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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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. But intentional change isn’t easy.

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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. How will you and your managers communicate at least five times, through five different channels? Senior leaders serious about changing business culture do three things consistently.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The Role of Top Executives in Leading the Green Revolution The shift toward environmentally friendly operations cannot be handled solely by lower-level managers or specific departments. Examples include zero-waste manufacturing processes, renewable energy sources, and product-as-a-service business models.

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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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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. Managing Through Career and Life Changes.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I sought out the best medical advice, educated myself on AFib, and made the necessary changes to manage the condition. They brought fresh perspectives, diverse skills, and a renewed energy that propelled the company forward. The experience forced me to confront my own vulnerabilities and to reassess my priorities.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or as one manager told me when she is perceived as negative, “It’s not that I’m negative, it’s just that I care so F-ing much!” 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.

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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. But intentional change isn’t easy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? A Manager’s Guide to Better Decision Making (May 2021). How to Give Your Team the Energy They Need (January 2021). How to Accidently Sabotage Team Innovation (February 2021). Read the article here.

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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. Every coach, player and student manager is considered a leader and they understand that they compete as a leadership team against another team of leaders. They obsess over it.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In my experience as a leadership executive coach, I have seen how emotionally intelligent leaders are consistently more effective in managing and resolving conflicts. This awareness allows them to manage conflicts with a balanced perspective, ensuring the discussion stays focused on resolution rather than emotional outbursts.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. Targets, management on result, and control remain the magic words. Roughly speaking, a network organization is about communities and community management, raising the question of how you build communities.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Management teams are always looking at the bottom linealways. But management will notice if youve been pushing papers the same way for the last five years or youve settled into a routine that doesnt push your boundaries. The minute you embrace change and start innovating is the minute you outpace the competition. Get out there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shares that joy in work encompasses fun—that it is fun to take pride in what you do and help others. Sepetember’s Frontline Festival is about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Follow @wallybock. Take a look at Positivity and Joy in Work. Follow @curiouscat_com.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust. My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.” Many find spending time with their manager to be the worst time of their day. Remove abusive managers. What can leaders do?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. Go through your to-do list with a fine-tooth comb, asking yourself if anything simply isn’t necessary or if you’re spending far too much time on it (think about email time management ). Weed out the nonessential tasks.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI. The simple truth is if you don’t update your business processes to reap the rewards of growth, quality, or both that AI brings, your competitor will.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift. Gratitude is missing when…. a team member resents the promotion of a coworker, and overlooks all the ways he has grown himself in the past year.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

With an acute focus on customer experience, the CXO taps into vast reserves of customer data to craft innovative solutions that enhance user experiences, boost satisfaction, and build lasting loyalty. This means spotting opportunities, managing risks, and aligning strategies with the organization’s goals.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

By fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, academic leaders create a dynamic learning environment that prepares students for the ever-changing demands of the modern world. They are accountable for devising and executing policies advocating academic honesty, inclusivity , and innovation.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Over 20 years ago, I had a manager whose presence was an instant energy booster. Sometimes, he'd spontaneously invite us to sit in on a meeting with upper management, giving us a glimpse into high-level decision-making. Traditional management theory often centers around stability, predictability, and standardization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Similarly, if even small decisions require multiple layers of approval, your team will lose energy to try new things. No fancy budget.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

CEOs tend to be most effective in their first few years, bringing new ideas, energy, and strategic direction to the organization. Over time, however, they may become entrenched in their ways, leading to a lack of innovation and agility.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And now he’s written, Going on the Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation. In a seven-year study, Tabrizi found that companies that focus their energy on building a supportive, purpose-driven culture that keeps people on edge, and boldly adapts to new environments are the companies that truly excel.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Management Issues. Need advice on a management issue?

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Unfortunately, most meetings dont create the space needed for innovative suggestions to surface. This question encourages team members to think beyond immediate tasks and challenges, focusing instead on opportunities for improvement and innovation. Teams that feel heard are teams that innovate and thrive.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. may shift your focus to internal motivation and performance management strategies. When we ask broad questions, we invite a lot of wasted energy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Nathan Regier of Next Element Consulting – Next From Nate shares his viewpoint that when we mediate, manage, or reduce the conflict, we necessarily reduce the energy available for productive problem-solving. Margaret Heffernan.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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