Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about having fun. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about giving thanks. Submit your ideas here! Chip Bell of the Chip Bell Group finds fun in his surroundings such as a happy office with great music, quirky artifacts, awesome pictures, a gazillion books, and a cat that sleeps on the copier nearby.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Work-life balance has been a perennial hot topic and a big reason why is because no one seems to know how to achieve it. The reason, I believe, is because work-life balance is a myth. It is about as real as a unicorn. But, what is real is the successful management of the two? Here are four simple strategies to overcome the challenges of aligning career and family, your personal and professional life: Set boundaries at work and home.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Guest post from Hamish Knox : When it comes to defining their vision, leaders tend to fall into two camps. Camp one can clearly articulate a mountain top they want to reach, but create zero clarity on how they’re going to get to that mountain top. Camp two has their mountain top defined and they also have a step-by-step guide to get from where they are today (base camp) to their mountain top.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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Team

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It doesn’t matter how decisive you are if your team doesn’t grab the rope and pull.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Have you ever considered the positive impacts that strong communities create? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Charles Vogl, executive consultant and author of “The Art of Community: 7 Principles for Belonging,”in which we discuss the importance of creating strong communities, how leaders can cultivate their team members through the seven principles of belonging, and […].

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Have you ever heard the phrase, “There are no bad questions”? In leadership, this might be true. I have learned in my years of leadership – I only know what I know. And, many times I don’t know much. There are often things among the people I am trying to lead which I need to know – and, for whatever reason – I won’t know unless I ask.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. A quote by Meg Wheatley from an interview long after the publication of the book does a good job of capturing the ideas explored in the book: How do you understand a world in which the only material form is that of relationships, and where there is no sense of an individual that exists independent of its relationships?

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Chaos Theory Deming Leadership Open-book 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools. So why does the UK still lag behind its peers, despite investing more than them? The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Most professionals build their network over time through proximity — people from your business school study group, or colleagues from your current company or past jobs. You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking, the vast majority of people you know probably work in the same field or industry as you.

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How To

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare. The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Leaders of reorgs typically fall into one of two traps when communicating with their employees. We’ll call the first one wait and see and the second ivory-tower idealism. Perhaps you have seen one, or both, in your own reorgs. In the first trap, wait and see , the leader of the reorg thinks everything should be kept secret until the last moment, when he or she has all the answers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Evidence of de-globalization — think Brexit and other attacks on international interdependence — is everywhere. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In April, an MBA student named Bonnie Kamona, reported that a Google image search for “unprofessional hair for work” produced a set of images that almost exclusively depicted women of color. In contrast, her search for “professional hair” delivered images of white women. Two months later, Twitter user Ali Kabir’s report on an image search for “three black teenagers” resulted in a good deal of mug shots, while “three white teenagers” retrieved

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Management

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Despite a century of speculation by managers and scholars, we know very little about whether certain cues or signs exhibited by employees can predict whether they’re about to quit. To help managers and companies identify employees at risk of quitting, we investigated this very question and uncovered a set of behavioral changes exhibited by employees—what we dub pre-quitting behaviors—that are strong predictors of voluntary quits in the 12 months after they are observed by manag

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” This may sound like odd advice to give MBA students. After all, their degrees are designed to catapult them directly into the upper echelons of corporate America, and most students begin their studies with the goal of getting a job.

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