The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.” People in them become victims of “the system.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 10, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article Danny Rand (portrayed by Finn Jones, known for his role on Game Of Thrones as Loras Tyrell), the Iron Fist and last Marvel Defender to get his own original Netflix series, burst onto the small screen laden with controversy. After watching Iron Fist, I’m still confused over the criticisms.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Training Power 171

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 105

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 11, 2013

I’ve always said, leadership without vision is like trying to drive blind – it won’t end well. If you accept my statements thus far as true, then my question is this: why do so many businesses struggle with creating a cohesive, aligned vision? Businesses don’t have vision issues – they have leadership issues.

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Tactics Construction CEO Follow-up 227

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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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2014

"Most companies do not know that the old “selling” game is now obsolete," says Chief Revenue Strategist Michael Combest of The Third Door. Our company takes a holistic view of organizations to align the mechanics that create and sustain real competitive advantage for companies from five to 50 million dollars," he adds.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Open-book Learning-by-Doing 78

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 325

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 15, 2015

And people were once again terrified of dinosaurs roaming the earth. Well discuss that later, but for now, let’s go over the leadership lessons and quotes from Jurassic World. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jurassic World. It was like watching the original all over again, only 22 years later.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Simon Team 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Guest post by By Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese: In order to become a chief catalyst for collaboration, you will have to model behaviors that embody the way you'd like your employees to work. How you lead your people has a direct impact on your ability to eliminate or mitigate the types of human behaviors that slow organizations down.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . It all comes back to the company’s views on employees: “embrace people and treat ‘em better than they would be treated at other chains.”

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Quite to the contrary; there are few things that require as much fluidity as effectively growing revenue, increasing profit and driving brand equity. Quite to the contrary; there are few things that require as much fluidity as effectively growing revenue, increasing profit and driving brand equity.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 288

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

One night over dinner, I listened as a very wise military leader shared his learnings from years of experience with an eager, newly-minted General, “Recently, have you started to notice that when you tell jokes, everyone erupts into laughter – and that when you say something ‘wise’ everyone nods their heads in solemn agreement?

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

In the text that follows I’ll not only provide you with a blue print for finding game changers, but I’ll also ask you to share your experiences and insights as well. In the text that follows I’ll not only provide you with a blue print for finding game changers, but I’ll also ask you to share your experiences and insights as well.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

Leadership. by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Insider Insight on Price Fixing. This begs several questions.

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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? So I asked career advice experts these 3 questions: What is your number #1 tip for being successful in a career today (employee or contract worker)?

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

You are not too worried because your people will tell you if something is wrong, although they didn’t the last time you lost a customer. When you feel like this it is time to be on your guard. Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. When you feel like this it is time to be on your guard.

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Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 18, 2013

Why It Can Be So Hard for Successful Leaders to Change. The new General replied, “Why, yes, I have.” It’s only that star on your shoulder. Don’t ever let it go to your head.” Why We Resist Change. The fact that successful people tend to be delusional isn’t all bad.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 107

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Bad things happen to good people just as bad things happen to good businesses. There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Note that the scale and nature of your business will inform your answers to the following questions. Family Questions.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

' Then, having chosen, we are fed the long list of proper beliefs to substantiate why our side is so right and the other is so wrong. This is fueled by the structure of an 'our side against yours' national mindset. What if neither side is totally right or wrong? What if the real problem lies above the stage show?

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. What kinds of opportunities?

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Most people would like to have a job, a boss, and a workplace they can engage with, as well as work that gives them a sense of purpose. This aspiration is embodied by a famous Steve Jobs statement : “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

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Emotional Intelligence Diversity Review Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? all three? —

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s about why the best leaders make loving employees a higher priority than profit. And, I’m confident than in almost all cases, this can actually improve the profitability of the organization. I recently watched an excellent TED talk, which I think you’ll love, too.

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Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On the one hand, science has given us robust tools and powerful theories to quantify the key indicators of future career success , job performance , and leadership effectiveness. For instance, the majority of solid individual contributors — technical experts — are not good people managers, nor do they enjoy managing others.

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Politics Retail Career Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Since taking over as CEO, sales had increased fifteen-fold. Profits were up 150%. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it.

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Management Long-term System Delegation 8

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

I work with social entrepreneurs and professional service folks, and I’m really all about having you amplify your impact in the world. I work with social entrepreneurs and professional service folks, and I’m really all about having you amplify your impact in the world. How do you multiply your influence?

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

For him, the hero in the song loudly proved that man could always defeat machine. Not only has waste and expense been wrung out of most systems, too often so has the heart and soul of the people serving people. Were this a small local hardware store, I might have gotten, “I’ll check you out now and put the item number in later.”

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P&L Customer Intimacy Price Retail 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. The saddest fact is that businesses do not always know that they’re doing anything wrong. It reviews the Addictive System, the company way and the organization as an addict.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Lest you think I’ve lost my mind, I want to be clear that I’m not advocating taking your eye off the revenue creation ball. Rather what I’m recommending will help you generate more revenue, with greater velocity by simply doing the right thing in putting your customer’s needs first.

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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 373

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Ford Motor Company and the Firestone Tire Company had partnered and collaborated for almost 100 years, stemming from ties of their founders. In the 1980s, Bridgestone Tire Company purchased Firestone. Any company or organization is like a tree. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. People decry the scandals and rest assured that such doings are not happening in their companies. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The other thing is he’s such a brilliant thinker in the research that he did and the thoughts that he put out there. On this podcast and in this community we’re all about putting ideas into practice, bridging the gap between scholar and thinker and practitioner. ” WILLIAM: Yes.

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Drucker Class Armstrong Books 74