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» Against All Odds | "…on the shoulder of giants."
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Inspired by our #leadwithgiants tweetchat with @MaaHoda. A wise quote for a wise post by a Civil War survivor and leader that leads by example. This section reminds me of the most painful time of my life, when I had to leave those I loved and trusted the most. Seek advice and surround yourself with people you love and trust.1 This is more useful than going to hide in faraway places, alone with your thoughts, fears and problems. 
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Toxic Leaders Interview conducted by George Reed, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, AlGonzalezinfo
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight,
April 18, 2014 6:16 AM
This a wonderful interview, once you get to it. The introduction is long but you can skip ahead around 2:30 to get to the interview. I truly admire Dr. Lipman-Blumen and totally agree with her views on what the media causes and her perspective on why toxic leaders get ahead. One of my favorite parts is when she asks the audience how many of them have experienced a toxic leader and the majority of the audiences raises the hands. Long but worth the time!
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Powerful piece via @GianaConsulting and @SusanMazza. As someone who has bullied and has been bullied, here is my favorite section of the letter: "But when I look past your exterior, I see a small child filled with pain and fear. It must be so frustrating to realize that no matter how much power you appear to have, you still live in fear and your masquerade is not repairing what is broken inside of you. I bet you would give anything to experience real peace and real joy. I wonder if you know that your gifts and your potential are buried in the muck of your behavior…. Although I don’t trust you, I pray for you. I hope that one day:
~ I wish you joy and peace. "
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Great scoop here via Kenneth Mikkelsen. It is amazing how our behavior can affect other peoples' mindset which, in turn will affect their behavior. Good lesson for any supervisor who wants to be considered a leader. Here is my favorite section:
A leader’s failure to recognize and shift mindsets can stall the change efforts of an entire organization. Indeed, because of the underlying power of a leader’s mindsets to guide an entire organization toward positive change, any effort to become better leaders should start with ourselves, by recognizing the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that drive us.
Ali Anani's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 12:10 AM
Great insights on how a leader behavior may affect followers' mindset and hence their behavior
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Dear Bosses/Supervisors, two questions? #1. Do you lead a diverse staff? #2. Do you lead an inclusive culture?
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Great scoop here via @davidhain. David, I totally agree with you and I would add that being vulnerable requires a lot of confidence! Here is my favorite part of the post: Your willingness to risk as a leader is contingent on your capacity to be vulnerable. Travis Waits shares about the armor that leaders put on which prevents their authenticity and effectiveness. Leaders make the most impact when they use their influence. This in turn showcases the leaders character and ethics, who they are, from the inside out.
Sandeep Gautam's curator insight,
April 2, 2014 9:47 AM
be authentic! never comprise relationships at the cost of rising up the ladder:-)
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Organizational change is inseparable from individual change. Simply put, change efforts often falter because individuals overlook the need to make fundamental changes in themselves. Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Great scoop here by Kenneth Mikklesen @LeadershipABC. This article provides a very helpful guide of questions and an easy to remember "inner executive" team that can help anyone who is willing to look in the mirror, become a better leader. Here is a great list of questions from the article: Coming to terms with your full richness is challenging. But the kinds of issues involved—which are highly personal and well beyond the scope of this short management article—include:
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Joyce Layman's curator insight,
April 4, 2014 12:25 PM
An American Management Association study of Fortune 500 companies found that “…less than 50% of changes in their organizations were successful, and that employee resistance was the main reason for failures.” This is why it's necessary to focus on the person. 
Susan Burnell's curator insight,
April 4, 2014 12:43 PM
Change starts with awareness. This article has excellent insights, along with an easy-to-understand chart from Erica Ariel Fox on leaders' power sources and "sweet spots."
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Story telling is a marketing strategy that has been around for decades in television commercials and advertisements on billboards, etc., but telling a story through content is new to many marketers. Via Stefano Principato
AlGonzalezinfo's insight:
Excellent scoop by Stefano Principato via @steprincipato. The whole article is great, here is my favorite section: You want to reach your audience with your story effectively in a language that is understandable to them. To know how to reach your audience is to know your audience and to know who they are. You want to know who you’re trying to reach with your messages. What’s important to them? What makes them tick?
Stefano Principato's curator insight,
March 27, 2014 8:43 AM
Your content story should be authoritative, as well as robust and entertaining. Every good story should have a hero, a moral, transformation and a goal. To make your story the most compelling, your customer should be the hero of the story.
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Totally agree with this scoop General @JohnEMichel! I love the phrase that says, when opportunity knocks, its too late to prepare. At times we focus on what we can't change from the status quo instead of focusing on what we can learn from it. Great post on how anticipation can help us lead through this difficult process! ~Make the future more visible ~Identify trends ~Look outside your field for solutions! Great Scoop!
John Michel's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 7:21 AM
No matter who you are or what you do, you can anticipate. Therefore, don’t wait for your future to unfold randomly, only to end up in a place you don’t want to be. Instead, identify the certainties that await you, pinpoint the looming disruptions, and go outside your industry to devise tomorrow’s solutions today. Look at what you can do rather than what you can’t, and you’ll emerge as a timeless leader who always succeeds.
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Great scoop here by Bobby Dillard via @onevoicesmiling. This is ESPECIALLY hard to do with employees that don't fall into the "high potential" or "rock star" category. Many managers engage and inspire those they consider their most talented while they create fear and insecurity in others with different talents. The best leaders engage, inspire and embolden every staff member, not only the rock stars. Easy to say, hard to do.
John Michel's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 2:13 AM
When employees feel that their contribution is truly valued, they are challenged to experiment, and they can constructively express their opinions (however different), it triggers greater ownership of their own success as well as their commitment to the larger organizational mission. 
Ledcome's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 6:15 AM
This graphic is captures a key characteristic of leadership...
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Excellent post here by @DanVForbes. 3 Steps anyone can use right now to improve the quality of their leadership. My favorite is step #3: Step 3. Ask a couple of colleagues to reflect on you signature presence and complete steps 1 and 2 about your leadership style: - When (your name) is at his/her best, he/she is a leader who is _______________. - If (your name) were an even more effective leader, he/she would be ______________.
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Good but sad study here. Both the bullied and the bullies are hurting. From the article: As for what parents can do, Bogart said they can look for signs their child is being bullied. That includes signs of physical bullying, like cuts and bruises -- and subtler signals, such as acting withdrawn or not wanting to go to school. But it's also important that kids learn not to be silent bystanders to bullying, Bogart said. Both schools and parents, she noted, can teach children to speak up when they see a classmate being picked on.
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Kenneth Mikkelsen's curator insight,
April 25, 2014 4:28 AM
Best-selling author of "Turn the Ship Around! How to Create Leaders at Every Level" David Marquet talks about How Great Leaders Serve Others at TEDxScottAFB.
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight,
April 25, 2014 4:58 AM
I was doing a session and a participant recommended this to me. I need to get it.
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Thought-provoking article here by #Leadwithgiants TV host, @tshnall. I completely agree with him on the following: Old style leadership suggests that a leader would have all the answers and guide the organization/community through his personal power to success. Old Style leadership assumed that solutions came from the top of the organization.
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Sustainable leadership requires tools and resources. Here are a few of mine.
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So many times we allow our assumptions to deceive us. Leadership and self mastery requires us to question the lies our assumptions may be telling us in order to avoid unnessesary conflict.
U-M Human Resource Development's curator insight,
April 11, 2014 4:01 PM
Question your assumptions, always!
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According to HBR.Org, quoting research from Zenger and Folkman, on average, managers first get their leadership training at age 42. 10 years after they begin supervising people! Can you imagine waiting 10 years to send sales personnel to training on how to improve their ability to close a deal? Or would you wait 10 years to send customer service representatives to training on how to deal with frustrated customers?
10 years we wait!
And when we send them to leadership training, chances are we don’t want to hear or care about what they learned!
This is just crazy. Author Gillian Davis and I offer the chance to win a free copy of First Time Leader via Twitter. Find out how at on the podcast at http://bit.ly/1jU0hyT
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AlGonzalezinfo's insight:
Love this scoop via @RobinBrothers1. We need more listeners! Here is my favorite step: Thanks Robin!
Jerry Busone's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 9:19 PM
Great caption in cartoon "Nobody hates a listener"
Stefano Principato's curator insight,
April 25, 2014 6:13 AM
Tonya Smith Saylor's curator insight,
May 7, 2016 10:20 PM
Are you a good listener? Do you ever find yourself daydreaming in class and then suddenly you have no idea what the teacher just said? In today’s high-tech, high-speed, high-stress world, communication is more important then ever, yet we seem to devote less and less time to really listening to one another. This resource provides 10 tips to help you become a more effective listener.
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AlGonzalezinfo's insight:
It matters not... I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. #leadership #forgiveness #humility
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Paraphrasing a quote from Mandy Hale: Growth and change are painful but not as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. - C. Via Virtual Global Coaching, David Hain
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Ditto!
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K.I.R.M. God is Business " From Day One"'s curator insight,
October 15, 2018 6:35 AM
Forgiveness moves forward.
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AlGonzalezinfo's insight:
Great scoop by Amy Melendez via @amygmelendez. Here is a wonderful quote: "Why do we fear the unknown? Success is achieved when we move into action, and yet, we all encounter those moments when moving forward fills us with fear."
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Great scoop by Anne Leong via via @anne_leong. As a work with a number of clients and continue my own journey through this process, I find the questions listed extremely helpful! Again and again, we have to decide:
Joyce Layman's curator insight,
March 27, 2014 10:03 AM
Be the leader who's willing to step outside your comfort zone and lead your team to step outside of their's. 
Brian Kirby's curator insight,
April 1, 2014 11:07 AM
Wow, those questions were not exactly "fun" to answer (especially rapidly and honestly). However, I have always been told that "If your dreams don't scare you, then they aren't big enough". This is something that I have lived my life by for quite some time now, and it definitely appears to be more than true... "If you are always comfortable, then you are never growing." It's worth some discomfort/fear in order to grow and reach goals! Thoughts? How tempting is it to stay under the umbrella of comfort? Is it worth it?
Brian Kirby's curator insight,
April 1, 2014 11:08 AM
Wow, those questions were not exactly "fun" to answer (especially rapidly and honestly). However, I have always been told that "If your dreams don't scare you, then they aren't big enough". This is something that I have lived my life by for quite some time now, and it definitely appears to be more than true... "If you are always comfortable, then you are never growing." It's worth some discomfort/fear in order to grow and reach goals! Thoughts? How tempting is it to stay under the umbrella of comfort? Is it worth it?
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Wonderful post here about leading through innovation by paying attention. My favorite section is: Abandon worry that you may not have a complete solution. Ideas are made to be expanded upon and built out! Realize that every change may not work on the first pass. Some changes need to be explored and adapted to fit evolving circumstances. All ideas contribute, but not every idea will bear fruit right away. Some changes have to take root, be fine tuned, or combined with other simple ideas to become significant. Once you’ve found the sweet-spot, you’ll be able to lift your problem over the shoals and into the territory of progress.
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Continue to grow with the people skills lessons learned from the blogs of people skills community members. Feast on the experience shared in this post.
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Honored to be included with these amazing experts on this compilation from #Peopleskills thought leader, @Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ I love all the articles, especially this one: What happens when you work in a place that is toxic or dysfunctional? How can you sustain yourself day by day? This is how I learned to sustain myself. ~Chantal Bechervaise How I Found the Strength to Sustain Myself From: @CBechervaise - See more at: http://katenasser.com/people-skills-lessons-learned-community-fesitval-experience/#sthash.kHl7GXuZ.dpuf
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A tribute to @GianaConsulting for capturing so much sentiment in this wonderful letter to a bully.