Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2018

More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up. As systems become more complex, we are more vulnerable to unexpected system failures. These stories told here are a compelling look behind the scenes of why failures occur in today’s many complex systems.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Climbing Metaphor in Leadership In the modern era of business, where change is the only constant, leaders often find themselves facing mountains of challenges and opportunities. Much like scaling a peak, effective leadership requires resilience, vision, and the right guidance.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Fisher , author of the new book, To The Top: How Women In Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting The Rules For Success. “We Throughout the book, current executives and aspiring leaders will gain insight and understanding into the future of great leadership. Be open to appointing or promoting people who do not check all the boxes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As a leader, it is up to you to adapt your leadership style to help guide employees through their new life and work reality. By adjusting your leadership style across these five elements, the adaptive leader helps grieving or emotionally traumatized employees excel at work through times such as these.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. The leadership aspect of servant leadership is the responsibility of the traditional hierarchy. Leadership is the by-product and positional authority is, at best, an afterthought.”

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. These can include enhanced leadership skills, better team performance, increased employee engagement, improved productivity, higher employee retention, and overall business growth.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Today we’d like to introduce you to Eileen Hahn, a leadership consultant who partners with organizations to assist them in hiring and leading exceptional people. I love partnering with organizational leaders to enhance their business on all levels: financial, systems, customers, leadership, and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Organizations in practically every industry are struggling to attract and retain great talent, especially in senior and executive leadership roles. With average job tenures dropping at every level, Human Resource professionals may need to play a more active role in leadership development and coaching.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Welcome to the November, 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For you reading pleasure, this month's Carnival offers up a Fall harvest of posts from some of the best leadership bloggers from around the world. Think of it as leadership graffiti. (-: Bon appétit! Google's Blogger was not being very cooperative.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It is a referendum of sorts on leadership. You can see how you are tracking against your company’s productivity goals simply by checking the scoreboard … but how do people feel about doing what they are doing and working where they are working? It is an interactive influence system. Empowering? Collaborating ?).

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chang discusses her journey from HR to a product lead role, the identity crisis she faced, and the profound realization that led her back to HR, where her passion for making a positive business impact through people could thrive. The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

Leadership is a hot topic today and will continue to be for a while. The individuals that will shape the next generation of leadership are not a group of millennials, they are a group of leaders just as the generation before them, and the many generations before them. Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. Although Toyota’s leadership style promotes employee involvement, the working environment of one of their factory sites was not motivating its front-line workers. Management and leadership are not synonymous. By Kaity Nakagoshi.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the summit… Share and Enjoy: View Comments pinto philip Topic : Next Generation leadership -> How has leadership evolved with changing times , how has the styles changed , why is servant leadership more relevant in todays world. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 22, 2017

It shapes everything from the team and product to the overall business strategy and it is the one resource that founders can directly control. The Explorer : Curious, Systems-Centric, and Dispassionate. In " BUILT FOR GROWTH ", Chris Kuenne and John Danner decode the interplay between builder personality and new business growth.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Recognizing what it took to become an all-state athlete in high school, Rebecca imported coaching into the heart of her leadership to build dynamic teams. Try relationally rebooting the way you check in (not on) people and their productivity through weekly in-person or video call meetings. How could asking “How are you doing really?”

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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CoachStation

MAY 19, 2020

Remote management adds significantly to the requirement for effective leadership. We have also learned that for many, we can easily adapt to this new environment without any productivity loss. I spent several years in national leadership roles managing teams based interstate and overseas, which provided many challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Just because you have hired the best possible people for every leadership role in your company doesn’t mean they are all going to get along all the time. Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. Expect conflict.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. The new system involves photographing customers, and gathering demographic information in real time. The reason?

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LDRLB

AUGUST 10, 2011

Vague statements about planned change, elaborate schematic drawings of the planning function, diverse planning models, and five-year plans that are in fact “shelf-documents” created for evaluation agencies or for year-end reports offer minimal assistance to top-level managers as they respond to internal and external governance systems”.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

The value of question-based leadership is greatly compromised, though, if leaders don’t trust their coworkers. If not, how might that be undermining your leadership? 5 Questions to Ask to Build Trust Leadership & Trust Leadership Style Assessment – What leadership style are you?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Mozilla, for example, seeks to deepen its connections to customers, who have an open invitation to shape the company’s Internet browser and other product offerings, by publishing its financial results (something it does not need to do as a private company), opening its business meetings to the public and posting its strategic plans online.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership. “In a world crying out for effective leadership, I think we need to begin with an obvious source: ourselves.” You can generate high-quality motivation that enhances your creativity, innovative thinking, productivity, and mental and physical health.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Relational Leadership is people-centric. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style. Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 10, 2011

Vague statements about planned change, elaborate schematic drawings of the planning function, diverse planning models, and five-year plans that are in fact “shelf-documents” created for evaluation agencies or for year-end reports offer minimal assistance to top-level managers as they respond to internal and external governance systems”.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Even without a specific need for expansive networks, building contact can be an example of employee professional goals because it allows you to build a reputation for yourself while also building a support system. Leadership Development Are you someone whose professional development goals involve being a leader and taking charge of the field?

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