Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

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Class Gilbert Leadership Letter 135

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

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Leadership McCarthy Gilbert Sample 244

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 31, 2015

If you’ve ever been hired into a leadership role, you know how difficult it can be to lead when you are viewed as an “outsider.” An Unlikely Leadership Candidate. Michael Jordan’s Transformation Contributed to His Success. 3 Surprising Ways to Succeed in Self Leadership. Read free sample chapters here.

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Gilbert Team Competitive Advantage Licensing 150

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 220

Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge? Gilbert ‘Human Competence’. How might I work with a team and people to be ‘humbly arrogant’? The riddle does exist.

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Engineering Goldratt Gilbert Team Building 133

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 7, 2012

If you are reading this, you may either consider yourself a nice guy, or you have someone on your team that you think is too nice a guy, and you are possibly questioning your (or his/her) ability to lead your team to success. Successful teams must have a leader that can communicate and inspire and relate to his teammates.

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Ryan Gilbert Teamwork Skills 200

CO2

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In a TED talk, Dan Gilbert asks the audience if they would be happier winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic. Are you celebrating small successes along the way to larger goals? If you’re like most, you’d answer lottery winner. And you’d be right…for a while.

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Gilbert Long-term Audience Goal 92

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2013

His name is Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, more commonly known as the Marquis de Lafayette. was an essential actor in the successful plan to trap the British Army under General Cornwallis at Yorktown. As you might guess, this Frenchman was far from ordinary. His early life was not an easy one. Schlesinger Jr.

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Gilbert Letter Commitment Learning-by-Doing 257

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

The only sustainable form of business leadership is thought leadership. But behind it all, at the heart of the company’s approach to strategy, service, and culture, is a language system that defines life inside the organization and reminds everyone what really drives success. Innovation is rewarded, execution is worshipped.”.

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Gilbert Banking CEO Innovation 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

First up is Leadership…and All That Jazz. This post considers the metaphor between leadership and jazz. Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. As a visual learner, I love getting leadership inspiration from movies. And, it helps if you are a Gilbert & Sullivan fan too.

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Review Gilbert Diversity Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

One key to success is recognizing that transforming a business involves three activities: Transforming the core business to maximize its resilience ("Transformation A"). Instead, they require careful, consistent leadership. For Gilbert, that meant attracting people who had worked at pure-play Internet companies like Yahoo!,

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Gilbert Company Uncertainty Long-term 8

Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

In my opinion, an alignment between a person’s core values and that of the organizations’ is crucial for long-term success. Share this: This entry was posted in Interviewing , Leadership and tagged behavioural interviews , interview lessons , Jim Collins , STAR interviewing. What did they learn? Lesson #3 – ask about their values.

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Collins How To Gilbert Teamwork 31

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. I agree with Gilbert that one should not put pressure on oneself to become inspired. They argue for five key roles of leadership: 1. These findings show that inspiration matters a lot., Using strategic vision to motivate and inspire.

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Gilbert Self-aware Creativity Report 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

” As design expertise became more critical to the success of IBM products and services, increasingly designers worked more frequently in collaboration with software engineers on product development. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. The list goes on. In fact, few of us do.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. And they've been hugely successful. There is an interesting idea coming out of the work my colleague Clark Gilbert is doing to transform the Deseret News and Deseret Digital (both owned by the Mormon Church). That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

The company's core business faces increasing pressure, meaning that future success will require some degree of transformation. These concepts will be explained in more detail in a fall Harvard Business Review article written by my colleagues Matt Eyring, Clark Gilbert, and Dick Foster.). Leadership compensation.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13