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3 Steps to Influential Leadership: Step 1 – Allowance

Alan Mikolaj — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:11:23 +0000

While there are many ideas and theories about what makes up influential leadership, there are three ingredients that are ‘necessary, but not enough.’ They are necessary for influential leadership, but not sufficient. Of course, there are many more ingredients to cook up influential leadership, but whatever recipe you are using to help improve your leadership [...]

On Leadership, NASCAR and Changing Gears

Jason Monaghan — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:27:37 +0000

Race car driving is a potent metaphor for leadership. Watching any NASCAR race shows how many people it takes to keep the car running and get it over the finish line. An efficiently running business is no different… The Leadership Lane True leadership develops when organizations can unite behind a common purpose that serves their [...]

L2L Book Review: “Platform”

Tom Schulte — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:16:57 +0000

Rarely does a book come out that has the potential to impact so many people like the new book called PLATFORM: Get Noticed in a Noisy World from Michael Hyatt. If you already do not know, Michael Hyatt is the poster-child of the online CEO blogger/podcaster/social media expert. Personal Background I was introduced to Michael Hyatt [...]

Leaders: How To Improve Your Customer Service

Wayne Kehl — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:25 +0000

As I travel around North America for various business opportunities, I find myself encountering all sorts of customer service styles… Some good… And some very, very bad! But something big is going on… It seems that no matter how many consultants and business coaches and in-house customer service trainers teach employees how to provide good [...]

Leaders: True Transformation Has to Start at the Top

Cheryl Dilley — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:57:21 +0000

There is an undeniable trend of transformation going on in corporations around the globe. Economic crisis, bad politics, global climate changes, survival and disruptive technology are just a few reasons behind the trend. Reinventing Your Leaders Many companies, large and small have to come up with creative ways to reinvent themselves. This requires change: Tops [...]

On Leadership, Being Right or Just Making it Right

Lucas McAlpin — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:16:00 +0000

It took me a couple of years of being a leader to get to the point of maturity where I could readily admit this humble truth about “being right”: It just doesn’t matter who is right (my company or the customer). On Being Right To get to this point, I had to ask myself: Was [...]

Leaders: Are you Building a “Bridge to Nowhere?”

Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:05 +0000

Many people have heard of the infamous “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska that became a veritable hockey puck in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and occasionally reemerges in the current election cycle. In fact one Republican candidate used the cliché to attack another candidate in the February 22nd debate in Arizona. Most people hear the [...]

Leaders: How to Be a Successful CEO

Kristi Royse — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:33:11 +0000

The Social Network movie gave a behind-the-scenes story on Mark Zuckerberg telling how he dropped out of Harvard while developing Facebook and has become one of the most famous, powerful, and youngest CEOs in the world. How has he done this? Leadership Lessons of Mark Zuckerberg and Steven Jobs Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steven Jobs has generated many “spirited [...]

Leaders: Who’s Managing Your Social Media?

C.K. Brechin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:51:50 +0000

Companies invest millions of dollars a year on their brand, whether they realize it or not. Everything a company does – from how they engage their customers, to how they recruit employees and how they market their products — are all rolled up in a corporate brand and contribute to people’s perceptions of that brand. [...]

Leaders: You Can’t Really Manage Change

Anil Saxena — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:35 +0000

During a recent project that involved whole scale transformation of a client’s system to manage, hire, compensate, reward and recognize, 65% of their employees are who drive their profitability. The concept of managing change really is a fallacy. Traditional Change There are many statistics indicating that traditional change management is only successful in approximately 30% – [...]

On Leadership and Motherhood

Aditi Chopra — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:55:14 +0000

We celebrate Mother’s Day every year to honor all mothers around the world. This day is also a celebration of the bond between a mother and her child. It is symbolic of the unconditional love that mothers have for their children. A Mother of A Leader There is however, another very important role a mother [...]

Coaching for a Leadership Change – Part II

Bryan D Wolff — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:59:21 +0000

Leadership isn’t easy. It never has and never will be. People are inherently difficult to deal with. And sometimes leaders are the worst to deal with, even if they won’t admit it. Preparing for Change In my last blog post I encouraged leaders to show their followers how a change would benefit them or how [...]

Leadership Priorities: How “Why” Eats “How” for Lunch

Josh Allan Dykstra — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:59:41 +0000

Awhile back, my invisible mentor, Seth Godin, wrote a post called Form and Function. In this article, he had a quote which read: The question that gets asked about technology, the one that is almost always precisely the wrong question is, “How does this advance help our business?“ The correct question is, “How does this advance [...]

Hey Leaders: Age Is Just a Number

Jordan Guernsey — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:00:32 +0000

Great leaders come from all stripes of life. People who grew up impoverished and people who’ve lived life in the lap of luxury can both make strong leaders. People as different as Steve Jobs and Mahatma Gandhi have led others successfully, with very potent results. A Case for Diversity The world has seen its share [...]

On Leadership and Change, Chaos and Creation

Arnold Timmerman — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:36:28 +0000

Many things in the life of a leader are uncontrollable and unpredictable. If handled incorrectly, this can lead to calamity. But if managed well, change, chaos, and creation can work together to create wonderful results. A Story of Chaos The British fuel-truck drivers announce their plans to go on strike. One of the ministers can’t [...]