Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. In this blog post, we will explore seven powerful examples of common CEO mistakes and the valuable lessons that can be learned from them. Ethical leadership is not a choice but a responsibility for CEOs.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Strong Work Ethic: Many older workers were raised in eras where a strong work ethic was highly valued. Mentorship and Leadership: Older employees often take on mentorship roles, sharing their knowledge and experiences with younger colleagues. This can foster a learning culture within the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2017

The manner my dad handled a Hightower cow invasion and how Mr. Hightower handled the exact same scenario was a powerful lesson in the ethics of service. We associate it with assistance or help– doing a good deed that benefits another. Mr. Hightower’s cattle farm was adjacent to our family cattle farm in South Georgia.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The CPO empowers organizations to maximize their human capital potential and achieve long-term success by spearheading these efforts. The CPO works closely with executive leadership, department heads, and HR teams to align these strategies with the organization’s goals and objectives.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Do you see me? Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. Setting direction well means establishing a compelling vision and ethical strategies. Do you see me? “Do

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Understand AI Basics: Leaders don’t need to be AI experts, but having a solid understanding of what AI can and cannot do is invaluable. This includes grasping the fundamentals of machine learning, data analytics, and automation. Develop a Data-Driven Mindset : In an AI-driven world, data is the new goldmine.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. What can we do about something we can’t control?”

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Understanding the style of leadership that best suits your personality and skill set will help you become a more effective leader. The key to successful business leadership is establishing trust with the people you’re leading – be it your employees, colleagues, or partners. This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. Their expertise in leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions brings a valuable outsider perspective to the evaluation process.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Furthermore, making a hiring mistake is extremely costly in terms of both direct and indirect costs. So how do you find those top performers and disrupters that can take your organization to new heights? So how do you decide on which firm is the best fit?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

This article will show how those who develop as transpersonal leaders are those who are best prepared to do this. Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Tanveer Naseer of Tanveer Naseer Leadership brings us How Leaders Can Successfully Champion Change. Learn about 3 lessons from the political realm that inform us on how leaders can successfully champion change initiatives in their organization. Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares Accepting Change.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

A PEW RESEARCH CENTER study found that Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently done by humans. Gutenberg’s press probably created more social upheaval than any technological advancement has yet to do today.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In order to succeed and thrive in modern society, all private and public sector entities must live by codes of ethics. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. Unethical dealings for short-term gain do not pay off in the long-run. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

These are all valid and important ways to measure leadership, and many others exist. However, the true — and more telling — measure of leadership is long-term and cannot easily be seen. Leadership is best measured by what you leave behind. Some people become frustrated by the lack of immediate results.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

You may have employees working globally, doing business with people from other regions or countries, or you might be relocating executives across cultures. Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. We need to take it as seriously as we do other business operations.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 31, 2020

Join Force Leadership. After reading the book, I reached out to talk to the authors about their views of leadership today. Before we start on Joint Force Leadership , I’d love your perspective on how the military helped prepare you for the work you do today. Tough way to learn these lessons but very powerful.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

How do you attract excellent personnel—and more importantly, how do you keep your best colleagues on board? Next to ethical and morally proper treatment, that means ensuring you are constantly helping your team members focus on where they should be at in 3 to 5 years in the future. Why is this good for the organization?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

In their recent Wall Street Journal article Do You Really Want to be a Leader? The real question is: are you willing to invest the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to take on the responsibility of a leadership position? Get a feel for the time, energy and capabilities required to do those jobs. How will you keep it up?

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is the name of my book. Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. Do Less Better practitioners are fanatical about focus and de-complexity; herein lies the secret of their success. Yet, do less better isn’t something most leaders embrace. This is not true.

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2017

As long as you know where everyone else is, you can play the game.” I just use what I’ve learned that might cross over. I stay true to the fundamental truths: the laws of supply and demand; liquidity equals value; limited competition; long-term relationships. It’s something anyone can learn to do.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

When people talk about leadership, they the focus is most often on others–how leaders serve them, empower them and motivate them. What if instead of thinking about leadership in relation to others, we concentrate on the leadership we can take within our own lives? Do what’s right, not what’s easy.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Create A Leadership Mindset . I think that many people tend to separate out the “moral” lessons we learn as “ethical” or even “spiritual” people and the ones we learn as workers, managers or business people. “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Adversaries into Allies is Leadership 101. Leadership is intentional influence. But here’s a caution: You can’t fake this stuff … for long. Burg presents what leadership looks like when it isn’t about you; when the focus is others. I don’t like what you do or how you do it.”] Acknowledge their ego.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” How sad is this? Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Focusing on resiliency, Eileen has found great synergy with health care audiences and long term care, educators (as an award-winning educator, she went from teaching kids to grown-ups—who are still like kids), and women’s leadership groups. In response to the question “if money were no object, what would you do all day?”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 7, 2021

How to be a Great Long-Distance Teammate. But learning to work remotely, and do it well, is not as easy as you may think. How do you build relationships? How do you position yourself for a promotion? Enter Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel and their new book, The Long-Distance Teammate. Leadership Tip.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?” ” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. Learn from the Mistakes of A Rotten Culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want? This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. The size of your company is necessary to do the job demanded. Philosophy. Running the business.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Do they really want to make the company or the country better, or accomplish some crazy goal like making electric cars mainstream and maybe colonizing Mars along the way? Narcissists do this way more because they think they’re better than others,” the researchers explain. Long-term impact. What they don’t do.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

David McCuistion is a Modern Servant Leader subscriber and fellow Servant Leadership advocate. When I heard of his military background, Servant Leadership experience and his platform in Vanguard Organizational Leadership , I asked him for an interview. He kindly obliged, below… Servant Leadership Questions and Answers.

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