Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2021

Stumped for what leadership and business books to add to your winter reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T. His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She explains why you need not only passion and purpose to win big, but also: a willingness to take decisive action grit sweat equity determination positive attitude Elting’s fascinating story began with her entirely self-funded business launch that started in a dorm room.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? Our research shows that people who know how others see them are more skilled at showing empathy and taking others’ perspectives. However, the benefits of exploring your inner dynamics extend far beyond business. Begin with yourself. Be the change. Walk the talk—right? It sounds simple.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

That’s one of the perks of leadership. Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Helping others to rise can be even more rewarding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. In the book, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America – and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? There’s an excellent summary by the study’s authors in this post, “ Preparing Millennials for Leadership Success ,” the tips include: 1. Flickr Photo by Flower Factor.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Of course, it’s important to consider skills. The skill that got her promoted wasn’t balanced by the emotional readiness or sensitivity to undertake her new responsibilities. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy. “The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What I like most about Miguel Leal ’s memoir, aside from its overall compelling and inspiring information, are the business and life lessons he shares. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. Here are his business and life lessons : Passion can find you when you least expect it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

posted by Nico Marcolongo Fall 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. These realities require leadership capable of allying highly autonomous and dispersed workforces into a united effort.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Changes in the workplace have forced today’s managers to apply new methods and skills to be effective on their teams and up their impact. Introducing our new Skills UP: free training webinar series for nonprofit managers (and aspiring social good managers everywhere)! senior principal business consultant, Blackbaud .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

Stumped for what business books to add to your summer reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. What's The Future Of Business? WTF?) -- Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Based on shared identity, empathy, and understanding , connection moves primarily self-centered individuals toward group-centered membership. Without that sense of connection, employees will never each their full potential," states Stallard. And, that "human connection affects much more than the bottom line."

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APRIL 15, 2014

Image courtesy of Strategic Leadership Resources. It is important that your nonprofit’s leadership core is involved not only when their management skills are needed, but for when their people skills are needed, too. Show your nonprofit’s leadership team is genuine engaged with the mission. Sending emails.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even when you love your job, without the right support, it’s easy to experience symptoms of leadership fatigue like these. Solutions Day is the perfect antidote to leadership fatigue. Back in 2017, we could see that business was changing. We call that constellation of skills, Association 4.0 leadership.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

posted by Syvan Diamond Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Leadership succession planning, similar to donor succession planning, is often addressed when the concern arises rather than preemptively within a nonprofit organization’s fiscal year. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of that adaptation will require higher educational attainment, or spending more time on activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive capabilities, and other skills relatively hard to automate.” There’s a change going on in business. ChatGPT isn’t writing this post—at least not today.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 10, 2021

New to your leadership position? Read the new, Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook. It's also a good refresher read for any leader wanting to hone their leadership skills.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many of the characteristics we identified are the same skills that entrepreneurs use to grow start-up ventures. Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. With a growing business, things change, but they don’t get easier.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 9, 2023

Former IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty led one of the most high-stakes corporate transformations in business history. Just as impressive was her personal transformation, having overcome childhood challenges to become one of the world’s most influential business leaders ( Fortune magazine’s #1 Most Powerful Woman three years in a row).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Fortunately, the book provides you with the blueprint for navigating those hurdles while being able to take a truly strategic approach to all facets of your business.

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MAY 29, 2023

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Trye Nichols prompted vocal support for social justice throughout the business community. Based on my anecdotal experience, most associations support the idea that a diverse leadership and workforce contributes to their success. Low commitment from senior leadership and volunteers.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If it’s not enough to consider the human resource impact, consider this instead: while I was working full-time, I obtained my business degree and took many very useful courses in marketing, economics, statistics, and finance. How could my knowledge and skills have been put to better use within my association?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future? In an interview with Polman, he told us - don't tell me we can't do both, Unilever serves 2 billion consumers a day, we must find a way to foster sustainable living through business. How do I balance work and life? How can I take care of myself while supporting others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Stumped for what business books to add to your winter reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. What's The Future Of Business? WTF?) -- Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Stumped for what business books to add to your fall reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. What's The Future Of Business? WTF?) -- Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Now that “disruption” is a business catchphrase, is “resilience” an equally common term in your professional vocabulary? Resilience , or learning to surf those breakers, must be a priority on the business agenda. My business partner, Dan Kasprow, and I had been working on some large project implementations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each year, I select my pick for the best new leadership book released that year. Some years, among the many books about leadership that I read, there is another book that is so good, it becomes my runner up for the best new leadership book of the year. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout. Was it an acquired skill? How much and what types of support they must work on their burnout immunity skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Abilities : Your competencies that help you integrate your knowledge, skills, and experiences so you can respond to situations in the most effective way possible. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills. Chapters 9—13 highlight how XQ applies in different contexts, including organizations, leadership, teams, and communities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. The future of work is now!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2019

When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations.

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Association Analytics

MAY 11, 2021

You might be tempted to think that once your data is in tip-top shape, then you can go beyond reporting and start using data for deriving business insights. Data governance is the complex, interconnected web of practice that goes on in a business, spanning how an organization collects, uses, and manages data and data systems.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

The authors of this leadership book recommend that you don't read their book cover to cover. That's because I found, The Little Book of Leadership Development , by Scott J. What you'll find is basically 50 one- to two-page chapters, each highlighting a leadership tip. But, if you're like me, you'll read the book that way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2023

What is even better than a really good book about leadership? And that's exactly what author and London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra has done with her 2015 global bestseller, Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader. Identify two people whose leadership you admire and start watching them closely.

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