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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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Finding Our Second Wave Is Key To Maintaining Career Success As We Age

The Horizons Tracker

Professional sport provides perhaps the most visceral example of career transitions in modern society, as the athletic potential of performers is usually limited to perhaps a decade, after which their physical strength wanes and they’re no longer able to maintain their competitiveness. Past our peak. million people. The modern elder.

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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934-2012

Leading Blog

The highlight of his career was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Secretary of State Colin Powell , who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Desert Storm, recalled Schwarzkopf as "a great patriot and a great soldier."

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents 5 Surefire Tips for Job Advancement. Professionals who want more from their careers have to seize the initiative.

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6 Ways Leaders Are Different

Great Leadership By Dan

© 2012 Mark Miller, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. During his career he has served in corporate communications, restaurant operations, quality and customer satisfaction, and numerous other leadership positions. He began his Chick-fil-A career in 1977 working as an hourly team member.

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5 Essential Skills for Contemporary Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

But, doing that means operating with the right actions, not the right titles. Operating with trust. But operating with authentic trust requires more than behavioral integrity, the alignment of words and actions. Right” in this context implies operating with ethics, integrity, and a positive use of influence others can count on.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. That is right Ladies.