Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you actively consider the people that have made contributions of significance to the field of global leadership development over the years, you don’t get too far down that list before Marshall Goldsmith’s name appears. Ponder, just for a moment, how different leadership was back then—in so very many ways. Daunting tasks!

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Roger was isolated, burned out, and frustrated. His team had turned against him, his boss was done waiting, and Roger knew his job was on the line if he didn’t produce results. Most leaders who want to get better at leadership do it the way Roger tried to do it. Your Leadership Roots. That Won’t Work!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Roger Schwarz. Roger is the author of the new book, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. ]. Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. Below you’ll find who we feel are the 2013 top 50 professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy, as well as five at-large professors. Leadership. Roger Martin.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2023

As one of the first Rhodes Scholars to complete graduate work in Women’s Studies, Hunter Arscott has been named by Thinkers50 as “one of the top management thinkers likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.” For example, from a race perspective, in most settings, this is white women.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I was reminded of Diane (pretty easy to since I live with her), earlier this week when I read an article in the Dining section of the New York Times on Roger Ebert. Rock on, Roger. It was a pretty long list and was more or less the genesis of the blog that has gone from zero to 16,000 monthly page views in two years. Rock on, Diane.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management. An organization’s growth in this decade and beyond will be determined by how its leaders respond to the challenges associated with talent management.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

When we don't cultivate our interests, our definition of success gets splintered, scattered, and overly influences by others and then we look for more, buy more, and gunk up our lives with piles of diversions. The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. Positive emotions. Engagement. Excitement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2015

Our May Festival is all about energizing leadership. Wally Bock of Three-Star Leadership tells us time off is good for you and your team. ” Leadership is like that. Leadership must be renewed from within. Every time Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks reads Getting Things Done , he grows. Follow Wally.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Roger was a young rising star. Coaching Roger, I suggested he was a bunny rabbit who had just been attacked by a horde of guinea pigs. Roger was a classic rabbit. He was a highly ethical, performance-driven manager, and assumed everyone else was (or should be) too. Influence Communication Coaching'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2016

Maybe we are overthinking this whole “Motivation” thing … I have been reading about motivation since my graduate school days, practicing various approaches to motivating others in every setting I find myself, and am familiar with the best-known theories about what moves and influences us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? All eyes were on Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL, to step up, assert the League’s values, and provide the leadership needed. Thus, good leaders recognize unignorable moments as opportunities to have unprecedented influence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. The problem for continuous improvement is that managers tend to hire for expertise, not for behaviors such as improvement. Scott Beaird, Director of Talent Management at Tufts Medical Center , told me, "We hire what the manager wants.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Only then would he be able to get a seat at the table, and even take over leadership of the meetings. Roger Schwarz. In fact, she was not brought into the discussion until campaigns were far along in their development and it was too late for her to influence the marketing team’s decisions. Assess Your Style.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Few managers or supervisors have mastered the art of meetings and even fewer organizations have made it a priority. A key aspect of influence is the ability to state a problem without blaming anyone. Roger Schwarz. If you think that your boss is ineffective at leading meetings, you are not alone. What might you offer to do?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and is among the most frequently shared items on the Internet. Duncan: In one of your essays titled “You Get What You Expect” you write about Roger Bannister, the great runner who proved that a four-minute mile is possible. What’s a good antidote for that?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. Where anyone stands on a particular issue will be influenced by where they sit in the family business system. The seven stages: 1) Interests diverge.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. People who are managed by others. Mid-Manager. Career Manager. Profound influence.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. If not, their preferences will influence ours, and, thus, the cheese will not reappear. To still another, it may be a Roy Rogers wristwatch, one of Elvis Presley’s scarves or a Partridge Family lunchbox. If it tastes good, we consume it again. You should.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. Just as investors will be judging the appeal of Twitter’s business, so too will they be analyzing the competency of its leadership. Senior Management & the Board of Directors. Is Wall Street a Good Judge of Leadership?

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