Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast. Why They Think You’re Negative.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2021

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2023

The HR Director of a large engineering firm where I (David) was about to start a day-long workshop had taken me aside to warn me. And if you’re frequently on the receiving end of feedback telling YOU that you’re too negative or complain too much, be sure to check out How to Be Less Negative – and Still Be Yourself.)

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2020

They are visionaries who know how to clearly communicate their vision to others. Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Successful leaders have persistence, tenacity, confidence, enthusiasm.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2022

How do you define “ leadership presence ?” . And how can you tell from meeting someone, working with them, listening to them speak—this person is a great leader? . Great leadership presence allows you to bring people who are quite different together around a common vision.” ” – Chip Nilges. Be authentic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

There is so much to do that some days I just want to give up!” – Halisee, Software Engineer Halisee called us looking for help with the overwhelm. The post Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. The activities make the initiatives happen. See Also: Mind the M.I.T.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. In Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times , authors John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. Juliet shows all of us how to reclaim time for thinking and make room for what truly matters. shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals. In Rogue Waves , Jonathan Brill?a

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CEO Insider

APRIL 9, 2024

The term VUCA was first used in 1987 at the US Army War College in 1987 to describe the context of strategic military leadership as being Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable. Not only was the U.S. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. The post How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. He was also an accomplished Italian chef.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2024

When you read the book, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science Of Failing Well , you’ll gain a greater appreciation for the benefits that comes from failure, and how to embrace failure as part of your journey to achieving greater success. Amy Edmondson Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Engineer Defaults. Several of my colleagues already do his by engineering an auto-response in email to say, ‘Thank you for your message; as a rule, I check email once a day at 8:30 a.m.’”. My goodness how time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? — Turn off your notifications. Check less often. Just say no.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2023

Transform your leadership and team’s results with the power of small habits Your team won’t become a high-functioning powerhouse after one offsite. There are no leadership hacks or shortcuts that will transform your organization or results. The idea was deemed far too risky, and most engineers wrote it off as an unsafe proposal.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership). Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. But he didn’t.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Not how to recover well.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2023

To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2020

The Little Blue Engine begins, The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was shrill. He was tired and small, and the hill was tall, And… Continue reading →

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. How can this be? When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. They don’t know how to do it.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There is plenty of leadership advice available in bookstores, online and in person. As Art Barter grew Datron World Communications from a $10 million company to a $200 million company in six years, he became convinced that a core leadership principle had to be serving and trusting others. Servant Leadership and the Speed of Trust.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 26, 2021

Make Feedback an Engine for Personal Growth. You can take charge of this vital tool and make it so much more–a regular, important, and positive engine for growth and employee satisfaction. Give a listen as my panel of leadership experts shares some great thoughts on how they put this into practice.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 21, 2012

Cars have a four-stroke (or “four-cylinder”) engine, and lawn mowers have a two-stroke engine. But did you know that people have a five-stroke engine? “It I like to think in terms of a five-stroke engine that needs to be fueled, because it’s not just about love. How can you best rev up their 5-stroke engine?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Art Petty of Art Petty provided Leadership Power-Up: Make Time to Think Deeply.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 9, 2010

A DISC Model Question You Should Ask of Yourself Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style If you liked this post, please tweet it, like it, share it, or leave a comment. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Tell me what youre thinking.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

Grbavac has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and organizational development, and he was involved in managing sales groups and re-engineering corporate structure and culture at industry-leading organizations such as Jantzen and VF Corporation. change leadership Richard Grbavac William Seidman'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2023

With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Use the Seven Second Delay – Radio and television broadcasters often employ a seven second delay during live events to give their engineers time to bleep something that shouldn’t go out over the air. Check out the video in this post for my tips on how to get the most from your breathing. can boost endorphins.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 21, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. To Be An Honest Blogger Without Being A Jerk Being Too Nice Can Hurt You How To Be Genuine With People You Dislike Is Being Too Nice Hurting Your [.]

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

Tom started with his senior leadership team by sharing his leadership point of view – his philosophy of leadership – and his values. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2020

A Reel Leadership Article I recently posited a question on Facebook. Today, we’re going to take a look at the leadership lessons in Flight Of The Navigator. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Flight Of The Navigator. Dr. Faraday asks those around him how they can move the ship. You jump on him. The shipped moved!

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019. The Coffee Bean: an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles. Written as an engaging parable, Swim!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It comes down from the top, inspired and exemplified by the leadership. Chris Edmonds, author of The Culture Engine , shows leaders how to create a high performing, values-aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution. The post The Culture Engine appeared first on Lead Change.

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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