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How Organizations Die From Within

Leadership Freak

An organization’s deadliest enemies are internal. How we treat each other while we face external challenges determines our ability to win. Internal environments are more important than external issues.

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Should We Worry About the World Becoming More Addictive? Q&A with Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This Q&A recently appeared on the 15five.com blog and it pulled out some thoughts I’ve been chewing on regarding technology, addiction, and our relationship with the products we use. I’ve edited it slightly and hope you find it interesting. Question: Pokémon GO is all the rage right now. Can you talk about that […].

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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

Kevin Eikenberry

By Charles Leerhsen This is the latest, and I believe most accurate and complete (more on that in a minute) biography of one of the greatest baseball players ever to live. To give you some context, here is a paragraph from the Amazon.com description of the book: Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the […]. The post Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Technology Trends: Nir Eyal Discusses the Future of Habit Forming Products

15Five

How can you build a great habit-forming product that customers will return to repeatedly? What does the future of product design look like? How will humans continue to co-evolve with technology? This is the second installment of my interview with Nir Eyal , author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products. Nir writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

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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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5 Questions to Ask During Tough Conversations

Leadership Freak

The tipping point between prolonged disappointment and renewed vitality is a difficult conversation. Many leadership frustrations are the result of conversations that didn’t happen. The choice to avoid difficult conversations often masquerades as kindness.

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The Power of Disadvantage

Leadership Freak

Olympic athletes Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand and Abbey D’Agostino of the USA tumbled over each other in the women’s 5,000 meter race. It was tragic. But what happened next was magnificent.

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The Leader’s Role in Motivation with Susan Fowler

Kevin Eikenberry

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Susan Fowler, who is the author of various by-lined articles, peer-reviewed research, and six books, including the bestselling Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. In her new best-seller, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does, she applies psychological discoveries that lay out a successful, research-based […].

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She Didn’t Believe – But Others Did

Leadership Freak

The incompetent may not recognize their ineptitude. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I’ve known individuals who had no idea how unskilled they were. Competence: The research of Dr. David Dunning and Dr.

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Solution Saturday: Aspirations Exceed Qualifications

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I have a team member who aspires to a lofty leadership position. However, the position requires skills and attributes the individual has failed to demonstrate.

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How to Expand Power

Leadership Freak

When leaders control followers, followers lose power. Control is a zero sum game until leaders use their power to expand the power of others.

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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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What Shouldn’t Change When Leading a Remote Team

Kevin Eikenberry

Here at the Kevin Eikenberry Group we spend a lot of time helping leaders of all kinds in all sorts of work situations. One of the most prevalent of those situations is someone leading a remote, or partially remote, team – a team where at least some of the members work at a location remote […]. The post What Shouldn’t Change When Leading a Remote Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Remarkable TV: On the Art of Asking

Kevin Eikenberry

A conversation obviously requires two participants, but there are a few tips that you can employ to improve your chances of having a better, more effective and more interesting conversation. Check them out in today’s video! Tweet it out: If you want to master the art of conversation, start with the art of questions. @KevinEikenberry […].

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