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10 Lessons from Porter Moser’s All In

Leading Blog

We have a team rule: “ No complaining, no excuses, and no entitlement. ” Likewise, if you’re thinking negative thoughts, if you have a “poor me” attitude, that’s how people will perceive you. Talk to yourself, don’t listen to yourself; feed yourself with positive encouragement ; and chose faith instead of fear.

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Are You Managing the Dimensions of Your CEO Influence?

Lead Change Blog

Porter and Nitin Nohira published an article titled “How CEOs Manage Time” It was a fascinating insight into how CEOs do and should spend their time. . That is why Porter and Nohira’s article intrigued me and why I began to include their thinking in my practice. . That enables a lot of leverage.

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Leading Thoughts for February 20, 2020

Leading Blog

Porter Moser , head coach of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team, on how to find success: “How you think is how you feel, how you feel is how you act, and how you act is what defines you. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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How Your Leadership Team Can Slow Down to Speed Up

The Practical Leader

In their Harvard Business Review, “Too Many Projects,” Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins write, “Leaders keep layering on initiatives, which can lead to severe overload at levels below the executive team.” ” This is a critical problem that’s burning out managers and team members.

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Experiment Your Way to Success

Lead Change Blog

” That’s Cole Porter’s advice. Put together a couple of teams of three or four people. Give each team two sticks of spaghetti, a yard of tape, a yard of string, and one marshmallow. Challenge each team to build the highest structure they can that will support the weight of a marshmallow. Then try it.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. Most importantly, the implications and action steps became an ‘easy sell’ to my team. Human Resources.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

Next Level Blog

| Main | What Leaders Can Learn About Speaking from Martin Luther King » January 17, 2011 Four Steps for Making Better Decisions A friend recently gave me a copy of a new book that’s out now, The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter.  I found Porter’s book to be a fun and thought provoking read.

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