General Leadership

JANUARY 27, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here’s a topic not often discussed in the offices of the majority of leaders: fear. We will talk about risk or name it something else like “potential problem” or “minor setbacks”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2016

Have you ever been in a scene like this? Your team is working hard. Results are solid. But nobody seems to notice. Or worse, any skip level visits turn out so poorly, you begin to dread the very thought of a well-intentioned executive stopping by to talk with your team. An important part of Winning Well is helping your team showcase their results. Here’s my favorite approach.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 27, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton In January of each year, Trust Across America-Trust Around the World announces its annual list of trust thought leaders. I recently received the news that I am in the 2016 Top Thought Leaders in Trust! To celebrate the news, I am sharing a collection of some of my favorite blog posts about trust building. Use these posts and the questions they raise in your meaningful conversations about how to improve the trust in your workplace.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 27, 2016

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

There has been a lot of interest in the term “Jugaad” in the last couple of years. This term is almost synonymous to “Indian Innovation.” There are also a couple of books that were released which are definitely interesting reading and hundreds of articles in business literature. At the same time, there are is also a public sentiment about “Jugaad” that it is something that is not desirable.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 27, 2016

T oday’s guest is Chester Goad. Chester grew up in Appalachia (pronounced Apple-Atcha–that actually matters where he comes from). He’s the son of an auto mechanics teacher, and a retail sales gal, who fell in love and raised him in small town USA. So who is Chester? It’s taken him some time to figure all that out, but along the way, he’s been a teacher, a principal, a congressional staffer, a Dean, and a whole lot more.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 27, 2016

The first issue is finding a little clarity. The deeper issue is finding courage to act, after the light comes on. Sometimes one question flips the switch.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 27, 2016

It’s true, and obvious. A business has to make a profit. The bigger the profit, the better for the business. But, a complete absence of a profit means ultimate doom for a business. Businesses will always follow the impulse to cut costs and replace expensive outgo in order to make a profit, and to, whenever… Read More When Jobs Disappear, The Ultimate Question May Be: What Will We Do To Take Care of Human Need?

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 27, 2016

I am humbled and thrilled to announce that my third communications book, No Cape Needed: The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Steps to Improve How You Communicate by Leaps and Bounds , has been honored with a Pinnacle Award for Best Book in Business for Fall 2015.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a consultant, there’s nothing more frustrating than a prospect who clearly needs you, but doesn’t realize it or has less urgency than a stalagmite. How do you shake sense into the decision maker? How do you knock the project loose so a rich opportunity falls into your lap? Diagnostics. Over a decade ago I wrote a whitepaper for my corporate clients claiming, “In sales, nothing you say matters.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today I’m featuring a guest post from Guy Parsons and Allan Milham , co-authors of Out of the Question: How Curious Leaders Win , an important book for leaders who want to take their skills to a higher level. This article is an excerpt from Chapter 3. We all know that communication is made up of the words we use, our tonality, and our body language.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2016

From the book, Leading With Strategic Thinking , by Aaron K. Olson and B. Keith Simerson , here are six ways the authors suggest for stimulating your creative thinking : Engage in communities, conferences, or reading outside your typical area of expertise. Set aside time in your week that doesn't involve completing routine tasks. Visit places where you will encounter unfamiliar people, cultures, or ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 27, 2016

Spmeone once asked me what my “biggest frustration” is as a leader. As I thought about it, I had to be honest – I have lots. That may point to another area of struggle for me personally – and a character flaw – I’m seldom satisfied with me or where we are as a team. In many ways, I am still learning the secret of being content, but I like continual improvement and think there is usually room to get better in all areas of our life.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Professor Clayton M. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Despite the many differences in application, most people agree on the following. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2016

Some people intrinsically have the ability to show up; it’s inborn in them. And some people have to grow it, nurture it, practice it their whole lives — work at it every day. The people who already have it, their life’s work is to keep stepping in bigger and bigger, staying on their edge to create more impact. These people need to work at keeping themselves sharp, growing, and accountable, while helping others to do so as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Most people found the General Motors ignition switch scandal appalling. Not only did the defect result in over 100 deaths, but it turned out that fixing the problem would have cost less than $1 per car. For many, it was a horrible indictment of corporate greed. Profits, it seems, were valued more than human lives. Yet look a little closer and it becomes clear that the real problem wasn’t callousness, but mismanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

No manager wants to hire someone who is going to turn around and quit after a year on the job. But how can you tell if a candidate is going to stick around, especially if he has a history of job hopping? Take a closer look. Resumes can be misleading, so don’t immediately discount a candidate who’s had three jobs in two years. There may be good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

From data scientists to web developers to designers, firms are locked in competition for technical talent. You can’t compete with the likes of Google and Facebook without coders, but if you’re not Google or Facebook, it often seems, you can’t afford them. But there’s a catch, according to a recent working paper by Prasanna Tambe and Xuan Ye of New York University, and Peter Cappelli of Wharton.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

The U.S. invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? Negligent? It’s puzzling. Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Kentaro Hayashi buttoned his uniform shirt and wondered if he could really pull this off. As president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at airports across Japan, he’d been under enormous pressure in recent months. Thanks to increased demand for air travel, Rising Sun’s flights were now fuller and more frequent than ever before.

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