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7 Essential Attributes for Picking Good Leaders

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We complain about our leaders. So we eventually get rid of them and we move on to the next one with the hope that it will be different this time. But it’s not. And we’re back where we started. Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran ask Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? “For starters,” they write, “because selecting the right people can be very, very, hard.

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5 Mistakes People Make When Reading Your Body Language

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When we communicate there are two conversations going on. Verbal and nonverbal. Our brains are hardwired to respond to nonverbal signals. Unfortunately we often don’t even know how we are reacting to them or how others are reacting to us and therefore are unable to use them to our advantage. This becomes very apparent when we are reacting to nonverbal communication from people from different cultures.

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Can I Lead? Yes. But…

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There is a danger in selling leadership to everyone. Serious practitioners of leadership know that there is a lot of work that goes into being a good leader (dictators of any variety, not so much). Competence in your chosen context for leadership aside, the life-long inside work of leadership— figuring out what you won’t do before you figure out what you will do —is sometimes gut-wrenching and sometimes the most thrilling feeling you can experience.

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