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My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success. As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs. MORE
There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. After all, being in touch with your emotions, as well as being in tune with the emotions of others is an important trait for any leader to possess. MORE
That means people need to become non-traditionally smarter at things machines are not quite yet ready to think about or do. And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable. MORE
The power of gratitude – “I GET to”. From @ddiworld : Are We Missing the Mark on How to Develop Leaders? How Companies Can Manage Power Struggles : Think King Arthur, not Napoleon. Finding the Key to Success by @Leadershipfreak. How to peel a banana by @TomAsacker. MORE
Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. MORE
The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone. MORE
To gain some perspective on how to handle this kind of challenge, I reached out to some management experts for their point of view on the skills and personalities to look for. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job? MORE
Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply I have seen organizations that do the following. They define their work processes and implement them across the organization to get certified against a certain standard (like ISO). This is how a “constraint” mindset works. When people don’t follow a process, it only means that either they don’t know how to use the process or the defined process simply doesn’t work for them. MORE
You’ve finally figured out what you want to do with your life — start a company, launch a website, design an app, or found a nonprofit. The only problem is that you can’t afford to quit your job (and lose your benefits) in order to pursue it fulltime. MORE
“How many of you have a Barbara on your team?” 5 Ways to Deal With Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers. Seeking to understand is not resistance. But, you understand the bigger picture and the constraints. MORE
You have to deliver tough messages. There’s no way to escape the necessary burdens of authority. And, from time to time, you may develop a friendship with someone in your organization. It’s one thing to have a peer-to-peer friendship at work, but another to have a power imbalance with your friend. Can you be friends with someone who works for you, especially when your role requires you to harbor secrets from them? MORE
Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. For example, after I published research and advice on collaboration in professional service firms , I heard from a surprising number of people who wrote to ask questions like, “Maybe it’ll work in a partnership, like a law or consulting firm, but what about in my company, where employees aren’t owners and can’t change the rules?” MORE
I still remember being in high school and George Box talking about the primary value of conferences was talking to colleagues in the hallway. This seemed very odd to me, as it seemed that the reason for going to a conference was to learn from the talks. MORE
Even the most dynamic and driven entrepreneurs and professionals can find themselves falling into something of a professional slump at some point in their career. Many businesses end up bringing in consultants in order to inject new ideas into their company. MORE
Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints and you know you can’t fill these orders. Now you have to decide which ones to fill, which to delay, and which to turn away. Do you stay in your depressed community where your kids go to school? Or do you move to another state where jobs are more plentiful? Every leader has to make tough decisions that have consequences for their organizations, their reputation, and their career. MORE
But as organizations become more diverse and complex, and as everyone is called upon to work more independently, refining these skills has become an imperative. Schein, is a testament to the importance of asking questions in a way that enables others to feel comfortable giving honest answers. MORE
You may be surprised to know that’s exactly what stacks the odds of success in your favor. According to research psychologist Adam Grant, increasing resources increases your likelihood of a project’s success… but only for a while. MORE
“How many of you have a Barbara on your team?” 5 Ways to Deal With Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers. Seeking to understand is not resistance. But, you understand the bigger picture and the constraints. MORE
Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Whose career will take priority? How will domestic work (which may detract from career building) be divided up? MORE
When you’re looking for a job or exploring a new career path, it’s smart to go out on informational interviews. And how should you ask for more help if you need it? ” John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code , agrees. MORE
As a result, repatriate turnover is alarmingly high — up to 38% in the year following return. Given all the challenges, it’s not surprising that expats are more likely to succeed — that is, to adjust to living and working overseas and to be engaged at work — if they are given the flexibility to accept or decline the assignment in the first place. Many companies expect their aspiring leaders to work abroad. MORE
After reading What Makes Business Rock by Bill Roedy, I have developed an appreciation for what it took to build MTV Networks International into what it is today. It’s former Chairman and CEO, Bill Roedy, has had a remarkable career. Due to financial constraints, he followed his Dad into West Point. He learned how to prioritize. Leaders need to learn to cut through the chaff to determine priorities and to identify the real target. MORE
With August now coming to a close, many of us – myself included – are feeling that bittersweet tinge that comes with the end of the summertime period. Then again, as my wife likes to say, I’m not a fan of things ending. MORE
With growing resource constraints, relentless change, and high turnover, today''s business climate poses many difficulties. So, how do managers balance conflicting expectations from their boss, peers, and direct reports? When Going From Peer to Leader. All of a sudden you have power and influence in relation to their careers and livelihoods and their ability to do valuable work that is recognized and rewarded. MORE
In So I Married an Axe Murderer , a wacky 1990’s parody, a police officer named Tony confides to his captain, “I’m having doubts about being a cop. You know, it’s not like how it is on TV. How to Lose Your Best Employees. MORE
Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your desk but you’re doing something you genuinely care about? MORE
A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. Yet today, the skills college graduates acquire during college have an expected shelf life of only five years according to extensive work we've done in conjunction with Deloitte's Shift Index. MORE
With the arrival of September, many of us are returning to our regular routines now that our children are back in school and the period for taking summer vacation breaks has come to an end. MORE
Which used to be me basically. We help them breakthrough to the next stage. David: It’s fun to be able to say we isn’t it? So when I decided to let my son join me last year, which is a story in and of itself. Really there is a B to C book. MORE
A great idea may not be enough to build a great business. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. to 6 p.m., MORE
In fact, when striving to come-up with this list I quickly came to the conclusion that while I attempted to use objective logic in making my assessments, the reality is that a list like this is mostly subjective based upon personal preference. MORE
” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? What actions can you take to improve your professional satisfaction? How can you combat the dullness and tedium of your workaday life? And how can you tell if it’s time to make a drastic change? MORE
Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Bye-bye career! MORE
Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. In fact, at the risk of being controversial I’m going to take the position that perfection does not exist. link] mikemyatt Thanks for bringing your post to my attention. MORE
Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. MORE
One-on-one meetings with direct reports often feel more hurried and disorganized than they need to be. It’s important to check in regularly with each of your employees, but how can you make the best use of the time? Ask your direct report to do the same. MORE
One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach. MORE
Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, leadership, productivity, team building, and more. We’re especially pleased to welcome Jim Haudan and Rich Berens of Root Inc. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building provided Four Collaboration Catalyst Questions to send up and down and across your organization. MORE
A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. MORE
A S LEADERS it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. It’s hard to take the long-term view when we have to do the mundane. Learning to take the longer view is not easy. It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization. A problem to be solved. MORE
Why would we want to institute yet another bureaucratically mandated one size fits all solution that addresses the symptom and not the problem? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go? MORE
In this post I want to help those of you who are keen to create your personal brand. To do that, you’ll need a brand strategy. To most of you the objective is to advance your career. So let’s get to it. Firstly, understand the constraints. MORE
Yesterday “Doug,” a participant in one of our Winning Well workshops, asked, “Karin, if I were to walk into your office right now with the goal of convincing you I’m a rock star, what behaviors would get your attention?”. How to Convince Your Boss You’re a Rock Star. MORE
” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa. These PMs excel at reflecting on where each of these competencies contributed to the success or failure of their products and continuously adjust their approach based on customer feedback. These PMs also know when to take a breath and step away if needed, to regroup. MORE
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 5, 2015
You may be surprised to know that’s exactly what stacks the odds of success in your favor. According to research psychologist Adam Grant, increasing resources increases your likelihood of a project’s success… but only for a while.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
“How many of you have a Barbara on your team?” 5 Ways to Deal With Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers. Seeking to understand is not resistance. But, you understand the bigger picture and the constraints.
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In the CEO Afterlife
JANUARY 22, 2015
In this post I want to help those of you who are keen to create your personal brand. To do that, you’ll need a brand strategy. To most of you the objective is to advance your career. So let’s get to it. Firstly, understand the constraints.
Tanveer Naseer
OCTOBER 28, 2014
One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
“How many of you have a Barbara on your team?” 5 Ways to Deal With Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers. Seeking to understand is not resistance. But, you understand the bigger picture and the constraints.
Skip Prichard
JULY 22, 2019
A great idea may not be enough to build a great business. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. to 6 p.m.,
Strategy Driven
APRIL 28, 2018
Even the most dynamic and driven entrepreneurs and professionals can find themselves falling into something of a professional slump at some point in their career. Many businesses end up bringing in consultants in order to inject new ideas into their company.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your desk but you’re doing something you genuinely care about?
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 3, 2017
Yesterday “Doug,” a participant in one of our Winning Well workshops, asked, “Karin, if I were to walk into your office right now with the goal of convincing you I’m a rock star, what behaviors would get your attention?”. How to Convince Your Boss You’re a Rock Star.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 14, 2015
Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Whose career will take priority? How will domestic work (which may detract from career building) be divided up?
Leading Blog
APRIL 3, 2020
A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
In So I Married an Axe Murderer , a wacky 1990’s parody, a police officer named Tony confides to his captain, “I’m having doubts about being a cop. You know, it’s not like how it is on TV. How to Lose Your Best Employees.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2017
As a result, repatriate turnover is alarmingly high — up to 38% in the year following return. Given all the challenges, it’s not surprising that expats are more likely to succeed — that is, to adjust to living and working overseas and to be engaged at work — if they are given the flexibility to accept or decline the assignment in the first place. Many companies expect their aspiring leaders to work abroad.
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Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 28, 2014
With growing resource constraints, relentless change, and high turnover, today''s business climate poses many difficulties. So, how do managers balance conflicting expectations from their boss, peers, and direct reports? When Going From Peer to Leader. All of a sudden you have power and influence in relation to their careers and livelihoods and their ability to do valuable work that is recognized and rewarded.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
When you’re looking for a job or exploring a new career path, it’s smart to go out on informational interviews. And how should you ask for more help if you need it? ” John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code , agrees.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 31, 2014
The power of gratitude – “I GET to”. From @ddiworld : Are We Missing the Mark on How to Develop Leaders? How Companies Can Manage Power Struggles : Think King Arthur, not Napoleon. Finding the Key to Success by @Leadershipfreak. How to peel a banana by @TomAsacker.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 19, 2018
Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints and you know you can’t fill these orders. Now you have to decide which ones to fill, which to delay, and which to turn away. Do you stay in your depressed community where your kids go to school? Or do you move to another state where jobs are more plentiful? Every leader has to make tough decisions that have consequences for their organizations, their reputation, and their career.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 25, 2015
A S LEADERS it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. It’s hard to take the long-term view when we have to do the mundane. Learning to take the longer view is not easy. It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization. A problem to be solved.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 30, 2013
Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Bye-bye career!
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2016
To gain some perspective on how to handle this kind of challenge, I reached out to some management experts for their point of view on the skills and personalities to look for. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job?
Leading Blog
MAY 5, 2011
After reading What Makes Business Rock by Bill Roedy, I have developed an appreciation for what it took to build MTV Networks International into what it is today. It’s former Chairman and CEO, Bill Roedy, has had a remarkable career. Due to financial constraints, he followed his Dad into West Point. He learned how to prioritize. Leaders need to learn to cut through the chaff to determine priorities and to identify the real target.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
You have to deliver tough messages. There’s no way to escape the necessary burdens of authority. And, from time to time, you may develop a friendship with someone in your organization. It’s one thing to have a peer-to-peer friendship at work, but another to have a power imbalance with your friend. Can you be friends with someone who works for you, especially when your role requires you to harbor secrets from them?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2016
One-on-one meetings with direct reports often feel more hurried and disorganized than they need to be. It’s important to check in regularly with each of your employees, but how can you make the best use of the time? Ask your direct report to do the same.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2017
Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. For example, after I published research and advice on collaboration in professional service firms , I heard from a surprising number of people who wrote to ask questions like, “Maybe it’ll work in a partnership, like a law or consulting firm, but what about in my company, where employees aren’t owners and can’t change the rules?”
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, leadership, productivity, team building, and more. We’re especially pleased to welcome Jim Haudan and Rich Berens of Root Inc. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building provided Four Collaboration Catalyst Questions to send up and down and across your organization.
Curious Cat
APRIL 28, 2015
I still remember being in high school and George Box talking about the primary value of conferences was talking to colleagues in the hallway. This seemed very odd to me, as it seemed that the reason for going to a conference was to learn from the talks.
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
With the arrival of September, many of us are returning to our regular routines now that our children are back in school and the period for taking summer vacation breaks has come to an end.
Tanveer Naseer
AUGUST 25, 2015
With August now coming to a close, many of us – myself included – are feeling that bittersweet tinge that comes with the end of the summertime period. Then again, as my wife likes to say, I’m not a fan of things ending.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly.
Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 7, 2014
But as organizations become more diverse and complex, and as everyone is called upon to work more independently, refining these skills has become an imperative. Schein, is a testament to the importance of asking questions in a way that enables others to feel comfortable giving honest answers.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. After all, being in touch with your emotions, as well as being in tune with the emotions of others is an important trait for any leader to possess.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 5, 2010
My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success. As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 6, 2010
Why would we want to institute yet another bureaucratically mandated one size fits all solution that addresses the symptom and not the problem? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
In fact, when striving to come-up with this list I quickly came to the conclusion that while I attempted to use objective logic in making my assessments, the reality is that a list like this is mostly subjective based upon personal preference.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 12, 2017
The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. Yet today, the skills college graduates acquire during college have an expected shelf life of only five years according to extensive work we've done in conjunction with Deloitte's Shift Index.
QAspire
JANUARY 5, 2011
Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply I have seen organizations that do the following. They define their work processes and implement them across the organization to get certified against a certain standard (like ISO). This is how a “constraint” mindset works. When people don’t follow a process, it only means that either they don’t know how to use the process or the defined process simply doesn’t work for them.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
You’ve finally figured out what you want to do with your life — start a company, launch a website, design an app, or found a nonprofit. The only problem is that you can’t afford to quit your job (and lose your benefits) in order to pursue it fulltime.
LDRLB
MAY 13, 2014
Which used to be me basically. We help them breakthrough to the next stage. David: It’s fun to be able to say we isn’t it? So when I decided to let my son join me last year, which is a story in and of itself. Really there is a B to C book.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
That means people need to become non-traditionally smarter at things machines are not quite yet ready to think about or do. And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. In fact, at the risk of being controversial I’m going to take the position that perfection does not exist. link] mikemyatt Thanks for bringing your post to my attention.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2017
” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa. These PMs excel at reflecting on where each of these competencies contributed to the success or failure of their products and continuously adjust their approach based on customer feedback. These PMs also know when to take a breath and step away if needed, to regroup.
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