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Leading Thoughts for March 14, 2024

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I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jason Jennings on having a clear destination: “Not having a clear destination means never knowing the steps you need to take to get to where you want to go, never knowing if you’ve arrived or if you’ve achieved what you set out to accomplish.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

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A S workplace cultures evolve, we must specifically prioritize the needs of each human being. An empathetic approach to organizational culture has been proven to have positive business outcomes. Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Decision-Making Habits

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M OST WORK TEAMS have the same silent member who’s constantly dropping the ball. A slacker named “somebody.” Somebody was supposed to call the vendor. Somebody was supposed to check on the competition. Somebody was supposed to consult the boss. But somebody never does anything. Sound familiar? Of course, it does. That’s because you almost certainly have a “somebody” on your team.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

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The titles listed below—published in 2023—capture many of the key themes and trends organizations are wrestling with. In a time of great uncertainty, courage, empathy, love, and a passion to improve the status quo now and forever are required. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it. How many have you read? Burn the Boats : Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential by Matt Higgins (William Morrow, 2023) Executive fellow at Harvard Business School, Guest Sh

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

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T HE contemplation of character has engaged great minds reaching back to Confucius, Aristotle, and Plato. Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. But what has become abundantly clear is that disregarding the science of leaders’ character has led to incredible dysfunction for organizations and society as a whole.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2023 Compilation

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Here is a selection of Posts from November 2023 that you will want to check out: Henry Kissinger, diplomat who helped to reshape the world, dies at 100 5 things that take 5 minutes and will make you a better leader by @suzimcalpine What Have You Said NO To Recently? by @PhilCooke Resilience Forged By Adversity from @JohnBaldoni Team Dynamics: 5 Extremes That Harm Teamwork by @KateNasser 3 Reasons Why You Think Writing a Book is Easier for Other People by @wallybock Fall Back to Reading Series :

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5 Leadership Development Practices to Kick to the Curb

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I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development. Even though the world looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, organizations still cling to strategies and methodologies developed in the 20th century.