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Courage and Culture

What does it mean to be courageous…? Does it differ across cultures? Becky Robinson, founder and social media expert for authors at Weaving Influence, organized a webinar to explore the different cultural expressions of Courageous Leadership and Followership between the United States and Asia. “We want to create a world that works for all.” Dare you speak truth to power? ...
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Edgar Schein on Culture

Guest post by Tim Kuppler. Culture is a hot topic and remains a tremendous opportunity for most organizations to further support their purpose, solve problems, and improve performance. Surveys highlight the importance of culture but also an inability to translate that awareness into results. • Worldwide, 13% of employees are engaged (Gallup Survey) • 96% of people believe culture change ...
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Inspired Organizational Cultures

Guest post by Gerald Wagner. The Institute for Inspired Organizational Cultures (IOC) aims to develop a global community of leaders who are advocates for organizational cultures of wellbeing and happiness. We created a self-paced program to teach new generations the importance of providing positive leadership and transforming workplaces for a new, inspired era of business growth. As a seasoned academic, professor ...
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Are you an uplifting leader?

Lead With Giants is an online community with the vision of raising up 10,000 UpLifting Leaders. There is enough so-called “leadership” that disempowers, discourages, and disappoints. UpLifting Leadership is inspirational, aspirational, it’s about service and significance: we can make a difference. UpLifting Leaders live the five commitments the LWG website propagates: 1. I will Connect with others on a level ...
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Are we working on changes that matter?

Are we working on changes that matter? Or are we moving boxes around? That’s what consultant Terrence Seamon asks himself when guiding organizational change. Powerful, legitimate questions that shouldn’t scare you and that you should ask yourself. When we zoom out to see the larger whole that we are part of, we might think that we are only moving boxes ...
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Cynicism or Opticism?

“A case for optimism” is an inspiring video by Tiffany Shlain. She pleas for optimism with a healthy dose of skepticism: which is a “questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts,or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere.” Thus, she argues, let’s become an “opticist”. Let’s not be naïve, but let’s focus consciously on the ...
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Do you have the courage to contribute?

Fear and courage. It’s an incredibly important theme in our lives: Joseph Campbell captured the archetypical “journey of the hero” as the central theme in human storytelling around the world. The journey starts with the calling of the challenge (the hero’s purpose) and revolves around fear and courage. Passing through all the stages of learning, leading and change – until ...
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Why do you do your work?

Why are you a leader, a change-maker or a professional in your field? It’s a question that becomes en vogue. Or, should I say, a certain type of answer becomes the standard. The answer that refers to your higher purpose, or Work (as opposed to your job: your work). Why do you do your line of work? What is your ...
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How can you solve team challenges with the Leadership Matrix?

by Mike Figliuolo The phrase “think outside the box” makes me physically ill. It’s trite and it isn’t at all practical. But inside the box? That’s where great leaders go to get more out of their teams – preferably without exhausting themselves and others. Preface: I’m an idiot. My friend and fellow thoughtLEADERS instructor Victor Prince hoodwinked me into co-authoring a new book: “Lead Inside the Box – How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results”. Why am I an idiot? Because writing a book is a great deal of work and I’m already swamped running my business. Taking on a new project was tantamount to insanity. But the concepts he pitched me were so compelling, there’s no way I could have said no. The premise of the book is you need to evaluate […]

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Dare you be Authentic?

Who you are, has become more important since our economies deliver numerous services, and we are knowledge workers in varying projects while our societies ride the waves of global change. It is not just what you do, and how you do it, but WHO you are that makes the difference in all this volatility. Being precedes doing. Meanwhile, many people were shocked by the autocratic leadership that caused economic havoc and we long for leaders that we can trust: authentic leaders. Moreover, we want to be authentic ourselves, whatever our role is. We long for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. We want to develop ourselves both personally and professionally. We long to belong to a team of trusted coworkers, contribute to a great cause and decide how we do our jobs […]

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