Next Level Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

As everything started to shut down this past weekend, I spent a good bit of time on Monday scrolling through my LinkedIn and Instagram feeds to see how some of the best-known people in my field of leadership development are handling this new reality. Simon Sinek is filming short videos where he’s answering questions from readers.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 14, 2015

And charity:water : We’re a nonprofit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Microsoft wants a computer with their operating system on each desktop around the world. Simon Sinek is best known for his book Start With Why. Don’t Forget The WHY. You can’t forget the WHY.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

What great leadership does is to use presence (demeanor an modeling), practices and processes to multiply E.I., The answers will sound simple yet applying the insights to multiply effective intelligence will take all three forms of critical leadership capacity: guts, heart and head. See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.)

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2015

9 Leadership Truths From Song Lyrics. Consider these nine truths from memorable song lyrics as you develop and grow as a leader: “All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”. Simon & Garfunkel. Be Accepting, Listen Well – Even to the hard stuff. ” ~ Eric Clapton.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

At the risk of igniting a debate among readers on the efficacy of building the Islamic center a few blocks from Ground Zero, I would argue that both Obama and Bloomberg have shown principled leadership on the issue. "  Whether they’re stated or not, most organizations have operating principles.  Why do you think so?

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Mark Sanborn

MAY 11, 2021

Years later, Simon Sinek wrote his bestselling book, Start with Why. Clean, concise and clear are the operative guidelines to any text you use. Mark Sanborn is an award winning speaker and Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, the Premier Life Skills University. Bad graphics undermine a good message.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 14, 2011

That means you are the genius, not operating in the lofty, exclusive heights of science or culture, but right here, right now. The greatest challenge for most people—which is rarely addressed in leadership models—is visibility. This extraction phase of work represents your very own genius full-body scan. I promise it won’t hurt.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 2, 2017

As we learned from Simon Sinek’s great book , when you have a clear understanding of why you want to do something, lots of other things fall into place that will help you accomplish what you set out to do. Setting small, attainable sub-goals will help you see some regular early success and develop a sense of momentum. Start with Why.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 10, 2011

Every Spring we bring a group of executives to our PowerRoundtable podium and ask them to spill the beans on what they’ve learned about leadership that can’t be taught in a classroom. Know where you get your “juice” from and don’t step into leadership unless you enjoy working with people. Always keep learning and growing.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 25, 2010

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? It lines up all the laws of nature as they operate both inside and outside of you, to get its way. It draws on the unlimited energy of the mind.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. MOXIE : The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership by John Baldoni Moxie is full of great stories and examples making it immediately relatable and practical.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management. We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The synergistic combination of cloud computing and machine intelligence – both of which are developing rapidly – will increasingly be able to perform just about everything that companies and individuals do, and much more. It also helps develop an improved set of data to make decisions needed for Stage 2.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution…One Person at a Time in celebration of its five year anniversary along with quotes from the authors about their experience. Insigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. Leadership Is Influence.

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 25, 2010

It lines up all the laws of nature as they operate both inside and outside of you, to get its way. It mobilizes the many mental powers that you possess, most of which you never consciously use. It draws on the unlimited energy of the mind. Sometimes it succeeds in its purpose immediately. Warm regards.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution…One Person at a Time in celebration of its five year anniversary along with quotes from the authors about their experience. Insigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. Leadership Is Influence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Simone Golob/Getty Images. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy. Operations in a Connected World. The first key ingredient is in how teams are selected.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors. The results of John Ratliff’s healing leadership have been dramatic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first introduced by academics , thousands of independent scientific studies have highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in relation to career success , job performance , entrepreneurship , and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We worked with philosophers at The School of Life to develop a set of questions capable of helping people to uncover deeper truths about their organizations, their brands and their own professional motivations: questions like, “Which of your brand’s flaws have you learned to ignore?” Great brands strive to be an antidote to indifference.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Guest post by Steve Coughran : In my two decades of business experience, I have encountered many different flavors of leadership. Some leaders are strong-willed and autocratic, some are open-minded and democratic, some employ laissez-faire, employee-centric leadership styles, and most fall somewhere in the middle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

A consistent, quantitative perspective on uncertainty not only builds the best foundation for making good management decisions but also provides a platform for developing a shared understanding of trade-offs, bridging disagreement and establishing accountability. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Blog Post ). Marco Iansiti and Karim R.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Blog Post ).

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