Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence and the Lead Change Group , is a monthly publication of thought leadership from some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership. Check out Top Gun Rules and follow Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership. Diversity, Language & Miscommunication.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 97

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

You can also advocate recycling and go for energy-efficient practices. Conduct an audit of your machinery and choose the most energy-efficient alternatives. As a business, you can help them by making regular contributions or sponsoring their projects. Provide diversity training within the organization.

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Supply Chain Ethics NGO Education 91

Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Non-stealing in leadership involves not stealing (but instead giving) opportunities, knowledge, and acknowledgment to team members. Mentor them as they work through a special project or assignment on their own. Positive communication and mindfulness foster focus and protect valuable energy.

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Ethics Construction Energy Team 301

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Modern ways of working require us to consistently tap into our cognitive powers, creative energy, and collective genius. The trick is to be ruthless in managing our energy so that it can expand and become boundless.

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Altman Self-aware Short-term Learning-by-Doing 379

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 15, 2018

I’d guess it’s unlikely that you think of your leadership team in this way. So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. A Superhero strategy isn’t necessarily bad, and it’s certainly better than having no leadership strategy at all.

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Strategy Leadership Agility Definition 212

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Don’t just say “we value collaboration,” define what collaboration looks like in practice – regular team meetings, shared documents, cross-functional projects. Celebrate cultural diversity while nurturing a shared identity. Remember, granularity is key. Imagine building a magnificent house without a blueprint.

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Team Workshop Team Building Mission Statement 162

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Diversity and complementary skill sets are key. Google and many other firms have officially recognized this entrepreneurial type with a 20 percent or 10 percent rule, allowing staffers to pursue their own project ideas on company time (this has led to Gmail, Google Maps, and Google AdSense, among other G-Suite products).

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Entrepreneur Diversity Magazine Film 355

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

Linking Leadership to Learning. From there, she is not mired in details or practicalities; instead, she is able to imagine an ideal situation and detect patterns in emotional energy, events, and interactions. She values diversity, novelty, and creativity; yet, she tunes out when she detects tunnel vision or monotonous repetition.

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Diversity Brainstorming Creativity Project 200

CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Questions that sound stylistically dissimilar can be, at their core, the same type of question. Towards the end of a multi-day strategic planning session for our leadership team last year, our facilitator asked, “Can we really do all of this?” The energy in the room started to feel sluggish and heavy. How can we accomplish this?”

Leadership 78

Leadership Welch Bottom-up Innovation 78

CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Questions that sound stylistically dissimilar can be, at their core, the same type of question. Towards the end of a multi-day strategic planning session for our leadership team last year, our facilitator asked, “Can we really do all of this?” The energy in the room started to feel sluggish and heavy. How can we accomplish this?”

Leadership 78

Leadership Welch Bottom-up Innovation 78

The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” That takes leadership skill. Servant-leadership.

Team 124

Team Teamwork Goleman How To 124

QAspire

MARCH 11, 2014

Supervisors commanded and controlled others and leadership was often equated with “taking power”. Most successful projects and teams I have seen have one thing in common – effective collaboration. At the very foundation of collaborative leadership are respect for people, individual competence and engaging communication.

Leadership 173

Leadership Self-aware Bottom-up Project 173

Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

T AKING ON A POSITION of leadership comes with assuming risk, encountering organizational challenges, and being a moral role model for an organization. Three attributes that are critical to taking on the mantle of leadership are decision-making, resiliency, and character. Character is the foundation of leadership.

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Welch Servant Leader Short-term Executive Coaching 251

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. Those companies are much less likely to find the best and most comprehensive leadership qualities and candidates, because they are limiting their view of the world. My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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Leadership Globalization CEO Telecommunications 189

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. Encourage self-expression and diversity of thought.

Competitive Advantage 285

Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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Project Resources Newsletter Strategic Planning 56

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Meetings represent values, like points of light emanating from, and projecting to, every part of the organization’s culture. What do they say about meeting leadership and culture? How much diversity is encouraged? Taken together, an organization’s meetings are its culture. Who attends them?

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Agility Emotional Intelligence Goleman Participative 131

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a truly remarkable interview with Monique Herena, we talk about American Express’s The Ambition Project , leadership resilience, and what we can do to help women propel into leadership roles. What is the number one leadership competency required in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable world? . Thriving Through Change .

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Project Globalization Diversity Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2011

Using the StrategyDriven Value of Employee Productivity nomograph and method outlined here, organization leaders can gain a better appreciation for the direct monetary value associated with a change in employee productivity and begin to better value their diversity and inclusion initiatives. Not a StrategyDriven Premium Member?

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ROI Project Productivity Products 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, some projects are so important that board members and company officers literally bet the company’s very existence on the successful outcome of the initiative.

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Project Management Long-term Newsletter 58

The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you were asked to make an important presentation at a well-attended conference on best practices you and your team had uncovered while working on a high-visibility project of importance, how much time and mental energy would you dedicate to ensuring that presentation was both efficient and well-received?

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How To Situational Leadership Efficiency Objective 98

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2010

While project schedules should assign individuals or groups of individuals to each task, the schedule itself is not likely to include minute tasks or to clearly assign the very specific nuanced contribution of each individual within a group assigned to a task.

Project 56

Project Management Newsletter Strategic Planning 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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Diversity 62

Diversity Newsletter Strategic Planning Comparison 62

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With passion and purpose working for you, you bring more energy per hour of work. Getting other people on board takes more than just explaining the merits of your project. Enlist others to help move your project forward. The trick is to encourage constructive fights in meetings with cognitive diversity.

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Learning-by-Doing Commitment Participative Performance Review 208

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

And the amount of administrative work increases with the scope and complexity of the project. If singularly assigned to project specialists, this work detracts from these individuals’ productivity; unnecessarily inflating time and monetary costs. You need to be logged in as a StrategyDriven Premium Member to view our premium content.

Project 56

Project Management Newsletter Diversity 56

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. I have those any other live TV gems on DVD. Book value is not guaranteed.

Energy 77

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 77

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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Objective Cooper Influence Simon 200

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

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ROI 50

ROI Project Productivity Products 50

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 25, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership-related topic. The variety adds depth, diversity and strength.

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Due Diligence Cooper Proposal Goal 150

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. By implementing small, cost-effective pilot projects that demonstrate the potential of new ideas, organizations can counteract these clichés with tangible results (Brown, 2018). The Power of Diversity in Organizations.

Strategy 78

Strategy P&L Taylorism Taylor 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This unavoidable phenomenon increases the risk of project duplication and diversion of funds from relatively high value projects to less impactful ones. To avoid this risk requires informing management decisions with comparable, value-based data related to the entire body of organizational initiatives.

Project 50

Project Management Newsletter Diversity 50

Women on Business

APRIL 15, 2011

I do recommend you build a team of people with strengths different from yours, so you can get overlap and a diversity of perspectives. However, if you’re in leadership at your organization or business and you believe in the viability of your idea, then you make the call – move forward with your idea.

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Diversity Energy Marketing Project 209

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. The trick is to be focused.

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Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

This month we are featuring Marcella Bremer , publisher of Leadership and Change Magazine. She liked the diversity of subjects taught so she guessed it would satisfy her curiosity. From then on, she followed the flow of her energy and of opportunities that aligned with her interests. ” She first went to business school.

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Learning-by-Doing Open-book Magazine Diversity 150

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. I’m super excited to put those things into practice and to continue to grow my leadership skills as a result. Those conversations sparked an important friendship. An Excerpt from Tammy’s Important Letter.

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Career Letter Insurance Books 298

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Women may make up more than half the workforce 1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, a long-time leader in advocating for corporate diversity.

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Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50