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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

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This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011". It was also one of The People Equation’s top five most-read posts from 2011.".

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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! Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive?

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

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Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! I'm looking forward to some new research Anne and Marion are about to publish on woman and power. Chris Edmonds presents Power, Profit, or Purpose: What Drives Your Company? So stock up, and enjoy your reading! Great lessons!

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Living in Pursuit of the OS!M

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Therefore, the most powerful tool a leader has is him or herself, and they must lead by example. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World , was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” Leaders should be pursuing these OS!Ms. They must pursue OS!Ms

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

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So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Big idea #3: The power of networks. The last few conferences I’ve attended all had speakers talking about the power of networks and network analysis. 5 Big Ideas, I got all geeked up and couldn’t wait to dig in.

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Getting Leaders to Change

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The greatest leaders are confident but they recognize that they are also not too good, too big, too rich, too powerful to be open to the views and perspective of others all aimed at self-improvement and organizational improvement. It is the opposite of being “bold”—putting oneself forward in the sense of aggressiveness or presumptuous.

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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

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They’re busy having meetings, doing power point presentations but making no improvements in the operation. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. Plan and Do Planning is important, but so is execution. Some leaders over plan and under execute. Of course some leaders do just the opposite. Is there a “right” balance? It depends.

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