Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2020. And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others? Triumph over adversity using proven Special Operations habits and mindsets with this inspiring guide from retired Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Jason Redman.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steven H.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A significant area of responsibility you’ll find yourself taking on board when running a business is managing its finances. Operate to a Budget. You’re going to need to operate to a budget , meaning that you should take into account how much money you have available to spend within your business and where you want to attribute it.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Understanding AI's Impact At its core, AI mimics human intelligence processes using algorithms, data, and machine learning. Analyze which areas of your operations could benefit the most from AI integration. Supply chain management? Prioritize Data Management: AI thrives on data. Let's dive in. Is it customer service?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In today’s #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock , serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author of several books including Plan D. This perspective can make the process less daunting and more engaging. When you gamify the challenge, it can become fun and more manageable.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. Keep it real – As much as you can, avoid food that comes out of a box or a bag as it’s generally been processed to the point where much of the nutritional value is removed. Don’t like to shop or cook?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 7, 2024

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Guest post from Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage: What would your organization be like if every employee had a great manager? In every organization, managers are a key leverage point to drive higher performance and better business results. The impact managers have on turnover and engagement go straight to the organization’s bottom line.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The book, What a Unicorn Knows , offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing these hand-picked team members becomes a highly unpleasant process, one that CEOs avoid at all costs—despite clear signs it’s necessary. His new book (co-authored with Marianna Zangrillo) is The Next Leadership Team: How to Select, Build, and Optimize Your Top Team.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Asking the right questions during interviews can bring clarity to the process by giving you a […]. Asking the right questions during interviews can bring clarity to the process by giving you a more accurate, complete picture of the person sitting across from you. Book: 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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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. EOS seems to simply skip over this fundamental on how it suggests a business should operate. The entrepreneur is not the person to actually operationalize this type of process nor will they follow it.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2023

If you look at the articles found in various business outlets these days, it would seem organizations are facing an existential crisis when it comes to how today’s workplaces should operate. At the heart of this debate is. Click to continue reading To offer remote work opportunities or not to offer remote work opportunities?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Saturday, November 27th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team Building & Leadership process that was created for a retail organization that was preparing for a new product launch. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

While the last decade has flattened our organizations and reduced the need for some managers, the need to create leaders at every level has never been more necessary. We need connected managers to create community and spark collaboration. Supervisors hold the success of a business in their hands, and it’s all in how they manage.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. If you are unsure about anything, ask your manager or HR representative for guidance.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

.” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

So, as suggested in my most recent book, The Executive Checklist (Palgrave-Macmillan, January 2014), pursuing improvement for the sake of improvement is not a wise move. ü Managers will need education on how to manage the process to optimize results rather than managing the activities of people performing the work.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. If you are unsure about anything, ask your manager or HR representative for guidance.

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Mentor Press Release Short-term Learning-by-Doing 227

Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. So Declan was frustrated, but so was his manager. (

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 13, 2023

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, nearly two decades after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

All apex leaders create the climate and the culture for their team or teams by how they lead and how they relate to people, especially during change processes. Prussian Field Marshal Graf Helmut Von Molke the Elder , famously said that no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. I particularly liked this part of the book, and I strongly visualised what Ken and Jesse meant by ‘squeaky wheels’!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. He knew the economics of his business and was able convert his skills into practical technology and process solutions. Or, they push for autonomy when their manager wants engagement.

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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. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I’m so focused on CEO succession I even wrote a book called, “Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?” was a visionary and an operational savant, who worked tirelessly to gain momentum in the early years. The process of successfully overcoming alcoholism put JT in touch with his core values and true north.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I read a book last night by Mats Lindgren - 21st Century Management - Leadership and Innovation in the Thought Economy. It is a book about how business needs to operate in the transparent internet environment. He does try to frame a process around future strategy. It speaks about the future strategist.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Describing the new book, In Her Own Voice , by Jennifer McCollum , Anne Chow (former CEO of AT&T Business) says that “for women, the book does a beautiful job of explaining not just what to do to advance in your career, but also what to expect. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Living out their own code becomes critical to that process, especially in a political environment with really no code. It is hard not to become political, even when writing a book such as this, but it is critical to the FBI’s credibility that it is not seen as political. Constitution and the criminal code.

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