Posts Tagged ‘leadership’

Lifehack Live for March 31, 2008: Michael Lee Stallard

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This week’s guest is Michael Lee Stallard, co-author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity (Lifehack Review). You can download Stallard’s free e-book “The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage” at ChangeThis.

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March 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: connection, leadership, manaement, Podcast | no comments»

Welcome Failure

Very often the best way to test an idea is not to analyze it but to try it. The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star. As Tom Kelley of IDEO puts it… » Continue

March 27 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, failure, imagination, leadership, Management, problem-solving, success, thinking | 10 comments»

How to Lead People for Results

In a recent conversation I was told, “Leadership is about managing time and getting things done.” I couldn’t disagree more.

In my role at the Free Articulator, I manage and lead writers and editors every day. It has been said in the past that trying to manage artists (and all of our writers are) is a very difficult task. I can’t honestly disagree with that. The following is a recount… » Continue

February 27 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: leadership, people, relationship, team | 15 comments»

How to Create Connection in the Workplace: A Review of “Fired up or Burned Out” by Michael Lee Stallard

How do business leaders create a sense of connection and shared passion in their organizations? How can you make your employees (and by extension you r company) more productive and more innovative — instead of struggling to maintain the status quo?

These are the questions that Michael Lee Stallard sets out to answer in his book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and

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February 15 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, connection, corporation, leadership, Management, relationships | 12 comments»

How to Make Yourself INSANELY Useful

All of us want to be useful to others in some way. We want to feel needed, competent — like we’re making a difference, in some small way.

Some people, though, are insanely useful. They are the go-to people whenever someone needs help. They’re the people that make us feel useful because we know them — when someone needs something done, we can say “Oh, I know… » Continue

January 30 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: helping, leadership, usefulness | 24 comments»

Build Your Platform: How to Show You’re the Right Person for Any Job

We all deal with the problem of needing to build support for our ideas. Maybe you’re trying to sell your boss on a new program, maybe you’re trying to get a loan or grant to start a small business or to undertake a research project, or maybe you’re just trying to get a job. What do you have to do to convince your audience, whoever they are, that… » Continue

January 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: competence, confidence, credibility, leadership, platform | 7 comments»

What Kind Of Leader Are You To Your Team?

It should be obvious that someone in a leadership position holds a lot of responsibility. If you find, as the leader of any team, productivity lacking, try reflecting on what kind you are.

Each of the leadership styles have impact on reforming and/or creating company culture. There are short and long-term affects of each style. For instance, the authoritative style may produce great results in a short amount of time… » Continue

October 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: leadership | 3 comments»

Leadership and the Human Stain

Wired Magazine recently posted an interesting profile of Getting Things Done author David Allen. A similar profile ran in Business 2.0 over the summer. The pieces detail a history of drug abuse and addiction, mental breakdown, drifting, and divorce, before Allen eventually encountered the spiritual leader John-Roger, the Mystical Traveler, and began assembling the philosophy that would come to stand as the core of GTD.

While there’s little… » Continue

October 3 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: clinton, davidallen, empower, failure, gandhi, gtd, human, leadership | 14 comments»

Leadership is Influence, Not Control

What is a leader? Is it someone who tries to control everything they can, or someone who influences those around them?

How do you become a leader with influence and not one by force? Michael Hyatt attempts to show us how with a few pointers for the leaders and would-be leaders out there.

Cast the vision. Oftentimes people don’t do what we want, because we have not invested the time to… » Continue

September 24 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: leadership | 2 comments»

Lead, Follow, and Get Out of the Way

Leadership seems to be on everyone’s minds one these days. Educators talk about “teaching leadership”, religious and charitable organizations host “leadership development” programs , businesses invest heavily in “leadership training”. But what is leadership, exactly? And how do we practice it?

Leadership is about bringing out and mobilizing the best in the people around you. It’s about helping a group of people work
together towards a shared goal or set… » Continue

July 10 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Communication, confidence, decision, leadership, project | 20 comments»

Elements of Great Managing

Kent Blumberg writes on leadership strategy from a tactical perspective–which is very much in accordance with the GTD approach so popular around these parts. He recently finished an in-depth review/summary of Gallup Press’s new book Twelve: The Elements of Great Managing. He posted a lengthy write-up of each chapter, which I have rounded up below, for your perusal… » Continue

March 28 2007 | By Nick | Tagged: gtd, leadership, Management | 11 comments»

Training the Trainer: 5 Basics

At Say Leadership Coaching (SLC) we concentrate our efforts on just that which our name implies; coaching the leadership in companies to reach their greater potential. Executives are but one group we work with; there are leaders at every level of a company’s official org chart, and we find that titles can be irrelevant when it comes to discovering leadership talent.

Once we discover leadership talent, one of our objectives… » Continue

February 1 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: leadership, Management, meetings, presentation, process, teaching, technique, trainers, training | 2 comments»

101 Common Sense Management Tips

The blog Business Intelligence Lowdown argues that to be an effective manager, you don’t need a shiny MBA degree, but just some common sense. They recap 101 principles and tips, which you might already learn from your lemonade stand business, but forgot about them. Categories include:

Self before service is the key here – Manage yourself first
Time and tide wait for no man – Manage each moment
The human side

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January 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: leadership, Management | 2 comments»

Hack Your Boss

Here are thoughts on what your boss wants, based on experiences I’ve had. These are always subjective lists, and no, I don’t know YOUR boss personally. But I’ll tell you from the perspective of how I’ve best managed my bosses in the past, and how I’ve wanted things done when I’ve been in charge. Your mileage may vary.

Your Boss Wants…

you to “get it” quickly, develop a plan quickly

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January 3 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, leadership, Management, officelife | 11 comments»

A Book Review:Winning With People

A John Maxwell book published by Thomas Nelson, 2004, 272 pages, Nonfiction, Business, Leadership and Personal Development.

Yes, I know I just reviewed a John Maxwell book. No, I’m not working for his publicist.

Remember when you were a kid and every time a new Piers Anthony book came out, you just had to read it? Even if the story line and characters weren’t all that great.

Well, Maxwell’s books are becoming… » Continue

December 22 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, leadership, managememt, review | 2 comments»

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