Leadership – Page 12 – The CEO Magazine

Neuroscience and Collaboration: Understanding the Brain for Better People Management

Karen Gordon, CEO, 5 Dynamics What does neuroscience have to do with cooperation and collaboration? In a word, everything. The brain is made up of neural pathways that are composed of bundles of neurons, many of which were forged early in life. Scientists used to believe that these pathways were frozen by age 25, but they […]

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3 Keys for Converting Sales Managers into Team Leaders

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Kevin F. Davis, Founder & President, TopLine Leadership, Inc. I’ve seen it time and again, and I’m sure you have too: a high-performing rep is promoted into sales management but never becomes as successful as a manager as they were as a rep. Why does this happen? The core issue is an irony that has gone undetected

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Leadership Traps That Will Derail Your Change Efforts

Leadership, Management, Strategy

This article is the second in the “All Change is Personal” series looking at three traps that leaders need to manage in order to steward their organization through change efforts. To read the first article in the series and learn what Trap #1 is, click here. Trap #2: Not Getting Employee Feedback on the Plan

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Leadership Lessons From Oz

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BJ Gallagher, Author, The Leadership Lessons from Oz “The beauty of metaphor is that it conveys not just information – but meaning.” ~ Warren Bennis, leadership expert Every once in a great while, a metaphorical story comes along that captures the human experience in such a perfect way that it becomes a timeless classic. The Wonderful

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6 Communication Blunders Leaders Make — And How to Avoid Them

Leadership, Self Governance

The essence of leadership is communication: to cast a vision, to inspire, to collaborate on strategy, and to engage followers in accomplishing a mission. But let’s face it: Many leaders fall flat on their face when it comes to communication. The only thing that keeps the organization afloat and followers on target are those second-in-command

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Leadership Development: Investment or Expense?

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Willy Steiner, President, Executive Coaching Concepts There is a decades-long debate taking place in businesses across the country about the return on investment gained from leadership development efforts. It is a question at the heart of my book, Discover The Joy of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Resolving Your Management Challenges, published on February 6, 2017.

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Five Bold Choices

Leadership, Self Governance

Jay Coughlan, CEO & MD, TruBalanced Everybody in leadership has some adversity from time to time. The great leaders, the ones we remember and revere, are the ones who find a way to win and move forward with the least collateral damage. Leaders like that are unique, and they do unique things in their organizations,

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Leadership and the 5 Steps To Reducing Stress

Leadership, Self Governance

Genella Macintyre, President of Partners, Discovery Ltd. As a leader, you set the tone for the team, department and organization. Under stress you may appear and act differently than you intend. This impacts you and your team significantly. The “5 Steps to Reducing Stress” can help. I received a call from a very stressed-out young lady. She

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Pants On Fire: What Leggings-Gate Can Teach You

Leadership

WOW – it started innocently enough. But then again, many battles may start innocently. It’s what happens after the first act when things go awry. Let’s just say that when you find yourself in a Twitter war, you lose. And let’s add a period to that sentence. At the least this was a stumble for

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Adopting A “Growth Mindset” In The Workplace

Leadership, Management

Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, University of Phoenix School of Business Growth mindset, a term coined by Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck, is the idea of inspiring individual and organizational confidence to achieve goals. It is about believing that talents and abilities can be improved through effort and new strategies: a fixed mindset believes talents

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