Leading in Context
JUNE 28, 2017
By Linda Fisher Thornton As leaders, we are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethical behavior, and that includes interpersonal behavior (HOW we get the results we get, and how our behavior impact others). This week I'm sharing a review of behaviors that are a "NO GO" for ethical leaders. Click on each link to learn about why the behavior is outside the bounds of ethical leadership.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 28, 2017
I remember chairing a project meeting several years ago. My teammates got on a riff about not wanting to work with a particular person because that person had their own personal agenda. Perish the thought. I let them go on for a while. Then I said, “I don’t know if you realize it, but I have my own personal agenda too. In fact, it runs everything I do.” The room became silent.
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Leading Blog
JUNE 28, 2017
T HE AMERICA'S CUP is the world’s oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 when the schooner America crossed the Atlantic and beat 15 British yachts. The trophy became known as the America’s Cup for the winning yacht in 1851. This year at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda, Team New Zealand beat the defending Oracle Team USA. What made their victory possible was a new team with a new approach.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 28, 2017
The pain foolish leaders inflict on teams and organizations is tragic. (The damage foolish leaders cause warrants the uncomfortable term.) But there’s exciting news. Anyone with average intelligence can develop wisdom.
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Women on Business
JUNE 28, 2017
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Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 28, 2017
The Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 41 We all know social media has become an important part of our lives, even our businesses. Yet many leaders are reluctant to join social media and begin using it to enhance their reach. Why is it people are scared of social media? That’s what Bobby Umar and I discuss in this episode of the Answers From Leadership podcast.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Some relationships are permanent; examples can include our families, life partners, close friends, and professional colleagues. These are lifelong bonds we form with some people. Other relationships are transient. Transient relationships with friends, acquaintances, coworkers and colleagues can be highly enriching or quickly forgotten and last for a few days or a few years, either way, they are temporary.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 28, 2017
Photo courtesy of Pascal via flickr. Running a business is not easy, but running a functional assembly line is almost as difficult. It may seem easy upon first inspection, especially if you’re a new firm. Just hire the factory space and equipment, hire the staff, maybe even outsource this process, and you’ll be good to go, right? You’d be wrong. No matter how well staffed, how large your operation, or how trustworthy the firm is that you’re outsourcing to, it falls to you as the responsible bus
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Today, with all of the pressures of life and work, we’re busier and working harder than we ever have. Sometimes life can be difficult, things happen that we don’t like, and we get down. This is just a fact! My wonderful friend Frances Hesselbein (former CEO of the Girl Scouts and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom) has a saying that I love.
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 28, 2017
In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart , quote Donna Hicks 's explanation about how dignity is different from respect. Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth. Therefore, Espinoza and Schwarzbart recommend that leaders treat those they are leading with dignity and follow Hick's 10 Essential Elements of Dignity : Accept
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Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Our environment is full of triggers! Smells, sounds, sights barrage us constantly and can affect our actions in both our personal and professional lives. Some triggers are so powerful they can keep us from focusing on making meaningful change, and we unknowingly become a creation of the world around us rather than who we want to be. In this digital age, the biggest trigger is the Internet and advent of very sophisticated online media in all its varied forms.
Ron Edmondson
JUNE 28, 2017
I am not sure why you would want to, but just in case you ever did, I know some keys to creating an unhealthy team. Seriously, I realize no one intentionally sets out for unhealthiness, but I’ve seen it so many times. There are things which injure the health of a team. Perhaps understanding how it develops can help, because just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy team environment doesn’t happen without intentionality.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
What’s the most unusual investment system that will reap you benefits of a thousand fold? For me it’s been giving all of my material away on my website. You can copy, share, download, and duplicate it, it’s all free. I’ve been amazed at how many wonderful people I have met and wonderful experiences I have had because I do this. It’s more than I ever could have imagined!
Curious Cat
JUNE 28, 2017
I have created a new web site for my personal site. I hope you like it. The home page now shows selected blog posts I have written about management, as well as on other topics: investing, software development, travel, software testing, engineering, personal finance etc. The site allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed of my posts. The new site makes it easy to find the pages you desire via a drop down menu or using the search option.
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Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Dear Friends, Greetings from Seattle! The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. A couple of years ago, I attended a program led by my wonderful friend Ayse Birsel called Design the Life You Love.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2017
Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea? And if there is, do the potential gains in creativity produced by diversity come at the expense of interpersonal harmony and team cohesion?
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
When giving feedback to your superstar performers, the key issue to recognize is that the “no news is good news” feedback approach is not an effective management technique for handling them. Too often we assume that these individuals know how much we value their contributions and we take the lazy approach to providing feedback: “You know you’re doing a good job.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2017
We make thousands of decisions every day. Some are fairly simple — we decide when to wake up, what to have for breakfast, what to wear to work, which email to reply to — while others are more complex, requiring us to weigh different options. For example, when buying a laptop, we want to compare different models to find the best one for our budget; when choosing a retirement plan, we compare options to find one with the highest returns for our risk appetite; and when hiring, we compar
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Normally, successful people are highly committed to their work. Here is the problem: the more committed we are to a given path the harder it is for us to admit when it’s time to leave. This is why leaders need term limits – it is often just too difficult for them to set these for themselves. I have had the privilege of working with more than 120 CEOs.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2017
It’s all about data these days. Leaders don’t want to make decisions unless they have evidence. That’s a good thing, of course, and fortunately there are lots of ways to get information without having to rely on one’s instincts. One of the most common methods, particularly in online settings, is A/B testing. To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia Univ
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Social media has given us an incredible tool with which to reach millions and millions of people across the globe. With 7.5 billion people, and counting almost 2 billion on Facebook alone, as a leader, it is more important than ever to be thoughtful about what you post, tweet, and share. So, how do you know what to “tweet”? In the video interview that accompanies this blog, Todd Lombardo , digital marketer at Hastings Digital , recommends contemplating two questions when deciding what to sha
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2017
For years, the small East Texas town of Marshall has held a special status in patent litigation: poster city for opportunistic “patent trolling” lawsuits brought by nonpracticing entities, firms that amass patents for the sake of pursuing license fees and litigation. Thanks to last month’s Supreme Court ruling in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group , Marshall’s dominant position as a patent trolling venue may soon end.
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Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Feedback is very useful for telling us “where we are.” Without it, I couldn’t work with my clients. I wouldn’t know what the people around my client think about what he or she needs to change. Likewise, without feedback, we wouldn’t know if were getting better or worse. We all need feedback to see where we are, where we need to go, and to measure our progress along the way.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
Recently, I had the opportunity to do an online session with my friend Ben Croft for the WBECS 2017 Summit. Ben is president of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit and founder of Ethical Coach and he asked me to talk about my pay it forward project 100 Coaches. I jumped at the chance to do this and I am excited to share the video webinar with you in this week’s blog.
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