Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
The Secret to Transform Your Culture or Results is One Often-Ignored Leadership Skill “I’m so frustrated,” Martin, the Senior Vice President of a rapidly-growing communication hardware company serving the United States, leaned back in his chair and blew a heavy sigh past […]. The post The Leadership Skill No One Talks About appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Guest post from Pam Didner : When I speak at conferences, I frequently talk to young marketers. One common question they ask is “As an individual contributor, how can I be a leader, if I don’t ‘lead’ a team?” It certainly would be nice if you have a team that you can lead, but it’s not absolutely necessary. I tell them that the pre-requisite of leadership is not having a team to “lead.
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
I called Ken Kragen to confirm a quote. Ken managed superstars like Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Travis Tritt, Olivia Newton John, The Bee Gees, and more.
The Recovering Engineer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
One of the questions that Kevin and I get asked frequently is, “Can I have a different style at work than I have at home?” The answer is a qualified yes, and it gets to the idea of having a natural style compared to an environmental style. Our natural style is the internal piece of us. It reflects how we perceive, interpret, and prefer to interact with the world.
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
The first time I was asked what a servant-leader looks like I was dumbfounded. Who wouldn’t know?
Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
During a recent session of Enclaria’s online Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work course, one of the participants asked, “What are the indicators that people are starting to ‘get it’?” How do you know the change is starting to gain a foothold? The answer is definitely not compliance, even though it may seem on the […].
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Ron Edmondson
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
As a pastor, I had a strong conviction about staff members in regards to one way they should spend their time. I often encouraged our staff to volunteer somewhere in our community. I never felt I could mandate it, but my dream for the church was that every staff member would find somewhere to serve – outside the church. It could be. Coaching a ball team.
CO2
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
By: Gary Cohen While it’s important to have one basic org chart—to be posted on the intranet, hung up and shared at meetings, constantly maintained by HR, and published with every new employee hire—you can learn a lot from more sophisticated org charts. Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach.
CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Organizations often face tensions in reconciling their social and ethical values with daily practice. Drawing from broader literature across sectors, it emerges that social justice management is an approach with useful practices for all organizations. Learning to balance moral value with material interest can help organizations stay on top of change, remain flexible, and gain more commitment from employees.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Patrick George/Getty Images. It’s a Catch-22 millions of workers face: You plan a vacation to relax, rejuvenate, and forget all about the stresses of work. But being out of the office means cramming in extra work up until you leave — and making up for lost time once you return. So perhaps it’s little surprise that a study in the Netherlands found vacationers are no happier than non-vacationers after a break.
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Lead from Within
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
A t some time or another, most of us have experienced a boss, manager, or leader who made us feel recognized and valued. An d as a result, we were able to do more than we ever thought we could. More th an anything else, that’s the sign of a true leader —s omeone who makes you feel, think, act beyond the limits you imagined to your own capabilities and capacity.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Edward Munsch/Christophel Fine Art/Getty Images. Dirk was puzzled about what just happened. To the best of his knowledge, he had only asked Jerome (a recently hired senior executive), to deal more proactively with some of the company’s clients. But Jerome had suddenly become angry, defensive, and stalked out of his office. Jerome, for his part, was also confused.
Eric Jacobson
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
These five quotes from the book, Manager 3.0 , really impress and inspire me: "The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment." -- Denise Morrison "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." -- John Buchan "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do." -- Apple Inc.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Does your organization lack quality leadership? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Peter Bregman , the CEO of Bregman Partners and author of the book Leading with Emotional Courage. They talk through what to do when your leaders are indecisive, unprofessional, or value the wrong things.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Susanna Price/Getty Images. The U.S. grocery industry has reached an interesting and uncertain crossroads. In 2017, German discount grocery retailers ALDI and LIDL announced plans to open hundreds of new stores across the United States. ALDI plans to open 900 stores by 2022 and LIDL to open 100 by the end of 2019. Also in 2017, online retail giant Amazon bought Whole Foods, and has been rolling out a series of experiments in ordering, pricing, and delivery in stores across the country.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Leigh Wells/Getty Images. Appointing workers’ representatives to company boards may be an idea whose time has come. Politicians seem to like it. The most recent politician to make such a proposal is U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren who would like to require companies with more than $1 billion in revenue to let workers elect 40% of board members. Before Senator Warren, a politician from the other side of the Atlantic and the other side of the political spectrum, Theresa May, pledged during her
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
David Malan/Getty Images. President Trump has just asked the SEC to study the implications of moving to a half-yearly reporting deadline instead of the current requirement to file 10-Q forms on a quarterly basis. Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term.
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