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LeadershipNow 140: March 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2016 that you might have missed: Max DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker by Michael Graber @southerngrowth. The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make : From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner. The Dilemma Of The Servant Leader by @LollyDaskal.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part Two)

Lead Change Blog

In this post , I presented three reality checks leaders must give themselves in 2016. Here are the last two of five reality checks that will help you gauge your leadership aptitude and assess whether changes need to be made going into 2016. In today’s post, I complete the list of five with two more. What makes me tick?

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

Today, I am sharing three reality checks that will help you gauge your leadership aptitude and assess whether changes need to be made going into 2016. Reality Check #1: Leaders Can’t Motivate People, They Can Only Inspire Them to Motivate Themselves. Do immediate managers/supervisors seem to care about them as people?

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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. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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Creating Unexpected Wins: Leadership Lessons from “Team Short People”

RapidStart Leadership

During the summer of 2016, I served on a trail crew with the South-West Conservation Corps in Salida, Colorado. So naturally, we pushed harder, and managed to set our log down five feet beyond where they had stopped — just to spite them. Goliaths of the world beware. One Summer, 11,000 ft Above Sea Level…. Share your comments below.

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Why the Need to Build Relationships is a Myth

Strategy Driven

It’s now 2016. Buyers cannot buy unless they have managed their internal change management journey that. And the myth of being a ‘Relationship Manager’ or ‘creating a relationship’ is supposed to show buyers why they should choose us over the competition. And buyers needed sellers for information and relevance.

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Listening Biases: How Influencers Unwittingly Restrict Possibilities

Strategy Driven

Note: for those who want to manage this problem, I’ve developed a work-around in Chapter 6 of What? ). Sellers, coaches, leaders, and managers often enter conversations with expectations and goals rather than collaboratively setting a viable frame and together discovering possibility. Entering Conversations Without Bias.