The Practical Leader

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. Your coachability correlates very strongly with your leadership effectiveness.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Yet in business, leaders too often feel as though they’re operating under life and death conditions. Wild conditions are the time when paddling firmly with intention can establish momentum and create a welcome sense of stability during the turbulence. You get wet, climb back on, and start again. Mistakes fuel progress.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

When in Rome, do as the Romans should be the operating motto to approach working in a culturally different environment.”. So no matter where you decide to pursue a career, make it a point to not let the miles or the time zone hamper your relationship with them. Because it takes a lot of courage to plunge into the wild.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. July 6, 2009), Career Development International , 14(6), 508-533. 1 Heine, S.J., Proulx, T., & Vohs, K.D., 2, 88–110. Bakker, A.B.,

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

It is possible that more and more will be discovered about how deeply we create the various patterns of our lives through certain mental operations—how we are truly responsible for so much of what happens to us.” They’re the same people—the same twins with the same DNA—but are in wildly different environments.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 8, 2015

It is possible that more and more will be discovered about how deeply we create the various patterns of our lives through certain mental operations—how we are truly responsible for so much of what happens to us.” They’re the same people—the same twins with the same DNA—but are in wildly different environments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties? If so, analyze and align with those situations, rather than with the fruitless ones. Analyze them by category, to see patterns.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change. We give each business unit as many resources – tech support, product management, marketing – as we can to enable them to operate as autonomously as possible.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Many of the painters we now celebrate as creative geniuses devoted a significant portion of their careers to copywork. But if that’s the only practice you’re getting, chances are you’re only operating at a fraction of your potential. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s not an instinct limited to the wild. During his military career, Petraeus stressed the importance of the “strategic corporal,” the young leader whose tactical actions could have strategic consequences, advancing or undermining an overall campaign. The status quo seems the safest situation from which to assess.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. And so, perhaps it becomes even more important to not only establish a discipline around speaking plainly ourselves but also ask others to adopt it too.sort of like an operating principle for talking to each other. There is an element of truth in this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Hence much of the management world operates under the illusion that employees are generally ethical, and that bad apples are not only an exception but also easy to detect. As Oscar Wilde once said, “anybody can be good in the countryside – there are no temptations there.” Reduce their temptation. Ethics Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. The forecasting models—which were marvels—mapped out revenues and margins by property and room type. Predictive Analytics in Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. What's the holdup?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Anyone operating in a large enterprise feels the truth of Krakauer’s quip. It’s a relatively young field, and early on in his career Krakauer had had serious reservations about how far it could advance. In 2012 Wired magazine included Krakauer on its list of 50 people who will change the world.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. I’ve seen it my whole career. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You haven’t been appreciating people for the last 20 years of your career? So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. 6) Career – I’ve always known what I wanted to do and been engaged in work I truly believe in, but I’ve sabotaged myself with too much idealism and not enough business wisdom. The first principle is getting plenty of sleep.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

PFS volunteers were able to provide Nyirefami with the technical expertise needed to install a quality control lab, and improve washing and pre-drying operations. Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. Everything operated as its own unit. Students began emailing me—about a plumbing problem, a question about career options, or just to say how much they enjoyed a particular professor. .

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Carl Sandburg.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2022

67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” Help them see beyond the obvious next steps, looking around corners and expanding their peripheral vision for their career. Have Them Show You What They’re Doing. What did you long for most? Advocate and Support Them.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. It builds character, helps their career, showcases their company and pays dividends to the community. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

John Paul Getty installed a coin-operated pay phone in his villa to avoid subsidizing his guests’ phone calls; at the time, he was the richest man in the world. For most of us (who aren’t as brilliant as they are), letting these difficult traits have free rein would lead to dire consequences for our careers and personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale.

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