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Lesson #5: Communicate Success
“My management style is based on the art of communication,” said Johnson. “For communication is an art, not a science. It is an emotion, not a statistic.”

The Change Management Process: Accomplishing Change and Making it Stick
There are times when an organization must go through serious transformation. By this we mean the type of game-changing metamorphosis that requires corporate leaders to devise a new vision which must then be adopted by staff members and ultimately put into action. Transformational change is only possible with a legitimate sense of urgency and effective change management that is orchestrated with a change management strategy. This article, based on the Method Frameworks Plan4SM process and adapted from John Kotter’s 8-step change model and book on change management best practices, “Leading Change” (Harvard Business School Press, 1996), examines methods for managing corporate change and accomplishing successful outcomes.
Should Leaders Have Friends at Work?
Relationships are essential, the core of the commercial world yet it's not uncommon for executives to avoid 'friendships' with co-workers. They often fear that having personal relationships in the workplace might compromise their ability to make tough decisions. So should Leaders have friends at work?"

(Guest Post) Optimizing Value in the Economic Downturn [and Recovery]
This article is the second in a three-part series of guest articles on optimization by Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, with Emptoris, the supply and contract management solutions provider. As we push on through the troubled economic environment, corporate leaders are laser focused on bringing supply chain management under tighter financial guidelines. An article I recently read in Supply Chain Digest highlighted the typical urgency felt by procurement managers to cut supply chain costs.
Leadership Predicament: Promotion by Anointment
Corporate leaders need to make the critical investment in management training programs to develop their current and future leaders. Those that do not will suffer the consequences.

According to Market Watch
"Knowledge Transfer is Critical to Companies' Competitive Edge as Large Numbers of Baby Boomers Begin to Retire, Says New Report from The Conference Board." The report has been reprinted here for your information.
How to Pick The Right Coach
I’m often asked “How does one go about choosing a coach?” It’s not simple question but an important one to answer. It’s goes well beyond choosing a coach; it’s important to figure out how to get the most out of the coaching relationship once you’ve made that choice. The synergy of the relationship is what makes the difference to any well-motivated client. If you want to maximize the value of the coaching relationship, here are some ways to do it that work very well.

The Leader as Coach: Creating High Performance in Change
Leaders have never been more critical to an organization’s performance than they are today. Continuous turbulent change makes leadership a more demanding role than ever before. We look to our leaders for not only laying out the path into the future but also to engage, inspire and motivate others to join eagerly in the journey. What’s more, we want our leaders to be trustworthy, modeling the kind of character we expect in someone we willingly follow. This is the route to high performance and many of the old rules no longer apply. This article looks at a new leadership style – the Leader Coach© – that is particularly suited to what’s required in leaders now. To lead as a coach today means new skills and approaches – read on to get started!
Can Becoming a “Thoughtleader” Give You an Edge? Attempts to Quantify Its ROI Say YES
Have you ever thought about or noticed a competitor utilizing “thoughtleading” as a business development strategy? Positioning yourself and your firm as leading-edge thinkers in your field involves publishing articles and books, speaking regularly to professional groups, getting yourself noticed by the media and surveying your target market in order to produce research data that only you possess.
Seven Ways to Put Juice Back Into Your Job
Are you out of sync with your current job or work environment? Here are some ideas to get re-energized and put the juice back into your career and your life.

Why I always Keep my Promises
It's a small thing, but it is important. In your business, forgetting little things promised causes erosion of trust and belief in you. And ultimately, those little things add up to a lot for your people. And that affects you and ultimately, your business success.
Managing corporate Change Resistance
In 1492 when Columbus set out across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in a new world, his voyage changed the perspective and literally broadened the horizon of mankind. Almost overnight, trade routes had to be redrawn, power began shifting from the Mediterranean to the countries on the Atlantic seaboard closest to the Americas, and great riches began flowing onto the continent from places with unusual sounding names that nobody had ever heard of them before Columbus.

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How to Identify The Real Leaders Out There Among Us
How can you know a real leader when you see one? What do real leaders do that define them as leaders? Many people may consider themselves leaders, but in reality do not demonstrate principles of leadership and are not leaders at all. In today’s world there are many imposters posing as leaders. In order to assist you in identifying leaders in your company or organization, I have selected seven (7) actions that I believe real leaders take that define them as “real leaders.” Those seven (7) actions are:
The Inside Scoop: How Ben & Jerry’s Achieved Success
They turned their $5 for an ice cream making course into a successful multimillion dollar business, and they had a lot of fun in the process. But, Ben & Jerry’s isn’t just about the delicious ice cream. From taking a stand against nuclear weapons to discussing America politics and corporate social responsibility, founders Cohen and Greenfield are taking the vision for their business to the wider world. How did two anti-corporate hippies become millionaires and respected business leaders in the 21st century?
Building Learning Organizations How Educational Leaders Roles Must Change
How the role of education leaders needs to change in the face of a changing corporate world.
Promotion Panic
It happens every day in the corporate world, good individual performers are promoted before they are ready to take on a leadership role. And, if these new team leaders, supervisors, and managers receive any leadership development at all, it is a short training class covering operational procedures and the major employment laws. In a poll, one in five business leaders ranked promotion as the most challenging life event they have had to face – more challenging than the death of a loved one, divorce, or moving. This article offers some advice for newly promoted leaders.

Is Your Boss Making You Sick?...Study Shows How Leadership Affects Employee Health
How can corporate departments and business owners address the impending health issues during a time when most businesses are considering cutting back on various corporate training or corporate health programs? You may be surprised that the answer lies outside the realm of most corporate training or stress management programs. If you manage a small or large team in the corporate arena you can significantly improve your team's health and wellbeing without getting them to change anything. New research suggests that you can boost the health of your team by simply being a good leader.

Leadership with a Small "L"
There have been only a few great leaders in our lifetime. Leaders like Reagan, Churchill, Disney, and Welch to mention a few. They could never have risen to the hieghts they did without the many small "L" leaders that backed them up. It is from the pool of small "L" leaders that the great leaders emerge. Learn how to grow leaders from seed.

In Corporate Strategic Planning, Leave Your Perfectionism at the Door
The pace of change and uncertainty in today’s economic and business environments require that business leaders define and evolve their plans while the organization is in full motion. Leaders must be able to react to risks and opportunities as they appear, while making choices that support a consistent corporate strategy. And while it’s tempting for organizations to strive for perfection in every strategic plan, this approach can result in serious missed opportunities and lost market share. Embrace the imperfection that is inherent in any corporate strategic plan. After all, without clairvoyant powers nobody has perfect information upon which to plan and act -- and that’s okay.

Leadership Predicament: Promotion by Anointment
Corporate leaders need to make the critical investment in management training programs to develop their current and future leaders. Those that do not will suffer the consequences.

Mr. Spencer
Corporate performance can be enhanced by improving the coaching ability of the leaders, managers, and supervisors of the firm. This article presents five behaviors of effective coaches in a corporate context.
Being in The Zone, being in The Flow is Being Charismatic
This week I delivered a half-day session on Charismatic Leadership to The Ella Foundation, established by Brian Chernett, created to inspire more leaders in the not for profit sector to be more effective and successful. Nearly 30 leaders from different registered charities participated in a way that was subtly different to leaders within the corporate sector. These men and women showed a real passionate intensity for their cause that was truly inspiring. Their minds were open and receptive to my techniques meaning that the exercises we did regarding energy were really advanced because their attitude to learning was untainted by cynicism.

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