Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 17, 2015
I Googled “Death by Powerpoint” and got 12.6 million results. That’s a whole lot of frustrated ranting going on. Look, I get it. In most companies, if you’re serious about your project, you can’t show up to a meeting without a “deck” to explain it. But if people are glazing over, you’re not inspiring their best thinking.
General Leadership
AUGUST 21, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford. As a freshman engineering student, I remember vividly the day my professor announced we needed to know the answer before we performed the calculations.
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 20, 2015
If you are anything like me, you will be able to relate to the main character of my most recent book, Rapid Teamwork. His name is Greg – and as the director of a large organization, he does a good job. But his team is underperforming…and despite his focus on strategy and skills and metrics, he can’t figure out what is missing. So his management team is encouraged to take a trip together – to go whitewater rafting.
Terry Starbucker
AUGUST 16, 2015
This is the last in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up next Sunday, on August 23rd. I’m so grateful you’re here reading this today, and I hope you’ll join me again next week to help me celebrate this milestone (to make it easier for you please be my guest to sign up for email delivery of my posts in the box on the right side bar).
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Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 19, 2015
Have you ever noticed how much easier is to remember someone’s point when they wrap a story around it? So why do so many leaders stick with dry powerpoint presentations and yawner “motivational” pep talks when they could tell a story. How could you better use stories to galvanize your team toward stronger results? This Summer, I’ve trained hundreds of people on my STORIES model of impactful communication.
General Leadership
AUGUST 19, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”. John F. Kennedy. In his TED talk from February 2011 Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal talks about how after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 he had to become a different leader, a leader who in some ways had to completely relearn how he did things.
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Michael Lee Stallard
AUGUST 16, 2015
#98 Seek Individual Ideas and Opinions. When possible, ask for the ideas and opinions of your direct reports, especially on actions you expect them to implement or believe they want to have a voice in deciding. This behavior reflects humility and wisdom. This is the ninety-eighth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others.
Tanveer Naseer
AUGUST 18, 2015
The following is a guest piece by CEO Ben Decker. Across every business vertical and level, we all tell ourselves little white lies when it comes to communicating: “People tell me I’m pretty good at communicating.” “I don’t need to prep; I can wing it.” “If I say the words, people will get it.” At the CEO level, these white lies run rampant. After years of working with business leaders, the fact is most CEOs are not inspiring.
General Leadership
AUGUST 17, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu. Recently, my sweetie and I were out at Creve Coeur Lake in St. Louis County, Missouri. There’s a paved path almost 4 miles long circling the lake and on any given day people are either walking, running, biking or blading on the path.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
The unsung hero of a fully engaged, energized workplace may surprise you. To uncover this everyday tour-de-force, let us turn for a moment to perhaps the most challenging of all battlegrounds for maintaining attention and engagement—teenagers in a classroom. Sam Intrator is a teaching expert who spent 130 days shadowing and closely observing teenagers in a diverse California high school.
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Women on Business
AUGUST 17, 2015
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Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 18, 2015
It’s impossible to “manage” time. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. You can’t slow it down or speed it up. However, we can control where we spend our time and take actions to reduce or eliminate time wasters. Managing time is really all about managing ourselves. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 10 timeless ways to take control of day and stop wasting time.
General Leadership
AUGUST 19, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “We are shaped by practices and shape ourselves through practices. ”. Bob Dunham. What are you practicing as a leader? Leadership, like any endeavor is a skill that can be learned and honed through practice.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 19, 2015
Note: This is the first of a three-part series. Part one focuses on questions to help win support. One of the main reasons that projects fail to launch, or realize long-term success, is the lack of executive sponsorship. In fact, a 2014 Research Study by Prosci indicated that projects with strong, effective executive sponsorship were 3.5 times more likely to meet or exceed objectives than those with weak sponsorship.
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Women on Business
AUGUST 21, 2015
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Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 19, 2015
I ’m droggy. I’m congested. And I’m lacking sleep. I feel like I’ve been in this state forever. But it’s only been a day. Image via Creative Commons. You ever been there? If you’re like most leaders, you have. Leaders Lack Sleep. In a Gallop study, research shows that, on average, 40% of the US get less than the recommended amount of sleep.
General Leadership
AUGUST 18, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 21 Jan 2014. “Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”. John Wooden. As the end to my working years begins to come hazily into view, conversations with younger co-workers naturally and frequently include the question, “What are you going to do when you retire?
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 18, 2015
A maverick band of rabbits, threatened by the spread of industrial construction near their warren (home), start out on a quest for a new warren and a better society. This is the backstory for Richard Adams’s 1972 best-selling book, Watership Down. The story describes the rabbits’ sudden evacuation and long odyssey complete with extreme danger, delightful fun, and challenging hurdles.
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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.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 17, 2015
Why are there so many bad managers? It’s because organizations are designed to create bad managers. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to learn more.
Women on Business
AUGUST 20, 2015
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Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 17, 2015
. It’s happened to you, as it happens to all of us at some point. You have an employee (or more) that you manage who is challenging you. When you’re honest with yourself, you just don’t like them and this bothers you. They are “average” at their work yet you sense that they have the potential to be even better. If you look closely at how your dislike for this person impacts how you interact with them, you notice that you avoid having the kind of conversations you n
Leading in Context
AUGUST 19, 2015
By Linda Fisher Thornton Leaders and organizations can get into real trouble if they oversimplify ethics. Some examples of what that might look like include lonely ethics statements (that look good on paper but are not brought to life) and grand statements (that are vague and not well understood).
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Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 20, 2015
Guest post from Daniel Korschun: If your CEO got fired tomorrow, would anyone notice? Last year, the board of directors at one of New England’s largest supermarket chains fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. Instead of going about their business as usual, as people at other companies would do, 25,000 employees at Market Basket (they call themselves associates) protested in the streets for six weeks to get Demoulas back.
Women on Business
AUGUST 16, 2015
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 19, 2015
The research of Kouzes and Posner indicates that seeking feedback is the behavior leaders fail at the most.* Useful feedback enables you to compare self-perception with the perception of others.
Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 17, 2015
I n Hollywood’s attempt to throw back to yesteryear, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. released. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was originally a TV series that ran from 1964-1968. The show was a silly mix of spy life and international intrigue. You got more of the same from the movie. While not packed with quite as many leadership lessons as other recent movies, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. packed quite a punch in the leadership department.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
AUGUST 19, 2015
What do these famous pairs have in common? Lennon and McCartney. Burns and Allen. Jobs and Wozniak. Lerner and Loewe. Siskel and Ebert. They are all dynamic duos: extrovert – introvert pairs who created something together that neither of them would have done on their own. What’s their secret? Too often extroverts complain to each other about their introverted peers.
Women on Business
AUGUST 19, 2015
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 17, 2015
Sometimes I put my foot in my mouth. Upon reflection, I’m a little embarrassed by a question I asked Bill George, author of the new and updated version of, Discover Your True North.
Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 21, 2015
W e’re all trying to get somewhere or become something better. We purchase programs that promise to make us a better person. We attend seminars that are supposed to improve our self-esteem. We watch videos that promise to show us the way. Image via Creative Commons. What’s The Process? The process is simple. The process is the journey we take from where we’re at to where we belong.
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