Change doesn’t have to be hard. These five TED talks help inspire new ways to get your team excited about transformation.
Source: 5 TED Talks To Get Your Team Excited About Transformation | Inc.com
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Leaders understand the stakes—at least in principle. In its 2016 global CEO survey, PwC reported that 55% of CEOs think that a lack of trust is a threat to their organization’s growth. But most have done little to increase trust, mainly because they aren’t sure where to start.
Source: The Neuroscience of Trust
Sheryl Sandberg recently visited Airbnb to share lessons learned from her years at Facebook and Google. The question was posed to Sandberg: “What’s the number one thing you look for in someone who can scale with a company?”
Sandberg’s reply:
“Someone who takes feedback well. Because people who can take feedback well are people who can learn and grow quickly.”
How well do you take feedback and do you apply it in a proactive way?
What if corporate restructuring were more than a slash and burn? What if it appealed to hope instead of fear? What if it not only promised, but actually delivered, a stronger company and a better place to work?
Here’s a short but useful list from a recent post in Forbes about the differentiators of great leaders from the rest of us:
Source: 12 Significant Ways That Great Leaders Are Different From the Rest of Us | Inc.com
What would you add to this list? I’d love to hear your comments about the really great leaders you have known and experienced.
Companies hate losing their star workaholics, so Johnson & Johnson is triple-teaming them with a dietitian, a physiologist, and an executive coach; their answer to executive burnout. How does your organization address burnout?
Source: The $100,000 Anti-Burnout Program for CEOs – Bloomberg
How a person defines success is a subjective thing, but likely involves some combination of financial independence, loving relationships, a solid education, and a rewarding career. It’s all about having the discipline to do the same simple things every day.
Source: 11 Ways the Most Successful People Differ From Everyone Else
When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ.
Source: Why You Need Emotional Intelligence | Dr. Travis Bradberry | Pulse | LinkedIn
Having trouble coaching an employee? Read these seven warning signals to see if they are actually coachable.
Michigan Ross Professor Cindy Schipani explains what companies can do to fix gender disparities in the upper ranks.