Category: Leadership

Leadership, Podcast

PBTO13: @LetsGrowLeaders – In conversation with Karin Hurt

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/13_PBTO13__Great_Leaders_Engage_the_Hearts_and_Minds_of_their_Team._In_conversation_with_Karin_Hurt_LetsGrowLeaders.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSWho is on the show today: In today’s episode, we have Karin Hurt. Her award-winning blog, Let’s Grow Leaders, has grown into a highly interactive, International community. Her book, Overcoming An Imperfect Boss is available on Amazon. Why is she on the show She has a diverse background of executive leadership experience in sales, customer service, call centers, human resources, merger integration, training and leadership development – the last 20 years of which have been with Verizon. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of the Strategic Partnership Channel at Verizon Wireless where she transformed customer service […]

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Ideas, Leadership, Strategy

Gratitude, Celebrations and Progress

This post is the 300th post on this blog. This calls for two things actually: Gratitude: One of the most important things in life is to show gratitude for everything that is good in our life. Gratitude and thanks are due to every single reader who have supported this blog by reading, subscribing and sharing the posts on the blog. So, THANK YOU! Your constant support is what makes the time and effort that i put in to write, even more worthwhile. I can only hope and request you all to continue to support the blog by not just reading/sharing […]

Leadership

How To Build Organizational Culture

Recently, I was moderating a design thinking workshop and talking about how it is critical to foster a culture of innovation within the organization and that it is responsibility of the leaders to build & nurture this culture. Some one stopped me and asked the following question: ” As a leader, what can i do to build the culture that i want for my team or organization”. For a moment, i was lost for the right words. I then took a pause and collected my thoughts and responded such: Building a culture is like gardening. Irrespective of what you do […]

Leadership

Why Do Leaders Fail

  Consider the following facts: The average tenure of CEO’s is reducing (more specifically for fortune 500 companies). The percentage of CEO’s being asked to step down for performance reasons is steadily increasing. Both these statistics point to one thing – many leaders are unable to fulfill their potential and are failing. So, why do leaders fail? There are a lot of studies on this very topic and they have a lot of possible answers. Based on the researcher and their prior understanding, they talk about various reasons for why leaders fail. However, the most important reason why leaders fail […]

Leadership, Sales

Three Key Skills All Great Leaders Share

Everyone at some point in time of their career aspires to become a leader and hence the abundance of research and literature about leadership, different kinds of leadership styles, roles of leaders, skills and tasks of leaders and the list goes on and on. In this vast sea of leadership literature, I want to share my pearls of wisdom as well. In my opinion, every one of us need to be working on ourselves to become a good leader, like everyday. This is not only beneficial when we become a leader, but will enable you to do well in your […]