Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2012

There are a gazillion sites and books full of leadership quotes, so I’ve never been too inspired to duplicate what’s already out there. However, I did enjoy combing through all of those sites and picking out what I thought to be the 25 best leadership development quotes. Use these to introduce your next leadership development program, build the business case for leadership development, inspire your coaching clients, motivate your employees, or just inspire yourself to develop further as a leader

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The fastest transition from inept to adept occurs when leaders turn the topic of change on themselves. When was the last time you changed something about you ? Not someone or something else, but your thinking, your philosophy, your vision, your approach, your attitude, or your development. Most leaders are quite skilled at embracing change – except when the focus of the change initiative happens to be on them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2012

How we label ourselves matters. Sometimes we wear old labels without even noticing. Years ago, I attended a diversity workshop with an exercise designed to get us thinking about labels. The main idea was that the more we talked about our differences in a safe environment, the better we would understand one another and get [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Posted in Self Leadership The Stuff Your ability to: dream show others the way ask the right questions challenge others’ thinking inspire motivate encourage This is the stuff of leadership – and it has nothing to do with the title that comes after your name or power to force people to act. It has everything to do with what [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 22, 2012

I think it’s time we all had a chat. You see, over the last 28 years, you have invaded and then permeated my life in such a subliminal way, that I didn’t even notice that you are now monopolizing my time, and the time of a lot of other people too. And that’s not in a good way. Sure, it was very cool when I first discovered your charms, in my workplace.

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Leading Blog

JULY 27, 2012

Leading without a title is about taking personal responsibility. We—the world—is in desperate need of people who will choose to lead whenever and wherever they can. In The Titleless Leader , Nan Russell describes where we are: Everything isn’t alright in our workplaces. People are frustrated, angry, disillusioned, tired, and afraid. Not to mention skeptical, cynical, and distrustful.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Value Creation In Part I, we discussed the first five steps to becoming the perfect team member. Remember, successful companies are not created overnight. However, successful businesses are created by hard-working, determined, passionate people who are able to recognize their strengths and weakness and can work on themselves for the betterment of the company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2012

Guest Post by Bernd Geropp: We all need praise and confirmation. We love to hear: "Hats off! That's a hard act to follow!" It makes us feel like a million bucks. It reinforces our confidence. However: It should be used with the right touch. Too much praise can also be damaging. We all need criticism just as much as we need to have our egos buttered up.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2012

In Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk , authors Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden make the point that organizations with contented employees understand that one of the most fundamental precepts in the whole workplace arena is that “the person who started for them this morning is as close to a ‘model employee’ as they’re ever going to get.” So the best companies do something about it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 22, 2012

. One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it” Lately, mom’s words have come back to me as I coach my executive clients, many of whom have learned the mechanics of feedback delivery, but not how to deal with their emotions or those of the person who will be on the receiving end.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development As a leader how and what do you do to maintain resiliency in leadership? By resiliency, I mean, recover speedily from problems and maintain elasticity, bend, stretch and not break during challenging situations. All organizations encounter challenges, issues and difficulties everyday including financial shortfalls, downsizing, increased workloads, and succession issues.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Sally Ride, the United States’ first woman astronaut, died too soon this week at the age of 61. In 2012, it’s perhaps easy to forget what she was up against when she rode into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983. As the New York Times pointed out in its obituary of Ride, the comedian Johnny Carson joked on the Tonight Show that Ride would probably delay the shuttle launch while looking for a purse to match her shoes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2012

As leaders, we live with much intensity. Because we care, the range of emotions is powerful. When we are deeply invested, the wins are that much sweeter. At the same time, disappointments and frustrations can run deep as well. Paying attention to the emotions we experience as both leaders and followers can be useful in [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? Why is it that our feelings of accomplishment diminish so quickly after we achieve a goal or target? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2012

Posted in Value Creation Workplace Issues [link] To create great team-working you need to leave your ego at home each day. People talk about the ego and mean many different things. Some people say we need a healthy ego in order to be able to function in this world. “Healthy” could mean for example, having a healthy sense of self, respecting healthy boundaries, or [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 23, 2012

Girls are smarter than boys, but where are the girls in math and sciences? That’s the question asked in an infographic from EngineeringDegree.net which makes the argument that girls are smarter than boys but a gender-related lack of self confidence causes them to steer away from occupations that are traditionally dominated by men. For example, although girls have higher IQs overall, they lose confidence and self esteem in drastic numbers in the sixth and tenth grades.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2012

“The most necessary man is he with whom you are.” -Leo Tolstoy One of my son Sebastian’s favorite books is The Three Questions (Based on a Story by Leo Tolstoy). The story takes a child-friendly adventure through Tolstoy’s famous questions: Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? When is [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Why do most efforts to improve team or individual performance fall apart within a short period of time? Why is it that our feelings of accomplishment diminish so quickly after we achieve a goal or target? These questions are just some of the topics I discuss with Stanford professor and author Shirzad Chamine in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues CHANGE is the number one constant factor in all growing businesses. What worked well yesterday or last month may not work today or next year. Staff, scheduling, finance, marketing… all of these are facets of business where quality leadership is needed in navigating the changes a growing business faces.

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Leading in Context

JULY 25, 2012

Preparing For Ethical Leadership Preparing leaders for ethical leadership is a long-term process. It requires careful thought about the messages we are sending. For example, what message are we sending when we separate ethics training from other leadership training? The Risks of "Separate" Ethics Training I believe that we take an unnecessary risk when we separate ethics training from the rest of a leader's development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 22, 2012

The conversational thread following my post last week on Email as a Reflective Practice led me to a fantastic post from Germane Consulting group, Dear Leader: Do We Have a Deal? They imagine a letter written by an employee to a CEO, looking for all they need spiritually and developmentally from the relationship. Here are a few key points [.].

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2012

Recently I was delighted to read a great USA Today article about Coach K of Duke leading the U.S. Men’s Basketball Team in the Olympics. Coach K is a servant leader who creates the “Connection Culture” that we wrote about in Fired Up or Burned Out. To learn more about Coach K’s leadership style and the surprising story of how he evolved as a leader, check out this inspiring article entitled “ Follow Me.” The article was written by ever-thoughtful Michael S

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues When I was deep in the trenches of senior leadership several years ago, I discovered a vital piece of information that every leader needs to know. And, as I check in with leaders now, it is apparent that most of them have not yet had this ah-ha moment. Are you ready for it? Employees often [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

We all need a little help along the way. Making the decision to go out on your own is difficult but a ton of fun if you do it correctly and have the right pieces to the puzzle. Women are becoming more prevalent as entrepreneurs, it can be a very empowering thing to have your own business and be successful at it. It doesn’t matter what your business is, you can make it work, but there are also times where we get the superwomen complex.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 25, 2012

Image source Terrible teams are easy; great teams rare. Great teams do two things. First, people working together achieve things individuals can’t; they achieve more together. Second, Teams that work – work at working together. Performance: I was a good player on my high school basketball team, not great. We always competed with each other [.].

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Guest post by Joel Garfinkle. … Why would you want to increase your visibility at work? Why not just let your work speak for yourself? You can’t expect to get ahead if people don’t notice you. . …and it’s never safe to assume that decision-makers are aware of your accomplishments. Increasing your visibility doesn’t require constant bragging and acting like you’re “self-promoting.”.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development [link] It has almost become cliché to say that we are living in times of uncertainty. Our global economic situation is unstable and highly complex, weather has become more extreme and the speed of change leaves many of us breathless. Read the complete article on instigator Wendy Appel’s blog. Photo (c) David Templeton-2007.

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Women on Business

JULY 27, 2012

As an entrepreneur I know that sales are the lifeblood of my business, so when I am approached with a sales pitch I tend to take an analytical view. Recently I was searching for a vendor to complete my website overhaul and some of the pitches that I received…well they were interesting. In reviewing the pitches, I learned five most important points if you are not a marketing professional.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 23, 2012

Super stars aren’t the answer they’re the problem. Isn’t it thrilling when high performers join your organization? Finally, someone can bring home the bacon like no one else. Wrong! Super stars who believe they save the day are selfish hogs. Organizations don’t need swine they need strong teams that deliver results together. Individual contributors – [.].

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 25, 2012

. Many organizations have something they call “leadership competencies” that are a set of key behaviors for their leaders. These are traits that organizational leaders are expected to aspire to (and take on) in the way they lead. These competencies may include such things as dealing with ambiguity, being agile, managing conflict or promoting teamwork.

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