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More/Better Leader Teachers: Organizations' Role leadership: delivering operational outcomes leadership: developing others/building teams

All companies have leaders.

What is less obvious is that all companies also have a "leadership system." 

That system is either repeatably developing and producing quality leaders or it's...

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More & Better Leader Teachers: Leaders' Role leadership: developing others/building teams

This is the fourth article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part 1 outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (develop the next generation of leaders), 2) what they should teach (values,...

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Teaching Forges leadership: developing others/building teams

This is the third article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach...

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Teaching. Sometimes with Words. leadership: developing others/building teams

This is the second article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why its important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach...

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Leader as Teacher: Why Important & What to Teach leadership: developing others/building teams

Consider these two, somewhat challenging statements:

The leadership ranks in any organization are constantly churning with exits, promotions, and new hires joining. Every leader knows that a big...

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Unconscious Paradigms Worth Examining: Conclusion first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

You see a big opportunity, a new level you aspire to play at.

They say what got you here won't get you there. 

Leaders I know who have made the leap describe it as requiring a new way of...

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Unconscious Paradigms #4: Meaning first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

This is the fourth article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve success in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here, won't...

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Unconscious Paradigms Worth Examining #3: The Web of Causation first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

This is the third article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here,...

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Three Paradigms to Examine (Part 2): Your Winning Strategy first 100 days / career leadership: developing others/building teams

This is the second in a series of articles about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If "what got you here, won't get...

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Three Paradigms Worth Holding Up to the Light first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

A popular coaching trope is "What got you here won't get you there." 

If true, it begs two questions.  Here is the first: what must I change? 

The famed coach Marshall Goldsmith...

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What Footprints Are you Following? first 100 days / career

Generic onboarding templates, assessments, and best practices are very helpful.  They are certainly better than not having any kind of structure, and they can give you a real leg up.

But...

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Friends Don't Let Friends...Start Jobs Unprepared first 100 days / career

In a recent post, I shared source data on the high failure rate for executives starting new jobs.

Organizations bear some of the responsibility for their struggling new hires.  Egon Zehnder...

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