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How to Find a Business Mentor Who'll Help You Achieve Your Leadership Goals

Great Leadership By Dan

Petrin provides a nice 8-step approach: Back in December, Dan talked about " 10 Big Development Goals for Leaders in 2012." Step #8: When your chosen mentor has agreed to the informal mentoring relationship, then congratulate yourself for finding someone who will be strategically important to your career and to your growth as a leader.

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Remote Working and Management: Accepted or Not?

CoachStation

I wrote about this in 2012, as have many others in the last decade or more. Technology, globalisation, organisational expectations and culture, management and leadership styles, along with many other factors must be taken into account. In fact, in 2012 we foresaw the growth of remote working and associated leadership impacts.

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Would a Balanced Feminine-Masculine Leadership Style Produce Superior Results?

Great Leadership By Dan

The leadership style that goes with this rigid way of organising work is command and control. So could a more balanced feminine-masculine leadership style enhance women’s chances of success? But how does a balanced feminine-masculine leadership style look like?

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. This blog post discusses the "I-Thou" leadership style. Miami Dolphins. San Francisco 49ers.

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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP HAVE HIGHER COMPETENCIES THAN MEN

Coaching Tip

Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY), a single source of leadership and talent consulting services, is highlighting research that finds while women rate higher in overall competencies for senior leadership positions, they lack key career experiences that tend to give men an edge up on promotions at the most senior levels of organizations. .

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. First, they remain true to their own leadership style.

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the November, 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For you reading pleasure, this month's Carnival offers up a Fall harvest of posts from some of the best leadership bloggers from around the world. The first step in making career decisions is to know yourself.