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10 Management Lessons from Harry Potter

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Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership To conclude this summer’s Harry Potter mania, it seems fitting to study the HR implications of J.K. Rowling’s seven volumes. Her novels explore human nature, communication dynamics, moral dilemmas, and social issues, so why not use them as a source of business inspiration? 10 Management Lessons from Harry Potter.

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Leadership: Production vs. Consumption

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Posted in Leadership Development Leaders Produce Leadership influences others to do things they might not otherwise do. Good leaders influence others for mutual benefit. Effective leaders simply influence. (See this post for further definition.) All leadership development aims to a point in the future when the student becomes a producer. The training, coaching, content or instruction points to a [.

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In Leading, There is No Substitute For Human Connection

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Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development One of my clients had recently started experimenting with how he responded to customer requests. His customers were co-workers —people internal to the company. He had been finding himself increasingly annoyed and impatient at their requests, and he wanted to change that. To his credit, he knew most of the annoyance he felt was simply [.

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I’m Listening as Loud as I Can

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Posted in Leadership Development Facebook is my guilty pleasure. I admit it. I probably spend too much time on Facebook. I probably spend too much time using social media period, but Facebook is my favorite. I love talking to people, cracking jokes, wryly observing the world, learning, laughing, and crying with friends. An old friend commented on my excessive [.

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Personal Humility and Professional Will

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Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership [link] Stephan De Villiers (LCG, Twitter) wrote an interesting post at Increment Success blog about character-based leadership. He quotes Jim Collins: A Level 5 leader is an individual who blends extremen personal humility and intense professional will. Stephan uses a slightly different definition of character-based leadership that we do here at Lead Change.

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Bachelor’s Degree as a Defining Moment

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Posted in Leadership Development Tell us about your defining moment or moments as a leader. That was the question asked at a panel breakfast sponsored by Lead Change Tulsa last week. So we asked the question on LinkedIn and got this response from Contributing Member Katie Stroud. “A&# defining moment for me was the day my mom met up [.] Bachelor’s Degree as a Defining Moment.

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Leadership Qualities

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Posted in Leadership Development Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Leadership Qualities.

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