Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Founded by George Gallup as the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935, the organization delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. The risk grows as your workforce’s mentality continues to shift from my life at work to my life at home. Gallup, Inc. 90% of U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. Van Gorder : Spend time with them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

The book is a timely guide for not only how to achieve a better life, but also how to become a better leader. Today, O’Neil shares these additional insights and advice with us: What inspired you to write a book about your challenges and conflicts? It is life. O’Neil : Work-life balance? It is messy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2021

Each chapter offers practical thinking on how these women and men made decisions. You can use their decision-making skills as guidance at work, in your leadership role, and in your daily life. And then test their advice against your judgement. Even so, try to take all of them seriously. Consult these people!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

She serves on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School, and her speaking and DEI advisory client list includes Fortune 500 companies, international forums, government entities, and top academic institutions. My best bit of advice: Ask, don’t assume. Invest in data, not assumption and in turn, minimize overwhelm.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Each chapter offers practical thinking on how these women and men made decisions. You can use their decision-making skills as guidance at work, in your leadership role, and in your daily life. And then test their advice against your judgement. Even so, try to take all of them seriously. Consult these people!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These expert practitioners share their real-life world stories, advice and the actions they took to be successful. Dilenschneider Question: How did you select the contributing practitioners/topics/chapters to include in the book? Read this book if you a PR professional needing to understand the modern PR world.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

The book is a timely guide for not only how to achieve a better life, but also how to become a better leader. Recently, O’Neil shared these additional insights and advice with us: Question: What inspired you to write a book about your challenges and conflicts? It is life. O’Neil : Work-life balance? It is messy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The book is a timely guide for not only how to achieve a better life, but also how to become a better leader. Today, O’Neil shares these additional insights and advice with us: Question: What inspired you to write a book about your challenges and conflicts? It is life. O’Neil : Work-life balance? It is messy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

Steve Blakeslee, Nonprofit Leadership and Management Major “When discussing the Alliance Management Institute it reminded me of the people who helped provide me with this opportunity. To our donors I would tell them how the conference changed my perspective to preparing for life after college.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 30, 2020

Most important, Su explores in depth, chapter-by-chapter the Five Ps : Purpose – Staying grounded in your passions and contributions, doing your highest and best work that has meaning and is making a difference. For many professionals, legacy, life purpose, and giving back move to the forefront at this stage.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Each chapter offers practical thinking on how these men and women made decisions. You can use their guidance at work, in your leadership role, and in your daily life. It is essential to have your own “code,” made up of your life experience, your education, your conscience, and all the other building blocks of character.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

And, as she recognizes, putting these skills in everyday practice is uncomfortable — it is a different way of interacting than a command-and-control style She tells leaders she advises: “If your palms aren’t sweaty and your stomach isn’t churning, then you probably aren’t practicing engaged leadership.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Most important, Su explores in depth, chapter-by-chapter the Five Ps : Purpose – Staying grounded in your passions and contributions, doing your highest and best work that has meaning and is making a difference. For many professionals, legacy, life purpose, and giving back move to the forefront at this stage.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. Become a Young Professional Who Wins at Work and Life , by Nathan Magnuson , published in June this year. also makes for a good gift from a parent or life/business coach and is perfect for a millennial’s book club. Magnuson : So much!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

With more than 38 years of success in leading strategic initiatives resulting in operation growth and market strength, her specialties are aligning the needs of a varied group of constituents with the overall mission and working with a grassroots chapter and volunteer network while maintaining a strategic business operations focus.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. Become a Young Professional Who Wins at Work and Life , by Nathan Magnuson , published in June this year. also makes for a good gift from a parent or life/business coach and is perfect for a millennial’s book club. Magnuson : So much!

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

In honor of our June theme of "Tech Leadership," we asked NTEN''s great Tech Club organizers to help us understand why they answered the call to nonprofit tech leadership in their communities. The first chapter explores how the use of technology can help raise money. Why did you start leading your Tech Club?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Become a Young Professional Who Wins at Work and Life , is a really good book you, and lots of people, should know about. also makes for a good gift from a parent or life/business coach and is perfect for a millennial’s book club. Do you believe millennials are more likely to value and heed the advice in Stand Out!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2021

In his book, he shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of: character commitment service leadership civility Each chapter tells the story of one of these tenets through compelling anecdotes of various characters in Courtney's life and career. For me, each story and chapter gave me the opportunity for self-reflection.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. See Chapter One of our book. But Jason is lucky to work at an org where IT already has a seat at the leadership table. This sounded familiar to @gartrell , who responded simply: Story of my life.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 22, 2020

Become a Young Professional Who Wins at Work and Life , is a really good book you, and lots of people, should know about. also makes for a good gift from a parent or life/business coach and is perfect for a millennial’s book club. Do you believe millennials are more likely to value and heed the advice in Stand Out!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In October 2017, she published her first book, “Permission To Screw Up,” in which she tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership. Their most recent books include Going Places, a picture book about creativity and engineering, and a STEM-meets-Arts (STEAM) early chapter book series called Sydney & Simon: Full STEAM Ahead!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Inspiring, humbling, motivating and instructional is how I describe the leadership book by Ron Williams , called, Learning To Lead: The Journey To Leading Yourself, Leading Others, And, Leading An Organization. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? Whenever I went to class I sat in the front row.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

She is also the creative director and designer of TranquiliT , an ecoluxe lifestyle clothing line, and the founder of Tranquil Space Foundation , a nonprofit that brings yoga, creativity, and leadership to women and girls. Leadership: to focus on goal-setting, and to become strong leaders in their own lives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Inspiring, humbling, motivating and instructional is how I describe the new leadership book by Ron Williams , called, Learning To Lead: The Journey To Leading Yourself, Leading Others, And, Leading An Organization. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? Whenever I went to class I sat in the front row.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. You are onto the right thing.

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