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3 Pillars of the Most Successful Tech Products

Nir Eyal

If you’ve started a tech company to make a lot of money, chances are you’re bad at math—or simply delusional. Statistically speaking, your odds of a big-time payday are somewhere between zero and almost zero. Ninety-two percent of startups fail within three years. Only one percent of apps in the Apple App Store are financially successful. […].

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7 Do’s and Don’ts for Getting the Most From the Smartest People in the Building

Leadership Freak

Isolated leaders are the dumbest people in the building. A nameplate on the door and a title after your name doesn’t make you smarter than people with dirt under their fingernails.

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Why the Best Leaders Can Be Boring

Kevin Eikenberry

If I asked you to make a list of adjectives to describe great leaders, you would come up with a list with little trouble. But I highly doubt you would put “boring” on that list. In fact, you might have words on your list that are antonyms (or nearly so) to the word boring. Not […]. The post Why the Best Leaders Can Be Boring appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Tippy-Toe Leaders and Other Dysfunctional Problem-Solvers

Leadership Freak

We might be able to fake leadership in breezy weather, but dark seas are bright lights. The way you deal with problems is more important than the problems themselves. 3 dysfunctional problem-solvers: #1. Tippy-toe leaders.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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One Essential Key To Becoming a Better Leader

Leadership Freak

You don’t become a better leader by thinking about becoming a better leader. You become a better leader by test driving untested behaviors. Lead a meeting in a new way.

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10 Simple Strategies to Improve Performance Conversations and Change Trajectory

Leadership Freak

Many teams are afraid to discuss the source of success – performance. 10 reasons performance conversations suck: The dynamic is from superior to inferior, rather than partnership.

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Solution Saturday: How to Change Perceptions

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I work for a great company, don’t all questions start this way? Lately, we’ve been having a lot of conversations about perception. It’s such a difficult thing to predict or change.

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Four Ways to Accept Imperfection and Pursue Excellence At the Same Time

Leadership Freak

Leaders who can’t accept themselves are sure to look down on others. Perfectionism is self-rejection. Disapproval is the hammer of perfectionistic leaders.

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Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Kevin Eikenberry

By Robert Cialdini Social Psychologist, Robert Cialdini, wrote a book called Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion that is a classic and has sold over 3 million copies. If you haven’t read it, put it on your list. He has revised that book several times and written other books since. While I enjoyed them, none lived […]. The post Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Remarkable TV: How You Can Be Influential in Five Minutes

Kevin Eikenberry

Influence is absolutely essential in leadership. In fact, some might argue that there can be no leadership without influence. Because after all leading is guiding others in a direction, course, action, option… In other words…INFLUENCE. So in my video today, I’m giving you 6 quick tips that you can do in just five minutes to […].

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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Keys to Leading Remotely with Wayne Turmel

Kevin Eikenberry

In today’s insightful episode, I explore the growing organizational trend of working and leading remotely with author and co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute, Wayne Turmel. Regarded by Marshall Goldsmith as “one of the unique voices to listen to in the virtual workplace, Wayne has over 20 years experience in training organizations on technology, communication […].

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