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Seven Ways Leaders Move First for Best Results

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Image source Moving first is the difference between leading and following. Seven ways leaders move first. Leaders: Move toward people first. When you wonder if you should greet someone, you should. Extend your hand first and say, “Good morning,” first. Don’t hold your head down while walking the hall. If you don’t move first, you may [.].

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How to be Liked More and Why it Matters

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Image source: I’ve frequently had an, “I don’t care if you like me,” approach to life. Looking back, it was insecurity not confidence. I wanted people to prove they liked me because I didn’t feel that likeable. Being liked matters: You care about being liked because people are influenced by people they like. Wanting to be [.].

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Great Leaders Are Great Haters

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Maybe hate isn’t such a bad thing, after all. I believe love is stronger than hate. However, hate and love are dynamically connected. Tuesday’s conversation with Claire Diaz-Ortize, Twitter’s Head of Social Innovation and Philanthropy, made me think about negative versus positive motivation. Are leaders motivated by things they don’t want or things they want. [.].

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How to Create Problem Solving Organizations

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Leaders who aren’t solving problems are irrelevant. All leaders always solve problems. Urgent problems are easier to solve because they are urgent. While facing urgent or future problems leaders remain solution oriented. The bigger, more numerous and pressing the problems the more value leaders bring. Leaders never solve problems alone; organizations do.

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10 Tests to Know it’s Time to Take Charge

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One dimensional leaders fit into one dimensional organizations. Do one dimensional organizations actually exist? Complexity and diversity call for more than one leadership style. You may be a coaching-style leader but coaching doesn’t always work. I enjoy a hands-off approach both as a leader and a follower. But hands-off isn’t always best; some situations call leaders [.].

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The Silent Language of Leadership

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We don’t use the term lie when it comes to lying to the boss but that’s what it is. We tell her what she wants to hear. After all, powerful bosses greatly impact our career, advancement, and financial success. I observed a group of mid-levels publicly conspire to lie to the boss and no one [.].

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Standing Out Means You Don’t Fit

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The dark side of passion is frustration, even anger. Zeal includes being for and against. Greater fervency for something fuels greater fervency against its opposite. I asked Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Head of Corporate Social Innovation and Philanthropy at Twitter, Inc., if frustration drives leaders. She’s more comfortable being motivated to make things better than attacking what [.].