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Weekly Round-Up: On Effective Leadership, Resilience & Company Culture

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas…. 4 Ways to Measure Your Leadership Skills By Minda Zetlin, Inc. Can leadership qualities be measured? David Grossman. _.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

.” After experiencing her 8th downsizing, she left DuPont in her 20th year there, concluding her corporate career as an HR manager. A leadership lesson Mary gained from her first job was: Coaching people while maintaining their dignity gets you better results than telling or yelling. .

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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility. In fact, experience with thousands of people around the world highlights that in 50% of circumstances the real issue is not the presenting issue. Here’s an illustration. A community desperately needed a new grammar school.

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Fallacy of ‘If They Understand, They Will Do’

Marshall Goldsmith

Our greatest challenge as leaders isn’t understanding the practice of leadership; it’s practicing our understanding of leadership. The consistent and ongoing misassumption of almost all leadership development programs is, “If they understand, they will do.” by Marshall Goldsmith. Most make a lot of sense.

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Take the Government Leadership Challenge

Harvard Business Review

If you are a business leader at the very top of your game, it will help you avoid career stagnation. So here it goes: I challenge you to do a two-year, full-time stint in government leadership, and to do it before your 70th birthday. Kearney) described his time in government leadership this way: "I'm having great fun.