Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 23, 2013
'This was a farewell. The last concert of the year for the high-school orchestra. The seniors wore roses and beamed with personality. The conductor held up his baton, and the music began. Powerful. Brilliant. Exciting. A send-off to the next phase of their lives. Then…he looked at the orchestra and grinned. He stepped off the [.] The post Orchestra Without a Conductor appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 19, 2013
'Two weeks ago I wrote about how leaders needed to be more human to achieve the “ success trifecta ” – a great company, happy employees, and a fulfilled leader. One of the pillars of the more human philosophy is the establishment of the Culture of Accountability. I touched on it briefly on that previous post – it’s the key to getting to a place where “ the need to be good is replaced with a relentless passion to be great”.
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Lead Change Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development With spring well underway, many people have started their annual home spring cleaning ritual. Have you ever thought about doing a spring cleaning for your business? Spring is a great time for business leaders to examine routines, learn from past mistakes, and make improvements to create a more productive and successful company.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 21, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. There is little in Donald Rumsfeld newest book, Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life , that anyone in leadership would dispute. The book is an outgrowth of management and leadership aphorisms that Rumsfeld wrote and put on 3×5 notecards. Now gathered in book form, Rumsfeld’s Rules explores how to serve an organization and how to lead it.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 24, 2013
'I’m often asked which colleges are the best for “leadership.” The short answer is “most will do just fine.” As with most of life, it’s what you make of it. College is a great place to grow as a leader. Much of your leadership learning will come from peripheral aspects of the college experience. Being [.] The post 9 Ways to Maximize Your College Leadership Experience appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'The Manager and the Monk is one of those books that comes along every now and again, that will shape and inspire your thinking. It is a deeply philosophical book with very practical applications. The book is essentially a conversation between Jochen Zeitz ( @JochenZeitz ), the former Chairman and CEO of Puma, and Father Anselm Grün , the financial manager of the Münsterschwarzach Abby near Würzburg, Germany.
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Women on Business
MAY 20, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 21, 2013
'The talent you count on as central to your brand could rub people the wrong way. What you do well, may not do you well. After two decades participating in talent reviews, I’ve noticed a pattern. The talents candidates count on as central to their brand, are often talked about negatively when assessing their readiness [.] The post Talent Reviews: What They’re Saying Behind Closed Doors appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
MAY 22, 2013
'Change with Confidence by Phil Buckley is a great handbook for working through a big change project. The book is organized around 50 critical and practical questions change leaders ask. The examples provided throughout the book mostly reflect his experience as co-lead in the global integration of Kraft and Cadbury. I think that this is some of the hardest change to lead because you are not just merging systems and processes but different organizational cultures.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development The leaders of tomorrow will embark on a self-discovery journey. They will listen to and act on their callings to fulfill the lives of others. We all share an innate drive for meaning, guidance and purpose. We want to lead significant lives that matter and worth remembering. Lives that can make a memorable difference, lives [.].
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Women on Business
MAY 18, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 22, 2013
'“How do I get my team to care?” Employee engagement is the number one requested topic from my readers. If you’re struggling with employee engagement, you’re not alone. Gallup says: “Seventy-one percent of American workers are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work, meaning they are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and are less [.
Persuasive Powerhouse
MAY 20, 2013
' . Today is the start of International Coaching week. This is the week designated by the International Coach Federation for professional coaches worldwide to host events that promote the proven power of coaching. This post is my own tribute to the week, a shameless promotion of the profession I joined more than a decade ago. . When I first started coaching, there were times that I would cringe at the promotion of my profession.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 22, 2013
'Posted in Light Your World Uncategorized It was the worst case of déjà vu ever. A massive and fierce tornado bearing down on city of over a million people. We were here as a state, in this same city, only 14 short years ago. Could this really be happening again? And still the tornado came to Moore, Oklahoma. In the wake [.].
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Women on Business
MAY 24, 2013
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 20, 2013
'They think it can’t be done. You do. Now you’ve got to prove it. Game on. Nothing’s more inspirational than having something to prove. My team has spent the last 2 years proving “the impossible.” The more folks told us “it” wouldn’t work, the more fired up we got. We wanted to prove that culture [.
Persuasive Powerhouse
MAY 22, 2013
'How unfortunate that our popular ideas of what a good leader should be are so often grandiose. Through current media, television, and movies, we expect perfection; a leader is strong, fearless and flawless. If we believe that myth, they should be superheroes, royalty and saviors all rolled into one. So we become disappointed when our leaders are only human after all.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 24, 2013
'Posted in Light Your World Self Leadership Thought: Everyone makes mistakes or acts selfishly occasionally, yet by and large, you can trust someone you view as dependable – and that includes you. Thought: Your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. Impeccability of the word only creates beauty, love, and heaven on earth.
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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.
Tanveer Naseer
MAY 21, 2013
'If there’s one ailment most of us can agree on that’s found in today’s workplaces it’s a lack of engagement between employees and their work. Specifically, a lack of connection between what we do and what matters to us – both professionally and personally. Now, thanks to the recent study “Philips Work/Life Survey” conducted by Philips North America , we have additional insights into why organizations and their leaders need to address the issue of creating meaningful work
Women on Business
MAY 19, 2013
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In the CEO Afterlife
MAY 22, 2013
'Every day we see or read about superb acts of leadership. The ones that occupy an indelible place in our minds are often characterized by unexpected high-pressure, traumatic conditions and courageous acts taken within a very limited amount of time – a cabbie delivering a baby, a mayor calming a city after one of the worst terrorist attack in the history of mankind, a pilot making the call to land a powerless 65 ton piece of steel on a river in the middle of a major metropolis, a primary school
Lead Change Blog
MAY 23, 2013
'Posted in Team Dynamics [link] Collaboration is the new way to work. Walls are being removed and collaboration points are being designed into workplaces. Though collaboration isn’t new, it is being revived. In a world of extreme connectedness, collaboration is rising as a strategic and practical way to gain a competitive advantage. At the core of collaboration is trust.
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Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 23, 2013
'Guest post from Gerry Czarnecki: Those who have read my books know that I believe the greatest injustice we can perpetrate on our staff is to like them. Yes, I truly believe that liking our staff creates the probability that we will be biased in our views when we are trying to successfully manage a team. As I say in my book, Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: Prescriptions for a Leadership Headache , I believe that liking people can also be a major impediment to being an effective leader.
Women on Business
MAY 23, 2013
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Leading in Context
MAY 22, 2013
'By Linda Fisher Thornton In my 150th Blog Post, I wrote about starting a blog and being new to the process of Learning Out Loud. To celebrate my 200th post, I want to reflect on what it''s been like to learn new things faster than I ever thought possible. It seems especially clear to me now that we all have capabilities we''re not using in our day to day lives.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 21, 2013
'Posted in Light Your World [link] Isn’t it amazing how we complain about our federal government’s lack of guts to do anything about the entitlements and yet we do nothing about it in our own organizations. Have you looked at your own organization lately? I’ve looked at a bunch of them – and the sense of entitlement, the ‘right’ to not [.].
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Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 22, 2013
'Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with the president of a privately held company as part of research for a book I am writing on talent management and development within small to mid-size companies. During our conversation he shared an event he had early on in his career that intrigued me.
Women on Business
MAY 22, 2013
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Leadership Freak
MAY 22, 2013
'Your idea got shot down. Give up, play safe, or push forward? Courage and boldness create your future. Cowardice solidifies your past. Leaders don’t give up quickly. Boldly advocate. Courageously stand up. Tenaciously push forward. How to stand up for your ideas: Courage and boldness don’t have to be rude, irritating, and adversarial. Jerks aren’t courageous they’re […].
Lead Change Blog
MAY 22, 2013
'Posted in Community Involvement Light Your World Self Leadership Have you ever considered this…? “A Veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount up to and including his or her own life.“ Unknown Did you know that many studies [.].
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