Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. Through trial and error and a whole lot of perseverance, he opened the first Texas Roadhouse in 1993. To develop your mission and values, moderate open and honest discussions with groups around your company. But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. Through forty-two leadership vignettes, the book “Humanizing Leadership” will change the way you look at leadership and at yourself.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 5, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman teaches us to see things differently, using art to challenge our default thinking and open up possibilities otherwise overlooked. With Amy Herman’s Fixed., With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And as revealed in Gallup’s latest book, Culture Shock , authored by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter , the following are some eye-opening statistics today’s business leaders need to know. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book. Among workers in the U.S.,

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structuring in Sevens.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Below are five time-tested approaches for new leaders to get off to a fast start. Be cautious about change fatigue.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Leadership isn't easy.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. His latest e-book, Leadership-Perfecting Your Approach and Style -($1.99) is available on Amazon Kindle.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

If you find a solution with integrated search features, you can simply conduct a keyword search to pull up documents in seconds, receiving a preview to make sure you’ve got the right file before opening it. Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper. About the Author.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2020

Guest post by Stan Silverman : During a recent event to launch my book, Be Different! I described an experience early in my career while serving as national sales manager for one of my company’s operating divisions. It was real important that America knew the banks were open for business.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

Laura Huang explains just how to gain that advantage in her insightful and encouraging book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. You can create your own edge and open doors—wide-open doors—for yourself.”. Delight opens the door, so we can enrich. To do this, we begin by finding our “basic goods.” It’s how you enrich.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. 1: Open adjacent product areas: For the people across the 147 countries around the world who learned about colors and the alphabet from Sesame Street, there's one more lesson that the beloved TV program can offer.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 1, 2019

Ex-Navy SEAL Jocko Willink put it best in his book NYT bestselling book Extreme Ownership , “The leader must own everything in his or her world. As I shared in my book Ignite Your Leadership Expertise , observation is the best leadership education you can receive for free. Showing up late to formation?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms. What’s more, SMEs are frequent participants in open innovation partnerships with a range of stakeholders.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a rather quick/short summary of key highlights of 2022 for me: Book Illustrations The year started with the buzz around my friend Krish Shankar’s new book “ Catalyze: Power up your people ecosystem ” that was released in December 2021. The book contains visual chapter summaries in form of my sketchnotes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

A second skill, related to being curious is to ask simple, open-ended questions. The best open-ended questions start with “what”, and the most powerful of all is, “what else?” By the way, “Say more” also works. Notice how important tone is when asking a question, especially when it comes from the team leader.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

In a crisis, leaders are required to create models and draw conclusions while operating with imperfect and incomplete data. The coronavirus has illustrated the importance for all leaders to be open and curious. The coronavirus has illustrated the importance for all leaders to be open and curious. Open to the brutal facts!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2019

My latest book, “ The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures” examines key pillars on how to become a better leader by creating a winning culture, achieving operational excellence – all without dismissing the power of profit. Therefore, who exactly are you leading? Risk-taker.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2020

R YAN GOTTFREDSON begins his book Success Mindsets , with the question, “ Is your thinking the best way to think? ” Rather, I had negative mindsets that were driving me to operate in ways that limited myself.”. They are fixed/growth mindsets, open/closed mindsets, prevention/promotion mindsets, and inward/outward mindsets.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

In 1992, I was the G3 (Operations Officer) for one of the Army’s 10 Divisions – forward deployed in Europe. The Cold War had ended, and we were now opening the aperture to Eastern European countries that had been coerced into the Warsaw Pact decades earlier by the strong arm of Russia. When No Trust Exists. In the U.S.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Sully opens the movie as the narrator. In doing so, they left him wide open to an attack by an aggressive sea creature. There have been plans for multiple sequels ever since.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I’m so focused on CEO succession I even wrote a book called, “Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?” was a visionary and an operational savant, who worked tirelessly to gain momentum in the early years. All of this is to say, I’m obsessed with finding inspirational leaders. Well, there’s no question John H.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 28, 2018

Instead of sitting in the conference room for a meeting, ask if meeting attendees would be open to getting outside and walking during the meeting. You can easily work on your mental health by picking up and reading a good book every day. Find good books to read. Read business books. Peruse well-being and self-help books.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

The open question is whether this change will payoff for individuals and for organizations. Virtual distance has three components: physical distance; operational distance, including such conditions as poor internet connections and technical problems; and affinity distance that prevents deeper connections from developing.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In his latest book, Built to Innovate , he chronicles the Tech Warrior Enterprise event run each year by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Alongside the event, the Pentagon operates various CONNECT events each year to provide support to startups and help them ensure that any technologies they develop truly meet the needs of the military.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age. Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2022

Parts three and four will explore openness and justification for a rationale of compromise on credentials and how this impacts a timely and successful conclusion of senior executive hiring. In case you missed it, please see part one of this series on P.E. How have they behaved in the past while extracting their business from downturns?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2021

Understanding the market is necessary if you want to get straight into business once you open. Also, gauge the market size, the location in which you operate, pricing ranges, and other economic indicators such as population income and employment rate. Open your business bank account. Create a business plan. Website domain name.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 17, 2014

Hoopla is also used as a way to quickly get input on the performance of various processes throughout the operation. Their first book, Ideas Are Free , was voted the Reader’s Choice by Fast Company magazine and selected as one of the 30 best business books of the year by Soundview Executive Books.

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Brigette Hyacinth

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, it is a tough skill to master as it requires us to be more present, attentive, engaged, open and flexible. Their leaders operated in a bubble and engaged in group think. As a leader, your job is to encourage others around you to be open and honest without a negative consequence. Check out my latest Bestselling Book.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

While still clear on goals and priorities, sensemaking requires “the ability to lead open-ended discovery, to sense both soft and hard data, to use your judgment skills, to connect the dots, and to see the big picture in a vast ocean of sometimes conflicting data.”. Sensemakers are good at connecting different worlds inside the company.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. Army Special Forces believes that adaptability—learning—is predicated on self-efficacy, resiliency, open-mindedness, mastery achievement motivation, and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty.”

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Keep an open mind, check your assumptions about engagement at the door, and get ready unleash the full potential of your people and your organization. Since then, he’s provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Field Operations, Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Training and Development, and Organizational Effectiveness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 8, 2019

But this is a misconception—or a blind spot, as we call it in our book, What Are Your Blind Spots? Have the team members place each of these on an open wall space and start to “affinity-group” them. It requires leaders to be vulnerable and to be open to hearing things they may not want to hear.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

You start the book with a story about a team that lacks team emotional intelligence. What do you consistently notice if a team is operating with high emotional intelligence? Use the emotional awareness skill to open up the lines of communication with your team for a more transparent and honest discussion.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 25, 2017

As a leadership writer, I get asked from time to time to share a list of my favourite leadership books; books that I found to be the most informative either for those new to leadership, or for those looking for new insights on how they can build on their existing leadership skills.

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