Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. Although Toyota’s leadership style promotes employee involvement, the working environment of one of their factory sites was not motivating its front-line workers. Management and leadership are not synonymous. By Kaity Nakagoshi.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 18, 2019

As a leadership coach, I have found that leaders are usually measured more by who they are than what they do. Skills and reputation is incredibly important in leadership. No matter what great things you do, your leadership will be impaired if you’re not the person you should be and you are not doing what you should be doing.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Or, virtually, the kind of boss that would send you an email and almost immediately follow up with an instant message and a text right before they called you to check in and see if you had any questions on what you needed to be doing. There is nothing inherently good or bad about it.

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Brigette Hyacinth

JUNE 19, 2021

It’s demotivating working for a manager who does not stand up for their team. 4) “Taskmaster” – Their sole focus is on the bottom-line. Companies need to take a closer look at their managers and their leadership style. They just follow orders. They are mere puppets and exude no loyalty to employees.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. It was the always-on manger that did not get many votes. Middle managers.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 14, 2015

Why is it that, in the age of expensive management consultants and ubiquitous leadership training courses , a whopping 70% of employees continue to self-report as disengaged and unhappy? Notice when and how your negative reactions are cued up in a particular context. Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook at $.99). states Kehoe.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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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?&# In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. Bottom-Line… [link] Dr Sarah Morris Great post! I think not. Ramzi I think arrogance is a sign of lack of self esteem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Relational Leadership is people-centric. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style. Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style.

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Reiter Thinks

JANUARY 5, 2011

Reiter Thinks Helping you be the best you Home Me, in brief Contact Reiter Reads Home > Business , Career , Leadership , Motivation , Success > 4 leadership traits 4 leadership traits January 5, 2011 Reiter Thinks Leave a comment Go to comments I don’t believe that leaders are born. Stand up and step out.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. In other words, it’s time for companies and individual leaders to ‘woman up.’

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

As women progressively enter leadership roles and management positions in organizations that traditionally used to be held by men, many pose questions about leadership styles and gender. This statistic draws a question: what is the difference between a man and woman’s leadership style?

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Steve Jobs has always been considered an anomaly in management; his leadership style was something to admire or to criticize, but definitely not to replicate. Which does not imply that he gave users what they wanted, nor that he created a flat playful organization where ideas flew from the bottom up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This got us to wondering whether there might be a leadership analogy to this sad phenomenon. When we ask individuals about how their bosses influence their own leadership styles, they often respond that they are their own persons. If there’s a bad boss above, they serve as a buffer. What are we to make of this?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. So it began having daily 20-minute stand-ups at 8:40 a.m.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

His direct report, Susan , was enormously productive. He knew she was expecting a promotion to the senior leadership team, but she just didn’t seem ready. See the value in collaborative leadership. Managers should keep in mind that a collaborative leadership model does have benefits. Tony was baffled.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2016

Develop and evolve your company’s product brands through your customer’s eyes. Continuously improve your company’s products and technologies by focusing on the few truly strategic core platforms. Hire smart, ambitious, get-it-done employees and lead them with emotionally intelligent innovation leadership skills.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. ’ in order to improve your products, processes, or procedures.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

There weren’t enough hours in the day for her to give any more time to her work, and anyway she was already way more productive than her peers. That’s how Susan (not her real name) ended up in my office. Flex your leadership style. Women tend to rely on a collaborative leadership style.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 29, 2013

After a solid performance, that manager will be promoted to a leadership position, under the assumption that their management skills will make them good leaders. Being a good manager involves some dynamic speaking, but more often it’s about keeping your eyes on your calendar, people and the bottom line. Leadership inspire success'

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