Category: Leadership Skills
Transition Management Requires Depth
There was moment in the waning moments of Saturday evening's NCAA Basketball semi-final between UConn and Kentucky when the Kentucky team ran out of gas. It was just a…
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The New Leader’s Playbook for Mergers and Acquisitions
While any leadership transition is challenging for some, the disruption surrounding an acquisition or merger (which is generally an acquisition by a different name) creates a challenges for everybody on…
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The Economic Impact of Integrity Hits
One of the definitions of integrity is "unity" - congruence between actions, words, and beliefs. Most would tell you that integrity is a good thing. Unfortunately, many of their actions…
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Creative Briefs Enable Creation
It's counter-intuitive, and neither a core onboarding skill, leadership skill, nor something you'd normally cover during executive training, but creative briefs are an extraordinarily effective way to free creative people…
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How CEO Sam Martin is Driving the Imperative to Overhaul A&P
In particular, Sam reviewed what had made A&P a great company across vast distances: Innovative spirit Development of the core people including management Focus on the customer He then mapped…
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Overcoming Passive-Aggressive Behavior in the Wisconsin Senate
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. It is not…
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How the Red Cross’s Charley Shimanski Inspires Others with Communication at the Heart of the Mission
Charley physically and emotionally puts his arms around people and draws them close to him, making them feel better about themselves. He does this face-to-face, one-on-one, and with his equally…
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Altering Balance of Consequences: An Essential Part of Transition Management
Image via Wikipedia Changing behaviors is tough. Three helpful leadership skills include: Assessing the current context and culture Mapping the supporters, detractors, and watchers Moving everyone one step, starting by…
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Generating Ideas with the Atom Accelerator in Your Head
My brain is getting bombarded with ideas from all sorts of different directions. I thrive on this and am constantly looking for ways to feed more stuff into the mix. …
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