Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

C OVID19 is a health crisis; an economic crisis; a social crisis; a political crisis; and a geopolitical crisis. It is a crisis dominated by unknowns and huge downsides. It is an existential crisis — life or death.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 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. You may have a leadership dysfunction problem. Communication. Access it here.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Legitimacy Crisis of US Politics Looms by @jamesstrock Rising Independent Voter Numbers Are Fire Bell in the Night Not Sure Where to Start with Your AI Strategy? The 30 Best Pieces of Advice we Heard in 2023 via @firstround Reaching for the executive ranks? And this will get worse with AI.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. ” Neither For nor Against Apathy Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. .”

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Leadership instability feels more pervasive than ever right now. Along with scrambling to respond wisely to COVID-19 realities, even the best and brightest can’t predict how economic, political, and cultural winds will blow from day-to-day. I heard later that this crucial anchor brought unity in the midst of unstable leadership.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history. Let’s examine the qualities of some prominent leaders from the past to reveal the sort of leaders and leadership that are needed to tackle the problems facing us today.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Expect to Do Some Heavy Lifting by @artpetty How to Facilitate – as Opposed to Dominate – Your Meetings by @suzimcalpine 5 Important Lessons I Learned Growing Up from @wallybock Leaders, Objectivity vs. Detached Coldness by @KateNasser How Writing Your Obituary Can Help You NOW!

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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. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting shared 5 Leadership Lessons from Powerful Women.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2019. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business Kevin Kruse. Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. and learn how to decide better.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 16, 2024

Some have described it as employees feeling a constant crisis. There are a whole range of issues, including the lingering disruption brought on by a global pandemic, economic pressures, social and political unrest, uncertainty about the world economy, and violence in the Middle East, Russia, and Ukraine.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here are some leadership strategies for creating a respectful workplace: Define your culture: Clearly communicate company values, mission, and expectations to employees. Show courtesy to others: Lead by example by treating employees with courtesy and politeness. Lead From Within: The true leader serves. Serves people.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 13, 2012

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Workplace Issues [link] In the midst of a crisis we humans are far more willing to be led. I think it’s human instinct to take direction when the barn is burning and someone emerges that seems to have a plan.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 13, 2023

His focus was so strong that it ultimately helped to bring about one of the most significant political movements of the 20th century and the eventual independence of India. Gandhi’s story is a powerful example of the importance of focus in leadership. Overall, the ability to focus is a key component of successful leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Leadership. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. Ever since the Tylenol tampering recall of 30 years ago, the performances of companies in crisis have come under public scrutiny. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Friendships mitigate division, bias, gossip, and office politics. Your organization’s ability to bounce back from a public health crisis, or any crisis, depends on how resilient your employees are.” Make wellbeing part of career development conversations. Social Wellbeing: You Have Meaningful Friendships in Your Life.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

Throughout my career, I have spent a lot of time studying and teaching leadership. In a crisis, leaders are required to create models and draw conclusions while operating with imperfect and incomplete data. Keep digging until you fully understand all aspects of this crisis. It’s a fascinating subject! Open to the brutal facts!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The way he dealt with these experiences, defined his leadership. In every such crisis the temptation to indecision, to non-action, is great, for excuses can always be found for non-action, and action means risk and the certainty of blame to the man who acts. He referred to life as “The Great Adventure.” Letter to his son Kermit, 1915).

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

That said, there is one aspect of business often-overlooked by change agents when it comes to innovation, and it also happens to be the area that offers the greatest potential returns – leadership. The Practice of Leadership is in need of a Makeover – an Extreme One. I was left wondering how we could have arrived at such a place?

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 17, 2020

For the last couple years I didn’t serve as a pastor while I was leading At Leadership Network, but I landed back into an intentional interim role on February 1st. As you are doing, pastor, I’m now helping to guide us through a crisis. Here are a few quick words of encouragement during the COVID-19 Crisis : Pace yourself and the team.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 20, 2016

There’s a leadership crisis in American politics and business—a crisis that extends around the world. We find the training and managing of leadership is broken. But most leadership models are stuck in the pre-information age ,” argues Scott Miller. What’s the problem? Ninety percent of CEOs in the U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 6, 2021

The book, Step Up , shows readers how to step up to the plate during six critical leadership moments. Recognize and deal with terminal politeness. The book's two authors awhile back shared these insights with me: A Conversation with Henry Evans and Colm Foster, authors of Step Up What is a “leadership moment”?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The country was suffering an existential crisis, as well, amidst an OPEC oil embargo coinciding with Vietnam War and Watergate fatigue. September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. Hands-on, value-driven leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) opened-up voting for The Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 yesterday , and the N2growth blog was one of 11 blogs nominated for the award. I know all but one of the other nominees and would highly recommend any of them as a high quality source of leadership information.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

the passing of a 90-year-old parent, a major pet crisis, a concussion, loss of income, and two company reorganizations. Douse that fire with a few gallons of gas from a pandemic, political division, an attack at the Capitol, financial chaos, racial tension, and religious strife, and it can be unbearable. How may I help you?”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Leadership today seems to be all too often confused with playing a game of dodgeball. We have too many people in leadership positions who can’t or won’t accept responsibility for anything. Put simply, leadership is about accountability, and not only being willing to take the hit, but also being capable of surviving the hit.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When a leader departs in this manner, he or she leaves behind an organization in crisis that also now finds itself leaderless. Jon Mertz explains: Presence, performance, and purpose – these are the necessary focus areas for the remaining management team in times when a leader leaves in crisis. Presence, Performance, and Purpose.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. This weakens the team’s crisis/problem-solving competence and confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). Most would call it work.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson. Leadership is difficult in a representative government. The President and Congressional leaders have power and authority but not enough to direct a solution so they have to exercise persuasive leadership–peer leadership—to get things done.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 17, 2021

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the declaration of a global pandemic, we are only beginning to understand the impact of this health crisis on our lives from both a personal and professional level.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 21, 2023

Management Transformed Managing in a Marathon Crisis Management Transformed: Managing in a Marathon Crisis is a CMI research project exploring the extraordinary challenges and new ways of working that emerged in 2020. In August 2020, CMI polled nearly 2,300 senior leaders, managers and employees. But what do you think…?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2024

When our situations clash with our self-perception, we experience a disconcerting condition known as “identity threat,” extensively explored in various fields like marketing and political science. This way, they can support employees in navigating inevitable moments of threat, preventing a full-blown identity crisis.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the spring of 2020, when leaders at all levels and in all sectors were communicating about the emerging pandemic and those messages varied widely in content and delivery, Tom Friedman interviewed Dov Seidman for an article on the critical role of leadership. Great leaders trust people with the truth. Communicating in Times of Uncertainty.

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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. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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