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DECEMBER 18, 2012

As the year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished and learned as a leader and what you’d like to focus on for the coming year. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a great way to capture those actions and increases your chances of keeping your commitments to yourself.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

This post was first published 1/1/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership: Having trouble coming up with a good leadership New Year’s resolution? For 2013, I’m going to: 1. Here’s a list of 10 to pick from. These are things that leaders know they “should” do but often don’t. Don’t overdo it – just pick one and commit to it!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You can find it right here: February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. The February 4th Leadership Development Carnival is up! This month's edition is being hosted by David Burkus from LDRLB (leader lab). 37 outstanding posts on leadership, innovation, and strategy. Go - read - enjoy!

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JANUARY 28, 2013

This post first appeared 1/24/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership : The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. How can CEOs avoid ending up on the “Worst CEOs of 2013”? It’s worth taking one last look at 2012?s s poor performers to see what we can learn for this year.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

In the NFL, the 2013 Denver Broncos were built to win, but couldn't handle the poised Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. We have the opportunity to do very well in the coming year - but we have to earn every customer's business and earn our employees' hearts, every day this year, all over again."

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MARCH 29, 2018

Andrew Leigh is a co-founder of Maynard Leigh Associates ( www.maynardleigh.com ) and author of numerous books on management and leadership, including Ethical Leadership ( Kogan Page 2013). Ethical Leadership suggests ways in which leaders and managers can improve and manage the ethical culture in their organizations.

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MARCH 27, 2014

In 2013, he founded The BRIEF Lab as a specialty institute to help business and military leaders become lean communicators. He founded and serves as managing director of The Sheffield Company, an award-winning boutique agency recognized for its focus on narrative messaging and visual storytelling.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

This post first appeared 8/22/2013 in Smartblog on Leadership : It’s usually a good management rule of thumb not to get too friendly with your employees or to sleep with them. However, according to the 2007 Census Bureau survey of business owners, there are 3.7 million businesses that are run by couples.

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JULY 29, 2013

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money.

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MAY 25, 2017

A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.)

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DECEMBER 25, 2012

December: 25 Coaching Questions to Create your 2013 Leadership Development Plan. November: 10 Questions and Answers for Managers about Praise. It's so easy, so effective, yet so under-used. I sure hope this one helped close the "want-got" gap for a few employees. This one helped me sharpen my coaching skills.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

UNH is offering two extraordinary leadership development programs in April and the Fall of 2013: The UNH Next Level Executive Development Program. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Author Bio: August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, award winning writer and author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing; July 2013).

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. Failure – The Foundation of Success When is the last time you celebrated a success at work? Now how about the last time you celebrated a failure? For most of us, the answer to this question is probably never.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

He is the author of four books, his latest: Inspired People Produce Results – (McGraw Hill 2013). Jeremy holds bachelors and masters degrees from Columbia International University. Jeremy lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and two sons. Learn more at www.JeremyKingsley.com.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study. Today, leaders must continuously transform their businesses, while ensuring day-to-day operations are executed with discipline and efficiency. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace.

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MAY 28, 2013

Originally posted at Smartblog on Leadership 5/23/2013: Can a manager be an effective coach? Some (often, professional coaches) say that they can’t and shouldn’t, because they have too much of a vested interest in the outcome of the coaching and couldn’t possibly be neutral enough to hold back on their opinions.

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MAY 16, 2013

Phil is the author of a new book, CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that keep Change Leaders Up at Night (Jossey-Bass, March, 18 2013). He has managed twenty-seven large scale change projects, most recently co-leading global change management for the $19.6

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Achim Nowak is the author of Infectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within (Skyhorse, 2013) and Power Speaking: The art of the Exceptional Public Speaker (Allworth Press). Once learned, they propel us toward more energetic connections with every person we meet. That is powerful indeed!

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APRIL 27, 2017

Brandon Black retired as CEO and Director of Encore Capital Group in 2013. The desire to serve a noble goal is in your DNA, and the energy you will feel when you act on this instinct will elevate your focus, increase your enthusiasm, and amplify the impact of your leadership in profound and powerful ways.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. Why does this matter?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Author Bio: August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, award winning writer and author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing; July 2013).

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

The movies can be a rich source of leadership inspiration and help us identify role models and examples of leadership skills and characteristics that we can choose to develop. Back in 2008 I wrote a post called “ 20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn ”.

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APRIL 14, 2016

In 2013, he met someone new every day. I have taken a coaching tip from Mark Zuckerberg, the boy wonder and CEO of Facebook, and have committed myself to one self-improvement project for this entire year. Every year, Zuckerberg makes a public pledge to improve himself in one very specific way. This year, he is running 365 miles.

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JUNE 27, 2013

© 2013 Bill McBean, author of The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don''t. That''s because the leader is aware of what the signs of failure are and can act quickly and decisively to minimize the problem. He or she can also find ways to turn apparent failure into some type of success.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! You''ve heard of "speed dating"? Well, here''s your monthly dose of "speed leadership development". 30 leadership bloggers in 90 minutes. Try ''em all, it''s the best investment of your time you''ll make today! Dana Theus from InPower Women.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? Ah, if only I had this when I got my first promotion. This list is a keeper!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013). Gina was honored as one of the Power 50 from PMI® - one of the 50 most influential executives in project management, working to move the profession forward and has served on PMI®’s Global Corporate Council as Chair of the Leadership Team.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

More importantly, leaders stopped disconnecting and began to feel empowered.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Their new book is The Alchemy of Authentic Leadership (2013). Sharon Massoth , LCSW, contributing author, is a psychotherapist, business coach and a gifted intuitive. She consults nationally in areas of stress management and intuition for success.

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MAY 12, 2016

Today, Nancy co-owns (with another well-known hippie, Chuck Kesey) Nancy’s Yogurt which made $20 million in 2010 and is responsible for shaping a yogurt and probiotic market in the US that had grown to over $20 billion by 2013.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Respondents from Asia-Pacific were below the average, with only 48 percent saying gender composition was important to their organization.

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MAY 29, 2014

It’s not just co-CEO structures like those at Whole Foods and Chipotle that are getting attention: In late 2013, Zappos announced that it was abandoning hierarchy for “holacracy,” a flat structure without titles where leadership responsibilities ebb and flow among employees.

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