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Three Things Every Leadership Offsite Needs - Next Level Blog

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In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones. Here, in my humble opinion, are three things that every leadership offsite agenda has to have: Context: You absolutely have to answer the question, “Why are we here and why does it matter?”

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

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Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Leadership Lessons in Classlessness and Class

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In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard. That’s one definition of leadership. Once again, classless. Unless you’re a New York Yankees fan or a long time lover of baseball, you may not have heard of him.  It’s definitely a definition of class.

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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

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Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. And, as was the case with the astronauts, the miners could not have made it safely home without the efforts, talents and leadership of thousands of others. There are leadership lessons to learn from the rescuers as well.

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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

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  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Wonder what 2011 has in store for him? That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.  Click Here.

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Thank You for Not Giving Me Cash

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You can find it by searching on Dan Pink in this blog's search engine. Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

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Leadership is more complicated.    Technology, globalism, competition, structural shifts in the economy, generational expectations and so many other factors have merged together to make the practice of leadership - influencing people to work together on common goals - a lot more complicated than it was ten years ago. 

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