Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership

The new book, All The Difference: Six Leadership Actions To Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value , teaches how leaders can turn their team's individual differences into deeper trust, greater creativity, and winning results.   “The greatest risk of unmanaged difference isn’t conflict: it lies in the ideas, insights, and opportunities that may never surface,” explain the book’s authors, Susan MacKenty Brady , Stuart D. Kliman , and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Leslie C. Smith .   They suggest that you look around your team to fully see people with different communication styles, perspectives, cultural norms, and capabilities. These differences are expressed in all kinds of ways, such as casual gestures in a meeting, a colleague's opinion on a current event, or an intense work style.   Often, those differences can lead to friction, even conflict. You may try to manage around them. But, for you and your organization to fully leverage the strengths of your team’s diffe...

  What does it take for women to flourish in leadership roles today? Answering that question is what three authors set out to explore in the new book, Arrive And Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership , written by Susan MacKenty Brady , Janet Foutty and Lynn Perry Wooten .   The book’s timely and practice-driven guidance empowers women leaders to excel as they rise to positions of greater responsibility, risk, and reward—and to lead others along the way. The  authors draw on decades of their professional experience and on knowledge and advice from 24 of the world’s most successful leaders to identify the seven key practices to thriving as a leader :  Invest in your best self. This entails getting to know yourself when you’re at your best and leading from that place.  Cultivate courage by committing to action and overcoming your fear of doing so.  Foster resilience to enable you to overcome setbacks and lead more powerfully....