Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Maintaining physical fitness not only increases energy levels but uplifts mood and enhances focus. Three or more hours of moderate aerobic exercise per week increases mitochondrial density and supports neurogenesis, thereby enhancing energy levels and brain power. But its not just for athletes; its critical for leaders.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2025

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack When I exited my corporate career more than thirty-five years ago, I was privileged to be regarded and respected as the Fashion Direction Manager for the Grace Bros Department Store group, one of Australias most senior women in retail management. This launched my global reputation as a fashion and lifestyle […]

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

As an inventor with seven patents in the energy and chemical areas I can cite my own experience to substantiate the importance of these traits as factors that lead to success. The innovation-friendly culture of the company helped — and eventually, the discovery led to the immensely successful Post-it, first introduced in 1978.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Innovative Approaches to Green Environmental Performance In pursuing environmental stewardship, businesses invest in innovative strategies to minimize their ecological impact. Examples include zero-waste manufacturing processes, renewable energy sources, and product-as-a-service business models.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Think about the business culture you’ve always wanted for your organization—the energy, the purpose, the unwavering alignment toward a common vision. Senior leaders serious about changing business culture do three things consistently. When your team sees you model the change, they’ll begin to believe in its importance.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2025

Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to make training large language models, like GPT, 30% more energy-efficient without slowing down the process. But these benefits dont excuse wasting energy. It points to a more energy-efficient path forward for AI. This technique could save enough power to supply 1.1

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 1, 2020

But what if you could reframe your thinking and utilize the conflict, crisis, and change to start seeing possibility, collaboration, and innovation? Listen in as Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell discuss how utilizing the potential energy from conflict, crisis, and change can be harnessed and used for transformation and driving innovation.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2025

Your Echo Chamber - parrots back whatever the boss says, killing innovation one yes at a time. Your Drama Magnet - turns every sprint into a soap opera, sucking energy from real work. And the people with options – your innovators, rainmakers, quiet pros – will exercise those options elsewhere. That’s your war zone.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Redirect Negative Energy into Positive Action Emotionally intelligent leaders have the unique ability to transform the negative energy of a conflict into a positive force for change. Instead of letting frustrations simmer, they refocus that energy into actionable steps that improve the situation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2025

Confidence Bursts create energy, build vital habits, and drive results Have you ever rolled out a new strategy and watched your team stare back like you suggested they wrestle alligators? More stories and tools for discovering micro-innovations like Yomi’s in our book Courageous Cultures (and more on this story in Chapter 6).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2021

It’s time to reclaim your energy, creativity, and brilliance – it all starts by finding your minute to think. 16:38 – A practical example of an innovative team member who was innovative because he regularly had a minute to think. But he lost his creativity when he joined the innovation team.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 6, 2023

The tricky thing with this 'off' feeling of energy is that if you're not fully present and aware, you likely won't notice it consciously. And if you let it go on unaddressed, it will cost you financially and spiritually, as well as zap your time, energy, trust, impact, life force. But you'll feel it. And so will your team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” These are opportunities for resourcefulness that don’t require extra energy or learning. It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circumstances.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. These needed capabilities become your innovation portfolio. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2025

Coworking spaces have rapidly evolved from trendy alternatives to corporate offices into powerful ecosystems of innovation. So what makes these spaces for innovation, and why are so many startups, creatives, and even enterprise teams choosing them as their launchpads? Let’s dive in.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you’re talking to an “idea person”, they want to explore and build on ideas, not have their creativity and energy crushed before their ideas can breathe. Your “get things done” crowd, the roadblocks are frustrating—they want to see action. Roadblocks…crushed…harsh…disrespectful. What do all these words have in common?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Brian Sooy of Lead Change Group offers Positive Communication Leads to a Culture of Innovation. brings us How to Stop Burning Emotional Energy. In this article, David shares a practical tool you can use to reduce and eliminate wasted change-related emotional energy. Do you encourage innovation? Follow Brian @BrianSooy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Their employees don't have to waste time and energy playing guessing games about their supervisor because they know from the outset what is important to them, and just as important, they know what contribution they make as the team or company strives toward this purpose. I = Instilling Energy Emotional contagion is a fact of life.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 19, 2025

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2025

Let the team know theres a number-one seed out theremaybe its a competitor, or another team chasing the same innovation. Underdog energy thrives when people feel seen for what they uniquely bring. Every choice, every contribution, every ounce of energy adds up. Youre not vilifying them; youre clarifying the stakes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

Sepetember’s Frontline Festival is about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Energy & Engagement Frontline Festival fun having fun at work humor at work skipping to work' In celebration Larry Coppenrath has mind mapped Overcoming an Imperfect Boss. You can download his work by clicking here: OAIB Mind Maps. Call For Submissions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

These eight strategies will help you maintain your team’s energy and morale when goals change frequently. Healthy organizations always adapt, innovate, and shift their goals. But how you handle those changes makes all the difference in whether or team adjusts and engages with energy or gives up with futile frustration.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Creator: Innovators and Visionaries Creators are the pioneers of new ideas and visionary strategies– naturally inclined towards innovation, thinking outside the box, and envisioning future possibilities. Their leadership style is often characterized by: Creativity and Innovation: Generating groundbreaking ideas and solutions.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. Create the Future is paired with a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning innovation handbook, Exploiting Chaos.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2024

This presents significant challenges for our energy infrastructure, which must remain resilient to ensure continued service and safety. Recent years have illustrated the catastrophic impact of energy disruptions during extreme weather events.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Chief Joy Officer : How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear by Richard Sheridan. Ninja Future : Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation by Gary Shapiro. Master Your Mind : Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain by Roger Seip and Robb Zbierski.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 9, 2023

Is your organization looking to create a positive and thriving work environment that fuels innovation and inspires your employees to perform at their best? By focusing on quality intentions, energy, and presence for each employee, it empowers everyone to contribute to the success and impact of a company’s mission and goals.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

The transition towards renewable energy sources has become a global imperative. Renewable energy systems, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, are at the forefront of this movement. The financial predictability offered by renewable energy translates into a lower risk for investors and more stable long-term investments.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

These in-game communications focus on monitoring and modulating three important team competencies—knowledge, energy and emotion. Communication: The teams that win will communicate better than their opponents. They obsess over it. The teams that do this best will move on. Purpose: The teams that win will emphasize a greater purpose.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Theres energy, trust, and clarity. For more Clarity-building Habits check out: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity Curiosity: Unlocking Innovation and Problem-Solving The best teams dont settle for surface-level thinking. They challenge assumptions, anticipate obstacles, and seek better ways to work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

How to Give Your Team the Energy They Need (January 2021). How to Accidently Sabotage Team Innovation (February 2021). If you’re tired of delayed decisions or conversations that seem to go in circles, you won’t want to miss this highly shared leadership blog post, “A Manager’s Guide to Better Decision Making.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s the ROI that comes from curated conversations and spontaneous interactions, those electric moments of innovation that happen when your team is in the same room. A side conversation can lead to the next big idea or micro-innovation, and a shared laugh can forge a bond stronger than any Slack thread.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2024

Taking initiative might mean anticipating potential problems and proposing solutions, seeking out opportunities for innovation or improvement, or voluntarily taking on additional responsibilities to relieve pressure on your team. Appreciate Different Styles Understand that we all have different motivational energies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

His energy toward great service serves as a charismatic contagious vortex that inspires daily action. Can diffuse the negative energy in a crises and channel it into productive action. Is c onstantly encouraging innovation and new ways to make the work more effective and efficient. A Beacon of Calm in the Midst of Chaos.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Embarking on your own AI journey While your goal is to be innovative, relevant, competitive, and forward-looking, your approach should be to bend but not break your team and your operations. Meanwhile, Crawlers and Bots scour the web and analyze customer reviews, competition, and social sentiment. Just think about possibilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The more people you have thinking strategically, even at the frontlines, the more innovative and dynamic your company will be. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement helping managers become more strategic strategic thinking teach strategy' It’s a win-win.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2024

Because it’s small, doesn’t need much energy, and doesn’t slow down, it’s perfect for putting in wearable gadgets like smartwatches and fitness trackers. This approach is incredibly expensive, consumes significant energy and adds a time delay.

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