Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. In the book, you’ll learn how to the best leaders make their teams feel comforted, safe, and secure that they’re headed in the right direction. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 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. Development. Communication. Even more so from afar. Access it here.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While his ideas are not particularly original, they are sound (in the appropriate context) and when incorporated into the operating system of a business or organization, can be fire. Is it to sell books and speaking gigs? While hope alone is not a sustainable strategy, there is much power in personal accountability.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This potential for growth underscores the importance of integrating AI into business strategies. Analyze which areas of your operations could benefit the most from AI integration. By pinpointing specific areas, you can tailor your AI strategy effectively. Is it customer service? Supply chain management? Product recommendations?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Strategy, Oh what a lofty word. The simple word “strategy” can be added to just about anything to make it sound more important or thought-out, strategic relationship building is still just going to a cocktail party or out to lunch with a potential client. Despite it’s overuse, strategy is still vitally important. High-minded.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors. Here are five strategies to consider: Emphasize regular communication and visibility: In a remote or hybrid work environment, have clear and frequent communication.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

You start the book with a story about a team that lacks team emotional intelligence. Team emotional intelligence can be developed with deliberate practice. What do you consistently notice if a team is operating with high emotional intelligence? What are some strategies to accomplish this? Let’s flip it to the positive.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Books and podcasts. These people write the books like road maps for you, allowing you to sidestep common pitfalls carefully. Research relevant people, invest in their books and learn from them. Research relevant people, invest in their books and learn from them. Keep reading to find out more. Get some extra training.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

We are bombarded with digital disruption strategy and yet we hear little about the traditional skills like customer service, quality control, and logistics. It is this sort of operational excellence that needs to work hand-in-hand with a strong digital front-end to deliver great products and services. Rob Siegel. Why is this?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Guest post from Royston Guest: Growing and developing is a two-way partnership between the individual and the business. As part of this ‘soft contract’ of growth and development are three core principles which underpin its very essence, and which results in a win-win for all involved. #1

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Development. Development. Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Developing Team Norms, Why it Doesn’t Work and what to Do Instead. Art Petty of Art Petty submitted The Good Hard Work of Developing Managers Who Lead.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 17, 2012

I’ve read a lot of books on strategy. The best ones influenced my mode of operation as an executive of Jacobs Suchard , the maker of coffee and chocolate brands, Jacobs , Nabob , Toblerone , Suchard and Côte d’Or. They set their sights on another perfectly good strategy – the strategy of hustle. No big deal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Stakeholders and shareholders alike expect businesses to make a positive impact on the big challenges our planet faces, such as climate change, redistribution of wealth, and more equitable ways of operating and performing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Capture your hypotheses, ideas, and observations in a journal.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 28, 2014

A few months ago I wrote a post detailing the 12 books I thought you should add to your reading list. The reading lists of my readers included books I’ve read, books I’ve wanted to read, and books I’d never heard of before. Whew, that’s a lot of book recommendations going on.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader. His book explains why that is true. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales. Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dig into the book, Talent , to learn the case studies of Johnson & Johnson, Hemnet, Argus Media, HireRight, Vishal Retail, Depop and Oak Street Health. Batlaw & Charan : Track record of success that is relevant to the company’s aspiration and strategies. Demonstrated potential to learn and adapt. It needs rigor.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

(Entrepreneurs Operating System). From filling the bloggers, like me, with positive book reviews for Traction his book. Then a training model to develop consultants nation wide to deliver the product. One big problem it lacks strategy. The marking the Gina has done is worthy of a Harvard Case Study.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 21, 2013

By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. There is little in Donald Rumsfeld newest book, Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life , that anyone in leadership would dispute. The book is an outgrowth of management and leadership aphorisms that Rumsfeld wrote and put on 3×5 notecards.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Setting direction well means establishing a compelling vision and ethical strategies. Strategies are designed as the best paths to desired outcomes, but some leaders engage in unethical practices. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Leaders who do this respect others’ dignity.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. He adds, “the best firms and teams develop robust processes to screen for these traits in the hiring and promotion of their people.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements. Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental question: How do people learn leadership? He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. Blog Post ).

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 19, 2016

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? The top 20 percenters gain developmental insight from numerous sources, however, I find there are three primary categories of executive development: outside experience, training, and coaching. Simply developing them, however, is not enough.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

It doesn’t matter if it’s a sports team, a military team, a work team, or any other kind of team, the best teams have developed a high-level of trust among team members to the point that each individual knows they can count on each other to do their part. Here are five strategies leaders can use to build high-trust teams: 1.

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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. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2024

Last fall, leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss , cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, released their book, Move Fast & Fix Things. In it, th ey share a unique, engaging and hands-on playbook developed from their work with companies from Uber to Riot Games to Walmart. What we don’t want you to do is take years.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

For much of the last century, the most prominent strategies of large corporations were vertical integration and diversification, pursued within their traditional boundaries, or inward bound. Now organizations employ strategies to take them outward bound utilizing any of six different arrangements. How this has changed.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training and shared those findings in her book, Pacing for Growth. On this 2-year anniversary of Alison’s book take some time to watch this replay of her discussion with Weaving Influence CEO, Becky Robinson.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One of them is that, too often, there’s an overemphasis on strategy and an underemphasis on culture. There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Your organization’s culture is the leading indicator of whether or not your strategy is going to be successful.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development. Humanizing Leadership Mentors. Reflection Fuels.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. The operating model is how that is accomplished. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. I recently spoke with him about his research and book. . They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As someone who loves studying and implementing strategy, I read numerous books on the subject each and every year. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. The art of strategy is in defining a crux that can be mastered and in seeing or designing a way through it.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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