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JANUARY 31, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: So what do lionesses have to do with leadership lessons? One of my big loves in life, other than my husband, is travel. My husband and I have had the opportunity to travel throughout the world and one of our favorite places is Africa. We enjoy the wildlife and experiencing the vast cultures of the indigenous tribes.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. For most Carnivals, I'd suggest that readers just skim the headlines and pick and choose from the list. However, for this special edition, why not read them ALL?

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AUGUST 8, 2013

'Guest post from Bill Treasurer: A lot of leaders default to creating duplicates at the top. It’s natural to gravitate toward, and develop bonds with, people who look like, talk like, and think like we do. So a lot of leaders end up promoting people who are just like them in gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disposition, and education. It’s just plain easy to want to be around members of one’s own tribe.

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JUNE 18, 2013

'"Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.". — John Wayne. Does courage matter? According to most of the research on leadership effectiveness I’ve seen, courage ranks pretty high as an important leadership characteristic. These are tough times, and tough times require courageous leaders. We all know this, right? We sure know it when we don’t see it.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

This post was first published 1/1/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership: Having trouble coming up with a good leadership New Year’s resolution? Here’s a list of 10 to pick from. These are things that leaders know they “should” do but often don’t. Don’t overdo it – just pick one and commit to it! Feel free to submit your own in the comments section – there’s nothing like a public declaration to help hold yourself accountable.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

“Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.”. - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle. I just created this learning and development model based on 20-plus years of training, coaching, and mentoring others.

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APRIL 2, 2013

This post was recently published on SmartBlog on Leadership: In all of the work I’ve done in management development over the last 20-plus years, if I had to pick the one thing that managers at all levels either won’t do, can’t do, should do or could do it better, it’s having the will and skill to sit down with an employee and have the tough conversation about performance.

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MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. Maybe it was the message or maybe it was that I had 5 hours to think about it as I hiked up Half Dome later that morning, but 25 years later I can still recall it clearly. The reverend’s message was that if you find yourself in a position where you have the opportunity to help another person recognize their own limiting behavior, and make

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the final minutes of the recent Super Bowl, 49ers coach Harbaugh was upset about a holding penalty on Michael Crabtree that he thought should have been called. After the game, he said “there was no question in my mind there was a pass interference, and then a hold on the last play.”. What would professional football be without good officiating? From Coach Harbaugh’s perspective, it would be the difference between winning and losing the most important game of the season.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

'Guest post from Rich Wellins , SVP DDI: If one word could describe the job of being a frontline leader today, it would be “harder.” Growing. demands for greater productivity, more innovation, and doing more with less have made leading at the frontline more challenging than ever. And these same demands have made their roles more critical to the success of our organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

'“For to be free is not merely to cast off one''s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”. - Nelson Mandela. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”. - Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence).

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JUNE 24, 2013

'“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. - Fortune’s. Thomas Stewart. You would think that given the rock-solid evidence that organizations with great leadership consistently outperform those that don’t that EVERY organization would be heavily invested in the development of its current and future leaders.

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MAY 7, 2013

'When it comes to understanding how to balance the need to keep a sharp eye on the bottom line and keep a workforce fully satisfied and productive, some managers and companies seem to get it while others don’t have a clue. There’s a ton of research and surveys that prove the following: Satisfied employees = satisfied customers = profitable companies.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Guest post from Eduard Ezeanu : Expressing vulnerability is an interesting experience; especially for a leader. When you express vulnerability, you expose your weaknesses as a person and as professional, making yourself more open to any potential external attack. When I coach people in management and leadership positions, more often than not I discover that they dread expressing vulnerability because of this.

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APRIL 11, 2013

'Guest post by Ray Attiyah: I had a conversation a few days ago with somebody about how to create an engaged workforce. His. company had a huge collection of training material, charts, books, pamphlets, and seminar schedules that they passed out to their people. But even with all of these resources, they were having trouble with a more basic issue – defining an engaged workforce.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Targets of Bully Bosses Aren’t the Only Victims, New UNH Research Shows. First-Ever Study Shows Impact of Abusive Supervisor Extends to Victim’s Co-Workers. DURHAM, N.H. – Abusive bosses who target employees with ridicule, public criticism, and the silent treatment not only have a detrimental effect on the employees they bully, but they negatively impact the work environment for the co-workers of those employees who suffer from “second-hand” or vicarious abusive supervision, according to new res

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

'Guest post from Ken Nowack : “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” - Anonymous Recent studies confirm that emotional hurt and rejection, whether part of social interactions or the perception of inequitable and unjust workplace conditions can actually trigger the same neurophysiologic pathways associated with physical pain and suffering (Eisenberger, Lieberman, & Williams, 2003).

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JULY 22, 2013

'A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). An IDP usually defines what you want to get better at and why and how you’re going to get better. Studies on goal attainment prove over that over that people with written, specific plans are more likely to achieve their goals. Most IDPs are written for a one-year time horizon, sometimes even less.

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JUNE 13, 2013

'Guest post by James Lawther : On the 25 th January 1990, Avianca flight 52 from Bogotá to New York crash-landed on the village of Cove Neck, Long Island, New York. Seconds before the crash all four of the plane’s engines stopped working. ·. There was nothing wrong with the plane. ·. There was nothing wrong with the pilots. ·. There was nothing wrong with airport.

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MAY 28, 2013

'Originally posted at Smartblog on Leadership 5/23/2013: Can a manager be an effective coach? Some (often, professional coaches) say that they can’t and shouldn’t, because they have too much of a vested interest in the outcome of the coaching and couldn’t possibly be neutral enough to hold back on their opinions. Then again, a lot of managers think they are already coaching when what they are really doing is a lot of teaching, advising and telling — or, worst case, micromanaging (think Pointy Ha

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

'Last week I asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. And boy, did they ever! Over 50 responses in just two days and more coming in every day! I’m going to do my best to get to as many as I can. Those that get picked for a post will receive a free copy of my eBook. This question from Bridgette: “My organization is going through yet another re-organization.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

'Guest post from David Burkus : In the early 1900s, Navy officer William S Sims had uncovered a better way for sailors to fire mounted guns at targets at sea. The system, originally developed by a British officer and shared with Sims, required reworking some machinery around the weapon and retraining sailors on how to fire the weapon. After the rework was done, however, Sims saw the accuracy of his sailors during target practice increased dramatically.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Guest post from Scott Weiss: Leading an open and collaborative corporate culture can be a tough job. Essentially, you must learn to be a “safety engineer.” Safety engineering simply assures that a critical system behaves as needed, even when components fail. Think of that “critical system” as your company, and those “components” as your employees. If one employee fails, the entire company should not crumble, especially if you have incorporated core values in the system.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

'Guest post by Al Gini and Ronald M. Green : With the great Nelson Mandela struggling with health issues, we’ve been thinking a lot about the general phenomenon of leadership. Mandela is clearly one of the great leaders of our time. His example convinces us that ethical leaders display deep selflessness and an absence of the two deadliest of Pope Gregory the Great’s “seven deadly sins” – pride and envy.

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JULY 25, 2013

'Guest post from Jim DuBreuil: If you Google the term, “business maturity,” you will find lots of discussions about the emergence of social networks to drive new business. You’ll also see information about how a line of business “matures” when you implement an effective model, focus on the right priorities and execute rigorously. But I submit to you that understanding your own personal business maturity can yield significant insight into why you succeed or fail to be viewed as a leader.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

'Guest post from Lisa Demayo: “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible. to achieve: the fear of failure.”. —Paulo Coelhon. Successful people fail. And they fail with frequency. They fail not because they’re not good enough, but because they were brave enough to show up. Failure is one of the most misunderstood concepts in American culture.

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APRIL 4, 2013

'Guest post from Elizabeth Freedman (originally published 12/6/2012 on the Bates Communication blog). Elizabeth is one of the instructors in our upcoming UNH Woman''s Leadership Development program. In my work as an executive coach, I meet at least once a month with each of my coaching clients. I often talk to them on the phone and exchange emails with them as we work on their real-time business challenges.

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MAY 16, 2013

'Guest post from Phil Buckley : Most leaders will lead their organizations through multiple big change projects. Constant change is a business reality and organizations must continually adapt to their environments to stay competitive or risk losing relevance and becoming obsolete. For each change, leaders must define it, create a vision of the post-change world, and mobilize their teams to make it.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

'Guest post from Nicole Lipkin : We all have those days when our words and actions don''t come out the way we intended. Or we take our stress out on others. We intend to give a compliment or a simple criticism and it instead sounds more critical than we really feel. Between friends, a simple “I’m sorry, I’m just stressed lately” can repair these missteps.

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JUNE 11, 2013

'Last week I wrote about a 2003 study conducting by the Learning and Development Roundtable that found that managers who are very effective at employee development can outperform their peers by up to 25%. It may have surprising to many that the “manager-led development” activity that had the great return on investment (19.8%) was “ Explaining performance evaluation standards ”.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

'This post first appeared in Smartblog on Leadership on 10/24: I feel like I’m a little out of my element when it comes to giving recruiting advice. While I’ve written over 700 posts on leadership and leadership development, I tend to steer clear of hiring topics and defer to the real experts, like Jennifer McClure , my friends at Fistful of Talent and a gazillion others in this space.

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JULY 18, 2013

'Guest post by Joseph Lalonde: One of the best things we can do for our team is to discover our team member''s talents. The place where they really shine. The talents of our team members are usually what drives them to excel. Your team will find purpose and meaning when they begin putting their skills to work. The key is discovering the talents of our team members.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

'Guest post from Emmanuel Gobillot: There is one thing all great leaders share. It’s the one thing most leadership books will never tell you about, yet it is also the only thing that can predict whether you will succeed or not. That one thing is obvious when you stop and think about it – followers! Leading is about being followed. Period. Great leadership is about having great followers who exercise their freedom of choice to release their discretionary effort in the pursuit of goal.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

'Guest post by Jen Shirkani : I write about the damage done when, as leaders, we don’t fully allow employees to have control over their tasks, projects or budgets. Everyone I know says they hate being micromanaged, and we certainly don’t want to list “control freak” as a skill to be endorsed for on our LinkedIn profile page. Yet, there are signs of low trust/high control managers everywhere.

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APRIL 17, 2013

'The success of his nighttime ride almost 240 years ago is a testament to effective matrix leadership skills–and a lesson for today’s leaders. Guest post by Signe Spencer, Hay Group. A few months ago, I would never have considered Paul Revere a useful example of a matrix leader. I always thought of him as the prototypical lone hero, galloping through the night shouting “the British are coming,” more or less at random, to rouse the countryside.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'Guest post from Jean-Marc Laouchez , Hay Group: “Banking is no longer somewhere that you go, it’s something that you do.” - Brett King, Banking 3.0. When was the last time you visited a bank branch? My kids have never seen the inside of one. Chances are they never will. Brett King’s quote sums up the total revolution sweeping through financial services.

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APRIL 25, 2013

'Guest post by Harrison Coerver: Many membership organizations and not-for-profits are struggling to maintain their relevance in today’s fast changing environment. Unprecedented competition, higher expectations, accelerating technology, changing preferences and time pressures are all converging to create a challenging landscape. At the root of the problem: weak, hidebound board leadership.

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