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To Lead is to Transform
CEO Coaching – Managing For Results
As a CEO, an executive and a leader, you must realize that the three most precious assets you have are your time, your energy, and your focus. You must direct these to what matters most for the success of your business. It’s time for “back to basics” management. To lead you must be transformational. Participation is not leadership. Make output and results the focal point....
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Adaptive Leadership And The Precious Currency Of Management
Executives in their own words… Anurag Asthana Laurent Poujol Rahul Biswari © Aviv Shahar
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The Test For Leaders In Tough Times
What is the leadership test in tough times? To stay clear, cool and centered, and to focus on what matters most. To recognize and assimilate the situation you are in, without being overwhelmed. To free your people to engage in the most essential tasks and to help them create your organization’s future. To uphold your core values and principles, while being ready to adapt in...
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Why I Disagree With Jack & Suzie Welch
In their BusinessWeek What Change Agents Are Made Of, Jack & Suzie Welch focus on four traits: power, vision, bravery, and support. The Welchway says that “…change is made by people with some sort of authority. It’s driven by managers who have a platform to advocate for a new direction and the ability to hire, promote, and reward those who embrace it. Change agents in...
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The Greatest Tax Increase
The greatest tax increase is neither in McCain’s programs, nor in Obama’s plans. The greatest tax increase is in the breakdown of communication and civil discourse, the breakdown of trust and the ability to work through differences to find optimal solutions. Breakdown of trust and leadership is going to cost individuals, families, organizations and the economy as a whole, and the consequences will be greater...
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Blue Belt Morning Brief
To the Toronto Blue Belt Top Talent participants – Thank you for the opportunity to work together and be on this discovery journey with you. Here are my notes from our last mornings briefing: 1. You are the most important person in this world! The people you serve and work for, the people you support and help, the people to whom you bring a smile...
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Developing Leaders
The greatest leadership act in the world is growing and developing new leaders and then empowering and releasing them to lead. Leadership development and the management training field have seen many formulas: ‘the 5 steps…’; ‘the six ways…’; ‘the seven, the nine and the twelve of something else’. All these frameworks are good, and they all carry wisdom and powerful teaching, but there are two...
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To Lead
To lead is to go where you have never gone before, to open a way forward into unknown, uncharted possibilities. Then it is to encourage, coach and help others release their greater capacity to achieve the seemingly impossible, to realize a potential beyond their self-concept. The first breakthrough is inside, in your capacity to reframe reality and lead your own life. Coaching others into their...
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Your Engagement Benchmark
Time Magazine article, The Rage to Engage, says that “Engagement is an amorphous concept, but as anyone who ever worked on a team can tell you, it’s critical—the unengaged undermine—even if it’s tough to pin down.” At the end of a recent “Blue Belt Top Talent” program we gathered with the management team for lunch. People exchanged impressions about their experience and learning and there...
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Delegating Is Not Dumping – A Consultant Journal
Each seminar, each group, each strategy session brings forward lessons, insights and new articulation and power. This is the hallmark of transformational work. You are made anew in the process. You clarify your goals, connect with a sense of purpose and step into a more authentic place. If we are not blessed by this kind of energy it means we are failing to step into...
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