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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Guest post from Miles Anthony Smith: If we go into management to earn more, have more power/prestige, and work less, we are either naïve or ignorant. (And let’s admit right now that those are precisely the reasons most of us go into management.). 1. Prepare to be Hated. Wise leaders accept that some decisions will be unpopular. If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership probably isn’t for you.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I, and others, have been guilty in the past of making leadership so complicated. Both new and current leaders can become overwhelmed with the long lists of leadership “how tos” and “need tos”. How can any leader master all of these? But does great leadership really have to be so complicated?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In MHO, when it comes to leadership development, the Center for Creative Leadership is second to none. I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? 5 Big Ideas, I got all geeked up and couldn’t wait to dig in.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Sorry, no new post from me this week, I've been traveling on business and with the short Holiday week and other obligations, just couldn't meet my own deadline. However, I'm pleased to offer this part one of a two part post from regular Great Leadership guest Rick Lash, from Hay Group. Happy Thanksgiving to all of my U.S. readers! Imagine that you are going sledding on a toboggan.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. as team's defensive coordinator. For those of you that don’t follow the National Football League (or sports), Crennel is the Head Coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, the worst team in the NFL right now.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Here's part 2 on mental maps from Hay Group's Rick Lash : Last week, we talked about mental maps – what they are, how we build them and the necessity of updating mental maps to match our professional development. Our mental maps help us to navigate society by allowing us to build experience-based expectations of the world. We learn to predict the likes and dislikes of spouses, whether or not we can depend on a coworker to get a job done right and what constitutes acceptable behavior at cocktail

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Praise is one of the most misunderstood, powerful, and underutilized management skills. The following is a reenactment of an actual coaching conversation I had with a manager. 1. What is “praise”? Just what exactly are we talking about here? Giving praise means telling someone about something positive that they did. Other common terms for praise include positive recognition, positive feedback, a complement, appreciation, a pat on the back, props, kudos, WERK, toot, and yadah. 2.

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