Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

O RGANIZATIONAL teams determine overall performance, shape culture, drive growth, and deliver results or not. Todays teams face a new reality. Never before have they encountered the changes and challenges brought on them by remote, hybrid, and in-person work environments. Add in the emergence of AI and countless other workforce and societal trends, and its apparent that yesterdays approaches no longer apply to todays realities.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Many leaders weaken decision-making by prioritizing agreement over commitments. Over-concern about agreement sabotages decision-making. In some situations, people dont commit until they agree 100%. When thats true, change your process and expect everyone to commit once decisions are made. Those who aren't committed find fault. Those who are committed find a way.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

You Care. Your Boss Doesn’t (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss Youre giving it your all. Youre solving problems, driving results, making things happen. But your boss? Theyre off in another world. It could be your boss is disengaged. Or, maybe they are super engaged, just not on your MITs (most important things). Maybe theyre laser-focused on a massive restructuring.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When youre a senior executive, your success depends on influencing, aligning, and mobilizing others toward strategic goals. Yet, even at the highest levels, misalignment often arises due to differing motivations. How well do you truly understand the priorities driving your peers, board members, or senior team? And are your assumptions accurate? The best way to understand whats motivating someone is to engage them in a conversation that surfaces their goals, their ambitions, and their fears.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

O RGANIZATIONAL teams determine overall performance, shape culture, drive growth, and deliver results or not. Todays teams face a new reality. Never before have they encountered the changes and challenges brought on them by remote, hybrid, and in-person work environments. Add in the emergence of AI and countless other workforce and societal trends, and its apparent that yesterdays approaches no longer apply to todays realities.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When it comes to developing leadership skills, the focus tends to be on strategic thinking, decision-making, and communication skills. But theres one skill that can create a far greater impact on driving organizational growth and innovation. And that skill is the art of mindful listening. Why? Because it sends a.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the interview. The Hard Truth About Leadership (That No One Tells You) You read the books. You listen to the podcasts. You even tried that "power pose" in the mirror before a big meeting (don't worry, we won't tell). But somehow, despite all the leadership advice, you still feel like you're fighting uphill when leading your team. Sound familiar?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Richard Farson on contradictions: Contradictory impulses to both succeed and fail can be found in every project, every work team, even every individual. Every management choice, Job offer, or new applicant can appear both appealing and unappealing.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By Linda Fisher Thornton This post will explore the interesting relationship between leadership mindset and competency. Which is most important? What happens to our leadership capability when our mindset is out of date? How we think about something impacts what we do about it. Nick Petrie, Center For Creative Leadership, writes inVertical Leadership Development Part Ithat In terms of leadership, the stage from which you are thinking and acting matters a lot.

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Sales Wolf Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Are you experiencing Founder Mode? If you work for a founder-led company, it is almost a certainty that you are experiencing Founder Mode that intense, high-stakes mindset where the person at the top is laser-focused on scaling, optimizing, and eliminating roadblocks. Founder Mode manifests through a relentless push toward excellence, and if you do not understand how to operate in this environment, you will struggle.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Listen to the interview. Lets talk reality here. Youve been at the same company for 15, 20, maybe 25 years. Thats awesome, right? Youve worked your way upclimbed each rung of the ladder through decades of promotions, salary bumps, cost-of-living increases, and a ton of sweat equity. But heres the cold, hard truth: youre not bulletproof. You might be a walking target.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The most talented employees in your organization have optionsand if youre not creating a workplace culture that keeps them engaged, they will leave. A great culture doesnt happen by accident; it requires deliberate effort and investment. Organizations that prioritize building a sticky culture one that retains top talent and inspires loyaltysee higher performance, lower turnover, and a more motivated workforce.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Fear creates the gap between who you are and who you can be. Courage closes it, explains Margie Warrell, PhD , author of the new book, The Courage Gap: 5 Steps To Braver Action. To clarify, closing your courage gap is not about de-risking your life or sheltering from problemsnatural and human created. Rather, it is about bringing the bravest version of yourself to every situation, adds Dr.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Feeling bad isnt always bad. Stretching yourself creates uncertainty. Tough issues cause discomfort. Learning new skills calls for courage. The purpose of empathy is empowerment. Here are 5 ways to express empathy like a leader.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Learn three valuable leadership lessons from the classic fairy tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Today’s guest post is by Lida Citron, author of “The New Rules of Influence: How to Authentically Build Trust, Drive Change, and Make an Impact.” Think back to the 19th-century childrens fable, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. A young girl, lost in the woods, stumbles upon a home that just happens to belong to a family of bears.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In a constantly evolving world where we experience so many different things professionally and personally, journaling can be an excellent tool to process these experiences and make sense of the world around us. In the latest edition of my latest newsletter Clarity Canvas Weekly , I share my experience with Journaling as a tool for personal growth, mindfulness and sense-making as a leader.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

T he new book, How To Get Along With Anyone , by John Eliot and Jim Guinn , is the playbook for predicting and preventing conflict at work and at home. As you read the book, you will discover how to defuse any heated conflict by learning which of the five conflict styles you are and how to resolve even the most sensitive dispute with this must-listen guide.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Consensus decision-making is an obstacle to success when groups are large, and issues are complicated. Requiring 100% agreement unnecessarily complicates decisions. Forget consensus; aim for commitment when making decisions.

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Moral authority is the invisible hand that guides ethical behavior, rooted from a persons character, actions, and values. Unlike formal power, it doesnt rely on titles or positions but on trust and respect earned over time. Those who wield moral influence inspire others to follow not through coercion but through example. Its the essence of genuine leadership, where integrity and principles hold sway over mere compliance.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, are increasingly being used in the workplace, but getting the interplay right is often crucial to ensuring employees stay on board. For instance, research has shown that AI can often strip away the agency workers so crave at work, resulting in us working to support the AI rather than the other way around. This is the inverse of the narrative whereby technology liberates us from the mundanities of life that we all loathe and frees us to do the very human things

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Dealing with angry customers can be one of the greatest challenges you face. Here are 7 tips for dealing with those difficult situations gracefully and effectively. Today’s post is by Mark Goulston, author of “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone” One of the things that all irate customers have in common is that they have an attitude that says I rate better service than this and now that I have you on the phone, youre going to pay for it!

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Microsoft (MS) missed the Smartphone revolution. Windows operating system never got traction in the mobile sector. Zune Microsofts music player was a colossal failure. The launch of Xbox One required a retooling of their approach to gaming. They weren't learning fast enough. CEO Satya Nadella is building a learn-it-all mindset at Microsoft.

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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Imagine yourself in the command center of a high-risk space mission. Alarms are blaring, data streams are pouring in from multiple sources, and a critical decision must be made within seconds. Make the wrong choice, and you could lose lives, endanger years of planning and waste billions of dollars. High-stakes situations like these arent limited to the space industry they also mirror the pressures that many of todays business leaders face.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Would you rather go on a blind date with a total stranger or someone recommended by a friend? A similar dynamic applies when people apply for jobs. According to new research from the University of Floridas Warrington College of Business, job seekers are more likely to be drawn to and accept offers from companies that their friends recommend as a good fit.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Power of Storytelling in Leadership: Engaging Your Audience When you’re engrossed in a good book or television series, it’s tempting to stay up late and read the next chapter or watch one more episode. That’s the power of good storytelling. Using this same tactic in the boardroom can engage your team in a similar way. Our guide will explore some of the best storytelling techniques, enabling you to inspire your teams to reach their full potential.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Infants mimic adults when they learn to talk. Adults choose their own words. Novices imitate. Experts craft their own path. Imitation comes before mastery. Dont copy successful people too long. We master something when we understand the principles behind it. How to move from mimicry to mastery?

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Decker Communication

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

DOES CREATIVITY MATTER IN COMMUNICATION? You want to change someones mind. How do you help them see what you see? Relying only on your facts is a mistake. Yes, your idea has merit and is backed by data. But theres a gigantic problem: your listener is already drowning in facts. If youre not careful, your facts may become like wasted water pouring from an open faucet, spilling over the edges of your listeners mind.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A new study from NYU Tandon School of Engineering suggests that political views, not racial identity, play the biggest role in shaping how people emotionally respond to mass shooting data. This finding challenges common beliefs about how people interpret information on gun violence. The study involved 450 participants who viewed bar charts showing mass shooting victims by racial group.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Crafting Clear Messages: Tips for Leaders to Enhance Clarity Leaders are pivotal in devising strategies that help their organizations succeed. However, they need to communicate their vision clearly so their teams can execute it. By prioritizing clear messaging, leaders can minimize misunderstandings, increase collaboration and boost engagement. Our guide will provide some helpful tips to ensure clear communication.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Our reader poll today asks: How frequently does your organization undergo major reorganizations? Constantly. It happens multiple times per year 9.60% Regularly. At least once a year 19.20% Sometimes. Usually every couple of years 41.91% Rarely. I can’t remember the last time we reorganized 29.29% Not Mixing Things Up. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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