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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Monday, December 26, 2016
Quote of the Day
Focusing on the positive and expressing gratitude is an integral part of being happy.
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
Why CEOs Must Be Silo-Breakers (and 6 Ways to Do It)
Do the following things ever happen in your company? The marketing team creates beautiful collateral that doesn't reflect how the sales team closes. The sales team aggressively pushes Product A when other groups in the company have made a strategic shift toward Product B.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Don't Quit Your Job If Your Boss Displays These 5 Awesome Habits
A 2014 leadership study I read about recently gave me pause. The results concerned me since I write so frequently about how leadership is the reason companies succeed or fail.
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7 Significant Steps to Projecting Confidence
Some people exude the kind of assurance that gives them an air of power, trustworthiness and grace. This personality instantly generates respect and often admiration from others.
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5 Ways to Build a Culture of Caring
What is a culture of caring? What does it look like? Why does having a culture of caring matter?
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
10 Simple Things That Teams Expect From Their Leader
I remember the first time I became a leader, I called a meeting with my team and said here are my expectations of you. When I finished, I asked if there were any questions, and one of the team raised his had and said: "Do you know what are our expectations of you?".
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7 Destructive Habits You Need to Eliminate From Your Daily Routine
The internet is chock full of daily habits that will help your routine, but what about bad habits? Because habits are so ingrained into our daily routines, we often don't notice how harmful ones sneak in and ruin our success.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Successful Entrepreneurs Take Decisive Action Despite Uncertainty
Life is uncertain and yet in business you must take decisive action in order to be successful. We've all had extremely difficult choices we've had to make and feel the pressure to make a decision without all the facts.
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16 Books That Top CEOs Think You Should Read
In previous posts, I've provided reading lists from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett. However, there are plenty of CEOs in the world with their own ideas of what people should be reading.
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5 Basic Leadership Lessons
Positive leadership and creating a positive squad culture are on-going commitments that must be nurtured and developed over time.
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Lee Cockerell – Lessons in Leadership
Exercise is an important aspect of being a powerful leader. Lee Cockerell explains why you need to take care of yourself so you can take care of others.
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Quote of the Day
Believe in what you do and think hard about what kind of changes you want your work to make.
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Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog
It is difficult because it is fundamentally a process of reconciliation; a process of bringing a community of people together towards a common purpose. It is service. Stewardship requires that the organizational leaders put leadership in the hands of every member of the organization.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
What's Keeping CEOs Up at Night, According to 1 Massive Study
Do you hold aspirations to someday lead a team, department, or organization? Perhaps you're there now, but challenged by how to navigate the countless decisions that come flying in your direction.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Why It's Time To Redefine 'Manager'
When you heard the word 'manager,' what typically comes to mind? If you're like most people words like: command and control, delegate, outdated, or hierarchy come to mind.
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Why Our Leaders Disappoint Us
Let's begin with the bald truth: we draw our leaders from a pool of imperfect beings. Millions of years of evolution have yet to yield The Perfect Leader.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
13 Secrets to Being Super Successful
Super Successful people understand that there are traits, behaviors and actions they must take in order to succeed. Their thinking is, "I will do what it takes, to get to where I want to go" They know success doesn't come to them. They have to go out and get it for themselves.
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Every Single Person You Hire Should Have These 3 Characteristics
Experts and surveys agree, these days companies care more and more about personality when hiring. While a stellar resume and relevant experience might have won you the gig in the past, candidates increasingly have to demonstrate the right attitude as well as the right skills.
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6 Ways to Prioritize What Really Matters
When I co-founded Trip.com, my son was three months old and my daughter had just turned three. It was just what it sounded like: the perfect time to start a company.
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7 Strategies to Push Your Employees Without Breaking Them
The art of pushing your employees is tricky. Push them to achieve bigger results and boost their productive capacity; push them too far and they disengage and quit. Our first trial was to spend a weekend setting up a large summer camp.
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8 Productive Things to Do Over Your Holiday Break
Perhaps you view your holiday break as the perfect time to disconnect from work, relax, and recharge. You take it at face value and treat it like exactly what it is -- a real break.
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Friday, December 16, 2016
A Navy SEAL's 10 Principles for Navigating Organizational Change
There are plenty of resources on change management and oodles of "expert" consultants companies can higher.
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Turn the Year-End Performance Review Into a Year-Start Employee Boost
Possibly the only thing more awkward than the lethargic, day-after-office-party march through the sea of shifty eyes and grins to your desk is the year-end annual review that you give your employees.
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We Ban Employees From Email During Vacations. Here's Why
We all know how important it is to get downtime over the holidays -- and how hard it is to find. Studies show that taking time off from work recharges our batteries, clears our minds and enables us to come back with extra focus.
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
The 10 Smartest Reads for Entrepreneurs From 2016
Not every business book that thumps onto your desk is a worthwhile read. But just a cursory glance at the year's endless stream of flaps, blurbs, and press releases suggests a few trends in 2016. Among them: fewer leadership titles. More niche or skeptical perspectives on data and technology.
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The 4 Most Important Leadership Qualities to Have in Business
questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: What quality does every great leader have in common?
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The 3 Secrets Of Managing A Great Board
It's no secret that a well-chosen board can bring a multitude of benefits to your business. It can add clout, open doors. It can have the power to lend relationships, resources and connections. I'm personally so incredibly thankful for the impact our board has had on Simple Mills.
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Harvard Business Review
Leadership is changing — fast. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
How Small Businesses Can Apply the Five-Second Rule
We're all familiar with the five-second rule. In fact, the history of the five-second rule could be traced back to Genghis Khan, who believed that food could be left on the ground for five hours and it would still be safe to eat.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
8 Things Exceptional Bosses Constantly Tell Their Employees
Whether you're managing an intern or running an entire business, your employees' success (and your own skin) depends on your leadership. Thankfully, the solution for motivating your team and squashing any issues is right at the tip of your tongue.
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15 Crucial Tips All Leaders Need to Know Now
Times are changing. Whether it's the colder weather, holiday cheer, post-election ruckus, or the fast-approaching new year, things are not what they once were. The truth is that we live in an evolving world that is not the stationary noun we pretend it to be.
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25 LESSONS from JACK WELCH - Business Leadership and New Management Model, Great Business Leaders, Great CEOs, Transformational Leadership, Business Transformation
Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Inspiration and Innovation unlimited! Today, GE with its unique learning culture and boundaryless organization is one the most admired company in the world.
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
3 Simple Skills Every Spectacular Leader Masters
Leading today is complicated. Our teams are global and virtual. Our hierarchies are flatter. Our environments are more collaborative. On top of that, there are so many different models of leadership out there.
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7 Ways to Ask All the Right Questions
Too many people in business just expect their leaders to give orders. Maybe it's for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers.
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The Dos and Don’ts of Asking for a Raise
The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership.
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Bad News for Starbucks: Why Howard Schultz's Stepping Down Is a Complete Disaster
If you're a fan of Starbucks, last week's news was huge: CEO Howard Schultz announced that he's stepping down in April 2017. There's a lot of speculation as to why that's the case. Some say Schultz is gearing up for a career in politics.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
4 Steps to Understanding and Changing Your Company Narrative
By Tanner Corbridge (@TannerCorbridge), partner for Partners In Leadership who works with business leaders to create greater workplace accountability and facilitates enterprise-wide culture change.
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