Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2019

Write yourself a timeline of tasks and events you want to accomplish for the day, laying out everything you need to immediately get to work on. Look at what is important and what is urgent. In the top left corner, headed Important and Urgent , you might put things like crises, deadlines, and problems. Prioritize your list.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November 2019. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 26, 2019

All leaders feel pressure. You may experience it by just showing up at work, by sitting in a million meetings a day, by feeling that you’re constantly in problem-solving mode, by juggling the day-to-day demands of management. There is always something to fret or worry about, always something that is urgent. Improved focus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Go into almost any company and ask employees what annoys them most about the leaders in charge, and the list is unlikely to vary all that much. I love this Harvard Business Review video, The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make. I’m a great leadership thinker too. The Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders Make.

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Lead from Within

JULY 28, 2020

As with anything else in the world, there are good leaders and bad leaders. If you’ve experienced a really good leader, be thankful. And if you’ve ever worked with a horrible leader, you know what a miserable experience that is. Maybe, just maybe, the person who needs to make some adjustments is you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The one thing that is the focus above everything else? But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. He frames the discussion to leaders and teams as follows: “If we were to achieve just one thing in this next period of time, what would that be?”

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The Practical Leader

JULY 28, 2021

The metaphor of putting rocks, pebbles, and sand in a jar has been used for decades to illustrate the time management principle of prioritization. Many leadership teams fill their days with sand. And too often, in their urgent firefighting, throw pebbles and rocks at each other. Poor Monkey Management.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

The answer lies in good time management. Learn how to master your time by making yourself aware of these time-wasting traps: 1. This skill helps you assert yourself as the leader and manage your time. One of the easiest ways to waste time is by failing to distinguish between what’s important and what’s urgent.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The book’s central character, Pete Leonard, is a middle manager in a tech services firm. Omar, a new IT manager who recently joined the company, was castigated by Doug for suggesting the division had too many projects and priorities and can’t do them all. . “It’s the tyranny of the urgent.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Early morning, when everything is quiet and your energy is high, is a great time for productivity. Learn to ignore what is distracting; there is no need to respond to everything. Make it urgent and get it out of the way–then you can do the more pleasant work. Manage interruptions. Stay focused and deliberate.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

I n today’s fast-paced world, time management has never been more challenging. The downside is that this same technology has made everything urgent, and has forced leaders to learn how to use their time more effectively in order to meet these daily challenges.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

Guest post from Kathy Kolbe: “I’m a strategist,” Hank tells his management team. We’ve worked with four-star generals who describe their leadership method this way: “I give my people the bottom line of what’s gotta happen. Wise leaders know their best methods for initiating solutions, and who to trust to take it from there.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to put things off and remember that everything doesn’t always have to be so urgent. But the alternative–saying yes to everything–can lead to overwork, scattered energy and resentment. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? People watch leaders very closely in a crisis.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. This means that ethics is serious business.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? People watch leaders very closely in a crisis.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 7, 2017

It’s easy during these times for leaders to end up mentally drained and emotionally overwhelmed by the high-speed, explosive challenges that come with managing things like people, budgets, time, energy and other assorted resources. ” Delegate the urgent. .” ” Delegate the urgent.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 19, 2020

Stepping into a management role for the first time is a daunting task for anyone. Most new managers are eager to make their mark as leaders and approach their supervisory opportunity with verve and enthusiasm, yet don’t have a good idea of the nature of managerial work. What does success look like in your new role?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The book " Leadership Conversations " by Alan S. Stieglitz challenges managers to become great leaders by holding effective conversations. Hold these conversations--nothing is more urgent. A program manager encouraged his staff to be open and blunt with him, with each other, and with other organizations.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 10, 2013

Most leaders I know are overwhelmed with the sheer volume of work that’s on their plates. Yet without making the effort to think about their list of things they think they need to get done they continue to worry about how they’ll get it all done. Courageous leaders say “no” in order to be most effective.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Key to Building a Vibrant Organization and a Success Driven Team An owner of a small to midsize company, an executive within a large corporation, or a middle manager directing people to get the work done, all want the same thing: people consistently delivering high levels of performance and cooperating with each other to achieve team objectives.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, the following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? People watch leaders very closely in a crisis.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 17, 2017

It’s easy to find lists of all the things that leaders shouldn’t do. Here are the positive steps you can take to build successful leadership. Here are 21 positive steps that will help you become the kind of the leader you can take great pride in, the kind people will honor with their followership. Keep tabs on expectations.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As a global consulting leader whose success depends on client trust, PwC puts a high value on talent with passion, grit and vision. While many view this term as “management jargon,” it goes beyond encouraging people to speak up and share ideas. As a leadership team, we’ve committed to be guided by our purpose and values.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 15, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. I know this leader. It took some time and excellent communication skills to make sure the team was on board with what she expected from them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. After trying some over the counter remedies without luck, I decided to visit our nearby urgent care facility with what I suspected was an ear infection. about the slow intake process.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 25, 2015

If you’re starting a new position or role, or your leadership just needs a refresher use these 90 powerful tips over the first three months to get your leadership on track. It’s a tough statistic: 40 percent of leaders going into a new roles fail in their first 18 months. An estimated one-third of outside senior hires fail.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

At the heart of it, their lack of clarity about the best use of their time leads them to work on what’s urgent, not what’s important.” Make a list. How could I make 10 times more money? Not everything you need to do can be centered around your strengths, but the more you do, the more successful and enjoyable your life will be.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Maybe thats why so many people think its practical and realistic for alien species to "make contact" with each other. A more urgent question: Is there intelligent life on Earth? Instead, they believed that everything visible in the night sky circled around the earth, that our world was the center of the entire universe.

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The Idolbuster

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

This increases our anxiety and makes it more difficult to focus and make good decisions. Urgency instills confidence in those around us while panic makes others, well, panic. Even during real life threatening situations, panic will most likely make the situation worst. Busting Your Corporate Idol will return on Monday .

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s the leader’s job recognize when stakes are high and respond appropriately. We don’t need to look far to see harsh criticisms of leaders with underwhelming responses to crises that occurred on their watch. If you find yourself in the midst of a crisis you didn’t create, welcome to leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. The main upside is that leaders have more time to spend on what we call macromanagement. I don’t know many leaders who would say they don’t think these questions are important.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better. They create an environment that undermines focus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. In her words, “Everything felt like an urgent crisis, so I acted like it was.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Multiple different individuals and groups are responsible for different components of the value chain that makes up their company’s design, and they are often not as joined up as they should be. Is it the responsibility of your company’s most senior managers, or should it be a more distributed responsibility?

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