Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Filled with strategies you will use again and again, The Good Fight is an essential field guide for leaders at all levels. The larger points of intentional leadership, intentional leaders, and their place in the current world are explained, giving readers the opportunity to spot the parallels in real-world examples. Blog Post ).

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I am proud to teach Situational Leadership ® every day. Even as 14+ million managers have gone through the program in some form or fashion, it remains a comparatively untapped resource and strategy for many of the urgent leadership challenges in our world today! Application Questions.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. ” Thoughts?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

While many companies are turning to more flexible models, far too many are still being run as old-fashioned bureaucracies. At the bottom line, building a great team requires strategy. Whatever the situation, your strong leadership can drive your team to deliver impactful success. The Leadership Gap.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

But like those old-fashioned records, you have a B side whether you want it or not. How your B side will impact your team depends on your leadership style. Leadership shouldn't be a solitary venture and neither should exploring how to manage your own strengths and weaknesses. S o what to do when you can’t escape your B side?

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 10, 2020

Before you pull the trigger on sending your team members home to work virtually, I suggest you formulate a thoughtful strategy. Incorporate these four areas in your strategy to have team members work virtually: Clarity —Your team needs clear direction about the expectations and responsibilities of working remotely.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. 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.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided A 5-Step Training Plan to Think like a Navy SEAL.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’, claimed a recent article while another proclaimed that more simply that culture matters more than strategy. And yes, there are many organizations, and leaders that separate culture and strategy as though one can work effectively without the other over the long term. This is culture.

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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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. What’s interesting to me is most people actually form their perceptions in a very similar fashion. Does perception matter? We’ve all heard the saying “perception is reality,” but is it true? Does perception never, rarely, sometimes, or always equal reality?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The pivotal point in leadership maturity is when you remove yourself from the spotlight and focus on building into others. A real legacy is lived in the present, and as a result it endures the test of time in magnificent fashion. Can leaders be blinded by their own success?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. 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?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. 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. Competition is only to be feared if not understood.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

“Great leadership is only found in the world of business,” my seatmate on a recent flight pompously boasted, “Certainly not in the government, churches or education where we desperately need it.”. Each of these three components is expressed in a fashion that reflects a relentless emphasis on excellence, life values and maximizing potential.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Scenario planning, a strategy first employed by Royal Dutch Shell, brings experts from a wide range of fields together to discuss actions if different scenarios take place. In like fashion, my corner of the garage has all the tools, sprays, and plant potions necessary for probable surprises.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. Paul Leinwand: The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m convinced “celebrity CEOs” have done the same thing to people’s perceptions of leadership. Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO, is often credited as being the creator of the authentic leadership approach to management. Bill George, Authentic Leadership.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2016

Digital strategy: Understanding the Economics of Disruption via @McKinsey. Creativity: An Undervalued Leadership Skill by Ron Burg. #1 Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion? Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Go Disrupt Yourself via @stratandbiz. by Jane @thehrgoddess.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop. Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2023

“Whereas high CSE CEOs are attentive to their firm’s competitive environments and calculated in their risk-taking, CEOs with an inflated sense of self lead their organizations in pursuit of grandiose strategies with little regard for strategy-environment alignment,” the researchers explain.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future? We believe that each of these factors is important, but left to themselves, implemented in a discrete fashion, without integration or coordination they won’t make a significant difference.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Core, transaction-driven systems within the company should be designed to create the management information needed by leadership. This management information environment must be part of future IT strategy plans to ensure its ongoing refinement and evolution. Management information should not be an afterthought.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2014

While rookies are more capable than we might think, they still need leadership and guidance. When Jen Lamorena, eBay’s manager of college recruiting, brought on her own new hire, Jen gave her an important project – create and execute a social media strategy to support the firm’s initiative to recruit top university talent.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Failure To Resolve Conflict In A Timely Fashion – Debate is a healthy and necessary component of everyday business. ” It can manifest itself as a plain old fashion lack of feeling appreciated. Sometimes debate can grow uncomfortable, which is okay as long as respect is maintained and truth and transparency come out.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But a problem that’s becoming ever more visible is that some organisations have made authenticity their marketing strategy, rather than a business one. With good leadership at the core of these businesses, every member of the organisation are enabled to understand and demonstrate ‘why they do it, what they do and how they do it’.

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