General Leadership
AUGUST 14, 2017
Anyone can put their head down and power through life, however, it takes a mature person to understand that how you live is equally important as what you accomplish. -The Five Be’s. We sat in the Officer’s Club at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho: three lieutenants with cold beers in hand trying to impress each other with the hours we were working.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 14, 2017
Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”. This quote comes to mind whenever I think of my personal and professional improvement over the lifespan of my career. I am a firm believer that if one expects to improve, one must invest the time to hone and work on their skill daily until they achieve the goal.
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 14, 2017
T HE SECRET to the visionaries we celebrate is that they made connections that others overlooked. They saw their hunches as opportunities. They are smart people to be sure, but their A-ha moments come from “their prolonged practice of being curious, empathetic and imaginative.” It is possible to be intentional about this process—to harness your creativity and imagination and seek out opportunities to create and serve.
Career Advancement
AUGUST 14, 2017
“As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone. ~ Bill Walsh ~. Diego Asks: I’m a fairly new boss in a large organization. Sometimes it seems like I’m invisible. My superiors don’t seem to interact much with me. And my employees go on in the old ways and don’t listen to me much. How can I be a better leader ?
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Women on Business
AUGUST 14, 2017
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 14, 2017
Tension between Dreamers and Doers is predictable and useful. Unfortunately, when misunderstood, tension creates drama and feels personal. Mutual irritation: Dreamers think about what will go right.
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Next Level Blog
AUGUST 14, 2017
Photo credit: Justin Gilliland – The New York Times. If you’ve been avoiding the news lately, I can understand that. It’s not a particularly uplifting time in the United States and the world. In case you missed it, though, I wanted to share a wedding announcement from the New York Times. The newlyweds are 98-year-old Gert and 94-year-old Alvin.
Kevin Eikenberry
AUGUST 14, 2017
While we might think (or wish) that communication were as simple as the words we say being the message, that isn’t reality. The truth is there is far more to our message getting received than just our words. If you have ever been misunderstood in an email, text or instant message, you know what I […]. The post Using Body Language to Communicate More Effectively appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
CO2
AUGUST 14, 2017
If you aren’t sure, you’re not alone. According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan.
LDRLB
AUGUST 14, 2017
Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an author, speaker, and technology innovator who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was hired to lead corporate social innovation. She is a frequent international speaker on business, innovation and social media, and has been invited to deliver trainings and keynotes at such varied organizations and events as The United Nations, Verizon, Toyota, South by Southwest, TEDx, The Masha
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CO2
AUGUST 14, 2017
If you aren’t sure, you’re not alone. According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan.
LDRLB
AUGUST 14, 2017
Andrew Davis is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker. Before co-founding, building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, Andrew Davis created programming for local television, produced for NBC’s Today Show, worked for The Muppets in New York and wrote for Charles Kuralt. He has marketed for tiny start-ups and Fortune 500 brands.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 14, 2017
A good manager is both a coach and a counselor. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. As a coach , a manager: identifies an employee's need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. Coaching is collaborative. It relies on mutual, progressive goal-setting, personal feedback, and an ongoing, supportive relationship.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2017
Firms often struggle with finding the best way to motivate their salesforce. How much of a rep’s compensation should consist of a fixed salary and how much should be based on commission? Should commissions be capped? What’s the effectiveness of bonuses and other incentives? And so on. While past quantitative research has investigated some of these issues, in our recent study we focused on an under-researched aspect of salesforce compensation: sales quotas.
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LDRLB
AUGUST 14, 2017
Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2017
We all know we should take time away from work. But too often we let our constant busyness and the threat of looming deadlines keep us from going on vacations. This has consequences for our stress levels, our teams, and our organizations. It also costs us. According to research by Project: Time Off , an organization that studies vacation time in the U.S., most Americans don’t use all of their vacation days.
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 14, 2017
In my career, I work with a lot of people in a lot of settings. You might say my job involves a lot of relationships. In the process, I have learned the key to healthy relationships is communication. Communication is an art of sorts. Some are better at it than others. I have seen relationships destroyed because of poor communication. I know marriages which could improve if we improved the communication in the marriage.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2017
Despite all the mandatory trainings on sexual harassment that have taken place in American workplaces over the last two decades, the problem seems to be getting worse. Sex discrimination claims made to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are up about 10% in the last 20 years. Some of that is surely due to increased reporting, but some is also the result of changing gender dynamics in society.
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