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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

I guess you could say that I think it’s important for managers to learn and use coaching skills as part of their leadership tool kit. Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”. Like a lot of things in life and in leadership, coaching others well isn’t easy and it isn’t quick.

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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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5 Powerful Team Leadership Lessons From Musicians

Great Results Team Building

Learning and applying these lessons can provide management insight and superior leadership qualities. Here are some excellent leadership lessons that we can learn from musicians. Sustaining a leadership role requires support; it is as simple as that. Leadership requires a person to have a clear end goal.

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. It was C.S. Contrary to popular folklore, it’s important to note that nice guys & gals don’t finish last.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. ” From, The right way to handle a surprise : The U.S.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law.

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030: Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Isn’t Enough for Superior Leadership | with David Burnham

Engaging Leader

David Burnham has been a researcher for over 40 years on superior leadership in industry, academia, and governments around the world. He was one of the first thought leaders who called for a new style of leadership, including the necessity of emotional intelligence (EQ). Video: Are you a dictator or a team captain?