General Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In any moment of decisions, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”. Theodore Roosevelt. As a leader, you’re generally working with two types of decisions: immediate or crisis action and everything else.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. There it was, finally, the question I was waiting for from my brilliant but mercurial multi-multi-millionaire boss. I had been pondering the answer for several weeks. We were working on an important project in the fall of 1990, and there was a problem, one demanding some out-of-the-box thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Much has been written and talked about on the importance of leading others. But what about leading ourselves? I believe that our ability to self-lead has clear links to our ability to lead others. This ultimately affects our ability to achieve success in whatever endeavor we undertake. But, as the age-old saying goes, sometimes we are our “own worst enemy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

You need to move results– quickly. It’s tempting to try everything you can to make things better. But the all too common “throw everything at the problem and see what helps” approach may make things worse in the long run. Your team will be frantically trying to execute on too many cylinders, and even if results start to improve, you won’t know why.

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General Leadership

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. “ Harry S. Truman. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first heard of the Creed movie. The title sounded generic until I saw the movie preview for Creed. Then it was all over. I knew what Creed was about and I was excited, to say the least. Creed is the latest movie in the Rocky film series. It could be considered a legacyquel. A movie that continues a movie series but with a new legacy character.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I see them in every organization I work with–the super-busy, really stressed manager who gets in early, stays late, eats lunch at their desk, and still can’t get it all done. Sadly they’re also often resentful that their performance doesn’t warrant an “exceptional” rating or a promotion. They lament: “Can’t they see how hard I’m working?

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 1, 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. 30 March 2014. “We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!” President George W. Bush. All of us remember where we were on 9/11. I had one of the greatest jobs in the world of the Vice Commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC).

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The causes of negativity in the workplace are too many to count, but you can count on any one of them impacting the sense of community present in an organization. The multiplier effect that even one negative personality can have on an organization should be seen as too much to bear. Here are five ways you can keep negativity at bay. Drive awareness of the behavior’s impact.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 4, 2015

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The following is a guest piece by New York Times bestselling author, Kevin Kruse. Do you ever feel like you know what you should be doing as a leader, but there just isn’t enough time to actually do it? How do successful people create pockets of time so they can become a leader of people, not just managers of tasks? I recently had the chance to interview over 200 highly successful people including billionaires, millionaires and many CEOs who were leading small and large teams alike.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2015

L EADERSHIP is stewardship. It requires a long term perspective. It is difficult because it is fundamentally a process of reconciliation; a process of bringing a community of people together towards a common purpose. It is service. Stewardship requires that the organizational leaders put leadership in the hands of every member of the organization. It gives them ownership of the future.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Both are essential. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. We are always playing two games—an outer and inner game. The outer game of leadership consists of using all of our knowledge and experience, as well as our technical, managerial, and leadership competence, to accomplish results.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2015

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

What is a high performance team? –> a team that produces outstanding results, where everyone works in synchronicity, appreciates each other’s contributions, and is proud to be a member of the team. Research has revealed the characteristics of high performance teams. And most of us have had an experience on a high performance team at some point in our lives – whether at work, in school, sports or our community.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Go Slow to Go Fast : Tools to Disrupt Incumbent Strategy & Behavior to WIN your Competitive Landscape by Damian D."Skipper" Pitts. Driven to Delight : Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way by Joseph Michelli. Navigating Chaos : How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations by Jeff Boss.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

John Steinbeck’s 1952 family epic (and not-so-subtle Bible allegory), East of Eden , is impressive for the sweeping arc of its story and richly drawn characters. But it also includes insight on both the nature of the servant life and the pitfalls of complacency. At one point, the character of Samuel Hamilton converses with Lee, his Chinese servant, about his vocation.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

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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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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Extraordinary leadership is about who you are. There’s hope for all of us. One quality rises to the top when I think of extraordinary leaders.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2015 that you might have missed: Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team? via @StanfordBiz. 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock. You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If. by @bradlomenick. This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! by @dreverettpiper. Give Thanks For The Circles Around You by @LollyDaskal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Guest post from Chip Espinoza : Two of the top challenges young professionals report facing while making the transition into management is a change in relational dynamics with former peers at work and the fear of disappointing the boss who promoted them. One young woman shared her distress when one of her best friends at work unfriended her on Facebook.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I am sure by now, everyone knows I am involved in bringing in 50 refugee families. Many other people have approached me asking how this can be orchestrated. It is not difficult but it does involve organization. As with any project - start with the goal. "To successfully integrate refugees into our society which includes allowing them the opportunity to be self supporting contributors to our society".

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 4, 2015

T here’s an old saying you’ve probably heard. This idiom has to do with horseshoes and hand grenades: Close only counts in horseshoes (and hand grenades). You’ve heard of that expression, right? Image via Creative Commons. Well, I believe we can include leadership, or at least portions of it, in this famous phrase. Close Is Often Good Enough.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Disrespect feels like a pat on the head, followed by a closing door. Disrespect encourages your inner accuser to whisper, “You don’t matter.” Disrespect increase sick days, slow downs, and paybacks.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

When you hear or think about the word December, many things likely come to mind; but one word that likely doesn’t is. productive. Today I want to challenge that thought, and even give you some very specific ways to use the last month of the year to be as productive, or perhaps […]. The post Five Ways to Make Your December More Productive appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Robert E. Quinn introduced the concept of “slow death” in his book Deep Change. This concept describes what happens when organizations and individuals don’t adapt to external changes, losing alignment and ultimately dying psychologically or otherwise. He convincingly makes the case that individual change (by leaders) is required to ensure organizational change.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 2, 2015

W ow, can you believe we’re entering into the final month of the year? It seems like it was the beginning of the year just yesterday. That’s not the case though. Time has continued to move and we’re almost to 2016. Are you ready for that? With November ending, it’s time to review the blog and see what the top posts were, who the top commenters were, and how the blog did.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Curiosity is the universal answer to aspiration, frustration, disappointment, and opportunity. Talk as much as you want as long as curiosity motivates your words. 13 powers of curiosity: Connection.

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Jason Womack

DECEMBER 4, 2015

What does it take to get yourself in the zone? You know. that powerful state of focus and productivity where distractions fall away, and you dial in what needs to get done. And do it. Click here to watch a.

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