Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas. They march through the phases robotically, as if they have discovered a magic formula for innovation. We must learn by doing.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Speak and Lead Proactively. “ Steve DiGioia contributed What Does an Allergy Have To Do With Customer Service ? Steve writes: “ Leaders don’t just worry about providing great service. Communication. Productivity.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 15, 2012

We’re told “Innovate or die”. Almost every company I know would say they are trying to innovate their products, services, customer experience or even their business model. But where is innovation happening in your organization? But where is innovation happening in your organization? Build Your Brand 2.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Purpose is the springboard for an aspirational vision that inspires and galvanizes people. It is important that leaders revisit employee goals consistently to insure that employees’ goals are aligned with the company’s goals.” Anne Perschel, Ph.D. , of Germane Consulting submitted How To Define Your Company Purpose. Jennifer V.

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Experience to Lead

JULY 22, 2022

With no sign of slowing down, many leaders are left wondering: what practical skills will be consistently reliable in this tumultuous period? These skills have become especially necessary in growing tech industries, where up-and-coming leaders are talented but lack the communication techniques required to inspire strong teams.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Everyone knows you’re a lousy leader if you can’t make decisions. Everyone knows you’re a lousy leader if you can’t make decisions. Nowhere is there more truth to the old saying that “where there’s smoke there’s fire&# than as it applies to leaders who can’t make decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Better yet, for those of you bold enough to place yourself under what might be the harsh scrutiny of others, you can get the benefits of a mini leadeship 360 review by asking your co-workers to rate you as a leader. Want to find out? That said, any self exam is only as good as the honesty of those taking the test.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Without knowing their individual employee and corporate strengths, many leaders have tried to replicate innovations as best practices (read: benchmarking ) throughout an organization without success; because one-size-doesn't-fit-all. All great leaders rally people to a better future, but each does it differently.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” “You don’t need a title to be a leader.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

In today’s post I’m asking you to nominate the everyday community leader - the soldiers, first responders, teachers, volunteers, student leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, pastors, medical professionals, etc., who serve as inspiration to us all by the daily difference their leadership makes in our lives. link] [link].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

Solving our business problems, making leaps in productivity, Customer Service, product development (or anything else), requires the same shift. Warning – don’t take this approach if you aren’t ready for the possibility of big ideas, new ideas, and bold ideas. Please take a look at all three – here is just one.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2010

He’s a busy guy – along with his blog – Leading Questions (which is a nominee for Best Leadership Blog of 2010 - Ed writes a weekly leadership column for Weekly Leader. New, fresh, inspiring ideas infused new confidence and motivation in people, impacting how they communicated and collaborated together.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. How sad is this?

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Thank You For Your Service! ” William Arthur Ward Inside, the early risers—tenders of affairs for higher-ranking leaders and those who kept the night-fires at bay while the day-shift slept—were already buzzing like bees busily scurrying from one alcove to another with documents, notebooks, and slides in hand.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Another research project found that managers with strong emotional connections to his/her people had 30% less regrettable turnover. (bolding is mine) I love this type of research because it talks to the data side of our brain and reminds us that our work isn’t all about the data! That is ok. Q: What does this mean then?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

The only way to establish yourself as a leader is to identify your core values and the impression you want to leave. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Let’s start by asking a few simple questions.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943) was an innovative scientist and educator. On SERVICE - “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. It is simply service that measures success.&# Some of what he said is timeless wisdom.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

True leadership starts with the leader working on herself first and serving her team, not the other way around. So what are the top leadership competencies the best leaders exemplify? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? ALL CLEAR! ​2.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Leaders everywhere are hungry for big ideas that change the game — products that wow, marketing that captures the imagination of customers. At the same time, leaders everywhere are wary of big ideas that bomb — innovations that fall flat, messages that miss the mark. What's calculated boldness? Or challenging.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 29, 2022

For 2019, that book is Paul Smith's, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , released this past summer. I selected this book as best for its innovative format, timely and pertinent content, and how easy it is to put what Paul teaches to immediate use as a leader. Every great leader is a great storyteller. I’d been thorough.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. baranozdemir/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

In our work with leaders we’ve found that managing successful transformational change has a lot to do with managing fear. This is especially true when making bold changes — the kind of change that could take an organization to a whole new level of performance, or, out of a paralyzing tailspin. history: the Great Depression.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For 2019, that book is Paul Smith's, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , released this past summer. I selected this book as best for its innovative format, timely and pertinent content, and how easy it is to put what Paul teaches to immediate use as a leader. Every great leader is a great storyteller. I’d been thorough.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. But an organization’s success may be relatively fleeting if its leaders don’t simultaneously attend to the future and the past. KGM responded by releasing the Keurig 2.0

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When leaders decide to take this journey, decisions will have to be made that will determine whether success, or a lack of it will be realized once the journey has begun. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Virtually every leader wishes they had the power to inspire people to change. That’s because every leader has experienced times when they have identified a change that had to be made, devised a great strategy for making it happen, but then struggled to get people moving in the new direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It boldly enters a space where no real market has previously existed , and could well inspire investors to create one. He’s an innovator. Virtually every industry is in the midst of massive upheaval, thanks to unprecedented applications of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

There are an awful lot of leaders in trouble these days. The leaders range from entrepreneurs with great ideas but a flaw preventing expansion (Tesla?) Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. Great leaders also have managerial inclinations. As the world now knows, U.S. And that is just IT.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 29, 2021

Paul Smith’s books on storytelling are must-reads for business leaders, salespeople and parents. And, his latest book, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , is yet another required read for leaders – managers, CEOs and team leaders. Every great leader is a great storyteller. You can read this book in an hour or less.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? Why is the world appear to be so topsy-turvy? Have you felt this way? I know I have … many times. Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Big leaders appoint little leaders. When the responsibility for setting strategy and direction is concentrated at the top of an organization, a few senior leaders become the gatekeepers of change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Big leaders appoint little leaders. When the responsibility for setting strategy and direction is concentrated at the top of an organization, a few senior leaders become the gatekeepers of change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. With the end of Climate Week 2015 and to encourage other companies to make similar bold commitments, allow me to share what we’ve learned. NICHOLAS BLECHMAN FOR HBR. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here are four things you're up against, followed by four tips that every newly-anointed leader should heed. Here are four things you're up against, followed by four tips that every newly-anointed leader should heed. But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Or maybe that leader''s treatment of subordinates is so uncaring as to be abusive. What''s more, the people participating in them often had very sophisticated conceptualizations of leadership and service. Interestingly, we find that mutinies go differently for different kinds of bad leaders. Perhaps you have dreamed of mutiny.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Like nonprofits, these for-benefits are primarily driven to solve a wide array of social and environmental problems, and like for-profits, they generate income by selling goods and services that enhance the lives of consumers. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The Heart of the Problem.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2019

Paul Smith’s three books on storytelling are must-reads for business leaders, salespeople and parents. And, his latest book, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , is yet another required read for leaders – managers, CEOs and team leaders. Every great leader is a great storyteller. I’d been thorough.

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