Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage. But so is training.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era. Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

In our forthcoming book, “ The Star Factor : Discover What Your TopPerformers Do Differently--and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All" we show how the star performers in an organization can serve as the basis of grassroots change throughout an entire company. Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Set the bar.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Managing your first direct reports is one of the most challenging transitions a leader will ever have to navigate. There are lots of things an aspiring leader can do to get ready to be a manager, including on the job experiences, reading, taking courses, and learning from others. SL is a must-have leadership framework for any manager.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion. And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. Your book made explicit a lot of things I’ve been doing intuitively and highlighted some places I can step up and do even better.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

You would think that given the rock-solid evidence that organizations with great leadership consistently outperform those that don’t that EVERY organization would be heavily invested in the development of its current and future leaders. In other words, you’re tasked with coming up with a way to assess and develop current and future leaders.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

Personal and professional development are both key to this, but it is the latter – development in the context of the workplace, such as skills that can be used in your career – that can occasionally be difficult to know where to start with. The Basics of Professional Development. Increase how much you read. Assess your progress.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Although commonly used words such as vision and strategy might make it seem that this book would summarize truisms we’ve heard before, true to the name radical, RPT shakes up all that we’ve been taught on each of these topics to date. Managing up.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. ” While listening to Steve speak so openly to coworkers about his efforts to develop himself as a leader, I realized how much the world has changed. Hewitt found that these organizations tend to more actively manage their talent.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. So stock up, and enjoy your reading! Some good tips on how to keep your cool at work.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. IQ tests were developed to measure this intellectual strength and power.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Search Engine Optimization Specialist. Online Advertising Manager. Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. Manage for results. Team development. Imagine that.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During a workshop designed to identify Moose-on-the-Table issues, Jon was surprised by the very clear and strong feedback from his organization that his management group weren’t acting as a team. At their next management meeting, he “read them the riot act.” The manager dominates meetings and most conversations.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. With all the meetings, floods of email, and requirements to manage, the thought of focusing on a product’s profitability can be illusive. Good product managers write understandable and timely requirements and prioritize them effectively.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Guest post by Ken Marlin: Leadership is one of those concepts that management gurus like to throw around. There are tons of books and articles on the subject. One article I read said that leaders look forward while managers manage what just happened. Another said that leaders “influence” while managers “direct.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about. It about managing smart creatives in a family-type atmosphere. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

While listening to Steve speak so openly to coworkers about his efforts to develop himself as a leader, I realized how much the world has changed. Even fewer candidly discussed that feedback and their personal development plans. Hewitt finds that these organizations tend to more actively manage their talent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. Now, I want to take a question that came in this week from a program that we’re doing leadership development program. So if you have a leadership or management related question, you can send that to me.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

But if you determine that it is right for you, you should read Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor, the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. It is a book for those with big ideas. V ENTURE CAPITAL is not right for every business. Consequently, the amount of money a start-up needs to raise has declined significantly.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the very best books I have read on speed is Lead with Speed: Fire up your team, power your engines of development, and make your organization soar. I developed a mindset for speed that includes a guidance system. The exceptional leader would have learned from the sinking, from the whole development process.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

People in task-oriented jobs, including physicians, lawyers and engineers, are vulnerable to loneliness. In our 2007 book, Fired Up or Burned Out , we wrote: “The bottom line is that connection is a necessity to any organization that aspires to achieve sustainable superior performance.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

This powerful statement comes from Tommy Spaulding in his new book It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships. Developing relationships drives engagement (in school, in work, in personal lives) that pays dividends.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2020

Empathetic leaders at all levels, including managers, HR professionals, consultants, and c-level executives, are more competent leaders because they understand the power of meeting people where they are: ? Empathetic managers put their teams at ease and support their employees as they achieve mutually beneficial goals. ?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2011

These are just a handful of some of the scenarios that author Russell Bishop delves into, breaks down and provides clear strategies to overcome and hopefully improve on in his new book “ Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work ”. Intention – your focus and commitment to making a needed change.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

This Memorial Day, as you select the books you plan to read for pleasure this summer, how about adding to the list at least one business book. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2008

I’ll bet there’s a lot of small, one-person training departments and even big, global companies that need to run a lean organization that are looking for ways to train or develop leaders on the cheap. I’m fortunate to presently work for a company that invests heavily in employee development. Start a book review process.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following is an example of the four steps involved in building a passive income stream: Step: Develop the product. A freelance web designer writes a book on the development of modern websites on vacation and needs three weeks to do so. The books-on-demand provider takes over the entire book production.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 17, 2011

It is always a great privilege to participate in Annual Management Improvement Carnival organized by John Hunter. Reviews of Seth Godin’s books “ Poke the Box ” and “ Linchpin ” at QAspire (containing one question interview with Seth). A wonderful mash-up of Seth Godin’s best videos.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

These leaders continually remind everyone — from the janitors to the developers at the company — of how their company is making a positive impact on the world and the role each individual plays in that impact. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The internet is a saturated place, and you’ll need to utilize every trick in the book to make sure your business stands out among the rest. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a way to make your business website appear higher up in the results for different search engines, such as Google. Invest in Advertising.

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Cooperperson

MARCH 6, 2022

Whether it is networking in large groups to build your book of customers, or networking within your office to help nab that promotion, being able to clearly and comfortably communicate with other professionals is an important skill to develop. Luckily, these are skills that can be developed. This makes for poor networking.

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