Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. It’s frustrating when I hear executives complaining about the lack of strategic thinkers in their organization, and yet they hold all the long-term vision close to the vest.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 18, 2022

As my guest, Jim Huling, points out in this episode of my podcast “ Leadership Biz Cafe ”, the problem is not with the strategy itself, but with how leaders go about executing it. For the past 40 years, Jim has served in various corporate leadership roles, from Fortune 500 organizations to privately held companies.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. In the simplest of terms, three words exemplify one big idea. “DO” The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s our go-to approach to strategy development because it helps us to break down long-term growth planning into practical, incremental activity. Nick Liddell is co-author, with Richard Buchanan, of Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Idea to Grow Your Brand and Your Business. Backcasting is positive.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

Great question, for this was right at the heart of my book – what I’d had in mind for a long time before starting. (As – they also build up such resentment, and also create such an unpleasant environment, that the very traits which brought them up will, very often, before long bring them down.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Home / Leadership Profiles / Leadership Profile: Dale Carnegie. Leadership Profile: Dale Carnegie. Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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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. Here are 100 of the best ways to define leadership–choose the ones that fits best for you. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Use prospective thinking “Prospective thinking means taking a more expansive, long-term view of things, staying open to all sorts of possibilities, and doing your best to stay fully aware of what is happening both within and outside your organization or your immediate environment.” Step 2: Probe the Possible.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 18, 2017

Eons of conditioning in the wild has set the default to “caution.” Be careful not to jump at a short-term opportunity if it doesn’t move you closer to your long term objectives. Don't take a short term opportunity at the expense of a long-term goal. Is there a better option?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Most areas of the northern part of what was then South Vietnam, what the military termed I Corps, were thick, mountainous jungle. Food from the nearby jungle had been specially prepared and was displayed on long serving tables as if it had come straight from the kitchen of a five-star restaurant. Each dish was clearly labeled.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

When Catmull’s name was announced to receive an Oscar for his lifetime of work in computer animation, the crowd went wild, whistling and whooping. He has rejected the traditional Hollywood star system and its often toxic work environment and replaced it with an environment that emphasizes community and long-term relationships.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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HR Digest

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve often Googled one of these terms: “How do I be more likeable at work?” For as long as I can remember, I’ve refused to let anyone else do the talking. According to the Dale Carnegie Global Leadership Study, 84% of U.S. ” or “Why am I not a likeable person?” I knew this wouldn’t work!”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The lessons about leadership learned in the crucible of the backcountry environment — unpredictable, challenging, and dynamic 𕢔 map to today's business environment. Understanding their go-to "signature" style allows them to then develop situational leadership skills that can adjust to current events and group needs.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Many of us have a long list of goals. The lists can be so long they can be overwhelming. What would I see in terms of your energy level, your body language, your tone of voice and other elements that influence how you show up?” Most of us have hopes and dreams for how the year will go and what we’ll accomplish.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2022

Then, set up a process to make the most of that time (like leaving your phone in the car when you get home after a long day or simply no phones during dinner). Question: What is a leadership constitution and why should individuals commit to one? It is a declaration of who you are at your core. I declare that I am.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Then, set up a process to make the most of that time (like leaving your phone in the car when you get home after a long day or simply no phones during dinner). Question: What is a leadership constitution and why should individuals commit to one? It is a declaration of who you are at your core. I declare that I am.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Employees simply must be able to make sense of and assign personal significance and meaning to the changes taking place, or their sense of certainty is compromised and they will resist the changes in the short term, and spiral downward in the longer term. And the fundamental problem behind change doesn’t make things any easier.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 28, 2021

Then, set up a process to make the most of that time (like leaving your phone in the car when you get home after a long day or simply no phones during dinner). What is a leadership constitution and why should individuals commit to one? It is a declaration of who you are at your core. I declare that I am. You can count on me to.

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Sports Commitment Self-aware Open-book 65

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

For example, an employee who spends her early career in the straitlaced but excellent Member Support environment of USAA in San Antonio and then moves to Vegas to join the wild-and-woolly world of the Customer Loyalty Team at Zappos is definitely going to need an adjustment period before she feels at home. Legendary stories. No “not my job.”.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

Dispassionatescientists have long debated the originality of his many inventions found onlyin his sketchbooks – little evidence exists that he ever actually built or testedany of these ideas. After a long day at work and feeling as though I have not accomplished anything meaningful I am energized by the thought that I am on the right track.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Do what works!

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

You Aren’t 100% Sold Out to Your Idea As described above, starting your own business is going to take a lot of hard work, so if you don’t fully believe in what you’re doing, you’re unlikely to stick with it for the long haul. If it fills you with dread and boredom, then it’s too soon.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

With the Genentech example in mind, we are coining the term ‘anti-bodies.’ They’re the people that look good on the paper and have stellar resumes but destroy culture and economic value in the long run. Genentech has been wildly successful. We have no problem passing on the stars who don’t fit.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

I’ve met many of these folks and have seen the awesome things they’re doing—and attempting to do—to make their colleagues’, employees’, and customers’ lives more meaningful by applying the practices of Extreme Leadership. The Radical Edge is also a story—a parable, if you will—about Extreme Leadership. a downy soft blanket of white.”

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Poet William Blake - "Auguries of Innocence" "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." So one has to quiet the mind and set aside all these explanations in order to experience the real world on its own terms.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This has many, many long term implications for us all. We are also looking for long term residential work experience places, both here and overseas, where she can get the experience employers need beyond qualifications. We will end up with many, many young people that are completely disenfranchised. The future.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

As a leader’s ability grows, whether through personal development or leadership training, they may be able to advance through the categories, improving productivity and overall performance. Here, ranked from least effective to most effective, are the seven leadership types. Speculator. Ambassador. Specialist. Experimenter.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

It just has a nasty habit of being dysfunctional So what, in the simplest terms is effective communication? Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. I realize now that my clients did not get their money’s worth for a long time. It does exist. There is an element of truth in this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. But almost everyone involved in a young company is betting on the long-term. PhotoAlto/Jorge Goncalves/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As the term, and the legend of Narcissus, suggests, narcissistic individuals are so self-indulged that they may end up drowning in their own self-love – this makes it harder for them to focus on others. In evolutionary terms, dark triad personality characteristics constitute the essence of the freeriding.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". Entrepreneurs often underestimate how long it will take them to produce revenues, and wildly miss how much they will have to invest to commercialize their idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Our research on what we call the “founder’s mentality” shows that maintaining a strong insurgent mission is critical to long-term, sustainable growth. But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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