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LeadershipNow 140: May 2011 Compilation

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Here are a selection of tweets from May 2011: @Jim_Kouzes: If you want to be more creative, think outside of yourself. Mark_Sanborn: For leaders and speakers, amazing resource: Audios and transcripts of top 100 speeches. Read more @PsyBlog. stevefarber: Make a list of your constraints. Now, boldly and blatantly disregard that list.

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

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When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty. The senior vice president of human resources told her, “ Ginni, if you want the opportunity to be CEO of IBM, don’t try to run for office.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

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In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers. The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership.

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Lead With Purpose

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Leaders of purpose explore the impetus for change—reason, urgency, action—before leaping; respect their people’s resourcefulness; and handle setback with grace. Lead with Purpose was selected a best leadership book of 2011. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Todd Durkin on Leadership & People

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He has been motivating others with his Word of the Week (WOW) since 2011 and has now compiled them in a single book, The WOW Book. Coach Vermeil talked about how the most important resource of any company is its PEOPLE : their personal dignity, pride in what they do, and the trust that they have in management. In any sport.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

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is an excellent resource full of the practical application of principles and insights. Best Leadership Books of 2011. Respond to a random world with an intentional life. * * *. Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace Creativity, Inc.

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What’s Wrong with Leadership Training Today?

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Commenting on the 2011 budget-ceiling talks she finds that Barack Obama’s followers are “more disposed to resist him than to support him….No How to learn to lead when resources such as power, authority, and influence are scarcer than before—and when any number of followers is as likely to be resistant as deferent?

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