Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And as revealed in Gallup’s latest book, Culture Shock , authored by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter , the following are some eye-opening statistics today’s business leaders need to know. Current goals and priorities at work, including clarity of work expectations for the employee. Among workers in the U.S.,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman teaches us to see things differently, using art to challenge our default thinking and open up possibilities otherwise overlooked. With Amy Herman’s Fixed., With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 5, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

Laura Huang explains just how to gain that advantage in her insightful and encouraging book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. You can create your own edge and open doors—wide-open doors—for yourself.”. Delight opens the door, so we can enrich. Self-awareness, in and of itself, is an elusive goal.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. Through forty-two leadership vignettes, the book “Humanizing Leadership” will change the way you look at leadership and at yourself.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

To get the most out of time, organizations need to sanction doing less and open spaces to do nothing. Upgrade Your Mental Operating System. If the goal is to achieve a numerical goal at all costs, balance is missing; people will ignore rules and even laws to achieve goals. Schedule More Meetings.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As someone who loves studying and implementing strategy, I read numerous books on the subject each and every year. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. In addition, there is a common habit of thinking about strategy in terms of goals—desired end states. Richard Rumelt.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The goals are similar: support, development, empowerment and ultimately improved team results. A second skill, related to being curious is to ask simple, open-ended questions. The best open-ended questions start with “what”, and the most powerful of all is, “what else?” By the way, “Say more” also works.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

In 1992, I was the G3 (Operations Officer) for one of the Army’s 10 Divisions – forward deployed in Europe. The Cold War had ended, and we were now opening the aperture to Eastern European countries that had been coerced into the Warsaw Pact decades earlier by the strong arm of Russia. When No Trust Exists. and its former foes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

While still clear on goals and priorities, sensemaking requires “the ability to lead open-ended discovery, to sense both soft and hard data, to use your judgment skills, to connect the dots, and to see the big picture in a vast ocean of sometimes conflicting data.”.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In her bestselling book Mindset –The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential (Ballantine Books, 2007), author and Stanford professor, Carol S. All have advocated for the paradigm of a growth mindset, especially in relation to the power of goal setting. Dweck, Ph.D., Dweck, Ph.D.,

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Jean Greaves and Evan Watkins of TalentSmartEQ bring EQ know-how to the team level, focusing on the four key skill areas and a step-by-step process for increasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who’s a member of a team can achieve peak performance and reach their goals. The goal is to learn how to get out of your own way.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

An Interview with Bob Lisser Achieving sustained and profitable growth is a goal for commercial entities worldwide. Bob Lisser, author and business strategist, unveils the secrets to unlocking this growth advantage in his book aptly titled The Growth Advantage. Why is it that most people don’t know their company’s main goals?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 8, 2019

But this is a misconception—or a blind spot, as we call it in our book, What Are Your Blind Spots? This mentality creates a lack of trust, collaboration, and common ownership for a greater goal—and ultimately greatly slows down execution speed. These are three places in the workplace where people feel “safe” to tell the truth.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Words that might come to mind could include qualities like supportive, encouraging, clear, calm, inspiring, directive, engaged, open, generous or any number of others that fit their needs. These are the qualities that represent you when you’re operating in the sweet spot that leads to positive outcomes.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Ryan Gottfredson’s new book, Success Mindsets , tackles these problems by focusing on the leadership mindset. Then, one day, I was given a book, The Five-Minute Journal. More and more, my focus was shifting away from avoiding problems to reaching goals. So, to avoid failure, they chose instead to “cook the books.”.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I I wrote this book to share my view that the future of work, a source of fear for so many, is actually about the opportunities, the resilience, and the growth that we can leverage to do things differently,” explains Schwartz.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 24, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I I wrote this book to share my view that the future of work, a source of fear for so many, is actually about the opportunities, the resilience, and the growth that we can leverage to do things differently,” explains Schwartz.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. Army Special Forces believes that adaptability—learning—is predicated on self-efficacy, resiliency, open-mindedness, mastery achievement motivation, and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

Unless they can highlight a problem, many book reviewers don’t feel like they have done their job. They operate under the assumption that being a critic means being critical. Many bosses operate the same way. They feel feedback is good only if it is critical or negative.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It also means that as a leader you must recognize that the team is comprised of individuals and that each has separate, unique needs and operate at differing levels of ability and confidence. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. He founded The ODD Company www.theoddcompany.ie

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the new book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I I wrote this book to share my view that the future of work, a source of fear for so many, is actually about the opportunities, the resilience, and the growth that we can leverage to do things differently,” explains Schwartz.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 25, 2017

As a leadership writer, I get asked from time to time to share a list of my favourite leadership books; books that I found to be the most informative either for those new to leadership, or for those looking for new insights on how they can build on their existing leadership skills.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

What if you started helping your team members reach their goals in life? You begin by asking these on your team about their personal goals and dreams. This means that you first “have to take responsibility for your own actions, be respectful to your team members, be open to them, and allow yourself to be vulnerable.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The seven facts he presents are clearly articulated in this very straightforward book. In my book, The Facts of Business Life , I describe seven facts, or business basics, that business owners have to understand in order to be successful. What's important to note about the seven facts is that they are sequential in nature.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Our customer program managers were seeking to abandon us and find any other team to turn their spacecraft over to because they had lost faith in our ability to control costs, even though they still considered us to be the best operations team on the planet. Judgment Can Set an Organization Free.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Of course, there were some great books such as those by Morton Hansen, Amy Edmondson, and Ron Ricci. But mostly collaboration was talked about in books focusing on teams. I applaud the open discussion. Involve others in creating a clear purpose, values and goals. There was little written about it. Talk openly.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But the one that really got me thinking was this simple yet hard-hitting nugget: “Happy employees is not a goal.”. Of course, that’s a goal.” Of course we do, but we can’t make that the goal of the company. The goals are the hard things: creating great products, innovating, keeping customers delighted. Patty McCord.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

In the wake of two fatal crashes of Boeing’s new 737 Max jets, Harvard Business School professor and author of a new book on creating psychological safety in the workplace, Amy Edmondson, published an article on Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up. It is nothing less than a full organizational culture change.”

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CEO Blog

APRIL 8, 2011

I read a great book yesterday by Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani called Breaking Away - How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth - And Why Others Fail. I also see success as being tied to those that can innovate and that involves openness to change. It is my birthday today. So a time of reflection.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 22, 2013

Authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath wrote the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work with the following goals: “We want to make you a bit better at making good decisions, and we want to help you make your good decisions a bit more decisively. Was he a spoiled rock diva or an operations expert?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A common theme found among the numerous books and articles on successful leadership is that leaders need to be more open, more transparent with those they lead in order to improve communication channels and drive forward initiatives that are key to an organization’s success and growth. for Canadian readers).

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A leader’s ability to create a collaborative environment through open communication and mutual understanding is undoubtedly becoming a critical leadership skill in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. Rather, your goal should be to empower everyone at the table to be full contributors and participants.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. Managing with a Conscience is both an analysis and a practical how-to book. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It’s an idea that I was reminded of while reading Nobel laureate Dr. James Watson’s book, “ Avoid Boring People: Lessons From A Life In Science ” and the lessons he shares with the reader from his experiences both in and outside of the lab. In other words, a goal which can serve to define the purpose behind your shared efforts.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. As there’s no guaranteed notion of what awaits us, how can we be sure it’s worth opening the door to see what’s on the other side?

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