Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The first thing you’ve got to let go in order to be a great leader is the stereotype in your head. Good leaders come in every shape and size. Some are indeed smartly dressed, tall and authoritative. Others, however, might be short, introverted or less domineering in their approach. Leaders come in every shape and form. Trying to fit yourself into the stereotypical role might end up selling you short, as you actually hide away your best skills and try to do things in a way that doesn’t suit you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

She looked right at me and yelled across the gym floor with conviction, “You are a dancer!” Now there are a lot of labels I’m ready to buy: “You are a leader!” I hope so. “You are a Mom!” Well, that one could go both ways, couldn’t it? Anything from “Good job, Mom” to “Is this your kid?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Leaders face an ever-growing number of challenges leading their organization in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. One of the more common issues a leader has to address is dealing with change. In most cases, when we talk about change, the focus is often on the process – of what steps we need to implement to ensure we achieve a successful outcome.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We sat across from each other in our coaching session. He was a strong leader who didn’t normally have these heart to heart conversations with anyone. Yet at this moment, he felt compelled to tell me about his child, a kid who didn’t fit into the world as “normal”, requiring a great deal of his love and time. This child was what mattered most in the world to him.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Many of us aspire to great leadership. But how do we recognize what great leadership even looks like? What are the attributes that make leaders great? Here’s one of the most important: Highly effective leaders don’t rely on what they know but constantly work to improve who they are and what they do. Success usually lies between who you are and who you want to be, what you want to do and where you want to go.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Strong organizations are a collection of vibrant connections that energize meaningful results. Leaders that connect: Disconnection is expecting more from others than you expect from yourself.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When we fail to give others the benefit of the doubt, it’s entirely too easy to perceive one’s words or actions in the worst possible way – which isn’t good for us and isn’t good for the other person. However, when we give people the benefit of the doubt, a lot of good happens. Check […]. The post The Benefit of the Doubt Principle appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Strong organizations are a collection of vibrant connections that energize meaningful results. Leaders that connect: Disconnection is expecting more from others than you expect from yourself.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Steve and I took Avi and Noa to see Disney’s Moana recently, which is a wonderful tale about a young girl who leaves the safety of her island to save her people. Along the way, she has amazing adventures and learns a ton about herself. Early on in the animated tale, the 16-year-old Moana ponders leaving her island, which no one in her family or tribe ever does.

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Running a business means having to hit sales targets. If you keep falling short and making fewer sales than you would ideally like to, you should try to rethink your strategy. Sales don’t need to slump and decline for your business. You just need to learn more about what drives sales and what you can do to get your approach to those things right. Below, you will find information on the four most important things for your business to possess as it strives to drive up sales.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Time is one of the greatest assets of any leader. Learning to balance a leader’s time effectively is often a key in determining the level of success the leader attains. In my experience, every leader has three critical segments where they must invest their time on a regular basis. It also seems to me leaders tend to do one of these especially well, so by default they spend most of their time on that one – often to the neglect of the other two.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. But Daniels wasn’t a typical student: She was 99 years old. In the COC press release about her graduation, Daniels indicated that she wanted to get her degree simply to better herself; her six years of school during that pursuit were a testament to her will, determination, and commitment to learning.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Yes, it will take you some time to read Joshua Spodek 's new book, Leadership Step by Step. Yes, it will be a little like doing "homework." Yes, this is a book you'll read and likely need to revisit a few times for the concepts to fully sink in. Yes, this is a book you must read if you want to become the person others will follow. The time and effort you put into, Leadership Step by Step , will be well worth it!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Although women make up 40% of the global workforce , they hold only 24% of senior management roles around the world — a figure that has not changed significantly over the past decade. Of chief executive officers of S&P 500 firms, only about 5% are women. Why aren’t more talented women moving up? Researchers have pointed to an array of reasons, from explicit discrimination to promotion processes that quietly favor men, but one of the most perplexing is that women themselves aren&#

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal drew a lot of media attention, particularly around the intense pressure on staff to meet sales goals. But far less attention has been paid to how the bank actively discouraged whistleblowing. Several Wells Fargo employees alleged that they had surfaced concerns about the pressure to meet impossible sales targets at branch offices.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Amid the political uncertainties that continue to cloud the future of U.S. health care, one thing hasn’t changed: Patients, clinicians, health plans, payers, and policy makers are still striving to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. Given the heavy financial burden that health care is imposing on the country, the top priority should be fundamentally changing the way we care for high-cost, high-risk patients.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. The challenge is that executives tend to focus on one of these areas to the exclusion of the others, but what really matters for performance is how they all fit together.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before they even aired, several of the Super Bowl LI ads created a vortex of turbulence and backlash. Five of the ads have been seen as either coincidentally or conspiratorially addressing social issues that divide the U.S. populace, especially in the wake of our last election. But most Super Bowl ads take many months of planning. They are such high-risk propositions that there may be dozens of different executions (one colleague reports that a client made 30 versions of an ad) that are tested b

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