Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 8, 2018

Whether you’re a PMI certified project manager working to spearhead several large-scale projects, or a manager balancing a critical project while still doing your day job, you know the importance of communication. And yet, people typically don’t communicate well. Especially not about […]. The post How to Run a Better Project: A Communication Tool For Project Managers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 8, 2018

Servant Leadership in Action: How to Achieve Great Relationships and Results , which I coedited with Renee Broadwell, launched this week and is already hitting bestseller lists. The book includes contributions by 44 notable leadership theorists, faith-based leaders, and business authors such as Simon Sinek, Brené Brown, Marshall Goldsmith, Laurie Beth Jones, Dave Ramsey, John Hope Bryant, James Kouzes and Barry Posner, and servant leadership practitioners like Art Barter—CEO of Datron Industries

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QAspire

MARCH 8, 2018

Stories and narratives that touch us emotionally have power to transform us. When hearing a moving speech, story or talk, we feel that it is delivered effortlessly but we know it doesn’t happen on its own. I have learned that: A performance that feels effortless is often the peak point of great preparation behind the scenes. As leaders, our ability to tell stories that resonate at an emotional level with others is at the heart of elevating aspirations and sparking change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 8, 2018

Guest post from Larry Ackerman: Change, and the need to keep pace with it, has been a dominant leadership challenge for at least three decades. Maxims such as change or die and change is the only constant permeate organizations, globally, keeping executives up at night as they consider how best to move forward. There is a counterpoint to these popular sayings, which leaders should also consider: the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 8, 2018

Wouldn’t you love for someone to listen to you? Why not be that person for others? 5 reasons leaders have closed ears: No aspiration to listen.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 8, 2018

How can we leverage differences to achieve our business goals? The idea of diversity has been around for years and we need to move beyond that to succeed. Jane Hyun, author of Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences, discusses cultural fluency to navigate across groups. This is vital today as we have seen […]. The post Creating Leadership Flex with Jane Hyun appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 8, 2018

If you are not active in the local church (which is a small part of my blog readership), please allow me to apologize in advance for this post. It’s really written to those inside the church – especially pastors. Please know it’s not at all representative of everyone in the church. In fact, it’s usually a very small minority of people. Thankfully.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

beastfromeast/Getty Images. With the flick of a switch, a handful of tech giants can change the nature and extent of mankind’s ingestion of information. In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Twitter replaced most-recent with most-important tweets when they introduced their algorithmic timeline in 2016.

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Women on Business

MARCH 8, 2018

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Play | RSS. Download this podcast. Negotiate harder. Don’t be such a perfectionist. Get more sleep. Professional women get all kinds of advice — some of it helpful, some of it really unhelpful, and some of it nice-sounding but pretty impossible to use.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Do you have a hard time with older or younger co-workers? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast Dear HBR: , co-hosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Jennifer Deal , an expert on generational issues at the Center for Creative Leadership and the co-author of What Millennials Want from Work. They talk through what to do when you’re struggling with an older colleague, when you’re managing a much older worker, and how to motivate younger employee

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

HIROKAZU JIKE/Getty Images. You’ve probably encountered managers you admire more for their technical skills than for their actual leadership skills. Perhaps it’s the familiarity of this experience that lends the Peter Principle its popular appeal. The Peter Principle, laid out in a 1969 book by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, describes the following paradox: if organizations promote the best people at their current jobs, then organizations will inevitably promote people until they’re no

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Muriel de Seze/Getty Images. Nearly a decade since Gallup released its bible, Strengths-Based Leadership, which asserts that great leaders are always investing in strengths, we are learning that the opposite may also be true. The more traditional strengths-based approach highlights that when work focuses on individuals’ strengths, employees are six times more likely to be engaged in the job, according to Gallup.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. Retailers know they have to find the right blend of digital convenience and in-person service. Consider Walmart’s latest advertising campaign in which customers gleefully place orders online and through its app, selecting to receive smart-looking blue boxes on their doorsteps or seamlessly pick up their orders at the closest store.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Danny Lehman/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images. As is the case on so many issues, President Trump has been all over the map on trade. While he took a hardline protectionist stance during the presidential campaign and for much of his first year in office, he and several of officials of his administration have signaled in recent months that they were rethinking their hostility toward multilateral approaches to trade problems.

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