General Leadership

APRIL 11, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln. We all know the importance and emphasis placed on impressions, especially first impressions. As mentioned in a 2011 Forbes article by Carol Goman , in business a first impression is often formed within seven seconds.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 11, 2016

Today marks the one year anniversary of the launch of my book Wind In Your Sails: Vital Strategies That Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Success. The first chapter of my book is dedicated to how entrepreneurs achieve their peak performance and how to show up at their best for the people they lead. Leaders really do set the tone. In the year since publication of Wind In Your Sails, readers have told me that these principles apply to all leaders.

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ReImagine Work

APRIL 11, 2016

If you hear any version of these statements listed below on a regular basis, you may be a Chief Encouragement Officer. ( See the full article here at the Lead Change Group blog.). “I need to hang around you more often.”. “You are the most positive person.”. “You encourage my heart.”. It’s not about compliments. It’s about noticing what is important to another person and offering a boost in that area.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 11, 2016

Guest post by Sophorn Chhay Mobile marketing isn’t only for the customer, it’s a viable avenue for product managers, advertisers and even sales floor assistants. If your brand needs to jump-start its product resourcing department, it’d better invest in mobile.

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 11, 2016

At my farm in Michigan stands a barn that, according to a barn expert I recently spoke with, is well over 100 years old. There are older structures than this, of course. But this barn has served its multiple purposes well over years, and stands ready today for its next stage of life. Clearly, this […]. The post Built to Last: Five Leadership Principles Required for Long Term Success appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 11, 2016

U sually, a business doesn’t want to lose a customer. The customer is the one who is purchasing goods and bringing in income. Your employees are paid because someone is spending money in your organization. Your salary is paid for because of said customers. You don’t want to lose their business. But are you doing things that are encouraging your customers to leave?

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 11, 2016

A few years ago, former General Mills CEO Steve Sanger told nearly 100 of his colleagues: “As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so. I’m still not doing quite as well as I want, but I’m getting a lot better.

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ReImagine Work

APRIL 11, 2016

I so appreciate Cheryl Bachelder featuring my post at her site. Learn about the value of knowing why you lead. About Cheryl Bachelder: Cheryl has served as CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. since 2007. Ms. Bachelder has led a remarkable turnaround of the company’s financial results with a compelling strategic roadmap for growth and an inspiring purpose and set of principles.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2016

A few years ago, I wrote a short e-book, 12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health. After reading and presenting business books for over 15 years at that point, I identified 12 “categories” to work on within an organization. I am now seeing, with more clarity, that there are two “meta-areas” that we all need to… Read More Who is In Control? – It’s Better When You Are?

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 11, 2016

Prepping for an important presentation? As you’re purposefully planning, think about the following 10 criteria of a successful presentation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2016

This is the tenth anniversary of the Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude. In this year’s edition – ironically the 10th printing of the book, I have added content, new ideas and new lessons. Here’s one of the additions to get you thinking… To make it easier for you to understand where your attitude actually is at this very moment, I’ve created a list for you to rate yourself.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 11, 2016

I love organizational leadership. I especially love attempting to lead healthy organizations. I have been in both environments – healthy and non-healthy. I prefer healthy. If truth be told, I’ve probably been the leader in both extremes. And, there are seasons when every organization is healthier than others. Over the years of leading I’ve observed a few things which can be the enemy of organizational health.

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Managing Communities

APRIL 11, 2016

Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 11, 2016

We have several events scheduled throughout 2016 for those interested in applying Dr. Deming’s ideas today. Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives. May 23-25, 2016 in Hauppauge, New York. 2 1/2 day seminar with Kelly Allan and Lynda Finn. This seminar is aimed at those interested in implementing Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (a.k.a.

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Management

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

A rising young executive found herself strategically ousted in an internal power play. Jill had all the chops to rise to the corner office: consistent top 10% performer, hardworking, intelligent, personable, driven, multilingual, an MBA from a top-tier school. Handwritten thank-you notes from the CEO proudly adorned her wall. What happened? When I met Jill (not her real name), she was struggling to make sense of her career setback. “I was universally liked across the company, a team player

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The next time you head into a conversation you’re dreading, rest assured that the other party is probably equally uncomfortable. Better yet, your counterpart may even go out of his or her way to make you feel at ease. These findings come from a recent survey conducted by Fractl in which we asked nearly 1,100 people about difficult conversations at work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Good management matters. If you’re reading this you probably don’t need convincing, but one of the most significant milestones in economic research over the last several years was documenting empirically that it really is true. A new paper builds on this work and takes it one step further. Its main finding is that the difference between well-managed and poorly managed firms depends in large part on the quality of the people they hire as managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

laura schneider FOR HBR. Ask managers responsible for global business development how they determined their companies’ growth potential when they entered new international markets, and most will cite an array of positive factors external to their organizations, things such as favorable country-specific economic and market trends, rising GDP, a growing middle class, increasing incomes, and strong demand for high-quality goods and services.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders. Kleiner Perkins is famous for making some of the world’s best investments , including early stakes in Compaq, Genentech, Google, and Amazon.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Silicon Valley has a problem when it comes to diversity — and everybody knows it. There have been prominent arguments by writers from across the political spectrum in places such as The Atlantic, Mother Jones, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and big stories in the business press in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, and Fortune. There have been reports on CNN and PBS and Fox Business.

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