Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 17, 2013
'You’ve got a new job, a new team, or a new project. Credibility is vital, but people are skeptical. Questioning eyes wonder, “who is this guy?” “why him?” “seriously?” Their looks intimidate. And you wonder, “why me?” “What are they thinking?” ”yikes, they look pretty smart.” And the downward spiral begins.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Over my career, I’ve watched as the yearning for leadership has grown within the female ranks around the globe. But being a woman in leadership hasn’t been and still isn’t available to all qualified women who work hard and would make excellent leaders. The glass ceilings are starting to break away, but some cultures still have a long way [.].
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Persuasive Powerhouse
APRIL 17, 2013
'My youngest daughter’s teachers were always telling my husband and I that she needed to speak up more. She spent a lot of time alone in her room, reading and doing puzzles. Teachers told us our oldest daughter needed to stop talking so much in class. She was always out and about socializing with a large group of friends. You get the picture. My youngest is an introvert, the oldest an extravert.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership [link] There may be a slight difference between the words react and respond. Yet, in practice, there seems to be a gulf of difference. When people react, it seems to be defensive. Responding, though, is more thoughtful. Responses contain reasoning. If mindfulness is being more centered within and aware of others, then this is a practice we [.].
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Leading in Context
APRIL 17, 2013
'By Linda Fisher Thornton Dialogue is a powerful tool for developing ethical organizations. Workplace issues are complex and opinions will always vary about what ethical behavior means. This combination creates a kind of "murky uncertainty" that keeps employees from giving us their best, most ethical performance.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 17, 2013
'The success of his nighttime ride almost 240 years ago is a testament to effective matrix leadership skills–and a lesson for today’s leaders. Guest post by Signe Spencer, Hay Group. A few months ago, I would never have considered Paul Revere a useful example of a matrix leader. I always thought of him as the prototypical lone hero, galloping through the night shouting “the British are coming,” more or less at random, to rouse the countryside.
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Leadership Freak
APRIL 17, 2013
'This note arrived from a young leader: I’m spearheading some interdepartmental activities with the goal of more open communication and increased relationships between departments. Could you suggest some good resources? Would you consider posting a question on your Facebook page? Reply: You’re asking the wrong questions. Leaders often rush to fix painful symptoms before defining [.].
Kevin Eikenberry
APRIL 17, 2013
'In the leadership workshops I teach, decision making always comes up. In the consulting and coaching I do, I see the habits and approaches of leaders around decision making. While some people are quite proficient at decision making, more are proficient at not making a decision. Indecision. I see it everywhere, and it is hurting [.].
CEO Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
'I was at a YPO event yesterday morning. The speaker was prolific author Richard Barrett. He wrote a number of books including The New Leadership Paradigm - Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading an Organization and Leading in Society. His company has done extensive research and come up with tools on how to measure individual values and beliefs and company values and beliefs.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 17, 2013
'Does your project seem like pushing a boulder uphill? Would you like to implement change with more influence, confidence and impact? If your job is to implement change in your organization, I’m guessing at least one and probably more of the following statements is true: Despite your efforts to get everyone on board and doing what they need to do, it’s not happening as quickly or as smoothly as you’d like (or as others expect).
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Mills Scofield
APRIL 17, 2013
'Thank you Innovation Excellence for posting my thoughts from Smartblogs on Leadership ! Why Leadership Requires Prudence And Temperance.
First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 17, 2013
'These are among my personal favorites. Please share yours. o “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degaso “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” [.]. Bob''s blog entries Andre Gide Edgar Degas Eugene Delacroix Galileo Galilei Jonas Salk.
Chartered Management Institute
APRIL 17, 2013
'In my more than thirty years in senior management, I have time and again been called upon and tasked to turn around many companies, small and large, private and public listed companies as well. This article or blog will explain the steps I take in implementing my turnaround strategy. I always follow certain steps and procedures, to ensure that the turnaround process is systematic and easily understood by the owners, managers and employees of the company.
Ron Edmondson
APRIL 17, 2013
'I was talking to the Executive Director of a homeless ministry recently. Everyday, she feeds hundreds of meals. Every night the ministry boards dozens of men and women. They clothe people. They help prepare people for job interviews. It’s an amazing ministry, doing great work, but the leader is tired, the budget is stretched, and the volunteers are thin and everyone is worn out emotionally and physically.
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Strategy Driven
APRIL 17, 2013
'What keeps small business owners up at night? How to grow revenues? How to profitably service existing customers? When to hire additional employees? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'You''ve heard the mantra: Learn from failure. But no one likes to screw up and you can''t learn when you''re beating your chest in frustration or pointing fingers at each other. Some smart organizations are helping their people make failure not only productive, but also fun. One of my favorite techniques for making the most of a gaffe is called the failure bow.
LDRLB
APRIL 17, 2013
'Leaders need followers, right? It doesn’t follow that anyone who doesn’t lead is a follower but what if a subset of leaders are psychopathic – or at least antisocial and unburdened by conscience – while a subset of followers are sycophantic – those who are willing to please leaders in exchange for power and privilege, or even the promise or proximity of power and privilege?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'Enjoy these cartoons from the May issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in next month''s magazine and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. "Don''t think of it as your being fired. Think of it as our failure to retain talent.".
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Tim Milburn
APRIL 17, 2013
'I have a running joke with some of my friends. You might have a similar one. We imagine what we’d do if we won the lottery. We dream about how we would spend all that money. We talk about how many problems we could solve with our winnings. But then someone will state the obvious… “Don’t you have to buy a lottery ticket to have a chance at winning the lottery?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. Kaggle organizes competitions in which data scientists (which in most cases means anybody who wants to sign up) compete to build predictive models based on huge troves of data.
CO2
APRIL 17, 2013
'Going to Work vs. Getting Your Work to Go. Going to work can get old. A change in environment often allows you to open up to other possibilities and see solutions that may not have otherwise appeared. If your work or routine needs revitalizing, pack up and go somewhere else. Go to a coffee shop, the public library, a local art center, the park, even a hotel lobby.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'You don''t see many tweets touting companies as #betterthanaverage. But there''s plenty of social media chatter about really good or bad customer experiences. The same holds true for the feedback companies receive directly via e-mails or phone calls. Customers are most likely to offer feedback when they have either a really bad experience or a great one — and they almost never say a word when their experience falls somewhere in the middle.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'Venture capital is ignoring the Middle East for all the wrong reasons. Ultimately, playing it safe will cause them to yield new opportunities. I''ve interviewed over 150 impressive, young entrepreneurs and engineers throughout the Arab world. Many have visited the States (or would like to visit), but especially after the uprisings of two years ago, nearly all want to stay home in the long run.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'Up until two days ago, heartbreak at the Boston marathon was confined to a hill in Newton. It was heartbreak of a glorious kind, a half-mile ascent 20 miles into the course where fatigue transforms effort into epic. For runners, ''heartbreak hill'' is a legendary stretch of asphalt, an Olympus for the best among the rest of us, who never made the Olympics but remain devoted to the open road.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2013
'Indiana Jones, the great (fictional) archaeologist, used his own brains and creativity to tackle the toughest intellectual puzzles in his quest for the Holy Grail. Indy''s self-reliance represents the dominant approach to tough problems, i.e. individuals and organizations look to themselves for the solution. Today, this self-reliance is giving way to a new approach: globally dispersed crowds, often numbering in the thousands, are being engaged to help solve problems at a scale, speed, and scope
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