Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

New research shows that gratitude boosts employee engagement, reduces turnover, and leads team members to express more gratitude to one another—strengthening team bonds. Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. Better yet, this is a double-sided book.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. Real Teams Win : What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance by Thomas L. If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working? Highly respected Silicon Valley turn-around expert Thomas L.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 20, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. This stagnation not only affects the leader’s own leadership, but also the teams they lead and the entire organization.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s equally important for them to listen to and understand the perspectives of their team members. This can lead to a lack of trust and respect among team members. This can lead to a stagnation of innovative thinking. As they may feel that their ideas and opinions are not valued.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In The Five Graces of Life and Leadership , CEO of the celebrated consulting firm Korn Ferry delivers a meaningful and thought-provoking exploration of leadership, emphasizing the five kinds of grace that leaders absolutely must have to lead their teams in today’s evolving workscape. Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability. Becoming a courageous culture means building teams of microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates working together.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan recaps, “Unfortunately, organizations don’t always do a good job when it comes to nurturing, developing, rewarding, and retaining their high potential employees. The results (buy-in, empowerment, innovation) are a true game-changer.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The Innovator's Book : Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators (Concise Advice) by Dr Max Mckeown. Both enlightening and entertaining, Dr Max Mckeown delivers concise advice on how to move from original insights to new ideas, and from new ideas to valuable real-world innovation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. Innovation is broken. Morey will guide you across 11 concrete and pragmatic steps that unlock and drive day-to-day innovation in your business and help you gain a long-term competitive advantage in your marketplace.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talented people and they’ll quickly answer in the affirmative. They are built to change and innovate.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 17, 2024

As Amazon endeavors to accomplish 10,000 drone deliveries in Europe this year and Walmart sets plans to extend drone delivery services to an extra 60,000 homes in the United States, there’s a surge in research and development investments in drone delivery by various companies. However, drones and robots were less favored options.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Research from the University of South Florida shows how leaders can also cultivate this underdog spirit within their organizations to help give teams the confidence to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. To create an underdog identity within a team, the authors argue that the credibility of the leader is crucial.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

To begin: In the digital age, competitive advantage is the ability to win the ultimate prize—the consumer’s preference— repeatedly , through continuous innovation on behalf of the consumer, and to create immense value for the shareholders at the same time. Their decision-making is designed for innovation and speed. Its ecosystem does.

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. These can include enhanced leadership skills, better team performance, increased employee engagement, improved productivity, higher employee retention, and overall business growth.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

It unlocks new ideas and solutions, and enhances team performance. Think Outside the Building : How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time by Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The Leader's Greatest Return : Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders by John C. Develop leaders!

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

I began working for a student program at a church in the west suburbs of Chicago and for the next five years, I served on a team focused on building a 40,000 sq. But the more I studied for the GMAT and researched programs, the more I wondered if the options and price tags fit. Over time, the idea of an MBA surfaced.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson. Growth is the goal.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

It is about investing in the development of other people. His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg­mental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminous clarity and su­preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action. This is Life's Great Question.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2020

When you are sitting in your office or working with your team, you often wonder, “How do I beat the competition?” Recently while working through a merger, I was in several meetings with both organizations’ executive teams. Through innovation, you create new positions, service, and quality products.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Vince Lombardi. Poor leadership can lead a company to failure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talented people and they’ll quickly answer in the affirmative. They are built to change and innovate.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2021

Now that those days are gradually behind us, every business owner must develop strategies for generating sales. That said, you have to come up with innovative ways to boost your customer service. With an interactive voice response (IVR) system, your customer support team can efficiently handle incoming calls.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2019

These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. They show you how to understand what is happening during a moment of crisis and change, what to do about it, and how to hone these skills to lead high-performing teams. Henderson and Barry C.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

They need to learn to launch new initiatives, inspire others, and champion innovative approaches. These kinds of leaders make important contributions but rarely leave a mark on the businesses they serve. For those wanting to make a lasting impact, new skills are required. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 32 titles.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2023

. “One way of doing that is using menus, where you have the same product but you charge different prices depending on when people are getting in,” they explain. The first few individuals who decide to contribute will get this lower price. Anyone who decides to wait will have to get the same product at a higher price.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

So, it’s essential for leadership teams to pinpoint and honestly assess these capabilities. Response: Is the management team accessible? Forecasting Capabilities: How well does the leadership team know the industry? How does the firm determine what new products and services to develop? Can they anticipate shifts?

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Have you or your team ever come up with a big idea that you thought would be very cool, but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

Is that Development Goal Really Worth it? Economists know a lot about efficiency but almost nothing about innovation–yet innovation drives growth @mattyglesias. Ridicule is the price of ambition. >> 6 Non-Business Books That Will Make You Smarter by @jeff_haden. How to communicate when you don''t have much to say.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some authors are paid a fixed price, which obviously means the popularity of the book is less important to their income than for those authors who are paid a percentage of the revenue they generate. The results revealed that as competition intensified, those authors on fixed price deals didn’t really change their output at all.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I’m a big believer in leadership development. Then, as a newly-minted entrepreneur, I joined peer-to-peer counseling groups such as Young Entrepreneur’s Organization (YEO) and my local tech council’s Executive Roundtable to help me continue to develop my skills. So there’s no denying that I’m an advocate for leadership development.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CMI’s incoming president, Fiona Dawson CBE CMgr CCMI, will be inaugurated next month, stepping into the shoes of Lord Mark Price CMgr CCMI CVO at the end of his term in October. On behalf of CMI, I also want to take the opportunity to thank Lord Mark Price for his support as President over the past three years. Reserve your spot here.

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