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The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

The goal is to achieve collaboratively what you could never achieve individually, and to do that, you need to care about the people you’re working with. Grants example is instructive for us today. Blog Post ). They didn’t always make for great television. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016. Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Goal Setting: Crash Test Dummy Edition

RapidStart Leadership

But too often these goals fall by the wayside before the snow has had a chance to melt. With all the writing I’ve been doing recently on goals, I thought it might be fun to put my money where my mouth is, set a New Year’s goal of my own in a public way, and see if I can stick to it. Make small sub-goals. Define Success.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

O VER THE PAST FEW DECADES, we’ve seen several examples of “brand renegades.” Our end goal was to hire not only the artist and body piercer with the most talent but someone who understood and could adapt to our company culture. These are the industry disruptors who have changed how business is conducted in distinctly powerful ways.

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What Disengaged Employees Would Say to the Boss (If They Could Be Honest)

Michael Lee Stallard

In 2017 you need to understand why and make changes that will boost employee engagement. Include us in goal setting. You work hard to set our department’s annual goals and achieve them. We want you to include us in planning our department’s goals. Align our individual goals with department goals.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Reflection that is not translated into new and consistent action is a recipe for failure if the goal is helping people to learn a new skill. Many leadership development trainings do not accurately define or describe what leadership is – and without a clear definition of your goal, it is impossible to effectively improve or measure.

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The You Matter Marathon’s Next Step

Lead Change Blog

I had the opportunity recently to donate to a famine-relief fund whose goal is to address the humanitarian crisis occurring in ten countries spanning Africa and Yemen. This year, the goal of the You Matter Marathon is to give out 1-Million You Matter cards. View the YMM 2017 Preview Webinar. It all helped. It all helped.

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From Words to Worth: Navigating the True North of Organizational Values

Mike Cardus

Strategies Rooted in Evidenced-Based Research and Contextual Understanding Discover, Do not Impose : Align with the insight that you cannot ‘set’ organizational values but can only discover them (Cardus, 2017). Emphasize competencies that foster trust, uphold promises, and lead by example. 2017, November 19).

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