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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

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This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011". It was also one of The People Equation’s top five most-read posts from 2011.".

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

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Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Jesse Lyn Stoner presents Be the Boss You?d

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

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Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! posted at Daily Creativity. Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. So stock up, and enjoy your reading!

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

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10%: Formal courses and books Source: Center for Creative Leadership. DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2011 notes that barely more than 1 in 3 organizations report that leaders have high-quality, effective development plans, despite the fact that having effective plans is related to the quality of leadership development.

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5 Big Ideas: What’s Next for Leadership Development?

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In MHO, when it comes to leadership development, the Center for Creative Leadership is second to none. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Great leaders need to be creative, solve complex problems, make connections, make decisions, and manage relationships.

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Ready, Set, Enable

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Grant appropriate authority: It’s important for managers to provide employees with explicit decision-making authority, encourage them to come forward with innovative suggestions for improving the organization, and reinforce employee creativity by appropriately translating ideas into action. Identify support gaps.

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Leading in a New Direction - 3 Techniques for Thinking up New Business Ideas

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Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? Duncan Murtagh is fascinated by the thinking process, creativity and ideas. Please post them in the comments. Image source.

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