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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

On the topic of the most important qualities in leaders, Eileen believes that leaders must be honest and have the abilities to deeply listen and clearly communicate, along with the willingness to admit error. Previous 2016 Featured Instigators: 11/2016: Ann Van Eron. 10/2016: Will Lukang. 8/2016: Susan Mazza.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Regardless of leadership style, many executives would agree that empathy is a basic and very important quality of a successful leader.

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Engaging your Team: The Science of Inspiring Others to Give their All

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Suzanne Bates: When I started my first career in television news so many years ago, the term “employee engagement” had been invented. I worked hard, stayed late, and gave my all, because I was on a mission to excel in my career and do something that mattered. But it was irrelevant to me. It’s a pressing issue.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and talent. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” Culture and Mission.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Not just your average quality Joe. It says the same thing, [showing how the brand offers] a line of full bean coffee that is stringently picked and identified by quality growers in Colombia.”. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella.

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