Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 18, 2015
'“Oh she didn’t copy me on purpose.” “He’s withholding information to make my life harder.” “Making us guess what he’s thinking is just a big power play.” “Why would she put something that important in email?” “What’s that supposed to mean anyway?” “Why did she copy my boss?
Penelope Trunk
MARCH 26, 2015
'Many of the coaching sessions I do center around a single question: is it time to switch careers? What I’ve found is that in most cases, the answer is no, it is not time to switch careers. Here’s why: We are absolutely terrible at predicting what we will like to do in our careers, and we overestimate how much we’ll like a new career.
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Strategy+Business
MARCH 29, 2015
'Company leaders know they must drive change to stay competitive, but many lack the confidence to know which moves will pay off. To develop the wherewithal to take a successful innovation leap, trust your customer insight, combine it with a deep understanding of what new technologies can deliver, and give people the freedom to fail.
Eat Your Career
MARCH 23, 2015
'I talk a lot about how to advocate for yourself , be loud and proud of all you do , and t ake credit for your work even when others are trying to steal the spotlight. But today, I want to turn that around and talk about the other side of the coin: sharing credit with others. It’s an overlooked, but equally important part of your career success. A true professional knows that, whenever you experience a great achievement at work, you should be vocal about it!
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TED
MARCH 19, 2015
Neri Oxman speaks at TED2015 – Truth and Dare, Session 10. Photo: Bret Hartman/TED. In a session that honors the “deeply practical and the entirely improbable,” pyromantics and biosynthetic designers meet artists and flag-worshippers. Helen Walters, host of Session 10: Creative Ignition, calls this session a “celebration of the catalytic thinking that reshapes the world around us.” Here’s a recap: How to reboot society.
Wrike
MARCH 17, 2015
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Penelope Trunk
MARCH 16, 2015
'Most of the time on this blog I focus on bursting bubbles. I deliver bad news about finding a spouse , choosing a career and earning money. But the thing that really keeps me going as a career adviser is the good news. My career has saved me so many times that I think of career advice as a sort of trousseau that you draw on to make life more livable.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 31, 2015
'Many companies get caught in a cycle of chasing opportunities for growth, surging for a time, and then losing their momentum -- and their profitability. That''s bad growth. The alternative is good growth, based on a fundamental understanding of how your company creates value for customers. You can build a growth engine -- the kind that yields sustainable growth for years to come, with a line of products and services that all fit together and build on each others'' success.
Eat Your Career
MARCH 8, 2015
'Well, friends, let me start this blog post by saying one thing: I’m still alive! I know, I know. It’s been…like…forever. Or more accurately, it’s been almost a year. A YEAR! I can hardly believe it. And yet, I can believe it because so much has happened. Here’s a quick overview of what’s been going on (and then I promise I’ll get into the details): I endured a painful (though ultimately incredibly necessary ) break up.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 20, 2015
'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our March Festival is all about inspiring breakthrough results. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about “Spring Cleaning” for your leadership or team (e.g. renew, refresh, planting seeds).
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 11, 2015
'I would describe our meeting as a roll of the dice. Perhaps someday we will upgrade our relationship to “weak ties,” but yesterday we were just 2/850 at the Great Ideas Conference chatting through our freebie Hyatt sunglasses over lunchtime brisket and gluten-free potato salad. “Joe,” the CEO (named substituted for anonymity and rhyme), seemed genuinely intrigued by our LGL mission.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 4, 2015
'“Oh the minute they made the announcement, I knew she’d be down on the field,” my husband told my parents over wine and brie. My parents both just smiled. As wacky as it sounded, they weren’t shocked either. In hindsight it was an audacious move, but I’d always wanted to sing the National Anthem over the microphone in a big stadium.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 16, 2015
'Great entrepreneural companies have a passionate spirit that feels like a gust of warm wind sweeping you off your feet as you walk through their door. It may be a bit hectic, but you want to tighten your shoelaces and run along. I’ve been working with some of these guys on strategy and growth, and it’s an exhilarating journey. There are challenges of course, but I’m not finding them in the employee engagement arena.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 6, 2015
'Times of downsizing and restucture require every ounce of confident humility you can muster. Your team is starving for information, reassurance, guidance and support. And quite frankly, I’m amazed at how many leaders totally screw this up. In part I blame lawyers that scare the humanity and common sense out of otherwise sensible human beings.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 9, 2015
'Sarah’s face winced as the hourly stack rankings beeped through her smart phone. She didn’t have to say a word, I knew that look from the inside out. I’ve been on the frantic receiving end of such beeps. Hourly results coming in 15 times a day–quality, efficiency, sales–all neatly stack ranked as a constant reminder I wasn’t doing enough.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 23, 2015
'Building a strong LinkedIn network takes time. Scrambling to build a profile and connections when your current position has suddenly become “qualified manager seeking opportunities” is not attractive. I hear this again and again from my speaking audiences– stories of folks who waited too late and then had to scramble. And if you think LinkedIn really doesn’t matter, know that Pew Research found that 98% of Recruiters and 85% of hiring managers use LinkedIn.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 13, 2015
'Ever since Gallup revealed their findings that 70% of workers are either disengaged or actively disengaged in their work, “employee engagement” has been all the buzz. Quite frankly, none of this is new, and anyone reading this blog knows that and is working hard to change the game. Tonight, I started to write a different post (which I’ll save for Monday), but got sidetracked when for grins, I looked up Employee Engagement in the Urban Dictionary, searching for a pithy opener.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 2, 2015
'My heart sunk as I heard all Kathy had done attempting to fix the scene. Actually, despite the reason for her call, the “scene” was progressing remarkably. They’d come so far in such a short time: a clear vision for 2015; a strong action plan on the biggest rock; a shared leadership model for execution; and Kathy had stepped up to lead her peers in coordinating the action plan.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 30, 2015
'I was recently interviewed by Fast Company on the effectiveness of “curve ball questions” in the interview process. When I received the call, I was intrigued. Surely there would be a pro and con, and I was happy to be the con artist. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in hiring managers conducting deep interviews to get beyond the BS.
Penelope Trunk
MARCH 7, 2015
'Educated parents have their kids in an average of five hours of activities per week. That’s a lot of driving around to swimming lessons and dance classes, so I understand why people think it’s important to stick with this stuff. I’m like that, too. I drive 20 hours a week to my kids’ music lessons. But I still say that if you want to raise a really successful child, you should let them quit things.
Penelope Trunk
MARCH 29, 2015
'This story begins at 3am in the Orrington Hotel when I am answering emails. I woke up in the middle of the night to my son vomiting on the bed, which we are sharing, and now smells faintly of chewed up room service fruit plate. Maybe I should have said no to room service. It’s extravagant. But he loves the fruit plate and it’s hard to pin down the meaning of extravagant when we routinely stay at hotels for cello lessons for a nine year old.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 22, 2015
'Within each CEO''s term, there is likely to be one and only one major reorganization. The chief executive has to get the reorg right the first time; he or she won''t get a second chance. Here are 10 guiding principles that apply to every company''s organization design--approaches recognized to have dramatically improved performance in more than 400 companies.
Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager
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Strategy+Business
MARCH 15, 2015
'For all companies in all industries, we''ve found that being agile depends on developing two key attributes: strategic responsiveness and organizational flexibility. These two qualities are mutually reinforcing but are developed in different ways, and it is easy for a company to possess one without the other. But until you explicitly develop proficiency in both, you won''t have the agility you need.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 11, 2015
'In a recent video interview, Christine Bader explains why paying attention to your company''s ethical, environmental, and societal consequences pays off.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 31, 2015
'Economic historian Barry Eichengreen finds telling parallels between the botched responses to the stock market crash of 1929 and the financial crisis of 2008.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 1, 2015
'New research by Kristin J. Behfar, an associate professor at the University of Virginia''s Darden School of Business, finds that the typical approach to understanding conflict--studying what we fight about--won''t predict outcomes. Instead, she explains in an interview with s+b, it''s how we fight that determines what happens next.
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Strategy+Business
MARCH 18, 2015
'A decades-old study of culture in leadership provides some insight on what underlies your beliefs about leaders and what they do.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 8, 2015
'A raise for the lowest-paid workers won''t end economic inequality--but it might force other companies to rethink their compensation at the bottom.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 24, 2015
'To reach your true leadership potential, writes INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra, push yourself outside your comfort zone.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 16, 2015
'A Wall Street Journal video interview with the CEO of a Fortune 500 company reveals insights for the next generation of female leaders.
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