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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

Leading Blog

THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRaven’s incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

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.”. This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective.

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Important Ideas on Change and Transitions: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Learn about 3 lessons from the political realm that inform us on how leaders can successfully champion change initiatives in their organization. Your next promotion won’t happen until you “be the change” that those who have your career in their hands expect to see. Managing Through Career and Life Changes.

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Picasso’s Napkin: A Leadership Lesson on Valuing Expertise

Skip Prichard

Every leader can learn from this. It’s the countless hours of practice, the failures, the learnings, and the small successes that accumulate over a lifetime. People often ask her to do things and offer a budget which is insulting based on the complexity of the ask. Immediate results often stem from lifelong learning.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Curiosity: The Desire to Continuously Learn. A culture of continuous learning will bolster organizational creativity and innovation.

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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Rather than have the (internal) knee jerk/lizard brain reaction when seeing someone not wearing a mask, it’s time to flip it, and to thank those who do. What three lessons can we learn from her? Marcia shares: “ Coaxing vs. Challenging – do you know the difference? Once you get there you excel at what you do.

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April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Liz writes: “ Do you find yourself reserving your input in meetings until after your team has shared or brainstormed? Are you allowing your team the flexibility to learn things on their own instead of communicating what you’ve already learned? Your silence may be doing more harm than good. Development.