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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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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

It’s the leadership team’s hope that it can parlay its recent success into new opportunities to flourish. Facing a talent shortage in South Dakota in 2011, MFG South Dakota’s leadership team decided to look into innovative ways to hire the workers that they needed to staff their plant.

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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

It was Drucker who wrote about the contribution of knowledge workers, and in fact he invented the term, long before anyone knew or understood how knowledge would be of importance above other inputs. However, for a long time he seemed to acknowledge its importance, but ignored the concept of leadership. Drucker Avoided Leadership.

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Making True Leadership Shine

Persuasive Powerhouse

I asked him to write another guest post tying in the book with the subject of leadership. What is it about the term “public relations” that brings the pot of social ire to a boil? In short, they embrace “spin,” a word that every PR professional and every leader should strike from their vocabulary. He’s done so brilliantly.

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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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Top 10 Servant Leadership Tweeters in 2012

Modern Servant Leader

This past year (2012) marked the third year I’ve compiled the Top Tweeters list (see 2010 & 2011 for more). The Top 10 Twitter Accounts for Servant Leadership. Here they are, The top 10 Twitter accounts for Servant Leadership followers in 2012: 10. Servant Leadership Institute ( @sliLEAD ). Who Are You Serving?

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Bold Leadership There are so many words to describe leadership and almost. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail.