The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 18, 2023

According to a survey conducted by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, over 15% of 634,000 homeless individuals were 50 years or older, and the number of homeless people aged over 65 has been projected to double by 2050.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Sean summarizes, “ An inspirational song can motivate your team and provide that extra boost of emotion that you might need to finish your project successfully… If you want to put together something that will boost your team morale and performance, consider using one or more of these inspirational songs to motivate your team!

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

I started this blog in April 2006 to simply document my lessons in leading people, projects and improvement initiatives. When introducing November 2017 #WOLWeek, Simon Terry wrote a post about how working out loud is a way to deepen relationships and create a legacy. Here is a quick sketch note version with key ideas from his post.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We would never, ever treat anyone we love like a project or an agenda. They are not projects. We like to look at people as projects. We shower charity on someone because they’re a project we’re working on. We’ve got to stop looking at people as projects. What was my takeaway from Simon Sinek?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 23, 2023

A stressful environment In De-Stress at Work , ESADE’s Simon Dolan explores the role leaders with low self-esteem play in passing on stress to their teams. A leader needs to be able to proactively manage their emotions well enough to project calm and rational to their teams.”

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Stress Emotional Intelligence Simon Environment 98

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2018

Leadership guru and author, Simon Sinek recently said, “To affect change inside an organization we must remember why people resist change. With all due respect, Simon is partially correct but doesn’t tell the whole story. People don't fear change, people like comfort. The status quo is more comfortable than the unknown.”

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2016

. + A good video by Simon Sinek on managing Millennials. That said, I have found good support of my Syrian project by my Millenial staff. Speaking of Syrian project. I generally dislike "labelling" a group and assuming they are all the same. It has become the Danby purpose. We need lightly used sheets, towels and snow gear.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2016

. + A good video by Simon Sinek on managing Millennials. That said, I have found good support of my Syrian project by my Millenial staff. Speaking of Syrian project. I generally dislike "labelling" a group and assuming they are all the same. It has become the Danby purpose. We need lightly used sheets, towels and snow gear.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2013

At work, we want our jobs, assignments, projects and "stuff" to move along smoothly: achieving objectives, getting promoted, winning contracts. And often instead of saying hello to "Yes", we find "No" at the front of the line offering personnel conflicts, career disappointments and project derailments.

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Budgeting Simon Project Resistance 285

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Schwarzman (Simon & Schuster, 2019) Schwarzman's story is an empowering, entertaining, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. Properly understood, bad can be put to perfectly good use. Blog Post ).

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Simone de Beauvoir. Sketchnote Project – Going Far and Wide. This blog and I have evolved together – and this has been a platform for me to learn, think clearly and share insights through posts and sketchnotes. That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are you projecting with your body language? And the even better news is that you don’t have to spend years training like Simone Biles or Michael Phelps for it to work! Last night, Diane and I were watching the U.S. women’s gymnastics team compete in the opening round of competition in the Rio Olympics.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted The ABC Problem Solving Strategy. Jane says: “Every decision, project, and strategy that you make or do impacts others. Simon Mitchell of Development Dimensions International submitted Every Move You Make, They’ll Be Watching You.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Success is derived from purpose, no matter how large or small the project or idea. One final note: a post on “why” would be incomplete without including a mention of Simon Sinek ‘s book Start With Why. It’s easy to just add on and add on things to do and projects to complete. Asking Why Defines Success.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Simon Sinek in his book Start with Why: How Great leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action explains how essential knowing our why is. It could be time to establish a new direction, initiative, interest, project, job or avenue that excites you. Talking about things makes them real, otherwise you’ll spend your life boxing at shadows.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet – Video Review Simon Young at iJump reviews my book “#QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project” and other books in Thinkaha Series. You can also watch this video at iJump TV website. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Video Review Simon Directory 84

Steve Farber

APRIL 26, 2012

He is, when all is said and done, a savvy business guy, a philanthropist ( have a look at his Pinkburst Project ) and the consummate entrepreneur. I hope you can join Jay Jay and me, along with Sally Hogshead, Tommy Spaulding, Brian Mayne, Simon Billsberry, and Loren Slocum at The Summit in August–but for now, here’s a taste.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 18, 2012

But, instead of working for himself, he chose to partner with Simon Whitfield , a Canadian Triathlete, with the sole purpose of helping Simon win an Olympic medal for Canada in the 2008 games. Show enthusiasm for group projects and encourage and support the efforts of others without fanfare.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2013

In this post, authors Julian Birkinshaw and Simon Caulkin report on one experiment they did with sales and service team at the Stockholm offices of a major insurance company. The principles (work autonomy, knowing what you do matters, the importance of the first-line manager) are well documented, but they are frequently ignored in practice.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

” –Simon Sinek. . “Businesses often forget about the culture and ultimately they suffer for it, because they cannot deliver good service from unhappy employees.” ” –Tony Hsieh, Zappos. “Start with why customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.”

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

Strengths and Counterfeits For the Catalyst project, we meticulously examined how confidence swings from center affect human strengths. In our 8,000-person survey that was part of this project, we asked people what percentage of time they see counterfeits overtake strengths. Fifty-eight percent said daily or weekly.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The following is a guest piece by cognitive scientist and author Dr. Carmen Simon. For your next content development project, consider this: it is not sufficient to be memorable to stay viable in business. Dr. Carmen Simon is a published author, cognitive psychologist, and co-founder of Rexi-Media. No, water.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 27, 2023

Vulnerable leadership, in other words, is not about projecting an image of perfection, but about acknowledging and embracing one’s imperfections. In today’s cutthroat business world, the prevailing wisdom is that a leader must project an image of strength, confidence, and invincibility.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2020

Inspirational speaker and author of Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, is famous for saying “people don’t wake up in the morning wanting to be managed”, and that couldn’t be more true for high-performance teams. Good collaboration and communication for your team are vital, especially when it comes to project management and remote teams.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 11, 2010

This interview is part of a DVD that Chris has produced for his Actionable Literacy Project. Including Seth Godin , Dan Pink , Sally Hogshead , Gary Vaynerchuk , Simon Sinek , Sir Ken Robinson and many others, including–as I said–yours truly.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Left-Siders by Simon Sinek ( blog ). Beginning as a student in anthropology, Simon Sinek turned his fascination with people into a career of convincing people to do what inspires them. ” - Simon Sinek. The world is a bell curve. The most important thing about the bell curve is that it is always balanced.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 14, 2011

When you project and broadcast your genius consistently, with clear purpose and passion, your personal and professional dynamic shifts into crazy growth mode. You’ll even create a mantra to help hold you accountable to your daily genius life. Sustaining real smarts takes discipline and commitment. I never said it would be easy.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Inflate budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. This electronics company had no clear plan for how projects would transition from the small design lab team back into the core business. And every time you create a handoff, you risk dropping the baton.

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QAspire

JANUARY 31, 2010

Simon Young at iJump posted a video review of my book #QUALITYtweet. I resumed my series on “Great Quotes” and this month, I presented a brilliant quote from Theodore Roosevelt - It is not the critic who counts. The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark is one of the finest books I have read on essence of leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Start with Why by Simon Sinek. One particular idea in this book – about “switch&# tasking – seems to come up in every workshop I lead. Here is my original recommendation. As an author I was (and am) envious of this title. The book does the title justice. It’s a valuable book on a profoundly important concept.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 11, 2010

This interview is part of a DVD that Chris has produced for his Actionable Literacy Project. Including Seth Godin , Dan Pink , Sally Hogshead , Gary Vaynerchuk , Simon Sinek , Sir Ken Robinson and many others, including–as I said–yours truly.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 13, 2017

Upon request by the War Department, the American Standards Association, in December, 1940, initiated a project on the application of statistical methods to the quality control of materials and manufactured products. Simon, Ordnance Department, U.S. Emergency Technical Committee (later, War Committee) was appointed to develop such.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Currency, 2023) Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. These are wonderful stories.

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Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 11, 2009

I commented on a global survey ranking women in the area of gender equality that was compiled by “The White House Project”. Wilson for “The White House Project Blog”, entitled A False Divide Between Head and Heart: What I Learned From Robert McNamara. The survey stated that “The United States ranks 22nd out of 115 countries.”

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