Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the “natives’” point of view — through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. d Like to Have posted at Jesse lyn Stoner Blog. This post offers four steps you can try when making a complex decision.” ” Anne Perschel presents Bold Because You Can Lead. posted at TanveerNaseer.com. ” John R.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Leadership as Service. Empathy should always be a factor in making decisions and setting goals.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I sometimes use storytelling with my clients to make a point. Last week, one of my clients heard the story of two Zen Monks and it had a profound impact on his leadership. Sometimes, the stories are more profound than any coaching or guiding I could do.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Creating Your Leadership Footprint through the Practice of LESS is MORE.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Michael Bungay Stanier. This month, we are mixing things up!

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Welcome to the May 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. This blog tackles some tips for avoiding the ‘lizard brain.'” Communication.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. In the meantime, here are my Top 10 leadership insights of 2017 as chosen by you, the readers of my award-winning leadership blog.

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Last week, I had a short conversation with one of my colleagues in HR about the all important topic of employee engagement. Megha By Conor Neill , August 6, 2010 @ 12:34 pm Storytelling is a skill - it can be developed with practice.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 28, 2013

What does storytelling reveal to us as being the key attributes leaders everywhere need to exhibit to encourage employees to follow them both in good times and in bad? That’s the basis of my conversation with Forbes columnist and leadership writer/consultant, Erika Andersen. Read Erika’s business blog on Forbes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. They have a deep understanding of themselves, including their values, ambitions, and goals. Humans are hardwired to learn through storytelling. A recent MIT study underscores this.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

When it comes to communicating the vision or goals you have for your organization, few vehicles serve to deliver your message as effectively as the art of storytelling. In so doing, your employees will become their own storytellers, helping to spread the message and inform others of the purpose behind your collective efforts.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. Mark is a business leader, author, and storyteller. Learn more and register here.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Alison utilizes her background in endurance training to explain how to apply the same principles to leadership. Mark is a business leader, author, and storyteller. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! It's meant to be more of a menu - organized in a way that you can pick and choose based on author, blog name, subject title, and a "teaser" line if the author provided one. The fried clams won. I've had readers ask "Why so many? When in doubt, try 'em all!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Key Leadership Transitions Great Leaders Champion by @KateNasser. Boost Your Leadership with the Power of Perspective by @WScottCochrane If you can fix it with money, that is not a big problem. Leadership and Transference by @edbatista. How to Use Mental Imagery to Achieve Your Goals by @JesseLynStoner. via @ChiefExecGrp.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A leading expert in organizational storytelling, Paul Smith advises us that more important than how we tell a story is what story we are telling. That main character will have a goal, and there will probably be an obstacle getting in the way of that goal—a villain, if you will. Think about sharing why you are the way you are.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 14, 2016

Junger writes with skill; he is a marvelous storyteller who seasons his theories and statistics with powerful narrative muscle. The leader-follower combination acts in unison to fulfill mutual goals. Thinking, communicating and provoking.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

I first started thinking about this when I helped run a leadership development program for country general managers of a global company. Since that experience, I’ve tuned into how the need for an ambassadorial approach to leadership extends to a range of executive roles. Certainly, the CEO and other C-Suite roles are among them.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool by Kevin Eikenberry on October 11, 2010 in Leadership , Leadership Communication , Learning We all grow up with stories. How can I be so sure?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Hold listening and storytelling sessions. Does it fit with your strategy and goals? “As The case studies will help you to look at your organization differently. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Capture the stories.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 31, 2017

Particularly in today’s uber-competitive marketplace, it is more critical than ever for leaders to understand their roles as storytellers and dream weavers in order to inspire continued motivation, creativity and growth. The goal is to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade (1960’s). He kept things simple.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Too often people stop focusing on their personal learning and development once they reach a leadership position. It’s important to not just stay up to speed on the technical aspects of your team’s work, but also on general leadership and management practices. Those sound like worthy goals for any organization. The whole story –.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

More than one CEO has said, “Leadership is 90 percent communication,” and research bears them out by showing that the way in which managers communicate with employees is one of the most important factors in driving employee engagement. 5) Share goals with intrinsic, not just extrinsic, value. Maya Angelou. How do I Fit in?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Enduring power comes from telling stories that unite —Abraham Lincoln is an excellent example of a leader who used the power of storytelling to communicate important truths and unite people in working toward a common goal. Expression of gratitude spreads goodwill within a team and causes social bonding.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Mary Jo Asmus of Aspire Collaborative Services gives a unique approach to consider in setting relationship goals for the year. According to Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership , great bosses come in all shapes and sizes. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference observes that human beings are creatures that thrive on storytelling.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Radical Management, though not succinctly defined by the author, is an approach to leadership and management that leads to greater job satisfaction, higher productivity, client delight and continuous innovation. The book’s subtitle accurately describes, as it should, what you can expect from this great read.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I love it because, while maybe not obvious at first, it serves as a terrific example of how to flex one’s style to an individual and situation in order to gain support for a goal. It is a story about influence, a critical leadership skill. Leadership Stories Are all Around Us. Leadership Stories Are In You. Impossible.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” . One of the most powerful tools dream-driven leaders use in order to sincerely communicate a clear, compelling purpose is storytelling. Self Leadership Dreams Innovation Inspiration'

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His presence no doubt stirred animation in the storytelling; his participation likely made the teller of the tales feel celebrated and valued. Leadership is Command Presence. Bender was describing a vital feature of leadership—command presence. Leadership is Being Spirit-Full. Leadership is Being There…All There.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 11, 2021

Communication is essential to good leadership, but sometimes we overemphasize the “talk” versus the “walk.” The long terms goals get achieved task by task until they are simply achieved goals. A classic test of leadership is the question, “Is anyone or anything better because of you?”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

What is Leadership, Really? In such a world, employees thrive with more autonomy, more affirmation, and a sense of ownership in the goals of the unit. All these pressures have changed the requirements for great leadership. Great leaders are storytellers. Leadership as a Force. They want to make a real difference.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 10, 2012

That was the focus of my previous piece , which I’m grateful to see received a lot of attention and enthusiasm from the readers of this blog. And yet, a more realistic view of today’s organizations reveals that such leadership and cultural attitudes tend to be more the exception than the norm.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I bring this up today as it is currently the time of year when we are fired with resolutions, goals, plans…. When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.” Marlene Dietrich didn’t speak often, but in this instance it was worth waiting for.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s the same with the organizational goals of a business. Updated 9/14/2020 When one section of a railroad track is out of alignment, the train derails. If just one team doesn’t understand the organizational mission, the positive momentum of the business can be at stake.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 10, 2010

When you don’t fit “on paper”, become a great storyteller… Stories can create an image that help people visualize how your skillset fits their requirements. The question becomes – what is it worth to you to be active in shaping your professional future around goals, values and interests? Happy leading!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

As One by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley, is the result of a two year research project conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, to understand this common leadership challenge and to answer the question, “ What leads to effective collaborations in a wide range of fields? ” Not just working together, but working as one.

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