Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” Nothing makes up for poor leadership. And changing mindsets and behaviors, especially at scale, necessitates making people feel like they are a vital part of the process rather than relying on old engagement methods.”

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

The consequences of this approach are far-reaching, impacting not only the bottom line but also the organization's overall health and growth trajectory. Downsizing, salary cuts, and underinvestment in employee development can decrease morale, productivity, and overall company performance, ultimately impacting the bottom line.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

How a leader manifests their personality not only defines their leadership and has the potential to profoundly impact the organization's culture, performance and ultimately, its bottom line. This is because the way you "show up" to your employees and colleagues directly influences how they engage with one another and with Customers.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 8, 2022

Take the bottom 80% and also total the income. Most of the time, you’ll instantly see that the top 20% is close to the bottom 80% of client income. Here’s the kicker — look at the bottom 20% of clients and start making decisions about working with them. Take the top 20% of your clients and total the income.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive.

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best leadership and communication blog posts I've seen recently. The Culture 500 measures and compares more than 500 U.S. companies across nine cultural dimensions, by narrowing in on employee data to examine what makes company culture distinctive and effective.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They take their cues from the situation, stepping up when needed, but when their stewardship is fulfilled, they step back and follow others with equal ease. While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.”. Source: Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

You will find the guide here (scroll to the bottom of the page at this link.) If you’re a skier, it might feel like you’ve ridden the first lift up the mountain after a great fresh night of show and you get to make the first tracks in the deep powder. Own the U.G.L.Y. and/or Share an I.D.E.A.

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 10, 2023

We've recently returned after several weeks on the road bringing our Positive Energy Workplace Initiative™ and IEP Method offerings to a variety of rooms — from group trainings for a Fortune 50 client, to mastermind sessions with former ACI clients, and finishing up with a keynote session for procurement leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Eyebrows up can be sadness. One eyebrow up can be skepticism. Conversely, sitting back and having your face in the bottom quadrant appears less powerful. Look for pleasure/displeasure. Rolling lips in can mean holding back emotions or information. Pursed lips often mean silent disagreement. Eyebrows going down can mean anger.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices. From top to bottom, everyone was expected to get on board.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

The best crisis leaders understand that they need to be not just top-down transmitters of information but also facilitators of side-to-side communications and receivers of bottom-up communications. They run a 360-degree communications approach that incorporates these three elements: top-down, side-to-side and bottom-up.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Mentorship Unlocked : The Science and Art of Setting Yourself Up for Success by Janice Omadeke What is a mentor? What if you could wake up every morning excited about your purpose, knowing you're fulfilling your greatest potential? Why is having a mentor crucial to success? Or how do you make sure that you're a good mentor?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Customer capitalists abide by the Golden Rule with customers, whereas financial capitalists make decisions with the bottom line as their only guide. Perhaps not. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Join Simpler Trading’s CEO Brittany Burns and me for a practical look at how you can lead with conviction, build a culture of integrity, and focus on the bottom line. 22:17 – Next, Brittany shares what she tells every new hire as they join the company to ensure that they’re speaking up. A Culture of Integrity.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Early in my career, my boss challenged me to speak up and be more of a leader in staff meetings. ”. A spiraling up effect occurs. “My Bottom line—are you providing the right C in the right amount? Think about the leaders (family members, friends, teachers, coaches, mentors, and bosses) who challenged you. “ You can do it!

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

If you screw up, own it. There is a time to take the costs and invest in core systems that may hurt bottom line results. Southwest knows they screwed up. Johnson & Johnson responded not by worrying about the costs to the bottom line, but by taking the best possible actions for their customers. Accept Responsibility.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 13, 2020

People who are otherwise obscure on the national scene are now showing up in news feeds and quenching a yearning for sanity, direction and confidence. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta relating to us as a parent and an executive, saying enough is enough and here are things we’re doing about it. Fascinating and fun to watch.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Ask questions because if you do what everyone else is doing, you will end up like everyone else. Losers brace for impact and wonder how to clean up the mess. They gave it up. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Go back to the bottom and work your way up.” Fear shows up on its own.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

When he assumed command of the USS Texas, the ship ranked at the bottom of its squadron and faced recurring safety issues. Through innovative strategies, he successfully transformed the culture, propelling his submarine's ranking and retention from last place to first place in the Pacific Fleet within a remarkable two-year period.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Also, start-up companies in the Fujitsu technology accelerator program work in the satellite locations as well, creating a company-startup mashup. But what does this mean?

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Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2023

Identifying the root cause: It’s important for leaders to get to the bottom of what’s causing the conflict. Once the root cause has been identified, it’s easier to come up with a solution. Focusing on the issue, not the person: It’s easy to get caught up in personal attacks and feelings during a conflict. Following up.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

The bottom line : We don’t have to like a person to work with them, but we do have to have a level of respect for them. He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. On the days in which I fail, I pick myself up (usually with a good someone’s good help) and pledge to do better tomorrow. They also prize connection and relationships.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you as leader should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety , ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This might mean coming up with new ideas, volunteering to take on additional responsibilities, or simply stepping up when others need help. Bottom line, by following these strategies, you can become a more effective leader even when you don’t hold a formal leadership role.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 27, 2014

BLUF—Bottom Line Up Front- The USAF has the expression, “Integrity First” as the first of its stated core values. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”. Albert Einstein.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 29, 2024

Approximately 29% of respondents had participated in gig work in the three months leading up to the survey. Louis incorporating responses from 4,756 workers representing diverse ages, incomes, genders, races, and ethnicities.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2024

But you have to be smart about your transition to omnichannel operations if you want to improve your bottom line. You’ll also want to make the effort to integrate all your data and inventory across all channels if you want to improve your bottom line after your transition. Integrate Data and Inventory Across All Channels ?You’ll

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 27, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Ways Leaders Can Maintain Momentum This Summer By Julia Felton ( @Julia_Felton via @leadchangegroup ), LeadChange “The summer months can signal the death knell for a business unless managed properly.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2021

There are two ways to get people interested in you if you’re a business, an up-and-coming executive, or someone searching for a job. Follow-up after an interview, what to say, and how often to reach out. But your resume is just one small piece of the puzzle to find that perfect position. What is really involved?

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Lead from Within

JULY 24, 2024

Bottom line, providing a comprehensive and supportive onboarding experience is essential for setting your new hires up for success. This can include completing their first project, reaching a performance goal, or demonstrating exceptional teamwork. Showing appreciation for their efforts can boost their morale and motivation.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Behavior during a recession When the economy is stable, workers can not only move up and down the ladder within a career path but also move across career paths. . “These patterns are consistent with direct evidence on the cyclicality of mismatch.” Therefore, there is also a sullying aspect at play.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, a good relationship with your boss can open up opportunities for career advancement and professional development. This will help you to better understand their perspective and to come up with a more effective response. 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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