Leadership Insights
06-August-2019
Leadership Insights - a weekly selection of relevant ideas from the blogs of thinkers, writers and practitioners to help you Unleash Your Leadership
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BY Ken Byler (@kenbyler)
Untethered is a transitive verb that means “to free from.” Today’s workers, including most leaders, are anything but what this verb is describing. Since the advent of the Blackberry in 2003, followed by the iPhone only four years later, the workplace has used technology to chain us to our jobs. Even with so-called flex-time polices, the expectation remains that boundaries no longer exist between work and personal time.
BY Todd Ordal (@toddordal)
People in leadership roles who rely on reason alone are fighting with one hand tied behind their back. Leadership is about driving change and fostering alignment. Any great cause has been driven by passion more than alignment. Politicians know this — sometimes to our detriment. Business leaders should also know it. Whether focused externally on customers or internally on the team, marry passion and reason if you want to move the organization.
BY Terry "Starbucker" St. Marie (@starbucker)
We can have all the best products, services, processes, procedures, financial stewardship, talent, and personalities in the world working in our favor, but without the leadership to guide it all, it just can’t jell. It won’t sing. It won’t succeed.
BY Kevin Eikenberry (@kevineikenberry)
Overcoming objections isn’t just for salespeople. If you want to influence others, you must be able to overcome objections. There are four objections leaders hear regularly. Once you have a basic strategy, you will become more agile and successful influencing others past those objections.
BY Scott Eblin (@ScottEblin)
It should be obvious that you don’t expect people to take action on the things you say and the stuff you share unless you explicitly ask for action. Yeah, it may be obvious to you, but it’s likely not obvious to them. Experience shows again and again that even senior executives are so motivated to please their boss that they will often spring into action at the slightest prompt. As a result, there’s a lot of needless churn in a lot of organizations.
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Narayan Kamath
