Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Networking was the last thing on my mind, entering the sauna naked except for a small towel to sit on. I understand that networking is an essential business skill. It connects us with people to build mutually successful business relationships, gain knowledge, share resources, and expand our ability to make a positive difference. Many of us are resistant or ambivalent to networking, seeing it as a necessary evil associated with being inauthentic, pretentious, and disingenuous.

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Leading in Context

MAY 30, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton The question for today is "Can we control ethics?" Leaders have tried to control ethics with compliance-based systems (based on rules and penalties) but that does not tend to inspire people to ethical action. Leaders have tried to control ethics by running a tight ship, closely managing workers, but that does not bring out the best in people and may lead to workers not caring about protecting the company's reputation. .

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Leadership Freak

MAY 30, 2018

Children develop leading-up skills at an early age. Most of them teach us things we shouldn’t do. Leading-up from a two-year-old’s perspective: Bargaining. “I’ll be good.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 30, 2018

Relationships Matter Man, being a leader makes you busy. When I begin to think of all the things on my plate, I begin to wonder how I’m able to fit everything into my week. From leading youth to leading in the workplace to writing this blog to taking care of my body and relationships, life is busy. Photo by Helena Lopes. Do you feel the same way?

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Women on Business

MAY 30, 2018

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 30, 2018

Kristen Campos, Senior Director of Strategic Business Communications for Mars Wrigley Confectionery, has an undeniable superpower: she’s a master at navigating change. For that reason and several others, Kristen is definitely Someone to Know. The integration of the Mars Chocolate and Wrigley segments over the past year has brought a great deal of change to the organization, with more than 34,000 associates coming together under one global entity.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 30, 2018

You sincerely want to help, but what if you employ strategies and habits that cause harm. Sincerity doesn’t erase incompetence.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Thomas Schlick Every hiring manager I’ve known is always out to hire “top talent” – people who are rock stars in their field. These new hires come with sterling resumes and are part of a carefully orchestrated recruiting effort. Having typically been flown in from out of state, these high-performance individuals go through a wonderful interviewing process, which often includes lunch with the CEO or another senior executive.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 30, 2018

Several years ago an important team principle was shaped for me during what was really a normal season in our organization. We were in a fast growth period, but that, thankfully, was normal for us. As far as I knew things were healthy on our team. We had all the right players on board and some clarity of where we were going. Team friction developed on our team though.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Gary Cohen If you consider that when I was in college in the early 1980s, the world population was 3 Billion people. Today the world population is 7 Billion. While death by disease, war, and famine are down significantly the complexity has more than doubled. Take a look at just one institution like the Department of Education. When forming there were only 4 million students in the system today there are 52 million.

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Izell Leadership

MAY 30, 2018

Listening Research has found the most successful sales people spend 75% or more of their time in front of customers listening and less than 25% talking. In contrast, people who have short careers in sales spend 90% or more of their time in front of the customer talking and less than 10% allowing the customer to speak. This only makes sense because we cannot learn while talking.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Gary Cohen In reviewing recent surveys of top leaders by The Conference Board, Bain, World Economic Forum the six most significant and top challenges CEOs face that need to be addressed by organizations are: Attracting, Growing and Retaining trustworthy and capable Leadership Integrating Social Responsibility into the business model. Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making Effectively making and executing the decisions Ability to execute the strategy with the righ

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Izell Leadership

MAY 30, 2018

Listening. Research has found the most successful sales people spend 75% or more of their time in front of customers listening and less than 25% talking. In contrast, people who have short careers in sales spend 90% or more of their time in front of the customer talking and less than 10% allowing the customer to speak. This only makes sense because we cannot learn while talking.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Thomas Schlick. Every hiring manager I’ve known is always out to hire “top talent” – people who are rock stars in their field. These new hires come with sterling resumes and are part of a carefully orchestrated recruiting effort. Having typically been flown in from out of state, these high-performance individuals go through a wonderful interviewing process, which often includes lunch with the CEO or another senior executive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Quality Sport Images/Getty Images. The game had ended. The applause had died down, and people had gone home. His work was done, now he could rest. So he took off his cleats and he sat down. Someone took a picture , and it went viral. Andrés Iniesta, one of the most gifted and successful soccer players of his generation, barefoot, alone, on the pitch of Camp Nou, the stadium of FC Barcelona — Barca, as the fans call it — after he had played his last game for the club.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Gary Cohen. If you consider that when I was in college in the early 1980s, the world population was 3 Billion people. Today the world population is 7 Billion. While death by disease, war, and famine are down significantly the complexity has more than doubled. Take a look at just one institution like the Department of Education. When forming there were only 4 million students in the system today there are 52 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images. Earlier this month, Google unveiled remarkable new capabilities for its automated assistant. They’re based on Google’s growing expertise in artificial intelligence (AI). Perhaps the most dramatic, and, to look at the deluge of commentary, troubling, demonstration was the ability of Google AI to make phone calls that imitate a human.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Gary Cohen. In reviewing recent surveys of top leaders by The Conference Board, Bain, World Economic Forum the six most significant and top challenges CEOs face that need to be addressed by organizations are: Attracting, Growing and Retaining trustworthy and capable Leadership. Integrating Social Responsibility into the business model. Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

afp/Getty Images. Nearly one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the official death toll for the disaster stands at 64. However, a new study , published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, estimates that at least 4,645 people have died as a consequence of the storm. That is more than 70 times the official estimate. Perhaps most worrisome, it is not at all clear that we are taking steps to mitigate the consequences of future hurricanes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Max Oppenheim/Getty Images. Think about something you’re having a hard time getting started on, something important to you. Maybe it’s a particular kind of work — like writing a proposal or crafting a particularly delicate email. Maybe it’s an important conversation you know you need to have with someone that you haven’t had.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

artpartner-images/Getty Images. For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. Relatively small sums of time and money can quickly yield generous returns. With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

MirageC/Getty Images. We see a paradox in two important analytics trends. The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% to 17.3%—a whopping 198% increase.

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Career

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

VANDAL Photography/Getty Images. Shonda Rhimes, with four television shows simultaneously in production, is an entertainment industry titan. In a recent TED talk, she described her deep passion for her work: “When I’m hard at work, when I’m deep in it, there is no other feeling…It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon.

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