Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you. The Four Workarounds shows how seemingly intractable problems―from public urination to the challenges of delivering lifesaving medicine to remote communities―were addressed using unconventional tactics.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 4, 2014

While leadership does come in many ways, shapes, and forms, there are some people who go above and beyond when it comes to being a creative, inspiring leader. Thinking outside the box when it comes to your leadership style can be the difference in becoming a successful leader or one that people don’t look up to.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. Luckily for us, these tactics work— no matter the problem’s scale or complexity. The Five Graces of Life and Leadership by Gary Burnison. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. This is NPS 3.0

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2023

The first step is to begin a deeper leadership journey and address four core factors – Tactics, Influence, Mindset, and Environment (T.I.M.E.). 51:16 If we want people to think creatively, they have to have time to think creatively. 34:55 The worst thing we can do is try to work on the wrong area at the wrong time.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 14, 2021

Regardless of the leadership role you play there are common challenges we all face as we seek to build an organization or guide a team. Their ideas are creative and often stimulating. Effective leadership creates tension and conflict. The post 4 Leadership Challenges You Must Face appeared first on Lead Change.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s not about replacing action, which we know is a necessary leadership ingredient. Sara is the author of Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance and You—According to Them. Instead of making action the default for every challenge, these leaders are pairing that alternative with an opposite response.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Be sure you know the MITs (most important things) you need to accomplish at a strategic and tactical level. Constraints are the gateway to creativity. A few powerful phrases that can help. What’s most important?” Focus is the antidote to overwhelm. Paint me a picture of the victory lap.” I have an idea.” Here’s what I need.”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Creativity/Inspiration. Communication. One connects the other hurts. Are you ready?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

At its root, leadership is a collection of competencies. Great leaders are tactical and flexible. The more perspectives at the table, the more creative, strong, well-developed ideas are likely to emerge. With the right balance of internal and external leadership, you will be truly grounded in the core of leading.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Playbooks Sharpen Your Leadership Skills - learn up-to-date leadership techniques to better manage your team, your peers, and your boss. A quick read to motivate the creative energies within you! My job is to help YOU cut through the noise and find resources that are worth consuming AND energize your spirit.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2018

Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! Inspiration/Creativity. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Eight Ways Leaders Inspire Us. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: A Fresh Start. Leadership. Productivity.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 13, 2023

Soft skills are an essential part of any leadership position. 5 Soft Skills for Leadership While leadership itself is a hard skill, effective leaders understand that they need more to connect with their employees and push company initiatives. The post Is Leadership a Soft Skill? What Are Soft Skills?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our director of creative services, June Leaman, often said, “One idea is a great idea. Committees are the death of creativity and productivity. Make tactical mistakes, not strategic ones. A tactical mistake is one that, if you make it today, will only cost you today. Two ideas are less effective.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

While virtual tools are invaluable, there’s something about gathering, and feeling the room’s energy, that can supercharge a team’s cohesion and creativity. You invite them to share something general like “their leadership best practice.” ” Here are a few of our favorite best practices.

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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. Creativity/Inspiration. Click to be disrupted and inspired!

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace Creativity, Inc. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Fact : You cannot win a chess game without moving your pieces to create strategic and tactical advantge. The problem with conventional leadership theory is it’s littered with misunderstood and misapplied practices. In general, continuity of leadership is an admirable goal and something that I advise all my clients to work toward.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2019

Millennials are Most Critical of Leadership Development Programs by Diane Belcher @HBPCorpLearning via @_hrtechnologist. Building Blocks (A Tactical Approach to Change) by @edbatista. Leadership: How to Be a Creative Leader from @wallybock. Qualities of Leadership Found in Wordsworth. Try Making It More via @wired.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

Think Like a Rocket Scientist is about creativity and critical thinking—two skills in short supply today. Creativity comes naturally to us, but we are educated out of it in favor of certainty. Varol offers nine principles in three stages to help us to reacquire and build our creativity and critical thinking muscles.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. But are there certain sizes or types of organizations where the Situational Leadership ® methodology seems to work more effectively than others? The short answer to that question is no.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

A skilled manager knows how to handle these issues with deftness, as well as how to bring creativity into the scenario in an attempt to create win-wins. #3. Her third book, Bet on You: How Leaders Win with Risk , will be out in spring 2022. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

Eleven Rings is a memoir that, for me, is more about leadership and relationships than basketball. Some coaches insist on having the last word, but I always tried to foster an environment in which everyone played a leadership role, from the most unschooled rookie to the veteran superstar. The most in NBA history.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] As this year winds down, I’m preoccupied with the question of how I can be more effective next year. My historical method, and the process I’ve started for 2014, has been to create a plan – complete with goals, strategies and tactics. Leadership Development resolutions Servant Leadership'

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through focused conversations, targeted assessments, and personalized strategies, executive coaching helps entrepreneurs identify their blind spots, enhance their leadership skills, and make informed decisions that align with their vision and goals.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. There are two primary reasons that professionals cannot maintain their focus: Successful people tend to be energetic, creative, intelligent, and have bias toward action. That sounds simple enough doesn’t it?

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

What leadership competencies are most important for success in a functional leadership role – especially during a time when uncertainty is heightened and innovation is critical for organizations to survive and thrive? The leaders surveyed rated themselves in terms of their effectiveness in the 13 critical leadership competencies.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 2019

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Know that creativity cannot be forced. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book. It's a must read for today's business leaders.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. With this balanced approach, leaders find their creativity and productivity soaring and results follow. The Infinite Leader.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. There are two primary reasons that professionals cannot maintain their focus: Successful people tend to be energetic, creative, intelligent, and have bias toward action. That sounds simple enough doesn’t it?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Getting the leadership part of supervising others right, however, is trickier because emotion and connection enter the picture. People see how their tactical work fits into the boss’s overall strategy. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

We bring you a list of books that women entrepreneurs must read to find the right balance between leadership and ownership of self. The same goes for women in leadership roles. Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. by Ryan Holiday. by Sheryl Sandberg.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Evaluate the creativity, reasonability and effectiveness of the compensation programs in existence. To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2015

Therefore, a new notion of leadership and change is needed. In " LEADERSHIP FOR A FRACTURED WORLD: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change ," author Dean Williams shares how to embrace ''change agent leadership''. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Leadership Tactics for Career Women.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 29, 2015

Acclimating new millennial employees to company culture requires creative thinking and modern tactics. Read Beth Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how. Onboarding today looks nothing like onboarding of ten or twenty years ago.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Know that creativity cannot be forced. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book. It's a must read for today's business leaders.

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