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LeadershipNow 140: September 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2011 that you might have missed: @stevefarber: Want to solve the leadership crisis? BobBurg: Positive Persuasion And That All-Important 1/4-Inch Hole. I’m a sucker for organizational tools. Make a commitment to helping each other to help each other. Not very, says one IESE professor.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” We must give people the tools—the how—to change. How do we do that?

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Research Shows That Investing In Tech Matters

The Horizons Tracker

The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013. “Our results show that IT infrastructure investments have a stronger impact on the positive relationship between working capital management and firm performance than IT labor investments,” the researchers explain.

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Chart Your Course for 2011 with a Life GPS®

Next Level Blog

  We use a planning tool we created together early in our marriage that we call the Life GPS®.    While it takes its inspiration from the Global Positioning System, GPS in this case stands for Goals Planning System. .   Here’s a link to the registration page for the Life GPS® teleseminar. 

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Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool by Kevin Eikenberry on October 11, 2010 in Leadership , Leadership Communication , Learning We all grow up with stories.

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Preview Thursday: Destination Facilitation

Lead Change Blog

Nor is knowledge of different cultures sufficient information to create a positive learning environment for knowledge transfer to occur. He defines CQ as “the capabilIntroduction 11 ity to function effectively in a variety of cultural contexts including national, ethnic, organizational and generational” (Livermore 2011).

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How to Develop Mental Toughness

Skip Prichard

While serving as the Director of Mental Training for the St Louis Cardinals, Jason helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the historic feat of winning their second World Championship in a six-year period. You need a concrete tool. ” -Jason Selk.