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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

Great Leadership By Dan

you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. Now we are looking at leadership opportunities that might not have been previously considered. When we ask broad questions, we invite a lot of wasted energy. 360-degree feedback was too specific.

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Does It Have to Be Perfect or Can It Be Good Enough?

Next Level Blog

Knowing how and when to satisfice is an important skill to have not just for driving productivity but for keeping yourself and your team sane. What have you been learning lately about allocating the time, attention and energy of yourself and your team across the spectrum of “good enough” solutions and “perfect” solutions?

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Powerful Combinations: Drive for Results and Builds Relationships

The Practical Leader

We were discussing Zenger Folkman’s powerful research on the statistical correlations and interactions of leadership behaviors. I wrote about this evidence-based leadership approach last month in Leadership Cross-Training is Powerful and Revolutionary. We all have weak spots and lesser skills.

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We Like Leaders Who Underrate Themselves

Harvard Business Review

The Stanford Graduate School of Business asked the members of its Advisory Council which skills were most important for their MBA students to learn. The most frequent answer was self-awareness — possessing an accurate view of your skills, abilities, and shortcomings, as well as understanding how other people perceive your behavior.

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Three Ways Leaders Make Emotional Connections

Harvard Business Review

Chris Abramson excelled in one of the most important — and most misunderstood — of leadership skills: making an emotional connection. Leadership has everything to do with how you relate to others and the quality and texture of those relationships. It's about making a human connection — one person to another.

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A 6-Part Structure for Giving Clear and Actionable Feedback

Harvard Business Review

He was the classic glad-handing, backslapping, high-energy salesman. After receiving some 360-degree feedback, we met to discuss the data. Now he was deploying the same skill with employees. His greatest asset was his large, extroverted personality. But they never would have happened without some sort of structure.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to those who contributed the many excellent posts on leadership practices, the workplace environment and personal mastery. And a special thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for the invitation to host this carnival.