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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Management teams are always looking at the bottom linealways. Lets do the math Im not saying this to scare youIm saying it to wake you up. Over the years, youve moved up, earned those raises and promotions, and you deserve every penny. Surprises can be turned into opportunities when youve got options lined up.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 13, 2025

Bottom line Real leaders dont sugarcoat; they serve truth raw, with a side of actionable support. Stakes create urgency. Paint a better future. Shift from punishment to potential: Heres how we can slice those delays by 40% next sprint. Listen like you might be wrong. Let them respond. Dig for root causes, not excuses. Cocraft the action plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 25, 2025

The Bottom Line? But with a few GOAT-level phrases and a healthy dose of leadership clarity, you can stay focused and show up supportive. Could we circle back to this next week when I can give it proper attention? Boundaries. Maintained. Your strategy deserves protection. Your time is finite. And your monkeys? Theyre sneaky.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership. He has 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, educator, and researcher, including serving as CEO of three tech start-ups and leading a strategy management consultancy. They Eat Right Dont forget about nutrition.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It’s vital to show up confident and strong, One of the smartest women I know stayed up late every night the week before her presentation doing deep research and getting the presentation just right. Show up strong. Spice up your data with a strategic story , metaphors, or illuminating statisitcs with powerful comparisons.

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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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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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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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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

ChatGPT helps you think outside the box by generating creative solutions and perspectives you wouldnt come up with. The bottom line? Theyll be trying to catch up. For instance, ChatGPT can provide instant responses to common queries in customer service, freeing up human agents for more complex issues. Need fresh ideas?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

23:17 The top 10% and bottom 10% is not an assessment of the character of the person. If the criteria you are focusing on change, the top 10% and bottom 10% can swap very quickly. 38:36 When you focus on the bottom 10%, you’re focusing on a person who does not want to be there.

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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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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Blend the bottom line with the human spirit. I owned up and made a commitment to making sure it didn’t happen again. As an administrative pro, it’s easy to get caught up in the systems and workflow, and neglect to remember the big picture. Make sure to take time to get to know them as a person and learn what energizes them.

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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

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

As I told my friend, make sure you are walking up that road not only to pay the rent, or to be able to go to the movies after you paid the bills of the month, but to create something really great. Those victories that in the bottom of your heart you truly know they were very hard to gain, but you did it.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 5, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series "Ethical Values Are Good For Business" I shared the importance of clearing up the confusion employees have in balancing ethical values with bottom line profitability. In Part 2, we looked at the importance of aligning strategy with the organization's values.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Anticipating is 90% bottom-up and only 10% top-down. Information, insights, and marketing intelligence must bubble up, not cascade down.”. Acknowledging fears must come first, before collective genius can ‘bubble up,’ instead of information just cascading down.” To anticipate, you need to make the hierarchy invisible.

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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

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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The bottom line is when you don’t do what you say you will do, or when others have unclear expectations about what you will do, it will result in disappointment, lack of engagement and trust and compromised integrity. When you are not able to keep your word (or keep it on time), let everyone know immediately and clean up the mess this causes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2017

Michael, his partner Mallory, and the team at Thriving Talents are role models of blending the bottom line with the human spirit— and proof that a Millennial run company can grow fast, gain wide-spread international respect, and make a lasting impact on the results for the their clients.

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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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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When “our decision frames are set by others, and we forget to keep track of what options and factors we ignore, [we open] ourselves up to unnecessary risks and missed opportunities” and unsubstantiated fear and perspectives. The bottom line is that we are all dependent on others to some extent; it’s a fact of modern life.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”. In the end, that’s what it’s all about.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2016

As I pulled up to Sam’s office, I knew he’d be unhappy with my recommendation–which involved a serious look in the mirror at his own leadership behaviors. ” “Sam, I’ve got a whole list of something elses–actions that I know will improve the bottom line. And then shut up.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. ” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment. This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

Lock up a good partner who thrives on being the best no. Unfortunately, many organizations come up short on their risk tolerance and make decisions that end up impacting morale and hurting the long-term bottom line. I have witnessed C-Suite executives flying “leadership solo” and those with a good no.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 20, 2025

A lack of accountability at the top breeds chaos at the bottom. The Mental Models Every Founder / CEO Must Master to Scale with Discipline Chris Young is a Trusted Advisor To Founders / CEOs | Certified Scaling Up Coach | Builder of People, Leaders, Teams & Economic Moats | Strategist and proud founder of The Rainmaker Group.

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Leading in Context

MAY 29, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series "Ethical Values Are Good For Business" I shared the importance of clearing up the confusion employees have in balancing ethical values with bottom line profitability. In Part 2, we looked at the importance of aligning strategy with the organization's values.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Children may pull up plants for fun. The Powers That Be may come up with an idea that threatens your productivity or morale. Bottom Line. Organizations aren’t machines.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

For example, it’s not uncommon for companies to believe that improving the bottom line is more important that employee engagement or development. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. A singular focus on metrics (side up) results in workplaces where employees aren’t fully engaged (side down).

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