December, 2012

Engaging Leader

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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

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'©iStockphoto.com/AnsonLu. Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries.

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017: Engaging Lincoln Part 2: 6 Tactics to Be an Extraordinary Communicator

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'©BigStockPhoto.com/rblekicki. In the second part of the two-part Engaging Lincoln series, Jesse and Marty continue their analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s leadership by exploring the techniques he used to be a truly extraordinary communicator. Lincoln’s communication skills were central to his ability to lead a divided nation and to engage a divided people.

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016: Engaging Lincoln Part 1: 5 Secrets Nearly Anyone Can Use to Be an Extraordinary Leader

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'©BigStockPhoto.com/ez-photo. This is the first of a two-part series examining the leadership of one of the top-two greatest presidents in U.S. history, Abraham Lincoln. Jesse and Marty discuss the leadership principles followed by Lincoln during the Civil War to engage a severely divided nation. Lincoln may have been a genius, but nearly anyone can use these five secrets to be an extraordinary leader: Get the right people on the bus, and then give them full authority to make decisions appropr

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