Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'Executives are naturally a tough audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest. Most of us have stories of times when the message we tried to send was not the message received, and the tidy PowerPoint presentation spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Presenting to Executives. 1.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'On a good day I would tell you that I have my own startup and a successful blog and I work from home. On a bad day I would tell you that I homeschool and every minute I’m not refereeing brotherly fights, I am cleaning up from one meal or cooking the next. On a bad day you’d ask me when I work and I’d snap back at you, because on bad days I’m snappy, and I’d say that I work in between everything else.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'Leading companies are discovering that their digital capabilities depend not just on what they can do themselves, but on what they can gain from partnering with others. Here are the five key rules for successful partnerships in today''s digital world.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it. If you missed Monday’s post , best to start there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and just lead. We’ve all given him plenty of advice. He’s taken a gazillion courses.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The band had travelled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once in a lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It was raining, sleeting and blowing on their parade. David Starnes, the band’s director, stood on the makeshift podium– a pile of chairs– on the far edge of the ballroom,”I know this is not ideal, but sometimes

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'It had been an insane but productive year of game-changing projects and really long hours. I was proud, but exhausted. We had our final push just as the holidays were approaching, and I was more stressed then ever. My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. I was beyond annoyed. Laura knew what we had done.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about Dreams and Callings. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Finding Our Dreams and Callings. “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. “Oh, boy do I need to take that class.” Or, “Why didn’t they have that when I was in school?” There was a long waiting list for the course. Apparently the working world is full of serious loony tunes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 24, 2014

'When I think of role models of confident humility, it’s hard to imagine a better example than Jesus. Born in a manger, washing feet, hanging out with the poor; yet let’s face it, he had some pretty big asks. From time to time in 2015, I’ll be showcasing examples of leaders across a variety of contexts lead from a place of humble confidence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Amy was dreading her performance review. She’d just be in the job a year, and her interactions with her imperfect boss were becoming more tense and intense with each passing month. The truth was, she questioned his approach to running the department, and he wasn’t listening to her ideas. She didn’t love his suggestions, and often reacted defensively to his feedback, making matters worse.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 29, 2014

'At Verizon, January always brought a flurry of kickoff activities where the sentiment was 90% forward focus. Auditoriums around the country would resound with a consistent message, “Last year is over… no time to spend there, we’ve got game-changing work to do.” I’m all for a 2015 fast start. In fact, I’m looking forward to the strategy work I’ll be doing with teams across a variety of industries this January.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'Great leaders have a unique combination of confidence and humility coupled with the power to create real vision and connection. These forces work together to inspire a magnetic magic that leads to breakthrough results. I’m on a mission to inspire and develop these characteristics in leaders around the world. This philosophy is at the core of my message in my speaking, writing and consulting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2014

'A guest post by Frank Sonnenberg. When you hear the word holiday , what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, shopping, parties, sales, and catalogs rank near the top of your list. The truth is, many holidays are becoming so commercialized that our proud traditions are in danger of becoming trivialized. Many of us can’t even remember the true meaning of the holidays.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 31, 2014

'Thanks so much for all of your support of the LGL community this year. Your faithful comments and collaboration caused our community to be rated on the Top 10 Leadership Development sites (based on engagement). I’m humbled and grateful for your support. To wrap up 2014, I share the most popular posts of 2014 in case you missed them. I’m looking forward to an amazing new year for our community.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 31, 2014

'Here they are: The five posts from 2014 that had the most readers. What does it really mean to work full time? Leaving your options sets you back. Men with families feel more trapped than ever. Here’s how to fix that. 3 Cheers for women who say they don’t want to work. At least they’re honest. 5 Traits of high earners that will make you not want to be one.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 7, 2014

'Witold Rybczynski, author of How Architecture Works, introduces a lesson in how the design of our buildings can bolster employee productivity, from The Best Place to Work, by Ron Friedman.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'Potentially harmful rumors can start because employees feel inadequately informed, and they can spread when companies fail to keep their promises to their workers.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Strategy

Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'Five habits of mind distinguish those who create great fortunes--for themselves, or potentially for your company. Lynda and Stewart Resnick, T. Boone Pickens, Steve Case, Michael Bloomberg, Kirk Kerkorian, and other self-made billionaires are producers--creators of new enterprise--rather than mere business performers.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 11, 2014

'To stay ahead of political and social upheaval, multinational firms should consider elevating external affairs to the same level as other top management spheres.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Michael Schrage proposes a fast, cheap, experiment-driven approach to boosting the bottom line in The Innovator''s Hypothesis.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'Vacations taken by CEOs provide an unlikely, but highly reliable, way to approximate a firm''s corporate activity and anticipate its stock returns.

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Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'When your strategy is shackled to the annual planning process, you lose a uniquely powerful management tool.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Despite lawyers'' conventional wisdom, becoming a household name can actually be a brilliant marketing strategy.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'It is a hot buzzword, but often clouded in mystery. Here''s what executives need to know.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'Among all the articles we''ve published over the last year, here are the ones that garnered the most attention.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'A new book explains why good jobs on the front lines can lead to competitive success.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'As 2014 comes to an end, here are some of the best blog posts that we published this year.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'Brian Wansink explains how to help employees make healthy choices in Slim by Design.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'For businesses that keep their promises, there are often invaluable hidden benefits.

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