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Why Our Tech Obsession Might Be a Work Obsession

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: Below is the transcript of an interview I did with David Burkus, an award-winning podcaster and author of Under New Management: The Unexpected Truths about Leading Great Organizations. This interview was part of a Heleo Conversation on the topic of technology obsession, work-life balance, and challenging assumptions in order to change behavior.

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How to Elevate Your Leadership in Surprising Ways

Leadership Freak

I saw a breathtaking thing of beauty in an executive coaching session. I asked a client, I’ll call him Carl, to take a courageous step and he did.

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Case Study: Growing Your Sales Organization Beyond The Deal

15Five

Sales teams are the lifeblood of every company that has reached a certain stage in their growth trajectory. Whether sales are stagnant or growing, many leaders of sales teams face the same challenges – they need to understand why their methodologies worked or didn’t work, so that insights and learnings can be shared throughout. In either of these scenarios, the sales organization needs a solution to navigate through underperformance or growing pains.

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Lessons from a Betty Crocker Cake Mix

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’ve watched my videos for long, you know that I like to make some “unusual” connections to leadership. And if you haven’t watched before, well, I imagine the title gave it away for you. In this video, I’m sharing a quick history lesson on General Mills, particularly how the invention of their Betty Crocker […].

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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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Over-engaged Leaders Produce Disengaged Teams

Leadership Freak

Over-engaged leaders work way too hard. Over-engaged leaders produce disengaged teams. Work to make space for others, if you’re an over-engaged leader. Over-engaged leaders: Love check lists.

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5 Ways to be a Leader Who Turns Heads

Leadership Freak

It’s an ego boost to sit in the power chair and see heads turn in your direction. You enjoy it. You come to expect it.

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How to K.I.S.S. Lousy Operational Meetings Goodbye

Leadership Freak

Corporate teams love meetings. People who do the work can’t wait for meetings to end. Use a K.I.S.S. agenda to run meetings real people love to attend. #1.

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6 Ways to Harness the Growth of Growth Routines

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK!! New Giveaway!! 20 free books!!! Leave a comment on this post by Dr.

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Leadership Offense: Aligning Your Front-line Leadership Team

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are a sports fan, there is always lots of talk about the importance of offense and defense in the making of winning teams. Yet in organizational success, we much less frequently talk about offense and defense. Until now. Think about it this way. Leading defensively is focusing on the problems that inevitably arise […]. The post Leadership Offense: Aligning Your Front-line Leadership Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Five Tips for Hiring Remote Team Members

Kevin Eikenberry

Hiring is one of the most important roles of a leader. Putting the right people on the team is a foundational component of our success; after all, people who aren’t the perfect fit will lead to teams and individuals who may struggle mightily and never reach their potential. When we put the right people in […]. The post Five Tips for Hiring Remote Team Members appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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To Succeed In Business, Managers Need More Visibility

15Five

After interviewing over 30 founders and executives, I have learned that we all have similar frustrations on the path to sustainable growth. I wrote The High-Growth CEO Handbook , as a way to respond to common leadership challenges like hiring right, poor communication, and scaling culture. One of the other main issues that frequently comes up is lack of visibility.

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Leadership and a Cup of Coffee with Howard Behar

Kevin Eikenberry

Howard Behar led Starbuck’s domestic business as President of North America, and he became the founding President of Starbucks International opening the very first store outside of North America in Japan. He is also the author of It’s Not About the Coffee and The Magic Cup. Today he joins Kevin to chat about servant leadership, […]. The post Leadership and a Cup of Coffee with Howard Behar appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Solution Saturday: I’m a Boomerang

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I am returning to the same leadership position at a company I previously left a few years ago.