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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! It's meant to be more of a menu - organized in a way that you can pick and choose based on author, blog name, subject title, and a "teaser" line if the author provided one. Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.".

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Leadership and Work Teams

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Guest post from Simon Mac Rory: If you work in an organization today as a leader you will lead a team. 90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit. This makes teamwork even more crucial to overall success or failure for the organization.

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

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This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source for Nos. Source: Fast Company.

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Ready, Set, Enable

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Guest post by Mark Royal and Tom Agnew, from Hay Group , regular contributors to Great Leadership: The term “doing more with less” is being used increasingly liberally by organizations today. How can leaders create a more enabling environment to increase productivity? A lack of support creates significant productivity issues.

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Leading Like Manwani in a VUCA World

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Manwani described the role of leadership in the VUCA world as “having a clear point of view about the future and building an organization that can navigate towards that destination through good times, and importantly, also in bad times.”. To download copies of the 2011 Global Leadership Forecast, visit: [link]. A good start!

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Visualize Your Purpose

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With a market share of close to eight percent, Haier became the biggest producer of major household appliances in the world in 2011. Which products, phone calls, or objects will serve as a reminder of things that should never happen again? At the time of writing this article, Mr. Zhang still leads the company.

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

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I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? For example, according to CCL, “5% of people in your organization hold 30% of the relationships.