Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In face-to-face relationships where there is trust, one party may do something to screw up, causing friction, anger, and even a bit of mistrust to creep in. We laugh together, cry together, bond together. In the real world we let our unconscious minds do the heavy lifting—and pick up on those implicit messages.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2016

In two previous posts, I shared about the strategies of using self-reflection and community building , and in this one, I will share the last key strategy for developing a meaningful workplace: engage in serving others through your work. Do you know how to help others feel a strong sense of meaning and purpose in the workplace?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Reality can be distorted as both sides spiral into an us versus them mentality, inefficiency and stress surge, and bonds may be irreparably weakened. Asking the troops to work it out is a cop out; sometimes rolling up the sleeves, getting to the root of the conflict, and mediating a resolution is required.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

You should be running, not walking to find who they are and how you can team up and benefit from each other. Develop a bond with your new alliance partners. Develop a benefit package. Offer professional development thru education and training. This can reduce energy costs by up to 50%. Go Green Business.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2018

I think there couldn't be a more lonely existence to not have at least one person in your life, at any one point in time in your life, that you couldn't pick up the phone or you couldn't go see and say, "Hey, what do you think?" Money should be at the bottom of the list, not the top. Langone replied: “I feel very sorry for them.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 2, 2017

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 21, 2017

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

It may allow you to bond and be accepted by the group. Face it, the Puritan who eats dry toast at their desk while the group laughs it up in the lunch room isn’t really part of the team. Some positives of profanity : Profanity in the workplace can demonstrate authenticity. And we have all had that “Whoa, Jerry!”

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 15, 2016

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

It may allow you to bond and be accepted by the group. Face it, the Puritan who eats dry toast at their desk while the group laughs it up in the lunch room isn’t really part of the team. Some positives of profanity : Profanity in the workplace can demonstrate authenticity. And we have all had that “Whoa, Jerry!”

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

Strength of connection and trust develop over the time. This happens as people interact and get to know one another increasing each person’s credibility and reliability in the eyes of the other, and as intimacy develops. The best policies, like good preschool and military service, fortify emotional bonds.”

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2015

Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out. Thanks to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It was a simple foot race, but what I witnessed in the final minutes taught me a life-lesson about leadership and culture. The finish line is back near the start, up the feared mile-long arrow-straight ascent of Vassault hill. If you weren’t hurting at the bottom, you definitely are by the top. A Little Friendly Competition.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

It’ll teach you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to consistently make extraordinary sales. Build bonds of trust with your buyers. We started our research with the hypothesis that sellers who demonstrated leadership behaviors more often would create an "awesome connecting experience" for the buyer.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

” You have developed a thick skin, an unsentimental view of the world, and a Teflon exterior that lets problems roll right off your back. Those are all important leadership qualities in the workplace, sure. You didn’t get where you are today by knowing all the words to “Kumbaya.” That should not be a surprise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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LDRLB

MARCH 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Hay Group , a global management consulting firm, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com released the Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. John is National Practice Leader for the Leadership and Talent practice of Hay Group. He has a particular interest in international executive leadership.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 15, 2016

Today, many people believe it’s impossible to be successful in the world of business, leadership, or politics and still maintain integrity. Some believe that the purpose of leadership is to acquire power and dominance. Therefore it’s up to each one of us to improve our own standard of leadership. Make a commitment.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 25, 2012

Last month I posted a blog on Use This 10 Point Checklist for a Leadership Check Up. This was developed as I prepared for this year’s only open/public Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop here in the center of the universe – my hometown of Kitchener, Ontario (just 45 minutes west of Toronto airport).

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

He developed a theory that people tend to develop a self-concept based on one of four factors — Dominance, Inducement, Steadiness, or Compliance. Later psychologists and behavioral specialists developed a variety of practical tools to apply Marston’s theory. They usually focus on results and the bottom-line.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Lead by Adventure

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Tear off the bottom left corner. One year with a student leadership group, I wrapped red electric tape around a thin, long piece of PVC pipe to make it look like a peppermint stick. It appears they’ve accidentally dropped some of the reindeer dust on it because it has a tendency to float up. Fold it in half again.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

probably does have are three non-glamorous but crucial qualities: focus, discipline, and follow-up. Outcomes are shaped by your focus, discipline, and commitment to follow-up…or lack thereof. Oh – and I often shock new team members by writing the letters ‘FU’ and a date at the bottom of my notes.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Given the nature of what we do, my biggest challenge is coming up with objectives for each visit. But the bottom line is whatever that person has read is an insight into his or her thought process. Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. Do you have any advice for me?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

One of the most common efforts has been to create affinity groups within the company for people sharing a specific identity (a “Women’s Leadership Network” for example) so that participants can mentor each other and discuss ways to overcome the shared challenges they face. Communities of aspiration look toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

Toyota nurtures camaraderie through lots of group bonding activities. In most cases, the firm rewards the team that came up with the improvement, not the individual. How work improvements work their way up the organization chart isn't happenstance. This is a bottom-up, not top down, system. That energizes workers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. It reflected the reality that a lot of GE’s growth will be coming from the developing world, and the leaders have to be there. Decision making Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

She hit her targets and deadlines, executed brilliantly on her assignments, and produced outstanding bottom-line results. On the contrary, showing that you can ultimately be entrusted with a leadership position depends on demonstrating that you will stand up to him or her when necessary. What do you bring to the table?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We believed that if the Library was to be truly nimble, senior leaders couldn’t unilaterally come up with a plan. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down. Each team came up with two to three of these “options statements.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“It’s enabled me to have a bond with my daughter now that’s really amazing,” he said. ” So, when his daughter began lining up child care and preparing to go back to work after a three-month leave, the two grandmothers offered to take two days a week each. Learning to Work Differently. That was in 2008.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

“Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. ” So, how did we end up with this hunger for “raw”? Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. I would strongly suggest reading two previous posts: “ Shut-up and Listen &# and “ Stop Selling and Add Value “ as support for these positions.

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