October, 2011

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Building Leadership Trust

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By Guest Author Mike Figliuolo, author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. . People follow leaders they trust. Trust is based on predictability. Sharing a clear, compelling leadership philosophy is the best way to become more predictable to your team (to see if your team trusts you, take this simple Trusted Leader Assessment ). .

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Your Genius

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Are you a genius? This very question was asked at the 2010 TEDGlobal Conference in a powerful talk that redefined genius as something we all have, but need to find within. "No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." James Russell Lowell. Yet, we've been conditioned to believe that geniuses are something we only read about in history books; Einstein and Mozart but not us.

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The Impact of Trust

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By Guest Author David Horsager. I had been speaking and producing events around the world on a broader scope of topics. As I visited many different types of companies, I began to wonder what the greatest of these companies and leaders had in common. I noticed the impact of trust on both leadership and the bottom line. With great interest, I began my graduate research on this topic and realized that being trusted really is the greatest asset of any leader or organization.

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Why I Wrote Managing (Right) for the First Time

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By Guest Author David C. Baker. As a management consultant , I’ve had the privilege of interviewing more than 10,000 employees across 600+ companies. . Personally, I’ve been managed poorly , and I’ve been managed well. I’ve managed others poorly, certainly. And I like to think that my experiences have made me a better manager of others….though you’ll have to ask some of my old employees to get the full scoop. .

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My Personal Coach

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The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.

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Reluctant Leadership

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It should come as no surprise that statistically most of us are not born leaders. Though running a business or managing a department, does force the issue, creating unwitting, unprepared and usually poor leaders of many of us. . Being a leader is tantamount to being a risk taker, which is essentially the same thing as being an entrepreneur. Yet, many people become managers because it pays more salary and seems like a better job than what they have been doing only to find as managers, they nee

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Creative Thinkering for Logical Thinkers

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by Guest Author Michael Michalko. We are educated to be analytical, logical thinkers. Consequently, we have the ability to make common associations between subjects that are related or at least remotely related. We are far better at associating two things (for example, apples and bananas are both fruits) than we are at forcing ourselves to see connections between things that seem to have no association (for example, a can opener and a pea pod).