Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a great leader without any doubt is a huge challenge and creating a thought leadership strategy is no different. You have just one chance to wow your audience and bring them back around with an equally impactful call to action. It serves to put out different types of authoritative content consistently for your audience.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided Get a Sneak Peek of My New Book – Heart First: Lasting Leader Lessons from a Year that Changed Everything. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner. ” ” Find Diana on Twitter at @DianaPMAuthor.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Benchmarking, finding new “best practices,” and implementing broad Management of Change documents. The opportunities included dozens of arduous or expensive changes they could make to different parts of the business. So they decided to change tack, and got help approaching their cost from an angle of problem solving.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In reality, and as many leaders often find, by working every hour God sends, you only achieve one thing: exhaustion. They’ll take a bit of learning and embedding within your daily routine, but once there, they’ll make the world of difference. It was huge, and that was for one very daft reason. Take Plenty of Micro Breaks.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

” Find Mary on Twitter at @MarySchaefer. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Creating Your Leadership Footprint through the Practice of LESS is MORE. ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. She combines humor and storytelling to make simple, but profound points about leading and living well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2019

There is no one set of rules that makes for an effective leader, but leadership encompasses a slew of characteristics and different people embody different sets of traits. Guest post from Jeffrey Hayzlett: What’s leadership? What makes for an effective leader? For me, a good leader isn’t someone who just tells others what to do.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

” Connect with John on Twitter at @JohnRStoker. Paula writes: “Although we are all being required to be socially distant in one way or another, that doesn’t mean leaders can’t try to bring people together with a common purpose. Empathy is one of the keys to making this happen.” Crisis Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 27, 2012

Three years prior to this moment he moved 3,000 miles on a promise of great opportunity, but alas, the opportunity did not materialize. Rather, it was a move to oblivion, “working” on a project that did not exist, and for a man who ruled by fear and ridicule (especially in front of other people). So, what could this young man do?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 23, 2014

I find it’s not the huge actions that create an extraordinary leader, at least from the person being lead. To truly be a great leader, you’ve got to do work on the simple matters. The simple act of a Christmas party thanking everyone left such a lasting impression on our lives. Image by JD Hancock.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2022

Executive coach Emily Bermes is focused on one thing: helping new-to-role executives succeed. For many it’s failing to align enough with the culture to “fit in” enough for people to know you, trust you, embrace you as one of their own. The cost of this failure is huge. Would you briefly touch on this?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One of the defining features of the coronavirus pandemic for working professionals has been the huge growth in communication via platforms such as Zoom. With conferences also heading online, the business travel market has ground to a halt as people have learned to communicate without jumping on a plane to do so.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The first item on the agenda was a proposal by ACME Consulting. He quickly recovers, returns his pinky to his mouth, and says, “I mean we will save you one trillion dollars.” (Can Let’s fast forward a few weeks and focus on the life of a functional executive, named Susan. You also remember the Consultants.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 26, 2021

How’s leadership different in Canada? How can a culture be changed? These are a few of the simple and easy questions BreAnne Okoren asked me in a recent podcast… Right….all all quick, easy, and simple issues! Differences in Canadian approaches to leadership. One of my favorite quotes on leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. Along with his brilliance, he was a simple and humble man who wanted to help others achieve their goals. First, he taught me that our mission in life is to make a positive difference.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Deeply devoted to the value of lifelong learning, the organization these leaders built has become the largest higher-education network on the planet. With a passion for serving others but no plan on how to run a school, they nevertheless established thirty colleges in less than a decade. Admittedly, I wasn’t for a very long time.

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Effective communication requires dynamic people reading, active listening skills and knowing how to provide an on-target response. With a simple, 20-minute online assessment, we can create a report describing your own strengths and weaknesses, your communication style and the impact that it has on your teams, your motivations and much more.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I have been obsessed with the simple act of listening for a long time. As one of five children in a family that dealt with alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, mental illness and prison, there wasn’t the capacity for any of us to listen to each other as we simply did our best to stay out of harm’s way. What does this mean for you?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

When people start a business, they all head into it with a mindset of owning an empire that sees growth years on year. In this post, we are going to be looking at some very simple things you can do with your business that can show enormous amounts of growth very quickly. Save On The Small Stuff. Why You Are Not Growing.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 26, 2024

Before, when I was leading teams of up to 3500 people over 32 countries, I never had time to connect with people one-on-one. Before, when I was leading teams of up to 3500 people over 32 countries, I never had time to connect with people one-on-one. In my mind, emotional intelligence is all heart.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 25, 2021

Do you aspire to lead—to make a positive difference in the world? An article in The New York Times described a corporate communications officer at Amtrak whose title had been changed from “Vice President” to “Chief.” But the title change wasn’t the result of a promotion. We all want to have an impact on the world around us.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

The simple truth is that anyone can prepare a chart or graph to support virtually any premise or position at a given point in time. The first thing that readers need to keep in mind is that there is very often a huge difference between a commercial best seller, and a book that provides real value.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2020

When the world shut down and nobody was trading, business profits obviously plummeted and a lot of small businesses that were already on the brink have had to cease trading. This is the most important one that you need to be thinking about. Your financial plan now will be far different to the one that it was at the start of the year.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2021

One of the most challenging parts about working is that you are stuck in an environment for eight to ten hours a day, five days a week. If your workplace feels like one big headache, it might be time to make some changes! One of the most effective ways to do this is through a simple conversation with others.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 16, 2016

It’s been a huge part of my leadership education. When I joined the workforce, I quickly started noticing positive and negative organizational dynamics I had “seen” before in the books – and I knew what needed to change. And the right book at the right time can make an incredible difference.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past decade, the move toward stakeholder capitalism has changed how businesses see themselves and define concepts like value, growth, and success and also how they ultimately define their company’s mission, vision, and values. The pandemic and its aftermath have turbocharged this shift and changed how people view work.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past decade, the move toward stakeholder capitalism has changed how businesses see themselves and define concepts like value, growth, and success and also how they ultimately define their company’s mission, vision, and values. The pandemic and its aftermath have turbocharged this shift and changed how people view work.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Entrepreneurs are many things, but one thing that is common in many portrayals of them in popular culture is their acceptance of uncertainty, their courage in the face of risks, and their determination to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. They often unfold over a long timeframe. The recover period is very long. Overcoming the fear.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Great book - simple messages. There is a section on Linda Hasenfratz who has build Linamar into the powerhouse that it is today. There is a section on Linda Hasenfratz who has build Linamar into the powerhouse that it is today. It can spur you on, pushing you to test your own limits. It will also make us happier.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. It might amaze many people to know that successful entrepreneurs are rarely building on new ideas or disrupting existing industries. This is where some people make a huge mistake.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. Along with his brilliance, Peter was a simple and humble man who wanted to help others achieve their goals. First, he taught me that our mission in life is to make a positive difference.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How do you effectively change an established culture? I knew, however, that if the church was going to survive for years to come some things would have to change. I knew, however, that if the church was going to survive for years to come some things would have to change. They aren’t usually the ones people are mentioning.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. ” Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink. ” Connect with Paul on Twitter at @paul_larue.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

This month we are featuring Marcella Bremer , publisher of Leadership and Change Magazine. Back in the ‘80s (with huge unemployment in the Netherlands) it was also a safe choice for anyone trying to find a job to pay the bills. From then on, she followed the flow of her energy and of opportunities that aligned with her interests.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Not only that, but it’s an excellent website builder for succeeding at digital marketing if you follow some simple strategies. Not only that, but it’s an excellent website builder for succeeding at digital marketing if you follow some simple strategies. Chances are, you’ve been on a WordPress website today. Why WordPress?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Employees can do the minimum, or go the extra mile, and the difference between these two levels of performance, multiplied by the number of employees, can make or break a company. Losing employees is costly, especially if they are your best ones. And how often on exit interviews do we find it to be true!

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 30, 2018

If so, my guess is there was one thing missing that could have made a profound difference in how you or others felt about a meeting. With one change, you can transform meetings from having low-to-no engagement with ambiguous outcomes into fully transparent, productive collaborations.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Thank you all for joining me for this series; these are lessons that mean (and have meant) SO much to me in becoming a more human leader, and I hope that they can also make a big difference for you. Get a Life (If You Don’t Have One). What I got in return was one of the best leadership lessons I have ever received.

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