Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

Practical Ideas For Becoming a Better Middle Manager. “Middle managers are like the middle child of an organization; often neglected by senior managers and blamed by their reports. However, they’re still expected to be as charming as the youngest and simultaneously as responsible as the oldest. We end up with middle child syndrome, enshrouded in conflict, wanting more of a say, and not sure how they fit in.” .

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

T HE Federal Bureau of Investigation is a respected American institution that had its beginnings in 1908. Its 100-plus years of exceptional performance, the former head of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi says, is attributed to the organizational code that demanded internal excellence at all times, from everyone. He calls it the FBI Way. In The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence , Figliuzzi organizes and explains that code and how it is maintained as The Seven C’s.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 28, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Developing an "ethical self" is important for good citizenship and good leadership. But what does it involve? There's more to developing and maintaining an ethical self than trying to make good choices. Making ethical choices isn't easy, and while we're struggling, our brains are actually working against us.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 28, 2021

There are as many different types of leaders and skill sets as there are personalities. Leaders encourage, empower, and inspire their team members to reach shared goals by treading new waters. Nevertheless, all various styles intersect where goals meet realization, as leaders are able to translate ideas into deliverable projects. Click to continue reading.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Wouldn’t you love to feel as engaged and energized as you were on day one? You can! The key is to quit waiting for it to happen and take control of the process yourself. 70% of us feel uninspired at work – which kills productivity and promise. The good news is that we can get that inspiration we once felt, back. Greek mythology teaches us that there are 9 Muses that gift us with inspiration; but unbeknownst to virtually everyone, there are also 9 Anti-Muses, the forces that drain our inspiration

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2021

Just as parents tend to think their own children are the most amazing things to walk the earth, so too do innovators have similarly distorted opinions of the ideas that form the basis of their innovations. So says a recent study from the Technical University of Munich, which suggests that up to 75% of innovative ideas are overvalued by the originators of the ideas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2021

Productivity is important to your business. If your productivity isn’t high, then there is no way that you are going to get very far on the market. You won’t be putting out the right kind of service to your customers, and people that do choose to use your business are going to get frustrated extremely quickly. One of the things that you can do to try and improve this is make a high-quality business office that is designed specifically to drive productivity.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2021

The old adage is that we don’t leave our jobs but rather our bosses, and one of the more obvious complaints we can have against our manager is that they treat us unfairly. It’s tempting to believe that this unfair treatment is due to personality differences, a lack of training on their behalf, or simply a lack of basic aptitude for leadership.

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HR Digest

APRIL 28, 2021

When was the last time you reached somebody in HR? When you joined the organization? For your performance evaluation? Or when something awful occurred at work? HR groups aren’t only the carriers of good and terrible news; they can likewise extend support in your employment, assist you to climb the corporate ladder, and keep you cheerful and productive at work.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2021

Machiavelli famously described the difficulties of proposing new ideas, for you will receive fervent opposition from those benefitting from the old ways and barely lukewarm support from those who might gain from the new. Previous research has shown that this can be especially problematic for women, who are looked on negatively for proposing new ideas.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 28, 2021

Today, I bring back one of my most-read blog posts from a few years ago: At the end of each year, I select my choice for the best new leadership book for that year, and then highlight that book on my blog. Well, we're only five months into 2017 and there is a new leadership book so good that I can't wait until year-end to share it with you. And, it's likely to be among the select few options for best new leadership book of 2017.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 28, 2021

There are some things the senior leader will naturally control – whether intentional or unintentional. . Having planted two churches and two revitalization churches I am frequently asked about what things do I try to control and which did I release to others. I love the question. It is one all leaders need to ask themselves – frequently.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 28, 2021

Learning how to build goals from the bottom up connects individuals to the broader mission. In addition to building your goals from the top-down, a useful exercise is to build goals from the bottom-up. It helps get team buy-in and it can identify new opportunities for upside. For bottom-up goals, start with what the team thinks they can commit to. What they can deliver.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

One of our most recent popular blogs was on bully bosses and featured a quiz to help determine if your boss is a bully or just a poor leader. A follow-up blog on leading up included five ways to deal with a bad boss. But what if you’re a bully or poor boss — and don’t know it? You likely don’t mean to be “that boss.” Perhaps you’re a sincere hypocrite?

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Niagara Institute

APRIL 28, 2021

Coaching employees is an investment. Not only in tangible things such as time, money, and resources, but in intangible things like energy, brainspace, and emotions. Once you have seen an employee’s potential, it takes a wholehearted commitment to seeing it unleashed. Now, it significantly helps if the employee in question is coachable. While there are many definitions, this one from a HuffingtonPost article really captures the essence of the term: “Being coachable means one is ready to do what i

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Worried your colleagues are mad at you? These strategies can help.

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Niagara Institute

APRIL 28, 2021

The best teams are aligned, focused, collaborative, and communicate frequently. For those in team leadership roles, leveraging online tools is the secret to increasing connectivity, efficiency, and productivity whether you’re working in-person, remotely, or a blend of the two. While there are many well-known tools that leaders use to facilitate collaboration among employees such as Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, we wanted to feature nine of the lesser-known free team leadership tools we

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Youngme, Mihir, and Felix discuss the art of negotiation with negotiations expert, Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhotra.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2021

Taking a sabbatical is a good idea for a lot of reasons, but people often misunderstand why they are useful. Many people also get the wrong idea about taking lots of time off and they think that it will damage their career and their life in some way. Unfortunately, these misconceptions mean that so many people are not benefitting from taking a sabbatical when they could be.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Can software help speed up our net-zero ambitions?

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CEO Insider

APRIL 28, 2021

When Senator Mitch McConnell lambasts companies for “behaving like a woke parallel government,” he may well be appealing to a small but potent group of his own stakeholders: hard line Trumpist Republican primary voters. He is apparently calculating that the intensity of that group, and the impact it can have on elections is of greater […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Ignoring Social Movements is Bad Business are those of the author Dr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Don’t wait for a crisis to have tough conversations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Sponsor content from Deloitte.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2021

Three lessons from Intel.

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