Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. The Leadership File And The Spreadsheet Assassin. I had a precious few hours without phone calls or meetings to catch up on some paperwork.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At a time when our nation is gearing up for major elections, many people claim to have what it takes to lead. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided 10 Ways to Kill Off Your Star Employees. Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I don’t know about the new school of leadership, but the school that I graduated from taught me that when you are responsible for a division, you are responsible for the mistakes. The bottom line is that you need to communicate to your staff that you are not here to make their lives miserable; you are here to make sure it’s done properly.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

Let’s start the analysis by examining the definitional differences between “perception” and “reality”: Perception Defined : a perception is a belief, theory, hypothesis, feeling, appearance, opinion, observation, insight, awareness, or sensitivity.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

And, if you are at the point in your perusal of this blog where you are wondering what any of this has to do with Situational Leadership ® and/or the employee experience, my abbreviated response would be—plenty! The second blog in this series explored connections between Situational Leadership ® and meaningful work. Bottom line?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And, it’s the enemy to efficiency, productivity, and a healthy bottom line. But as we grow up, our curiosity is drummed out. That’s because biases are unreliable by definition. Her latest book, Clarity First , is her most provocative to date and diagnoses the ubiquitous business management and leadership problem?the

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Bottom line…success equals focus. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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QAspire

MAY 25, 2014

One of the skills that Google looks for before hiring is “Emergent Leadership”. In a connected, volatile, networked and virtual world of work, it is crucial for us to step out of traditional definitions of leadership and look at leadership as a role and not as a title. What is emergent leadership?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2021

And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The question itself was so painful that they practically threw up on me. We definitely weren’t going there. And yet, we ended up going there. Better yet, would you have dreamed of having that important conversation while dressed in a decent looking sweater or shirt on top and sweatpants on the bottom?

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 26, 2022

A pandemic, fast-changing technologies, global competition, the Great Resignation, and shifting leadership demands. The Double Bottom Line shares proven strategies to both put people first and deliver results. Why do we need to rethink leadership? Compassionate leadership informs and inspires all of these. Donato Tramuto.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

This new definition revolves around appreciating employees and, done right, can become your greatest competitive advantage. Action Item: Set up focus groups and ask employees how they stay informed about the company. And, their bottom line reflects it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bottom line – If you’re a leader then you need to watch this interview. I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. His leadership is remarkable! Thanks so much for your comment Bridget.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 27, 2016

There’s a simple law you can apply to your goal setting that will definitely help improve the amount of things you’re able to get done. Growing up, my folks called them “trial Foods” – food we hadn’t tried before but they thought we should eat as part of a healthy balanced diet. Here’s the trick: start from the bottom of the list.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line." He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 19, 2019

Feedback: the mere mention of the word can make our blood pressure rise and our defenses go up. How we experience feedback today gets in the way of people showing up and doing their best work. Sadly, those wallowing in the bottom 10 percent for asking also ranked near the bottom for effectiveness at the 15th percentile. [ii].

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

When it comes to managerial effectiveness and organization leadership, this is such an important issue. They end up giving vague (and often ‘good-for-the-ears’) messages that don’t mean anything tangible in reality. While they use clear and definitive statements, they also end up enforcing their ideas on others.

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QAspire

JANUARY 29, 2013

Excessive use of positional power: I was interacting with a leadership expert recently when he said, “If you have to use your position to exert your power, you are not powerful.” Simply staying on top of information: Yes, you definitely need to know what is happening in your team. They need you to validate their ideas.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Here’s a collection of the best blog posts over the last month written by top leadership bloggers. Thanks to Dan McCarthy over at Great Leadership for organizing it. Welcome to the November 7, 2010, early bird edition of leadership development carnival! Here’s Who Can Help? posted at Mary Jo Asmus.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

This comment was interesting regarding our need to tolerate ambiguity: Being in clarity allows space where we wait for what we don’t quite understand to emerge, which keeps energy available and flowing rather than being boxed in, covered up, or mistakenly shelved through what’s already known. Is leadership aligned with values?

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Brigette Hyacinth

APRIL 9, 2020

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor is giving up his pay for the rest of the year, (March 18, 2020, to Jan. Sadly, many leaders don’t care nor do they wish to care because they think caring is detrimental to the bottom line these days. Reactionary management is not strategic leadership. Why don’t many leaders think like this?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leadership is Contagious. How you interact with others, how you show up, how you operate all impact others around you. Definitely. Your self-care is your superpower, cultivate the heck out of it – love yourself up.” You can also work your way backwards: not getting the result you wish, which component can you love up?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 2, 2023

Your coachability correlates very strongly with your leadership effectiveness. In their new research paper, The New Leadership Frontier: Coachability , Joe Folkman, Jack Zenger, and Kevin Wilde found that this question most clearly delineated successful leaders from those heading for a career crash or derailment.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 12, 2013

Some of you may remember and be familiar with Servant Leadership, which started in the 1980’s and is still practiced by such corporate giants as Southwest Airlines, Aflac and many others. Well, phenomenal results have been demonstrated in the areas of employee engagement, satisfaction and bottom line results.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. A Gartner study of 7,300 employees and 100 HR Managers threw up some characteristic managers: The always-on manager, the teacher manager, the connector manager, and the cheerleader manager. Middle managers. Team Leaders.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 3, 2017

The Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 37 With Leon Logothetis Do you believe kindness can change one person? Kick back, pop in your headphones, and listen to this great episode of Answers From Leadership. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. . We wall ourselves up and we don’t connect with each other.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

got drowned out because managers and team members were just too busy keeping up. Today my definition of the Swirl is “an absorbing state of inertia in an organization” that causes people to experience a busy purposelessness in their jobs and keeps leaders up at night feeling ill-equipped to resolve the social Swirl around business decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 5, 2018

If the person is an up-and-comer who has been given promotions and raises, the manager likely feels angry and betrayed. From top to bottom, employees have more options than ever before. Besides suffering under a bad boss, Rockstars leave for other reasons: - By definition, Rockstars are ambitious. Confirmation bias.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I bring this up because in retrospect I realize I didn’t know what I would do next if I didn’t get married. Keep my skills up to date. The bottom fell out of the stock market when I was preparing to sell my house. I didn’t know what constituted good spouse material or how to make such a partnership work. I said yes.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Who the * is in charge around here?&# Our unit was experiencing its first inspection by a Sargeant Major whose reputation definitely preceded him…It took him all of about 3 seconds ask “who the * is in charge around here?

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