Sat.Jan 21, 2012 - Fri.Jan 27, 2012

Leadership Freak

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15 Tips for Overcoming Insecurity

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** Living with others in mind is healthy, noble, and useful except when insecurity drives you. Insecure leaders: Defend when they should explore. Take things personally. Blame higher ups for tough decisions. Don’t trust others because they don’t trust themselves. Can’t say no. Threaten, intimidate, and coerce. Shut down input from others because feedback is [.].

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Useful Leadership Quotes? – You Decide

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** Today’s world appreciates brevity. Useful leadership quotes inspire, distill, or direct, quickly. Will you bring your perspective and insights to this set of leadership quotes? Grab one or more and expand, correct, or modify it? 17 leadership quotes for you to play with: Great leaders don’t change people. They create environments where people can change [.].

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Creating a Mistake-making Policy

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** Integrity isn’t perfection, its better. During a hospital stay a nurse turned off and neglected to turn on my pneumatic leg pumps. (Devices designed to help prevent blood clots in the legs of trauma patients. Hospital staff called them SCUDS) She removed them about 3 a.m. so I could get up. When I returned, [.].

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Tapping the Positive Potential of Anger

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** Anger is a high potential power-emotion. Anger reveals your values and exposes a hidden self. Flipping off reckless drivers may not be polite but it says you value your safety. The sad side of anger is it makes you a fool. Unmanaged anger is scalding, destructive passion. Managed anger drives change by harnessing energy. [.].

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How to Speak Like the Pros

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** Leading is more difficult if you can’t speak well. Speaking ability enhances leadership potential. Public platforms provide opportunities to shape, direct, and motivate organizations. Be as smart as this student: Holly said she wasn’t excited about the presentations she was giving this semester. I followed up, “Do you have a speech class?” She replied, [.].

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On Turtles and Rabbits – Finding Pace

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** Few leaders find effective pace naturally. You’re running in circles because of two types of mistakes; both have to do with pace. You’re either too slow or too fast. Pokey Turtle: Scan your personal history. Has foot dragging plagued you? Has delay exacerbated your frustrations? Do you find yourself missing opportunities and wishing you [.].

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Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity

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** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. “Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [.].

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