Leading in Context

JULY 12, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton "Do Laws Set the Standard For Ethics?" may be a simple question, but the answer is complicated. They do and they don't set the standard. .

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 12, 2017

Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 42 Who would have guessed surviving in business is a lot like surviving lost in the wilderness. I wouldn’t but Jonathan David Lewis researched and discovered this is the case. Jonathan has a new book, Brand Vs. Wild, that recently released and I couldn’t wait to have him on the Answers From Leadership podcast to discuss the similarities between being lost in business and lost in the wilderness, how to recover, and much more.

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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2017

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Leadership Freak

JULY 12, 2017

Make decisions based on future value not sunk-cost. The above image isn’t the house we rented. However, the home was built in castle style. It even had a drawbridge.

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ReImagine Work

JULY 12, 2017

I grew up on a farm. My family grew cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, wheat, corn, and more. I learned a lot from that experience. And what a gift — my father not only acted as a leader in my family life but in my first exposure to work too. (I started doing little things to help as young as 5- or 6-years-old.). Coincidentally, as an adult, I worked for a crop protection products company for my entire corporate career.

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 12, 2017

You’ve heard it before: The challenge starts within. On your path to become a truly courageous communicator, you must begin with self-reflection, self-development, and self-awareness. The first four weeks of this Challenge will focus on looking within yourself, being honest about strengths and weaknesses, being authentic to whatever those are, and deciding to relate to others as someone who owns who you are.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 12, 2017

In my work helping people influence change in their organizations, I’ve met a lot of senior change leaders who manage a team of change agents. When asked what they’d like their teams to be able to do better, the answer is usually, “Influence without me.” They’re tired of having issues escalated to them because change […].

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Strategy Driven

JULY 12, 2017

Photo courtesy of Pexels. When you come up with a great idea for a product, you can often find that you spend so much time putting your all into its creating, to then be left stuck wondering what to do when it’s complete. Well, even though it may not feel like it now, you’ll be glad to know that the hard part is over. You managed to come up with a product that was not only worth creating, but that was actually able to be made – so give yourself a pat on the back.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 12, 2017

When you communicate change to your team, explain the logical and rational reasons for the change: 1. Explain how the change will make employees feel before, during and after the implementation. 2. Explain the tactical plan and goals. 3. Answer questions from your team.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 12, 2017

I’m blessed with so many pastor friends. I have the opportunity, through my blog and personal ministry, to interact with hundreds of pastors every year. After hearing many of their concerns, I decided to write a letter to the church. Obviously, I can’t and won’t attempt to speak for every pastor, but this will represent many. I actually posted this a few years ago, (now edited) after holding on to it for a while.

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Deming Institute

JULY 12, 2017

Guest post by Lori Fry, originally featured as a post at [link]. “Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”. – very possibly Albert Einstein. My son, Ben, is such a proverbial fish – and for at least 7 years, he’s been a fish out of water. Benjamin graduated with his high school class of 2017 this past May.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Many executives are fond of promising to deliver growth, but far fewer realize those ambitions. This is because many fundamentally mismanage the growth gap, which is the difference between their growth goals and what their base businesses can deliver. Filling the gap requires either innovative new offerings or acquisitions. That’s where the trouble starts — it is easy to be fooled by rosy assumptions that, when analyzed in a disciplined way, turn out not to be practical.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 12, 2017

I’m a business person who has hit the trifecta of stereotypes: I’m a woman who is blonde and overweight. Despite being a vice president who managed a department of 150 people in a $2 billion annual revenue organization, a male boss felt free to describe me to the CEO as a “soft and round Aunt Polly” and a female colleague as a “colorful little butterfly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

As consumers in this data-driven, algorithmically obsessed world, we’ve come to expect highly personalized experiences that are tailored to our specific needs. Companies like Netflix and Uber set that tone, giving us what we want, when we want it — usually on the first try. These “have it your way” consumer experiences have changed the way the business world thinks about sales.

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Management

Steve Farber

JULY 12, 2017

The idea of incorporating love into your business model is one of those things many leaders see as a “nice to have” – something worth adding in just so long as it doesn’t get in the way of primary objectives like making a boatload of money and ruling the world. So in my never-ending quest to call “BS” on that line of thinking, my team and I launched a little campaign to gather some examples of how love makes a meaningful difference in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Dave Wheeler for HBR. Bring to mind a conflict at work, and you’ll probably have the perpetrator in mind: your incompetent boss , that passive-aggressive colleague, or the resource-hoarding peer in another department. We spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about these people, avoiding them, and fighting with them. But if you want to manage conflict in the workplace , you can’t start with someone else.

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Steve Farber

JULY 12, 2017

The idea of incorporating love into your business model is one of those things many leaders see as a “nice to have” – something worth adding in just so long as it doesn’t get in the way of primary objectives like making a boatload of money and ruling the world. So in my never-ending quest to call “BS” on that line of thinking, my team and I launched a little campaign to gather some examples of how love makes a meaningful difference in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. It is barely 20 years since Sergey Brin and Larry Page registered the domain name google.com, and only 10 years since Steve Jobs walked onto a stage in San Francisco and introduced the iPhone. Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, comme

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Hundreds of years before Lloyd’s was formed, Chinese merchants would spread their valuable cargo across multiple vessels, with each one carrying an equal share of another merchant’s goods.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time. When I give speeches in Silicon Valley about gender bias, I can’t tell you how many times female entrepreneurs have shared their stories with me about being treated by venture capitalists (VCs) as sexual opportunities rather than investment opportunities.

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