Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

What’s interesting to me is most people actually form their perceptions in a very similar fashion. They take inputs (information), process them through a variety of filters (experience, emotions, expectations, moral and philosophical positions, etc.),

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Leadership and mentoring go hand-in-hand. If you accept this premise as correct, then why is it that so many in positions of leadership fall woefully short in successfully transferring the benefits of their wisdom and experience to others? Leadership is not about the leader, but rather about those being led.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. We seek these quick fixes to leadership dilemmas like we’re shopping on Amazon.com and expecting next-day delivery, especially if we’re new leaders. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 3, 2023

Flatter organizations with minimal hierarchy are fashionable at the moment, with an emphasis on empowering workers and not placing managers at the center of things. Authority in the twenty-first century is about designing systems and processes, solving disputes, and helping people coordinate and cooperate.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 6, 2013

I just read a GREAT blog post from John Hunter of Curious Cat Management – Leadership and Management. Having also written about my concern separating leadership from management. Management vs. Leadership. 10 Managerial Leadership Practices. Strong management is exercising leadership within your role. John Hunter.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There is so much going on that these organizations have a difficult time setting a path and moving forward in a coherent, organized fashion. The leadership challenge for pragmatic leaders is to transform organizations with clunky or myopic tendencies into truly thriving organizations that meet their potential.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Be disruptive in your approach and don’t fall into the trap of doing something in a particular fashion just because others do it that way – think “ next ” practices not best practices. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? Put simply; don’t copy – create.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He organizes the book in terms of the changing nature of his leadership responsibilities as he moved up the ranks. First, he learned face-to-face or direct leadership. Finally, he covers the challenges and techniques relevant to strategic leadership from a senior military officer’s perspective.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. only to fail in miserable fashion. Beyond the character test, the first prerequisite for leadership is the willingness to lead.

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Tim Milburn

JULY 18, 2019

The delta may be the best symbol to describe the necessity of leadership. Because leadership is always necessary when we want to move from where we are right now to wherever we want to be next. If there is no next, there is no need for leadership. The delta is the space between one value and another. Nothing to see here.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a clear knowledge, understanding, and practical know-how of business processes and functions, it will be nigh on impossible to start your own business. Teamwork/leadership. One of the top skills required by all those starting a business is leadership and teamwork. Technology.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 29, 2016

T oday’s Answers From Leadership podcast guest is Colleen Hammond. Is there a leadership failure that you could share with us? Leadership can sometimes be lonely – @ColleenMHammond Click To Tweet. What’s a leadership success you’ve had? Not so much fashion, but their image.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

What’s your decision-making process? As you think about your personal leadership style and how you’ll apply these decision-making guidelines, recall the words of Franklin D. Leadership requires you to make the tough decision and get your team moving. He’s written five leadership books. What’s the best possible solution?

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 20, 2012

As this week marks the official start of Spring for most northern countries, I wanted to take the opportunity to revisit an idea I wrote about sometime ago about a seasonal event in these parts and the lessons we can glean from it on leadership and organizational success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Be disruptive in your approach and don’t fall into the trap of doing something in a particular fashion just because others do it that way – think “ next ” practices not best practices. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? Put simply; don’t copy – create.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2018

While the practices in the book will help you to improve your performance or learn new content, the goal is to pay attention to your own learning process and to become more flexible in managing it. This process is what allows you to transform your life. To learn deliberately, you first need to become a witness of your own process.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 4, 2014

He thought the word and even the concept might be dated, old-fashioned. He thought the word and even the concept might be dated, old-fashioned. In this episode, Jesse discusses another term that seems old-fashioned – even ancient – but is surprisingly relevant: pure-heartedness. Engaging Leader™ Leadership presence Values'

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 13, 2016

So, let’s get to the leadership lessons from Warcraft. Let me go first – A #Leadership lesson from @warcraftmovie Click To Tweet. Have you looked at your processes? Smaller organizations can typically move faster, implement new processes, and change course easier than larger organizations. Then use them.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2018

“Thought leadership” is a term used regularly in modern business, but it’s also easily dismissed as another marketing buzzphrase that’s best ignored. Stripped back, this is simply the process of building a reputation online. One of the most commonly used tools to establish thought leadership is blogging. Be yourself.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Inspired by Perel and what I’m seeing and hearing, here are three recommendations of things you need to stop doing this week if you want to work a little less hard and, in the process, actually get more done. Take some old-fashioned phone calls a few times a day instead of another Zoom. Zoom is great until it isn’t.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Reading a book the old-fashioned way, viewing it on a Kindle. I’ve learned the most from people whose view was 180 degrees from mine and who gracefully played angel’s advocate with my thought processes. Self Leadership diversity introspection tolerance' The preferences aren’t right or wrong, just different.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. Competitive innovations in process, management, talent, pricing, efficiency, etc. Current or former employees who could become competition.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 3, 2011

The vast majority of leadership advice — whether it’s relayed in leadership books, management conferences or discussed casually in blogs — focuses on the qualities of individual leaders. This, in a nutshell, is the jumping off point from which the professors explain their conception of leadership.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This article provides you with 3 critical leadership steps for transitioning from the end of this year to 2016. Let’s first address what are transitions. Why Are They Important to Leadership Growth? Transitions are a natural important part of leadership growth, whether you realize it or not. What Are Transitions?

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. From a management and leadership standpoint, broad-level checklists can be helpful.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: The Top 5 Leadership Mistakes: which one would your team members say you make? Create a process that works for you in which you can smoothly move from the urgent and then back to the important. Don’t get stuck in the urgent.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 21, 2014

They issue orders that are then executed in lackluster fashion and with little resolve to persevere. Plan for a Patient Problem-Solving Process. AA encourages a patient, problem-solving process by allowing members to take gradual steps toward the goal of sobriety. Too many CEOs skip this essential step.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think. A leader must take the time to make this happen, the old-fashioned way – person by person, meeting by meeting. First with the rest of the management group, and then, as your proxies, they repeat the process with their teams.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I hope that you’ll conclude, as I have, that corporate culture is no laughing matter and that it must be done fashioned in a very deliberate way to avoid these problematic consequences. Many talk about culture – a process like Culture By Design helps you transform it. What can be done?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice. Approaching talent management in a fractionalized approach is an inefficient and flawed process. Thoughts?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Create an ongoing, continuous strategic planning process, one that enables you to readily respond to changes in the marketplace and institute the mid-course adjustments needed to “win” 2. Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2015

Over the past decade or so, there have been numerous studies and books that have helped us to better appreciate the emotional nature of successful leadership, a fact that has helped to bring about a transformation in leadership attitudes from the old command-and-control approach to one that’s more outward-focused and collaborative.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 5, 2013

Mrked is a tech accessories company that not only offers quality, fashionable products, but also a chance for you to “Leave a Mrk” on the world. Walking into the Apple store, you may have noticed the vast selection of iPhone snap cases and high-end fashionable cases that barely offered your $500 investment any protection.

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