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. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development. Humanizing Leadership Mentors. Reflection Fuels.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 16, 2018

I recently gave a keynote to a room filled with hundreds of leaders from around the world. Speaking with these accomplished leaders one on one, I began to notice a pattern. They were grappling with loneliness and isolation. In a recent study, 61 percent of C-suite leaders believed isolation hindered their performance.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 13, 2021

It’s incredibly frustrating for our family to follow the COVID isolation rules while many families we know don’t. What’s been especially infuriating is seeing so many political leaders returning from out of country vacations. How can a leader be so hypocritical? It’s self-hypocrisy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

Guest post by Jamie Anderson & George Gabor Burt: In business situations in which collaboration is an important driver of organizational success, lacking a sense of community can be a formidable barrier to delivering results. But of course, humor can be highly subjective and what one person finds hilarious another person may not.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2017

H OW FREQUENTLY do you think your employees laugh at work? In contrast, how often do you estimate that they feel bored or uninspired? Skilled leaders, those we call the “Stand-Up Strategists,” understand the utility of humor to address four important organizational outcomes , or the 4Cs: Community, Composure, Change and Creativity.

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 1, 2020

Now, more than ever, people need leaders to step up and lead from the heart. The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world upside down, and people are looking to their leaders for direction on how to move forward when it seems like life has ground to a halt. So true…leaders are dealers of hope.

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The Office Blend Blog

MAY 11, 2021

I can only think of a handful of moments that would have been a more challenging time to enter the world of work. In today’s pandemic world, job interviews are likely remote experiences & the flow of your job search may feel weirdly isolated and opaque. What was the setting? Leader style? taiscapture@unsplash.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Resetting and rebalancing life and career is on many people’s minds during a pandemic. The biggest shift a leader can make today is to stop looking to change their organization or others within it, and start to change themselves.” Conscious leaders ask, “How can I help my teams to do their best work?”

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It can be poor and poison employee health , work relationships and organizational climates, or it can go well and help to energize problem solving, innovation and bottom-line effectiveness. It is what happens when things are opposed. Because conflict elicts anxiety, it can bring about extreme reactions from people.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 10, 2020

Having led and been a part of virtual teams for many years, I can testify that working from home is not a panacea. What technology platforms will you use, and when, to replace face-to-face meetings? But it comes at a cost—isolation and loneliness. Community —There are many benefits to working remotely.

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CoachStation

OCTOBER 23, 2015

To genuinely succeed in business, leaders must know their role, continuously develop their skills and be constantly supported to achieve the best they can as a leader and employee. However, it is not something you need to do on your own. Finding your own development pathway takes ownership, effort and clarity.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2015

Needless to say, both had a ton of experiences in dealing with the teams they led during their tenures. My parents had a tremendous influence on me as a leader. And whatever you do, leave out your brain and your ears.” I don’t care what you think.” = I’m disrespecting you. Some good, some not so good.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 21, 2023

Way too much money and time has been wasted with isolated programs that don’t provide broader context, support, and follow-through. The book’s “cylinders” framework drew from that research, and the work our consulting companies (The Achieve Group and Zenger Miller) were doing at that time.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, the following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? So, the way you treat them matters greatly.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2020

The concept of hero leadership came into its own in 1978 when James MacGregor Burns published his Pulitzer Prize winner, in which he described the transformative leader. How important are leaders? New research from INSEAD explores just what happens to firms who lose their leaders for prolonged periods due to health issues.

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QAspire

MARCH 6, 2013

This sounds simple, but in an organizational context, the hustle and bustle can be far more toxic, keeping leaders away from having face time with their people. People feel “used up”, isolated and disconnected. You can interact one-on-one or in a group. You can organize an open-forum or have a closed door meeting.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? People watch leaders very closely in a crisis.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For teams and their leaders, the benefits of remote working can be significant. It doesn’t matter too much what it is – some people get dressed in business wear to get into work mode, others are happy in lounge wear – as long as it gets you into the proper mindset. Communicate, communicate, communicate.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 19, 2019

“Skip, can we grab five minutes to talk about my email?” Kidding aside, I said what I realize many don’t like to hear from the boss. Feedback: the mere mention of the word can make our blood pressure rise and our defenses go up. The good news is that this problem can be fixed. Why Feedback Matters.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You do not climb your way up without meeting people who have mixed feelings about you. He is on record for saying we make millions of decisions during the course of our lifetime. These are the hallmarks of a true leader, be it in business or politics. Here are five leadership lessons that you can learn from Dalio.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Kent was one of the most intentional leaders I’ve ever met, and I am grateful I had a chance to make his acquaintance, and more importantly, learn from his example. What kind of CEO displays his biggest failures on the wall of his office? Intentional Leaders Are Involved Leaders. Do they enjoy their job?

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Steve Farber

JULY 7, 2016

I wish I could tell you that there’s a clear-cut, linear path to becoming a leader, but there isn’t; instead, you’ll need to get comfortable with the uncomfortable-ness of learning from your personal successes and failures as you go. The idea that a leader should appear to be perfect and infallible is hogwash.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The idea was to live in relative isolation while developing a platform for businesses to engage customers and collect their feedback. Unfortunately, that sort of mentality can lead to a lot of wasted lines of code. During the summer I noticed that I was clinging to my role as our leader. Why, mathematically of course!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. The issues of diversity in business when handled properly can be catalysts for growth.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

During the Q&A period of the evening session, one attendee was seeking insight on the issue of staff cutting. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?” Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the waste in our operations?”,

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Recently, I wondered what other career advice experts would add to the conversation about what’s vital for career growth. 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)? Do you do this? Do you do this?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

And while the self-help industry and leadership professions have made a fortune on our obsession with getting better, failure rates remain alarmingly high. Despite our common cultural notion of “self” improvement, the most successful efforts to self-improve have other people at their core.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What can today’s corporate, non-profit, military, and public-service leaders learn from daring decisions that changed history? In sixteen historical studies, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp reveals lessons for today’s leaders from decisions that changed history. Some leaders were highly intelligent (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his mantra of finding passion at, and outside of, work — and he’s not an isolated case. We have identified dozens of S&P 500 CEOs who have what we call “serious leisure” interests. Does serious leisure make you a better leader?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Naturally a quiet person, Eric has become distressed by the endless networking, fundraising, and people management that he is required to do. He feels physically and emotionally drained, no longer able to sleep well or concentrate during the day. But startup stress is not the only reason why entrepreneurs can experience depression.

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CoachStation

JUNE 28, 2015

The things we want from work are not that different to what we are looking for from life in general. The difficulty is not in the knowing, it is in the application and doing. The current state of leadership is not what is wanted nor required. In a strange way I feel that this is the most important blog I have ever written.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

A few years ago, DisneyWorld executives were wondering what most captured the attention of toddlers and infants at their theme park and hotels in Orlando, Florida. But after a couple of hours of close observation, we realized that what most captured the young children's attention wasn't Disney-conjured magic. and also to East Asians.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In an attempt to better understand the struggle-recover process in writing my book, Leadership and the Art of Struggle , I spoke with extraordinary leaders across sectors and industries, all of whom had faced an array of challenges, setbacks, and adversity. Others became depressed and filled with self-doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

But if you aren’t picking up on those subtle cues, how can you learn to do so? What signals should you be looking for? And what can you do to influence the unspoken dynamics? What the Experts Say. ” The good news is that this skill can be learned. “This builds trust. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Negative feedback in particular can be valuable because it allows us to monitor our performance and alerts us to important changes we need to make. And indeed, leaders who ask for critical feedback are seen as more effective by superiors, employees, and peers, while those who seek primarily positive feedback are rated lower in effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

How well do you ask questions ? During the presentation it was clear from his body language that the executive was uncomfortable with the direction that the team was taking. As a result, without any real questioning of the team , he deferred approval of the next steps until he could have a further discussion with the team leader.

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