable set of routines and tasks.

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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.

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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.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source: Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If he wants us to believe in a politician or product, then one of these will be the solution.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Source: Character in The Company * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Me, I am orthodox anti-Euclidean. There simply is no short distance between two points. There’s only a meander.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Source: As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Source: The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. They’re about finding that middle ground that honors and protects your needs while remaining judiciously available to others.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Source: Disruptive Thinking: A Daring Strategy to Change How We Live, Lead, and Love * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Jakes on personal responsibility: “We are born looking like our parents, but we die looking like our decisions.”

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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.”

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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

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

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 26, 2023

Source: Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. But when there is not clear division of labor among these leaders, coordination becomes difficult, patterns of deference can disappear, and conflict can erupt.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Source: Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If personality is how you respond on a typical day, character how you show up on a hard day.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Source: Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. It could free up their emotional constraints, even if just for a moment.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Source: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. That is, we turn to either/or thinking seeking to minimize the uncertainty, and thereby the threat.”

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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.”

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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

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.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Source: The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. One moved by a transcendent purpose is like a sailboat with the wind behind it, filling its sails.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Source: Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. When a non-threatening environment for questions is a daily reality, people become ever more comfortable with themselves, know their strengths better, and are more self-assured.”

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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.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Source: Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. If there’s no commitment to that tension, there can be no democracy.”

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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

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

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.”

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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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Leading Blog

MAY 2, 2024

Source: High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The room it is hung in and the surrounding decor—not individual threads—determine whether the colors and patterns of the tapestry are a good fit.”

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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.

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