Sat.Oct 08, 2011 - Fri.Oct 14, 2011

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Building Leadership Trust

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By Guest Author Mike Figliuolo, author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. . People follow leaders they trust. Trust is based on predictability. Sharing a clear, compelling leadership philosophy is the best way to become more predictable to your team (to see if your team trusts you, take this simple Trusted Leader Assessment ). .

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Your Genius

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Are you a genius? This very question was asked at the 2010 TEDGlobal Conference in a powerful talk that redefined genius as something we all have, but need to find within. "No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." James Russell Lowell. Yet, we've been conditioned to believe that geniuses are something we only read about in history books; Einstein and Mozart but not us.

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Creative Thinkering for Logical Thinkers

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by Guest Author Michael Michalko. We are educated to be analytical, logical thinkers. Consequently, we have the ability to make common associations between subjects that are related or at least remotely related. We are far better at associating two things (for example, apples and bananas are both fruits) than we are at forcing ourselves to see connections between things that seem to have no association (for example, a can opener and a pea pod).