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Travis – thank you for leading us at Uber

Andrew Chen

2015. This pic is from two years ago, taken at Uber’s HQ on 11th and Market. After weeks of discussion with the product team, we’d hit the final stretch, and TK and I holed up for a few hours in a conference room to finalize my role at Uber. There were a couple things that got me over the line: TK’s insanely big vision for Uber, the already huge impact the team was making, and the entrepreneurial culture he’d created.

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Why You Should Invest In Servant Leadership – An Interview With Marcel Schwantes

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Who are the thought leaders you turn to for business and management advice? Got room for one more? Over the past several months, my eyes have been caught by informative articles on leadership and productivity from the same author. I found an Inc. column so valuable that I asked if I could interview the author for our blog. Fortunately, he agreed to answer several questions about leadership, employee engagement, and organizational health.

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A Simple Strategy for Making a Bigger Difference Today

Leadership Freak

Other people helped you get where you are. Do that for someone else. Don’t wait for people to come to you. Opportunities slip away while you wait.

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Top 30+ reasons why organizations cannot change

Torben Rick Change Management

Identifying and overcoming roadblocks to organizational change. Organizations must change or else they’ll perish. Yet, the biggest stumbling block is implementing it. The post Top 30+ reasons why organizations cannot change appeared first on Torben Rick.

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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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Questions I’m Asked About 360 Assessments

Kevin Eikenberry

As a designer of a Leadership 360 Assessment, consultant to organizations using them, and a coach to many leaders who have taken a 360 assessment, I have a wide variety of experiences and perspectives about these tools. Because of this experience, I’m often asked questions about these tools and the processes. Here, I am sharing […]. The post Questions I’m Asked About 360 Assessments appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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2 Ways Corporate Culture Can Be Harmful…Brought to You by United Airlines

LSA Global

We know how much corporate culture matters to the success of an organization. Our organizational alignment research at more than 400 companies across eight industries found cultural factors account for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, customer retention, leadership effectiveness and employee engagement.

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Inside the 6 Hypotheses that Doubled Patreon’s Activation Success

Brian Balfour

Preface by Brian Balfour: I rarely accept guest posts on this blog, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. A couple months ago Tal Raviv (Growth PM @ Patreon) sent me a short email - "Brian, the results are in. We doubled (yeah, doubled) new creators in our onboarding." My immediate response, holy f*ing YES!!!! My second response, let's write about this.

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Leadership and Entrepreneurship with Rhett Power

Kevin Eikenberry

The Entrepreneur’s Book of Actions breaks down actions leaders/entrepreneurs can take to make small daily changes for a big impact. Rhett Power, award-winning entrepreneur (Wild Creations), consultant, speaker and author joins Kevin to talk about his book and his leadership journey. He shares insights on working without capital and how to persevere through the not […].

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7 Award-Winning Employee Engagement Strategies

LSA Global

Each year, we honor clients nationwide for success in collecting, analyzing, and acting on employee feedback with the Employee Voice Award (EVA). The EVA honors our most successful clients for employee engagement excellence in two categories: 1. Raising Engagement for those organizations with the highest increase in employee engagement from the previous year and. 2.

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Seven Steps to See and Solve Blindspots

Leadership Freak

Blindspots let you blame others for your shortcomings and feel superior while doing it.

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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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Three Stumbles From Defeat

Leadership Freak

Every leader is three stumbles from defeat. But stumble-points reveal footholds for success. The path down is easier than the path up. 3 stumbles from defeat: #1. A closed door.

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Will Uber Survive its Toxic Culture

Leadership Freak

The problem at Uber is bigger than CEO Travis Kalanick. Yes, he’s ultimately responsible. However, there’s a team of leaders in place who need to step up and take aggressive public action.

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How to Find and Invite Others to Ride the Bull with You

Leadership Freak

Leading is like riding a bull in the rodeo. I recently asked a leader, “What shifts for you if you think of inviting someone to ride the bull with you?

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How to Stumble Forward with Boldness and Find Success

Leadership Freak

An infant watches others walk and learns that walking is possible. But success calls you to turn possibility into reality by stumbling forward.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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The Potential, Problems and Pitfalls of 360 Assessments

Kevin Eikenberry

A couple of months ago I created a special webinar for a special audience. The webinar talked about the power of 360 assessments. This part isn’t anything new; any provider of 360 assessments (including us) will extol the virtues of this tool, and they are many. In fact, I would say a leader who is […]. The post The Potential, Problems and Pitfalls of 360 Assessments appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Drama and Who Broke the Media Projector

Leadership Freak

No one knows when or how, but one of our media projectors is broken. I was fascinated how Doers, Dreamers, and Feelers responded. Mr.

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The Allen Wrench Saga

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s leadership lesson comes from a recent delivery of eight chairs to my house – that’s right, there are even leadership lessons in furniture and allen wrenches. Check it out in the video below. Tweet it out: When doing a task, sometimes the best thing you can do is stop and ask: Is this the […]. The post The Allen Wrench Saga appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Complacency – A Top Leadership Sign of an Underperforming Culture

LSA Global

Complacency is defined as self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. When it comes to safety and high performance, complacency can be dangerous. The military has a mantra that “Complacency Kills.” They are rightfully trained to never let complacency set in due to the constant and evolving life-and-death threats they face.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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5 Best Practices to Breathe Life into Succession Planning

LSA Global

Succession planning best practices help talent leaders know where high potential talent resides in the organization and how to best engage and retain them for when it matters most. When it comes to succession planning, “hope” is not a talent management strategy. The right talent to move a strategy forward rarely just appears when needed.

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The Missing Attributes to Make Your SMART Goals SMARTER

LSA Global

Leaders can stimulate higher performance if they make SMART Goals SMARTER. SMART goals have been around since managers in the 1980’s discussed the importance of objectives and the difficulty of setting them effectively. The idea makes sense for leaders and managers to help make sure that each individual, team and the company as a whole has clear objectives that are:: Specific – goals clear enough and specific enough to focus your efforts.

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7 Warning Signs Your Managers Need Help with Workplace Politics

LSA Global

Workplace politics is not something that workers can ignore if they want to advance their careers and create a high performance culture. While most employees strongly prefer to avoid workplace politics, most ambitious employees also know that developing political savvy is required to advance their career. Those who “know how to play the game” with integrity typically get more done and are more appreciated for their ability to effectively influence others and astutely manage people is

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