Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2020

Welcome to the July 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Paula Kiger of Big Green Pen shared How businesses can repair the chasm created by racism. Paula writes: “ It can be difficult to figure out where to start when trying to eliminate racism in the workplace.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 7, 2020

Incompetent leaders focus exclusively on results. Successful leaders notice their impact on people because leadership is about human beings, not simply producing a product.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 7, 2020

Guest post by Jason Richmond : Leaders are, by definition, role models, and employees naturally follow their lead. This is particularly true in times of crisis. Five key principles leaders must keep in mind and demonstrate if they are to successfully lead their organizations through disaster are transparency, consistency, accountability, empathy, and resilience. 1.

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Women on Business

JULY 7, 2020

When it came to forming the leadership team in my current role, I was well aware of the limitations I faced in the early stages of my career — it’s difficult to visualize what you could be if it simply doesn’t exist. Having someone or something to aspire to always helps, and role models play […].

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Lead from Within

JULY 7, 2020

Most of us believe that in order to succeed, we have to push ourselves hard. Working excessively and compulsively has become the norm, to the degree that Americans are considered workaholics. Many of us don’t take the time to think about the toll that working so hard takes on us. But science tells us that overwork is damaging—that pushing yourself too hard comes with serious consequences for your physical and mental health.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 7, 2020

Last week, I talked about the power that routines can have in our lives. If you missed that, you can watch it here. In this video, I am talking about The thing about routines is that when they change, we are often left feeling a little lost, confused or even discombobulated. And if you’re like […]. The post Creating New Work Routines – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 7, 2020

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of my book, 99 Ways to Influence Change. The book briefly describes all the methods we have at hand to get things done by helping people change.

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David A Fields

JULY 7, 2020

How do you consistently create powerful ideas that stimulate every aspect of your consulting firm? Below, we’ll explore one, straightforward, reliable approach. Have you ever read or heard an innovative idea and reflected, “Man, I wish I had thought of that?” Ideas like employing artificial intelligence to shortcut your client assessment process, or building a … Continued.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

As far as entrepreneurship is concerned, every penny counts. While you try your best to pool resources to set up your business, your employees and suppliers deserve their paychecks. To meet the growing financial demands that come with putting up a business, you may have to implement good economic policies to unlock extra cash and save more money. Here are some ways through which you can cut down your business expenses and save cash. 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us into working remotely, as workplaces around the world have been shut in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus. It’s seen a boom in use of technologies such as Zoom to keep teams in contact. A new survey from Cass and IESE Business Schools suggest that many of us are getting used to this new way of working, and particularly the lack of face-to-face contact with our colleagues.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2020

In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet says, “there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.” This has become a widely quoted bit of wisdom. It’s both an ancient truth as a cornerstone of mindfulness and on the leading edge of cognitive psychology. Research on the nature of reality, consciousness, and quantum physics is putting scientific foundations under eons of philosophical/spiritual teaching; our perceptions, beliefs, values, mental models, etc. create the world we ex

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CEO Insider

JULY 7, 2020

A custom software development project is typically a challenging experience in and of itself. When it is a software project for the government, a unique set of challenges and costs can sometimes arise to add another layer to the overall development process. Technology has always been a major concern for the government and is only […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article The Challenges Of Developing Software For The Government are those of the author Anna Papadopou

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2020

As the electric vehicle industry grows, the importance of having the battery technology to power the vehicles has grown in unison. Indeed, much of the value of the vehicles derives from their batteries, from the driving range they provide to the charging time of the battery. New research from Stanford shows how AI can make batteries smarter by cutting the testing time of the batteries in production by up to 98%. “In battery testing, you have to try a massive number of things, because the

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

Any small business wants to boost brand awareness, but often they do not have the budget to create and launch a nationwide marketing campaign. The pennies are simply too tight to justify spending them on something that may or may not work. For a small business, substantial investments can often be a risk. So what if there was another way? The good news is that there is another way, and even small businesses can boost brand awareness without chipping away too much of their budget.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2020

Few topics have been quite so polarizing over the years as immigration, with the issue tending to divide the political spectrum between liberals who support it, and conservatives who do not. New research from the University of Oregon suggests there may be other ways we can predict who might be opposed to immigration. “This study investigates how treating immigrants as less than human is associated with a range of characteristics largely unexplored by prior research,” the researchers say.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

The last few months have taught us a lot about business. Specifically, they’ve shown us which business models lend themselves well to change, and which do not. At a time when most of the consuming world has had to remain indoors, the retail sector in particular has had to face some particularly hard truths. Many brick and mortar retailers, especially, have thought twice about embracing eCommerce.

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Management Excellence

JULY 7, 2020

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

It’s not easy running a business in the best of times, yet almost no one on this Earth would be liable to label 2020 as ‘the best of times’ so far. Unexpected and thorough societal change has caused many of us to change our habits, and this has rocked the economy and business world. Despite the fact that in some areas Covid-19 is starting to dwindle, or at least reduce in some capacity, consumer confidence is still relatively low.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 7, 2020

When the curtain was pulled back to show that the Wizard of Oz was a fidgety little man pressing the buttons, Dorothy and her friends finally got some real answers and the ‘Wizard’ could finally stop pretending to be someone he’s not. Too often I’ve seen executives put on their ‘game face’ to present to their team. These leaders may instill respect but they rarely inspire people.

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HR Digest

JULY 7, 2020

Even since the nation went into a lockdown, I’ve been on enough Zoom calls than I can count. If it’s not Zoom meetings or virtual happy hours with colleagues, it’s catching up on Skype or FaceTime with friends and family. While it’s true that introverts are more comfortable with online interactions, the excessive videos calls weren’t exactly what most of us were expecting.

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Art Petty

JULY 7, 2020

Wally Bock and Art Petty connect to talk about their favorite, unknown books on this latest episode of the Leadership and Management Book Talk podcast. In what is never a surprise, they come at the topic from opposite ends of the spectrum. The post Leadership and Management Book Talk—Our Favorite Little-Known Reads appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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HR Digest

JULY 7, 2020

Getting Things Done, or GTD, was developed by David Allen in the 1980s. After years of research and practice, David Allen came up with the GTD methodology which is based on a simple truth: the more information you store inside your head, the harder it is to decide what requires prioritization. As a result, you end up spending more time thinking about your ever-growing task list than accomplishing items on it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2020

A conversation with pricing expert Rafi Mohammed on when and how to change prices in response to Covid-19.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 7, 2020

While many people profess not to care what others think, we’re social creatures and want to fit in. Right? But winning acceptance should never take precedence over accepting yourself. Given that, one of the best ways to identify who you want to be is by asking yourself, “ How do I want to be remembered? ” Mark Twain said, “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you understand why.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2020

Online marketplaces can connect those who have tests with those who need to provide them.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2020

Add to your to-read list Tom Rath's book, Are You Fully Charged? The book draws on the latest and most practical research from business and psychology and identifies the three keys that influence most of our daily well-being, as well as our engagement at work : Meaning : doing something that benefits another person Interactions : creating far more positive than negative moments Energy : making choices that improve your mental and physical health "This book will challenge you to stop pursing happ

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2020

Why and how to move beyond a direct-to-consumer strategy.

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HR Digest

JULY 7, 2020

The H1B visa suspension by the US government will cost Indian IT firms $160 million and have a marginal 0.25-0.30 percent impact on their profitability, CRISIL , a domestic rating agency, said on Monday. US President Donald Trump has suspended entry of certain foreign workers till the end of this year in the face of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the resultant job losses due to the economic crisis that resulted.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2020

A look at what’s worked and why.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2020

We’re not in the office anymore.

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