Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 19, 2013
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less” -C. S. Lewis Is humility teachable? Is humility developed by nature or nurture? Am I really audacious enough to write a post on teaching humility? Apparently yes. Let me add a caveat. I don’t have humility handled. I have the best intentions, but [.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 25, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Perhaps you’ve even been guilty of uttering such a phrase yourself. Here’s the thing – leaders don’t accept impossibility as a valid thesis. If you think I’ve lost my mind, or that my optimistic nature has crossed over into a state of irrational exuberance or delusion, I’d encourage you to read on as I challenge the logic of impossibility.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 10, 2013
I’ve seen and heard (and written) about a lot of great leadership lessons, but there’s a short list of them that have really “stuck” with me. They’ve since become an essential part of my leadership practice, and my life. I’m pleased to share these “greatest hits” with you, and hope that you to will find them as sticky as I have. “ An ounce of demonstration is worth a pound of explanation “ - Emil Liebling.
CTOvision
MARCH 1, 2013
'How does that make you feel? You know yourself what adversaries are doing when it comes to intellectual property theft. Now read on for more about what the DSB sees as the threat to military systems.
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Change Starts Here
MARCH 19, 2013
In this 50th episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, my guest is Karen Steinberg, founder of The Possibility Practice, who shares How to Get Things Done When You Feel Powerless. Listen to this episode to hear situations that cause people to feel powerless at work, and learn what you can do when you feel like you can’t do anything at all. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 14, 2013
According to the 80 20 Rule, 20% of your team is carrying 80% of the load. If that’s the case, 80% could do substantially more. Have you come to except the Pareto Principle as a given? Of course, your performance management structure counts these slackers to make for a nice bell curve. So maybe it’s easier to [.] The post How to Break the 80 20 Rule appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 11, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Marissa Mayer is a case study in what NOT to do as a new CEO. While she’s clearly under intense pressure to pull Yahoo out of what many see as a death spiral, making rookie mistakes is not going to help her cause. Being a new CEO of a struggling enterprise is a challenge for any leader, but it’s also not a role every leader is ready for – shame on Yahoo’s board for botching the selection process – again.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 3, 2013
I’ve written several times about one of my favorite leadership lessons, “A Short Course in Human Relations” (click on image at left for a PDF of the slide). Today my thoughts are focused on one part of that lesson, the “6 most important words”, triggered by the recent firing of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. “I admit, I made a mistake” Mason publicly admitted his failure when he published his resignation note on Twitter ( and also threw in, for good measure
CTOvision
MARCH 7, 2013
'My formative years (career-wise) were spent doing something in the US Navy called OPINTEL for ?Operational Intelligence.? It is a type of intelligence that had its roots in the anti-submarine warfare missions of World War II's.
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Change Starts Here
MARCH 12, 2013
You may not know it, but right now, you are wearing an invisible name tag that describes who you are in this moment. Since you are reading this post, perhaps your name tag says, “Learning,” “Need New Ideas,” “Procrastinator” or “Pretending to Be Busy.” What do you think it says about you that you’re reading this?
Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2013
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 8, 2013
You’ve got good people on the team, but they lack confidence. Which leadership traits should you rely on? “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves” - Eleanor Roosevelt You’ve worked hard to build a strong repetoire of leadership skills. How do you [.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 21, 2013
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Have you ever wondered why organizations tolerate dysfunctional leaders? The answer is dysfunction is so prevalent it’s often not even recognized as problematic. Many corporations just desire leaders to go along and get along more than they desire them to lead. It saddens me to articulate this next thought – corporate leadership is rapidly becoming an oxymoron.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 24, 2013
You can feel it. And it’s not a very comfortable feeling. There’s this presence hovering over you, watching your every move. There’s tension in the air, and it permeates your thinking. Every action, every word on a page, and every utterance is tainted by that tension. They get over analyzed, over scrutinized, over thought and over processed by that tension.
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2013
'FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. ? Two years after its inception, the Department of Defense Enterprise Email system reached one million users when a Soldier at Fort Riley, Kan. received a new email account today. Reaching.
Women on Business
MARCH 21, 2013
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Erik Bernhardsson
MARCH 21, 2013
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 15, 2013
I am delighted and humbled by the response to the Frontline Festival. I asked my friends and colleagues to share their best advice for frontline leaders. Wow! Read these posts and you will emerge stronger. Perhaps read one a day, you’ve got enough for a month. I am pleased to share their gifts with you. [.] The post Frontline Festival: A Leadership Carnival for Frontline Leaders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 14, 2013
Clarity Matters. While clarity and brevity may have become a lost art, understanding the importance of clear, lucid, and straight-forward communication is nonetheless critical to your success as a leader. In today’s column I’ll reveal (clearly and briefly) the tricks of those who practice what I call “the black art of confusion” propagated by the ruse of ambiguity.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 31, 2013
In 1977 I wanted to dance like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. That scene where he did a solo performance to the Bee Gees’ “ You Should Be Dancing ” was mesmerizing. I HAD to get a three piece suit of my own and give it a try. Travolta was leading the way towards making disco a huge music phenomenon, and I was an eager follower.
Change Starts Here
MARCH 18, 2013
Last week, Google announced that as of July 1, 2013, it was sunsetting its Reader application, which millions of people use to subscribe to and read blogs. Forty percent of my blog subscribers use Google Reader, so there’s a good chance you are one of them. As a Google Reader user, I was surprised at first that they would get rid of such a useful product.
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
Women on Business
MARCH 8, 2013
Below is an infographic from Accenture for International Women’s Day that highlights what makes women in the workplace happy. The number one way to improve work-life balance and increase a woman’s happiness in her job is to offer her flexibility. If you think about it, allowing employees to have flexible schedules doesn’t have to be a huge issue for companies.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 7, 2013
A lot of my clients work in Washington, DC. They’re either executives in Federal agencies or executives in companies that do a lot of business with Federal agencies. Right now, they’re all talking about sequestration – that wonderful process in which Congress mandates across the board budget cuts without any guidance about how to implement those cuts.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 5, 2013
“If you want them to understand and catch your passion, you’ve got to give them more than the facts. Tell them the story behind your own excitement, and they’ll begin to latch onto your vision” -Jeremy Kingsley, Inspired People Produce Results I’m assuming if you’re reading this post you’re passionate about leadership or the vision [.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 7, 2013
News Flash – innovation, growth and development cannot occur by pretending we live in a world that has long since passed us by. Leading in the 21st Century affords no safe haven for 20th Century thinkers. Old, static, institutionalized thinking will gate the pace of forward progress faster than just about anything. If you want to expose yourself as an out of touch, dated leader, keep trying to address today’s issues and opportunities with yesterday’s thinking.
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 17, 2013
Leaders, if they are to live up to their role as those who “show the way”, need to do a lot of talking. However, there’s a trap door lurking on that speaking platform, and if we fall in it, we can take the teams we lead down with us. The trap is simply this: We do more talking than focused listening. I know, it sounds pretty simple.
Nathan Magnuson
MARCH 11, 2013
Have you ever considered hiring a leadership coach? Do you know someone who has a coach? Contrary to popular opinion, coaches are not just a luxury service for the rich and famous (as one of my past clients once believed). Writers hire writing coaches, speakers hire speaking coaches, actors hire acting coaches, and quarterbacks hire [.].
Women on Business
MARCH 7, 2013
Just how big is the business gender gap? It’s not breaking news that women are offered fewer opportunities to advance into leadership roles in the business world. It’s also a well-known fact that women are often paid less than men for the same jobs. But what does the business gender gap look like in numbers? This slideshow offers a variety of statistics related to the monetary and career-advancement challenges that women in business face because of the longstanding gender gap.
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