Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

In Up, Down, or Sideways , Mark Sanborn asks: So how are you doing with love? One method I use to assess myself in this area is to plug my name into a familiar passage from the Bible—1 Corinthians 13:4-7. It says, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

If You Will Lead by Doug Moran, is a good book for reading chapter by chapter and stopping to reflect on each one. Based on Kipling’s poem “If–,” Moran has created the “If” Sixteen Leadership Framework to help us answer four important questions: 1. Who am I, and what do I believe? 2. What do I want? 3. How will I attract and motivate others? 4. How will I earn and retrain the privilege to lead?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Lead with Purpose : Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself by John Baldoni. Everyone Leads : Building Leadership from the Community Up by Paul Schmitz. People Follow You : The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership by Jeb Blount. Creative People Must Be Stopped : 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying) by David A Owens.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2011 that you might have missed: @mikemyatt: The biggest leadership blind-spot and what to do about it: Leadership & The Expectation Gap. @RonEdmondson: The Encouragement Folder : Every Leader Needs One. From @MJAsmus: Letting Go of Your Need to be Right. Servant Leader Quiz: Servant Leadership Assessment.

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