The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

The precise difference between managers and leaders has been a topic of discussion in the leadership community for many decades, and the conversations often reveal a clear preference for the seemingly sexier task of leadership over the bean-counting that so often encompasses managerial administration. Overvaluing leadership.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Here are nine tips to avoid getting sidetracked: Raise your awareness of the subtle influences on your decisions. Question your bonds —your links and similarities—to those around you and consider whether these bonds may be influencing your decisions for the worse. We tend to value expensive advice over inexpensive advice.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Highlights from John’s talk include: “If people don’t understand how their work matters, it’s a #leadership failure.”

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Highlights from John’s talk include: “If people don’t understand how their work matters, it’s a #leadership failure.”

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In comparison, other people are motivated by moving “toward” things that they want to achieve, accomplish, or attain. Learn more at solutionsinmind.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Do less comparison shopping (we spend hours of time to save just a few dollars), or driving two miles out of your way to save ten cents on a gallon of gas. Whillans says, “You need to look ahead five to ten years and think about how big life choices will influence your time choices.” Account for your time. Time is not money.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2021

Now imagine a group of creatures, dripping, stinking, and standing on the bank, male, female, big and small – about seven give or take and you have what company leadership groups look like as they emerge from the pandemic and take their first steps in dealing with the new reality. It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 2, 2018

12 comparisons that lead to… Continue reading → Feeling superior comes in many forms. All of them are justifications for looking down on others. You can’t inspire those you look down on. Manipulate yes. Inspire no.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Leadership Walk by Kevin Eikenberry on September 6, 2010 in Leadership , Learning We are all on a walk. Each of these is part of your leadership walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He made such an impact and influenced my leadership style. ” Developing leadership skills is a lifetime project. Collins writes, “In over three quarters of the comparison companies, we found executives who set their successors up for failure or chose weak successors, or both.”. Succession planning was a problem.

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Lead from Within

JULY 10, 2018

Character in leadership means consistently doing the right thing and the best thing. It plays a major role in your ability to lead and influence. Great character is molded into great leadership. Leaders lose respect when they have to rely on demands and control—and losing respect is fatal to leadership.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

As organizations deconstruct jobs into skills, remove layers of management and intentionally drive decision-making and accountability to the base of their structures, performance management becomes more and more a function of collective alignment and influence, as opposed to the traditional exercise of well-defined command and control.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 17, 2012

Every leadership development tool, technique, method, and strategy fades in comparison to the power of belief. If you think believing in yourself is hard, try believing in others. Everyone needs someone who believes in them; young leaders need it the most. The people who change us the most believe in us the most. The first [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In recent years, there’s been a growing focus on the importance of emotional intelligence in today’s leadership. By comparison, few of us could remember what we ate for dinner on Tuesday two or three weeks ago.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Broadly speaking, do we give ourselves an “A,” a “F,” or somewhere in-between in how we evaluate ourselves. Christina Hibbert, clinical psychologist, and author.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For example, I worked with a church to do a leadership retreat for other churches in their region. They compare numbers rather than progress, size rather than context and notoriety rather than influence. Remember, comparison is an enemy of contentment. It almost seemed they felt the need to justify their numbers to me.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

No 2 people’s advantages are the same – so rule out comparison or self-pity. Some call this your tribe – that place where you exert the greatest influence. The distinctions of these markets might be fuzzy, but they eventually self-define and will reveal themselves as your most likely place of impact and influence.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Here’s the comparisons. Which one best describes your style of leadership? 3. ” You might have guessed that I am more inclined toward “The Loco-motion” style of leadership. I think we need some new metaphors for leadership. 70′s Warning!: LOCOMOTIVE. Get in line. Pulled along.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leadership is Contagious. It’s a book that will help you maximize your impact and influence regardless of your current position. So come back to this one – connect with people in terms of your service, leadership, and purpose, AND connect with people in service of YOU. Getting help is a leadership skill. The answer?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

True leaders at any level of the totem pole show their leadership primarily through managing their own emotions. If we know about how our minds work, we can be intentional about influencing our own thinking and feeling patterns. Here’s a quick visual comparison of the two systems: The autopilot system is like an elephant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

Energizing the system from top to bottom is a key task of leadership. We've found that managers and employees usually want to participate and to influence the design of processes and systems that affect them. This energy comes when an employee is engaged, so let's take a look at what engagement is all about.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By point of comparison, workplace burnout is something altogether different. leadership, conflict resolution, decision-making, etc.). In leadership, confidence is critical. Provide Clear Guidance and Expectations One more time just in case you missed it along the way: there is no such thing as a best style of leadership!

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 31, 2012

By working with leadership, however, managers can profile the skills that ensure success in key roles—and be on the lookout for examples of both high performers and high potentials from day one. About the Author: Kyle Lagunas is the HR Analyst at Software Advice —an online resource for HR software comparisons. Step Two: Assess.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2010

Shortly after any political or corporate scandal, the talk on the media immediately shifts to a discussion on bad leadership. If you can’t, I’ll provide a helpful comparison: Martin Luther King Jr. Unless you’re using Maxwell’s definition of leadership. There’s more to leadership than influence.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2013

However, if you are not seeking to improve your own maturity given your circumstances, surroundings and influences, you may just miss a great opportunity to improve your own credibility within that environment. The excitement in our environment paled in comparison and he seemed less than enthusiastic about applying his skills.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

An exceedingly bright and consistently energetic member of our team at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), who for all intents and purposes is just starting her career, approached me recently seeking wisdom : Her : “You know how we are always saying that Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management and change management?”.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins So, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you might have expected me to have some sort of leadership lessons post on yesterday’s mid-term elections.  OK, if you’ve read this far you must be both a football fan and a student of leadership. 

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2015

The people you’re around and those who influence you. People around us, including teachers, often made comparisons that I wasn’t as good as my siblings. These people are not dumb or inept; they are bright and have achieved great marks in their academic pursuit. However, confidence is still lacking. It did not help at all.

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Development Learning-by-Doing Comparison Energy 150

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 22, 2019

One of the best performance management exercises ever developed is the real-time comparison. Here is what the manager usually learns as a result: The manager’s influence approach is a match (once again, “que the music!”). appeared first on Situational Leadership® Training & Management Model by CLS.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. Specifically, traditional organizational reporting structures limit managers’ visibility into how their employees are influencing and contributing to other teams.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Changed less in reaction to the radically evolving world than their poorer performing comparison companies. First, it appears that a majority of the 10x companies were small, fragile, and subsequently more nimble than their comparisons during the early portion of the comparison period. Benefits of Using this Reference.

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Chris Brady

MAY 2, 2010

  Education, occupation, geographicalbackground, and even personality traits pale in comparison to the history ofthought development in an individual.   Education, occupation, geographicalbackground, and even personality traits pale in comparison to the history ofthought development in an individual.

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The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 15, 2010

Immediately, I saw a connection to conflict resolution, communication, and leadership. We might be in a great place emotionally or physically in comparison to them. There are many times when we encounter other people who are under stress, tired, hungry, or frustrated. Often their emotional or physical state has nothing to do with us.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

OK, by now you’re saying, “Nice story about a dad and his son but what does this have to do with leadership?” I think about that in terms of leadership - while the risk was greater, I know I'm a better driver because of the way they taught me. That opposite hand was just along for the ride, so to speak. Good question. Click Here.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Do we often overlook the influence of environmental factors when evaluating the behaviors of others ( Fundamental Attribution Error )? Just for comparison, take a look at the definitions of victim and victor: vic·tim (n.) Do outside events affect us and drive our behaviors to a certain extent? Of course they do. Of course they do.

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Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

Leadership is a lot like taking a trip. Leaders often go into unfamiliar territory, influencing others to follow them there. Here are some areas to consider when seeking to increase your leadership ability by traveling light: 1. Leaders must provision themselves and their people for the journey.

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