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LeadershipNow 140: September 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2012 that you might have missed: @davidrock101: 3 ways to think deeply at work. World's top brands of 2012. The Process is as Important as the Product : 7 Tips to Manage Both by @JesseLynStoner. Mike Henry Sr: Building A Trusted Brand For Your Organization?

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. However, for this special edition, why not read them ALL?

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Seconded Employees Can Boost Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Even though people and organizations want to pick new ideas, they often reject them because they’re tricky, risky, and hard to predict. The study looked at seconded employees at the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2000 to 2012. The researchers checked grants given from 1998 to 2012.

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Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition

QAspire

This is the third consecutive year when I am hosting the Annual Management Improvement Carnival organized by John Hunter. This time around, I will point you to 5 best posts and snippets written by Seth in 2012: Who Cares? : “ Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage , and one that takes effort, not money.”.

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2012 that you might have missed: @LeaderChat: 7 Ways to Build Accountable Organizations @Forbes. FT: The careerist: Managing the clever but lazy. greatleadership: Top 10 Excuses for Being a Lousy Manager. Mike Henry Sr: 4 Steps to Building an Emotionally Intelligent Culture.

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

Visa’s founder, Dee Hock, coined the phrase chaordic tension to describe the tug of war between order and chaos in organizations. Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Idea people are more comfortable with risk.

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. I usually get about 30-40 posts, that are sometimes organized around a theme. Art Petty presents The Cruel, Bitter And Crushing Taste of Dump Truck Feedback , from his Management Excellence Blog.