Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Using resistance to lead effectively. If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself! Understanding resistance. The leader understands the source of resistance and deals with it adequately. Some typical sources are: It could be that the team member simply doesn’t like you. Not that it’s your task to be liked by everyone, yet it could be a veiled message that there’s insufficient trust or that they don’t feel taken seriou

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Leadership lessons from The Book Of Mistakes I recently had the pleasure of reading The Book Of Mistakes. Skip Prichard, my friend and a leadership guru himself, penned this fiction book with success principles woven throughout the missive. The Book Of Mistakes tells the story of a young man named David. David is stressed out and losing hope. Then a chance encounter with a young woman (no, this is not a romance novel) changes the course of David’s life.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The top three communication issues that hold leaders back: 63% – Not recognizing employee achievement. 57% – Not giving clear direction. 52% – Not having time to meet with employees.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. How To Increase Trust With The Power of Intention By Will Wise ( @TanveerNaseer ), Tanveer Naseer “Have you ever been in a meeting and wondered, ‘Why am I here?’ Or worse yet, have you ever lead a meeting while others quietly asked themselves, ‘Why am I here?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

HBR staff/Bettmann Collection/Getty Images. Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. It accounts for about 2.5% of all book sales in the United States. Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. However, research shows that much of the advice extolled may be misleading or even wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Ralf Hiemisch/Getty Images. The subject of sexual misconduct at work is dominating mainstream conversation and board room agendas. This doesn’t just mean men and women who run large global enterprises, Fortune 500 behemoths, film studios, and media platforms. The conversation is happening in small businesses as well. In the U.S. 43% of employees work in organizations with 50 or fewer people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Paul Reid/Getty Images. Dorothea loved her new workplace and was highly motivated to perform. Her managers were delighted with her high engagement, professionalism, and dedication. She worked long hours to ensure that her staff was properly managed, that her deadlines were met, and that her team’s work was nothing short of outstanding. In the first two months, she single-handedly organized a large conference – marketing and organizing all the details of the conference and filling it

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