Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 11, 2017

When I look back on my career at Verizon at the times my teams truly knocked it out the park–the times we increased results exponentially and led the Nation in results or had a major turnaround pulling a team out of the abyss, there is one common characteristic. We had the team laser-focused on the one or two critical behaviors that mattered most at the frontline– and they were doing them consistently.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 11, 2017

The following is a guest piece by Dr. Derek Roger and Nick Petrie. It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it Talking comes so naturally to us we tend to forget just how much skill is involved. Even when we’re speaking fast, every word is selected as the appropriate one, from a huge collection we have stored in our brains. We weren’t born with language; all the words, and the rules governing them, had to be learned.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

I remember listening to a company director one day, musing on his observations of employees. “I’d like to see everyone want to develop and advance, you know, show more initiative and ambition.”. I commend him on wanting to see the humans beings in his organization grow, develop and succeed. At the same time I couldn’t help but think that if everyone were as ambitious as he, they would all be lining up for his job.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 11, 2017

Many organizations today are interested in the wellness and wellbeing of their people. They promote wellness programs that encourage exercise and mindfulness. Few, however, address the number one health problem. In a 2016 interview with Politico, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said the most common illness today isn’t heart disease. It isn’t diabetes.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2017

Excuses are an attempt to lower expectations. Excuse makers are explaining why you should accept lackluster performance. It’s dangerous, degrading, and demoralizing. Excuse makers don’t want you to expect too much from them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 11, 2017

You hire a plumber to fix a plumbing problem. You hire a doctor to deal with a health issue. Likewise, you need to hire a coach for the right reasons. Otherwise, working with an executive coach can be a waste of effort. An executive coach can help you to realize your full potential. However, working with a coach takes a lot of effort and time on your part.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 11, 2017

Every day, people are promoted into leadership who are completely unqualified to lead. People are placed in a leadership role because they’re a good performer who’s overdue for a promotion or because they act the part—even though they’re completely unequipped to motivate or coach people. Or the board selects a CEO who excels at processes and procedures but doesn’t connect with people.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 11, 2017

Success doesn’t come easy, and the more complex the challenge, the harder it can be to communicate effectively with your team. Sometimes, the more you talk, the more words can get in the way. One way to cut through the noise is modeling success. If you can show them what success looks like, it can help them visualize what they need to do, improve teamwork, and get you a positive result a lot faster.

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CEO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

I just finished reading - T he Happiness Equation; Want Nothing+Do Anything=Have Everything by Neil Pasricha. It is a great book. I like that the book started saying something like take what parts you like and it is ok to not agree with everything because I do not agree with everything. Some of the ideas I liked: 1 - He believes in exercise. 2 - He has a concept of the 20 min replay.

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 11, 2017

There is an interactive exercise that I often do with groups of leaders where we work together to compile a list of ideas for how to make feedback more successful. And there is one idea that makes the list just about every time: Feedback needs to be clear. I completely agree and today I am […]. The post Making Feedback Clear appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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CEO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

I just finished reading - T he Happiness Equation; Want Nothing+Do Anything=Have Everything by Neil Pasricha. It is a great book. I like that the book started saying something like take what parts you like and it is ok to not agree with everything because I do not agree with everything. Some of the ideas I liked: 1 - He believes in exercise. 2 - He has a concept of the 20 min replay.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 11, 2017

Change implementation often crosses functional lines in organizations. For example, consider a project designed to improve inventory accuracy, which is driven by the supply chain function, but requires adoption by people in operations who will use the system. The people in operations don’t report to the supply chain function, so the change may not be […].

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QAspire

APRIL 11, 2017

“For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn. I started creating sketch notes only in mid of 2015 as an experiment to learn better and simplify ideas. Little did I know that this experiment will grow into something amazing. I have been in pursuit of simplifying ideas and extract signals in a noisy world since 2009 when I wrote my first book #QUALITYtweet.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 11, 2017

Listen to Podcast. Summary. We all have strengths and we all have weaknesses. What are the three basic types of weaknesses, and how should we approach them? We’ll look at that in our Thought of the Day. And in our interview segment, we’ll hear from renowned Executive Leadership Coach, Lolly Daskal. She’ll take a look at the gaps that can keep any of us from realizing our full leadership potential, how we can recognize them, and how we can fill in those gaps.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 11, 2017

The nature of leadership is changing rapidly. As we work with leaders at all levels, I’ve seen firsthand that many of them are operating without a clear understanding of the critical competencies needed to succeed. These skills are different in many ways than skills needed in the past. As a result, leaders aren’t getting the best from their people or themselves, and their organizations are missing out on opportunities.

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Management Excellence

APRIL 11, 2017

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Imagine you need people to donate to a cause you care about. How do you get as many people as possible to donate? You could send an email to 200 of your friends, family members, and acquaintances. Or you could ask a few of the people you encounter in a typical day—face-to-face—to donate. Which method would mobilize more people for your cause?

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 11, 2017

Most of the time we think small. It’s normal. Why do we think small? We’re usually trying to closely track many of the details of our work. The phone calls, the email follow-ups, the elements of the project, or cleaning up after other people. The nature of our position makes us forget to see the ENTIRE forest because we are focused on every single tree.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Three years later, many of these ambitious ventures will have quietly expired without an obituary. Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. The problem isn’t that large companies lack good ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 11, 2017

Much of what a leader does can seem unproductive at times – and that is a good thing. For someone wired for production and progress – a checklist type person – unproductive time may even seem like wasted time. I’ll admit, even though this is in my leadership knowledge, I have to discipline myself to practice them sometimes. Yet, every good leader I know specializes in intangible actions which don’t always produce visible, immediate results.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

You’ve decided to leave the organization, and the decision was driven by your needs as a working parent. Maybe you’re taking a new job with fewer hours or less travel so you can spend more time with the kids; maybe you’re “up-ramping” and taking on a position with more responsibility, pressure, and pay – so you can afford those looming college bills; or maybe you’ve decided to put your focus on responsibilities at home before looking for a different oppo

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David A Fields

APRIL 11, 2017

If you’re in the hunt for a consulting project, you want to become the obvious choice. The key to achieving that goal can be summarized in a single word: dessert discovery. But how do you start discovery? The better you understand your prospect, the more likely you are to close a consulting deal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the automobile. In so doing, it will transform much more than that. Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

The idea that leaders should follow a set of sound principles and support policies that reflect their own values is a widely held standard, and for good reason. But there is a downside to integrity. In our research , we have found that when leaders behave with high integrity, their followers may compromise their own. They create a façade of conformity, suppressing their own values and views and pretending to share the organization’s values in order to survive and succeed at work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

During the Senate hearings on whether he should become the next justice of the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch maintained iron discipline in refusing to commit himself to any position that could count against him. Gorsuch maintained a steadfastly calm demeanor, but he showed his cards in one regard: He could not help repeatedly interrupting the liberal female senators.

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