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Learning at the Frank Sinatra School of Leadership
When a dog lies down on command-that’s training. When Fido places an online order for a doggy bed, then lies down-that’s development. Training is about learning to do things; development is about thinking things through and deciding to do things differently. Another way to put it is that training is about “doing” while development is about “being”.

Why Corporate Change Programs Fail
Theories X, Y, and Z. MBO. Grid Management. Situational Leadership. T-groups. Excellence. TQM. Team building. Re-engineering. Empowerment. Diversity. The Seven Habits. You have probably heard of at least one of these programs for business and corporate change. Like insatiable lovers, corporations can journey from one program to another, sometimes not even pausing to take an organizational breath. It is more important to help people grow sanely than quickly. The belief that there's no such thing as too much growth has killed hundreds of companies, careers, marriages, and dreams.
Increase Motivation by Using Questions to Lead Your Team
Leaders must treat people according to where they are on their learning journey. The individual in a new situation will require more leadership and guidance than one who is fully experienced. Asking the right questions allows people to be part of their own learning, to solve their own problems, and demonstrate their competence.

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Why Corporate Change Programs Fail
Theories X, Y, and Z. MBO. Grid Management. Situational Leadership. T-groups. Excellence. TQM. Team building. Re-engineering. Empowerment. Diversity. The Seven Habits. You have probably heard of at least one of these programs for business and corporate change. Like insatiable lovers, corporations can journey from one program to another, sometimes not even pausing to take an organizational breath. It is more important to help people grow sanely than quickly. The belief that there's no such thing as too much growth has killed hundreds of companies, careers, marriages, and dreams.
Sun Tzu on Leadership
Did Sun Tzu write draft the beginnings of Situational Leadership over 2500 years ago? Was he pointing towards the “modern” phenomena of transformational leadership? Clearly, he was the first to develop an essential trait framework of leadership over 2400 years before western psychology had this insight. Even more impressive is the prescription of how to use this information in competition lies in the pages of “The Art of War”. What follows is a scholarly investigation with practical tools and implications for the modern leader.
Some Common Misconceptions about Values
Although values are at the core of leadership, many people may not be completely faithful to the notion of leading according to their personal values. Oftentimes situational demands and inter-value conflicts can cause leaders to spend considerable amounts of time of doing non-values related activities, and doing so can result in diminishing levels of effectiveness.

Remove Distractions to Ignite Sales Growth – Part 1
The most common thief of sales growth is distraction. Based on my experience, I estimate that on average, employees lose 40% of their time to distractions. This number ranges between 30% and 60%, depending on the company they work for, and can reach as high as 70%, depending on the individual. Distractions can be classified into two types: 1) leadership and organization; and 2) individual-specific. The leadership and organization distractions can be categorized into poor sales support, customer service mishaps, products that do not meet client needs, bad sales management, and poor communications. “Individual-specific” distractions refer to daily mental or situational conditions faced by the salesperson. Part I deals with leadership and organization because these have a more dramatic impact on growth than most companies realize
Leading Leaders
Dr. Paul Hersey probably best described the phenomenon of leading other leaders in his work on Situational Leadership. Dr. Hersey clearly identified different skill sets related to managing and leading people based on their skill set and based on the particular leadership situation. His groundbreaking work identified some of the possible disconnects when leaders utilize the same skill set to manage leaders as they do when they supervise entry level workers. In his model, when leading leaders, you can no longer be directive, use a cookie cutter approach and overly define the process details and steps.
Integral Leadership - A Useful Model for Leadership Development
Managers and HR professionals concerned with developing leaders are inundated with leadership development theories, models, concepts and courses - Situational Leadership, Servant Leadership, and the Leadership Lessons of everyone from Attila the Hun to Jack Welch, to name but a few.
Situational Leadership Theory in Change Management - Different Strokes For Different Folks
Given the catastrophic 70% failure rate of all change management initiatives, the quality of leadership exercised is clearly a significant component in reducing this risk. In essence, situational leadership theory emphasises 2 areas.
Situational Leadership Theory, What Every Effective Leader Knows...
Leaders are more effective when they apply situational leadership theory and skills. What is this and why should you care? It is very simple AND very powerful AND it will make your leadership style more influential.
Is "leadership" dead?
"Leadership" now seems to be a catch-all term (a bit like "communication"). That being the case, has the time now come when we should be considering whether the term "leadership" has lost its impact and whether we need to radically rethink the whole concept by moving out of all the traditional concepts like "servant leadership", "situational leadership", “contingency leadership”, “leadership habits” etc that are based on attitudes and behaviours?
Situational Analysis for Social Media
This article proposes a model for situational analysis for social media strategic planning
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