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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2010

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Leadership Rules : How to Become the Leader You Want to Be by Chris Widener. Faster Cheaper Better : The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman. Succeed : How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. Mostly this has to do with living in Haiti. In the U.S.,

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 As a service to you I have narrowed down this collection of reading material to highlight five blog posts from the week of August 2nd to August 8th, 2010 that I found to be especially noteworthy.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. So how can we set goals that won't disappear faster than a politician's promise? Focus is the key.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas. Ultimately, CoachStation focuses on the people side of business. When did CoachStation start?

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. note: this post was originally published in 2010. Mental Models : are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. It can get pretty complex.