Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership

  For the past 15 years, I have relied on Debbie Laskey’s Blog for expert leadership guidance and always interesting insights into marketing best practices and recaps of marketing trends.   Fortunately, through the years, Debbie has also shared her expertise through a variety of postings on my blog and I’m honored again today to feature Debbie via the following Q&A’s:   Question: During 2024, you published two interesting leadership series on your blog: the Spring Leadership Series (March-June 2024) and the Olympics Leadership Series (July-August 2024). What are some of your leadership takeaways that you learned from the participants in those two series?   DEBBIE LASKEY : I've been honored to attract thought leaders to my blog in Q&A formats over the years and especially during 2024 in two leadership series. Fifteen experts participated in my #SpringLeadershipSeries, and 17 experts participated in my #OlympicsLeadershipSeries.   Three key ques...

  Vijay Govindarajan’s book, The Three Box Solution , is all about how to: Box 1 – Manage your present core business at peak efficiency and profitability. Box 2 – Escape the traps of the past by identifying and divesting business and abandoning practices, ideas, and attitudes that have lost relevance in a changed environment. Box 3 – Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. And, as leaders, he recommends that you e nsure your organization does now fall into any of these three traps: The Complacency Trap – where current success conditions a business to suppose that securing the future requires nothing more than repeating what it did to succeed in the past. The Cannibalization Trap – that persuades leaders that new business models based on nonlinear ideas will jeopardize your company’s present prosperity. In other words, don’t protect your present core business by resisting ideas that don’t conform to models of the past. The Co...

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. In his book,  Rob-Jan de Jong  provides the developmental framework for visionary capacity, focusing on two key skills: The ability to see change early The ability to connect the dots Rob-Jan de Jong De Jong makes a clear distinction between the company vision and your personal vision. And, in this book, he helps you increase your  personal visionary capacity  for your personal leadership whether or not you are hierarchically in a senior position. The book includes many exercises and examples, along with QR codes to access videos with additional content that can be viewed on your Smartphone. Some of de Jong's tips for  how to think like a visionary and be a source of inspiration  to your organization and teams include: Deliberately break your normal, everyday patterns. Develop a set of apprec...

These are my blog posts that were the most popular during 2015. In case you missed them last year, here they are: Business And Leadership Quotes That Inspire Me High-Performing Teams Are Made Of This Fail Fast Or Win Big How To Be A Better Listener: 10 Tips The Seven Roles Of A Collaborative Leader

Thanks to Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness , and honored and humbled to be No. 55 on this list of 2013's Top 100 Socially-Shared Leadership Blogs . And, be sure to check out: No. 1 No. 15 No. 42 No. 43 No. 75 ...any my all-time favorite for some of the most compelling content on leadership, No. 18 ! Thank you for reading my blog and sharing my posts! Eric Jacobson

Thanks to these incredibly talented individuals who published excellent content that taught me so much during 2013: Tanveer Naseer - Leadership Coach, Speaker & Writer.  Tanveer writes timely, thought-provoking blog posts about leadership at least weekly.  Each post is well worth the read.  I Tweet nearly every one of his posts.  There are that good. Debbie Laskey - A friend and a person with a keen sense of how to market successfully, Debbie posts about marketing, management and leadership. David Grossman - David heads up The Grossman Group and is the best when it comes to helping leaders to communicate more effectively.  I've been following David for years and am eager to see what he shares in 2014 via his blog. And, thanks to Leadership Digital , which aggregates some of the best content about leadership and management on the Internet.  I couldn't do without this site's daily afternoon eNewsletter. Thanks from: Eric Jacobson

Each day, typically multiple times a day, I read LeadershipDigital , an aggregator of some of today's most influential bloggers about leadership and management -- including: Tanveer Naseer Ron Edmondson Linked 2 Leadership Karin Hunt In all, the website features content, updated daily, from more than 70 bloggers .  You can sign up for a daily newsletter, and on the site you can access archived content back to July 2005 when the site launched.

Leadership Dan McCarthy tops OnlineCollege.org 's recently published list of the Top 25 Leadership Bloggers . All 25 of the selected bloggers were selected because of their outstanding leadership knowledge and strong writing ability. Other familiar names, such as John Maxwell , Ron Edmondson and John Baldoni , made the list.  You'll also find perhaps some not so familiar names.

Inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s second State of the Union address, author Bill Bradley advocates citizen leadership in his new book, We Can All Do Better . Lincoln said, “We can succeed only by concert.  It is not ‘Can any of us imagine better?’ but ‘Can we all do better?’” So, that’s where Bradley starts his book.  He then goes on to share his highly personal review of the current state of the nation.  We can All Do Better is a timely read as we near the November presidential election. As an eighteen-year New Jersey Senator, financial and investment advisor, Olympic and NBA athlete, national radio host, and best-selling author, Bradley’s varied leader and teammate experiences create interesting perspectives, including ones on: Job creation  Education  Deficit reduction  Key takeaways from the book for me include these about teams and what makes a team effective : At some point, it dawns on a member of a team that by helping his/her te...

A friend shared with me a spot-on article by Geoffrey James the other day. In it, James explains the difference between averages bosses and extraordinary bosses . He demonstrates why the best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. His insights are based on his interviews of some of the most successful CEOs.  Read his article in its entirety.  The eight points he explains are: 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. 2. A company is a community, not a machine. 3. Management is service, not control. 4. My employees are my peers, not my children. 5. Motivation comes from vision, not from fear. 6. Change equals growth, not pain. 7. Technology offers empowerment, not automation. 8. Work should be fun, not mere toil. James writes the "Sales Source" column on Inc.com , the world's most-visited sales-oriented blog, which features the best ideas from dozens of sales experts and executive...

A big thanks to Human Capital Institute (HCI) for including my blog on management and leadership in its list of the Best Blogs - Talent 2011. HCI is a global association for talent management and new economy leadership, and a clearinghouse for best practices and new ideas. Its network of expert practitioners, Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 corporations, government agencies, global consultants and business schools contribute a stream of constantly-evolving information, the best of which is organized, analyzed and shared with members through HCI communities, research, education and events.

If you lead a business and aren’t among the many companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year. Awhile back, Emarketer estimated that the proportion of all U.S. companies that will use dedicated blogs as a marketing channel will reach 43% this year. Businesses using blogs for communications, lead generation, customer service and branding primarily do so for these reasons : • corporate control of the tool • its integration with company web properties • no limits on post lengths • the ability to maintain a full, searchable repository of information Successful blogs generally follow these tips and guidelines : 1. Make your blog as non-promotional as possible. 2. Keep it relevant to the reader. 3. Answer your customers’ questions or address their pain points. 4. Be sure it’s well-written. 5. Make it relevant to your company or products. 6. Offer proof or third-party validation to claims ...

Welcome  Debbie Laskey to my blog! With 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree, Debbie developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Currently, Debbie is a brand marketing and social media consultant to small businesses and nonprofits in California. I met Debbie a few years ago while we worked together on a training committee for MicroMentor , a nonprofit that connects small business owners with business mentors. Debbie and I recently discussed what business owners should look for when hiring marketing leaders, and highlights are provided below. Eric:  What personality traits are ideal for a marketing leader ? Debbie Laskey : First, marketing is not sales. I say this because, while the two areas must work in tandem if both departments exist in a company, sales people have very different personalities tha...

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these " open leadership skills assessment" questions : Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I encourage people to share information? Do I publicly admit when I am wrong? Do I update people regularly? Do I take the time to explain how decisions are being made? Thanks for these great questions, Charlene!

Leadership communications expert David Grossman recently answered what I believe are some of the most pressing communications challenges leaders face today: How to present to a diverse employee audience with a single presentation How often a leader should communicate What's the best way to deliver bad news How to be sure employees receive a consistent message when leaders must rely on middle managers to deliver it How to effectively communicate via e-mail versus phone David's answers , published in his blog today on his website, are straight-forward, practical and actionable.  And, that's what I like most about David's approach -- in his books , on his blog and via his  speaking engagements. Thanks David!

If you haven't visited  LeadershipDigital recently, do so today. The aggregator website that launched earlier this year now gives you access to more than 50 bloggers who write about leadership and management , including: Harvard Business Review The Leadership Advisor Women On Business Great Leadership N2Growth CEO Blog C-Level Strategies Managing Leadership Women's Leadership Exchange Coaching Tip ....and you'll also find the postings of my blog, Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership You can subscribe to receive a daily or weekly/monthly eNewsletter that delivers the best, update-to-date content to your e-mail inbox. I spend hours on the site and with the eNewsletters benefitting from the wealth of content.