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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Managing this Carnival gives me a reason to connect with each of them, keep up with their blogs, and discover some new ones each month. Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents How to stop employee turnover in the first 90 days. “We

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

They tend to resist negative judgment. Feed forward can be a useful tool to apply with managers, peers, and team members. This can lead to very negative – or even career-limiting – unintended consequences when applied to managers or peers. Feed forward is especially suited to successful people.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 45 – Marketing & Sales: Closing the Value Gap

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Before joining the BTS team, Lou had a long career in sales for professional services firms. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. “We don’t have time (or interest) to involve everyone with a stake in the decision.”. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently.

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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All

Harvard Business Review

Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50 th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the book publishing industry, from editorial assistant to associate editor to senior editor, then into management as an editor-in-chief. Mid-Career Crisis. Think about that. You and Your Team.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results.

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Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game?

Harvard Business Review

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Same Game, Different Benefits.