Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: With the leadership change, Disney began to produce hits such as Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Care about people first. Not so at Pixar.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Raising your game as a communicator is one of the best ways to make a difference in the world, but it takes courage to open up to others and invite others to open up to you” says Michelle D. Gladieux , author of the new book, Communicate With Courage: Taking Risks To Overcome The Four Hidden Challenges.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 17, 2023

There seems to be little interest in seeking the truth, encouraging constructive debate, or addressing common issues. Encourage diverse viewpoints. Check out Frank’s latest book, The Path to a Meaningful Life. The Benefits of Being Open-Minded: An Open-and-Shut Case. Be objective. See issues from all angles.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. It’s easy for misunderstandings to occur on a diverse team, simply due to cultural differences. Applied Research Award.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Find out what your personal leadership strengths are so you can make the most of them. Get past defensiveness and always look for something useful and constructive in any criticism you receive.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 15, 2024

It requires the right tools and words that transform conflict into constructive dialogue. This is where Karin Hurt and David Dye step in with their insightful book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to De-Stress the Workday, Build Collaboration and Calm Difficult Customers. Maybe it feels unfair.

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HR Digest

APRIL 7, 2024

Whether you want to identify someone with leadership qualities to train for a managerial role or you’re trying to reassign workers to find more like-minded teammates, utilizing the DISC assessment for your employee’s growth will be able to give you some direction to get started.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In her timely new book, " TALENT WANTS TO BE FREE ," Professor Orly Lobel challenges conventional wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity to reveal how our "War for Talent" is backfiring on our quest for innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

A maverick band of rabbits, threatened by the spread of industrial construction near their warren (home), start out on a quest for a new warren and a better society. This is the backstory for Richard Adams’s 1972 best-selling book, Watership Down. What is Leadership, Really? Adams’s book devoted a full chapter to each story.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Tough love through constructive feedback is invaluable.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Here’s a summary of three studies on how to identify leadership potential: Development Dimensions International DDI has developed a set of criteria that they say will accurately predict executive success, based on their own experience and research, and research by others, including work by Jim Collins for his book Good to Great ; Morgan W.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Tough love through constructive feedback is invaluable.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Expectations run high when a family looks to its young members to take the necessary steps to assume leadership and/or ownership of the family enterprise. It is important to help them understand that the door to involvement in the enterprise is open and that there are many paths to contribution. This entails: 1.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Design thinking can be a critical tool for addressing leadership challenges.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

ALIEN THINKING is a book about the importance of thinking differently and questioning your assumptions to come up with breakthrough solutions. Our book reflects this notion that the ability to innovate is not a gift but rather a mindset and a set of skills you can learn and improve. Think Different. If so, how?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

When Daniel Goleman released “Emotional Intelligence” in 1995, did anyone think that this best-selling book would transform the role of leadership? Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. They’re unique individuals who have great stories to tell.

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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

The beauty of a well-constructed paragraph. When we don't cultivate our interests, our definition of success gets splintered, scattered, and overly influences by others and then we look for more, buy more, and gunk up our lives with piles of diversions. Feeling of reliability and constructiveness. A focused moment. Clear goals.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

The Project Management Life Cycle : A Complete Step-By-Step Methodology for Initiating, Planning, Executing & Closing a Project Successfully by Jason Westland The Project Management Life Cycle is the first book of its kind to provide a complete methodology for managing projects. Let them voice their concerns or ideas regularly.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

DO: Respond constructively when someone offers up an idea. Let employees and coworkers know that when they come to you with their ideas, they’ll be heard with an open mind and received with respect. Insist that everyone else practice positivity as well. As pessimism rises, performance decreases.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

That activists for one cause are equally open-minded about other issues. Rather than embrace the kinds of Big Picture strategies advocated in this book, the addictive system seeks artificial fixes to organizational problems, such as bonuses, benefits, slogans and promotions of like-minded executives. Feeling of Entitlement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking. Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For example, at RBC, our corporate art collection, The Human Touch , focuses on images of the human figure, in all its diversity, to remind us of that very fact — that we are all about people who serve other people.). Leaving him to ask the open-ended question: "This social purpose of business is. profits.".

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly. A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. Have you felt this way?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Tackling the complexity of most significant business issues can take a pool of talented people with diverse points of view. Gates says in his book Business at the Speed of Thought that one of his most important jobs as CEO was to listen for bad news so that he could act on it. Not every problem has an easy solution. ”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This serves as the basis for his new book, True North Groups , coauthored with Doug Baker , who led HR at Medtronic. The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life). It is a very timely book.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? Competitive Strategy Book. When and how should you implement it? Excerpted from. Add to Cart.

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