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25 Coaching Questions to Create your 2013 Leadership Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers, once you’ve created your own plan, use the questions to coach your employees to create their plans. You manager, a mentor, a coach? How can you find a good course, a book, articles, websites, blogs, podcasts, and other learning resources related to your learning goals? How will you share your plan with your manager?

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Amy received her BA from Harvard and MBA from Yale School of Management. Why does this matter?

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. An open door? Not only was I going to have an Open-Door Policy, I was going to ace it! Shut the Conventional Door. they asked.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. Simple and profoundly wise, Humble Inquiry , the best business book of the year in this category, has the makings of a classic.

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Leaders: Still Making Progress On Your 2013 New Year's Resolution?

Eric Jacobson

Which one of the 70 tips for how to become a more effective leader did you select as a 2013 New Year''s Resolution? This list was published last December in my blog, about the time many leaders were identifying their professional and personal goals for 2013. Read leadership books to learn 51. Have an open door policy 66.

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Ego vs. EQ: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps with Emotional Intelligence Jen Shirkani bibliomotion books + media (2013) How to “open the door to identify your own ego traps with some simple actions to remedy them” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of Mark Goulston’s book, Get Out of […].