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How Do You Coach Your Team?

Rich Gee Group

And rather than be judgmental, the profiling should help the client understand how they operate and boost their confidence in who they are. Next post: This Is Broken (with Seth Godin). Profile the members of that team to see where they best fit in relation to their tasks and other members of the team. Smile or Die! Happy Birthday IBM!

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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

Next Level Blog

Much like the astronauts of Apollo 13, they showed grace and calm under pressure, maintained their discipline, drew on their training and supported each other to get through a crisis. Accept Help:   The rescue operation appears to have been a model of private and public sector cooperation and coordination. They didn’t.

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Three Things I Learned About Leadership From Admiral Allen Today

Next Level Blog

With a resume like that, it’s easy to understand why Admiral Allen was asked to speak on “Leadership in a Time of Crisis.” You’d be hard pressed to find a leader who’s led more crisis responses with more distinction than Allen.    The local officials had veto power. 

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Whenever some crisis loomed on the Voyager, she was known barking out: “Options?” Seth Godin calls it shipping, Mike Myatt calls it being an actionable leadership, and I will call it “mouthless [.] ” to the crew. After considering their suggestions, she was quick to make a decision.

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Culture eats strategy for lunch… and it will eat leaders too.

Roundtable Talk

She came from the municipal government where she had worked in a department that, according to her, operated at a brutally slow pace (hence, why she wanted to get out). Case in point: I once hired someone who was a terrific person into our highly entrepreneurial fast-paced consulting firm.

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Leadership Interview – Michael Hyatt | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Michael Hyatt Open of the things I have found is to keep meetings small and focus on “shipping” (a Seth Godin concept). On behalf of both Michael and I, thanks for your kind words and your insights Angela. In other words, focus on faster iteration and improvement, rather than spending months in planning.

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ROWE: A new roadmap for work that will bend your brain.

Roundtable Talk

Larry King… how to get off on the wrong foot ROWE: A new roadmap for work that will bend your brain Posted on January 25, 2011 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment At the risk of sounding like a gushing groupie, I have to (once again) say that Dan Pink changed my view of work when I heard him talk about his book Free Agent Nation way back in 1999.

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