General Leadership

MARCH 29, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”. MIA HAMM. Leadership is often considered a downward directed affair, where the person in charge gives his or her vision to employees who follow the person in charge towards a common goal.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 29, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton I had the opportunity a few years ago to hear Michael Sandel, a professor from Harvard and author of What Money Can't Buy, speak about "the sky-boxification of society." He talked about how in many cases now you can buy your way into a better situation (or a sky box). This week, I'm in the process of reading Tom Friedman's book Thank You for Being Late and in it Friedman refers to and builds on Sandel's observations.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

This post is part of our 2017 Team Buzz Builder Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from Lisa Kosak of Green Thumb Leadership. When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s springtime! The trees are beginning to bud, and soon they will be in full bloom. I am reminded of the “great tree service debacle” several years ago. We had several beautiful trees that required spraying to ward off disease and bugs. Our tree service would come about four times during the season to spray the trees. […]. The post Clear Values Are a Business Imperative appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Women on Business

MARCH 29, 2017

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 29, 2017

As an ESFP-A on the Myers-Briggs personality test, I struggle with pleasing people. I want to make people happy. I want to make sure everyone is having a good time. In doing so, I have a hard time telling others no. Having this personality type doesn’t mean I can’t learn how to say no. I can and I’ve been working on saying no. If you’re like me, let’s dive into ways we can say no without hurting those we’re leading.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 29, 2017

New Giveaway!! 20 free copies of an 18 week journal for leaders!!!

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 29, 2017

It seems like a simple communication point but many of us forget to share the motivations behind our actions. As a result, we can leave people scratching their heads. Think about what grade you’d give yourself on how well you give employees feedback. Many of the executives I work with are brutally honest and give themselves an F. They don’t make giving feedback a standard part of meetings and discussions; they give general (“good job!

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LDRLB

MARCH 29, 2017

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School. Andy helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, NPRand Voice of America.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2017

Photo courtesy of Pixabay. So hey, here’s a shocking newsflash for you: starting and running a business is expensive. And if your expenses aren’t being eclipsed by your profits , then your business isn’t going to last very long at all. This is why you need to ensure you’re not making mistakes when it comes to those expenses. Here are some of the smart ways that new business owners can start cutting expenses – without cutting quality.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 29, 2017

Advice to young leaders I get asked frequently by young leader what I would you attribute most to my success in business, ministry or life. Great question. I love people who think. It takes intentionality to achieve much of the success we do in life. My first thought when I am asked, however, is usually “What success?” When I look back at my life, in many ways, I see a life scarred with personal failures and setbacks.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 29, 2017

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Mindfulness is the ability to stay focused, while being aware of your thoughts and surroundings and being able to recognize and move past distractions as they arise. In our information-saturated workplaces, this mental skill is becoming as important as emotional intelligence and technical skills. Research shows that people spend almost 47% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, which impairs their creativity, performance, and well-being.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 29, 2017

From Paul Smith's popular book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool : Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning happens in the workplace Stories put the listener in a mental learning mode Telling stories shows respect for the audience Smith goes on to sa

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Although we live in a world that glorifies self-belief and stigmatizes self-doubt, there are really only two advantages to thinking that you’re better than you actually are. The first is when you’re attempting to do a difficult task. Believing that you can do something difficult is half the battle, but if you truly overrate your abilities, then by definition you will fail.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. In "MAKING BIG DECISIONS BETTER" , Lewko provides tools that enable executives to develop a strategy for moving their companies toward greater profitability and market leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon aren’t just employing AI, but have made it a central part of their core intellectual property.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Many companies’ all-white, all-male executive teams make it quite clear how well corporate diversity efforts aimed at women and racial minorities are faring. Harder to discern is how firms are doing on the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. LGBT employees do not necessarily make their sexual orientation known in the workplace, and thus are sometimes considered an “invisible” minority.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Generosity burnout, explained.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring. Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. The best mentorships are more like the relationship between a parent and adult child than between a boss and employee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Now that Theresa May, the British prime minister, has announced that the UK will invoke Article 50 , triggering a two-year countdown to withdrawal from the European Union, some things have become clearer. Though it is hard to predict how a bargaining game involving strong emotions as well as economics will play out, we can offer some conjectures about what will happen.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle President Obama’s climate legacy and policies. The White House claims that these actions will help the economy in general, and coal workers in particular. It’s wrong. This administration has utterly bought into the false narrative that the economy and the environment are at odds.

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