Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

How fast do you answer emails and texts? Are you known for being responsive to interruptions or quick to weigh in on social media? Do you make it a point to hold time on your calendar every week to read, meet someone new, or just think? Stephen Covey shares a story: A time management expert was speaking to a group of business students, high-powered overachievers, and said, “Time for a quiz.” He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

W ILLIAM JAMES, one of the great thinkers of the late 19th century and the father of modern American psychology, has much to offer the modern executive. Here is just a small sample of how James’s insights have helped me in my career: “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”. Much of the time we should spend listening is spent preparing a response instead.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 11, 2017

No one like a Debbie Downer leader. By being negative, you’re bringing down everyone else. You don’t want this. It’s not only bad for morale, it’s bad for you. You lose your authority. You lose respect. And you lose the right to hold people accountable when THEY complain (how dare they, right?!?). That’s why we need to learn how to become more positive… 6 Ways To Become More Positive.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 11, 2017

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on the hard consequences of taking the easy way out, the crucibles, consolidation and power of a journal in leadership, 3 actions to be everyone’s favorite boss, 5 lessons on leadership and change from 5 years as an expat, and are you leading

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2017

You may enjoy your job immensely, but if you haven’t got good working relationships with the people you work with on a daily basis, it can make your life a misery. All it takes is one failed relationship to make your whole view on your job change completely. You may feel like you want to change jobs or you may feel like you’re unable to work with the individual in question.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 11, 2017

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Vincent Tsui for HBR. During the last 20 years, private equity (PE) investors have assumed an increasingly influential role in business, with publicly traded firms dropping from about 7,500 to 3,800. Today, large private equity firms not only buy and sell (phase 1), buy and hold (phase 2), but buy and transform (phase 3). This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Have you ever felt burned out at work after a vacation? I’m not talking about being exhausted from fighting with your family at Walt Disney World all week. I’m talking about how you knew , the whole time walking around Epcot, that a world of work was waiting for you upon your return. Our vacation systems are completely broken. They don’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

We are witnessing a worldwide surge in a certain type of leader claiming the highest offices of power — leaders who are confident, controlling, and strongly hierarchical. Indian voters elected the dominant Narendra Modi into power in 2014, Britain’s Nigel Farage saw his sharply argued views endorsed during the 2016 Brexit campaign, Donald Trump was elected president of the U.S. in 2016 after repeatedly promising to be “strong,” and autocratic Turkish president Recep Tayyi

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