Andrew Chen

JANUARY 30, 2017

Benedict Evans at a16z recently tweeted the following: There’s so much truth in this tweet. And it resonates so much, I think it deserves a name: The Bad Product Fallacy. Your personal use cases and opinion are a shitty predictor of a product’s future success. I’ve been in the Bay Area for 10 years now , and nothing stings more than whiffing on the prediction of whether a product will be success.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

You aren’t fit to lead if your greatest strength is seeing weakness. Smart talented leaders find it easy to point out inadequacies, describe what’s wrong, and explain disagreements.

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Nir Eyal

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Nir’s Note: Buster Benson is a product manager at Slack who worked previously at Twitter and Habit Labs and is working on a new book about cognitive biases. He’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, he chats with Max Ogles about how cognitive biases affect […]. The post How Cognitive Biases Can Help (and Hurt) Your Business appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 30, 2017

As the co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, having worked with a wide variety of leaders and organizations with remote teams, and as a leader of a remote team myself, I believe thinking about the type of team you lead is important. My goal here is two-fold – to provide some nomenclature, so that those […]. The post Three Kinds of Remote Teams appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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15Five

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

When your company’s mission is to bring out the best in people at work via core values like Grant Trust & Be Transparent and Dare to Dream, you tend to form relationships with people who are also trying to transform the world of business to be more human-centric. That’s why I was led inextricably to Dov Baron , recognized as one of the top 100 leadership speakers to hire, and a brilliant corporate cultural strategist.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

You aren’t fit to lead if your greatest strength is seeing weakness. Smart talented leaders find it easy to point out inadequacies, describe what’s wrong, and explain disagreements.

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Leadership Development 109

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Self-importance blocks leadership. The difference between self-importance and knowing you matter is ego. Humble leaders know that others make their leadership. Humility enables confidence. Self-importance reflects ego.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 30, 2017

The trouble with meetings is the preference for information and disinterest in taking action. How many people enter meetings prepared to take action, change behaviors, or adjust strategies?

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 30, 2017

The trouble with meetings is the preference for information and disinterest in taking action. How many people enter meetings prepared to take action, change behaviors, or adjust strategies?

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2017

There is too much emphasis on giving feedback and too little on seeking it. Create a culture where feedback-seeking is expected, habitual, and honored. 3 principles for feedback-seeking: #1.

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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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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2017

There is too much emphasis on giving feedback and too little on seeking it. Create a culture where feedback-seeking is expected, habitual, and honored. 3 principles for feedback-seeking: #1.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The end is near when protecting the past is more important than creating the future. 5 strategies to convince reluctant leaders to move forward #1. Ask 3 questions: #1. On a scale of 1-10 how prepared are you to move forward today? You might wish they were a 7, but they’re a 3.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The end is near when protecting the past is more important than creating the future. 5 strategies to convince reluctant leaders to move forward #1. Ask 3 questions: #1.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2017

Enter every interaction as a learner, even when you plan to teach. One difference between confidence and arrogance is an open mind. Bring what you know, after exploring what you don’t.

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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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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2017

Enter every interaction as a learner, even when you plan to teach. One difference between confidence and arrogance is an open mind. Bring what you know, after exploring what you don’t.

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Leadership Development 58

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 28, 2017

Hi Dan, I hope you’re doing well. I look forward to reading your posts everyday. I am currently working with a team that is very negative.

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Leadership Development 62

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 28, 2017

Hi Dan, I hope you’re doing well. I look forward to reading your posts everyday. I am currently working with a team that is very negative.

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Leadership Development 62

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 31, 2017

While the question we’re addressing in today’s Remarkable TV episode might seem backwards, I promise you, it is not. In fact, it is in direct response to questions we got from a previous episode, How Do I Ask Someone to Mentor Me? And what you’ll learn will help you answer that exact question. Tweet it […]. The post Helping Your Mentor appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 29, 2017

By David Sax Sometimes you read a book and it clarifies your thinking. Sometimes you read a book and it surprises you in provocative ways. Sometimes you read a book and it changes the way you see the world around you. And once in awhile, one book does all three of those things. That’s what […]. The post The Revenge of Analog appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leadership is leadership, according to Major General David Bassett, Program Executive Officer for Ground Combat Systems. In today’s episode, Major General Bassett shares insight to leading and managing high visibility and high dollar programs. He challenges us to understand our role within the organization and recognize that if we have to use our title/position to […].

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