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The Wisdom of Booker T. Washington

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

B ooker T. Washington (1856–1915), the first African-American to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. Washington was born into slavery to a slave mother and a white plantation owner in Franklin County, Virginia. He became a national figure with his Atlanta Address of 1895, in which he advocated vocational education for blacks as a way to improve race relations, making him a popular spokesperson for African-American citizens.

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Ronald Reagan on Leadership

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FEBRUARY 6, 2011

R onald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born one hundred years ago today, February 6. In nearly every poll he is regarded, with Washington and Lincoln, as one of the three best presidents America has ever had. This is due in large part because he governed with focused self-confidence and he never considered his position to place him above those he led.

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. While reflection seems to have no place in a competitive business environment, it is where meaning is created, behaviors are regulated, values are refined, assumptions are challenged, intuition is accessed, and where we learn about who we are.

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4 Building Blocks of Courage

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As the globe begins to shake faster and faster, the answer is not to hunker down and erect barriers, but to take action. “Our world needs leaders capable of collaborating with other cultures sand taking prudent risks to create a new range of opportunities,” says Blythe McGarvie author of Shaking the Globe. That kind of leadership requires courage. McGarvie describes courage as a firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty.

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Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 4

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In the final part of this series, Marshall Goldsmith explains the relevancy of reflection in today’s world. It has always been a vital ingredient to success, but it becomes critical in the age of the knowledge worker. Jeremy Hunter teaches courses on The Practice of Self-Management at The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

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Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part I

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

John Kotter begins this series on reflection by talking about the need to develop a reflective habit and why we don’t. Are we spending our time on the right issues? Are we delegating issues we should not be working on that could be better dealt with more locally in the organization? Kotter also stresses its importance as a continual learning tool. John Baldoni urges us to make the time to reflect to gain perspective.

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Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 3

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In part three of this series, James Strock talks about the importance of taking time “off” from one’s customary activities. He also gives insight into gaining perspective through reflection. Mark Sanborn talks about the essential nature of making time to think so that we might learn and gain insight from our experiences. He lists some areas we should be thinking about so that we might get the most out of our time reflecting.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2011

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. As One by Marhdad Baghai and James Quigley. Split-Second Persuasion : The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds by Kevin Dutton. My Life in Leadership : The Journey and Lessons Learned Along the Way by Frances Hesselbein. Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm.

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Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Frances Hesselbein is a remarkable leader because she doesn’t try to get others to think of her as a leader, she tries to get others to think of themselves as leaders. Reading her autobiography, My Life in Leadership , I was struck by the importance she places on inclusion, respect, civility, decency, honor, honesty and faithfulness. It’s not surprising then, that she never thought of herself as a “woman leader,” but always as “a leader who is a woman.

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Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 2

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In part two of this series, Tom Asacker philosophizes about the nature of reflection. His insights help us to understand that until we start to see our connection to reality, core changes rarely happen. Have we given the proper consideration to the impact of what we do? Then, Brian Orchard emphasizes the need to slow down enough to absorb what we are experiencing.

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Socrates on Communication

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Bettany Hughes, author of The Hemlock Cup —a fascinating portrait of Socrates and Athenian society—says that “He reminds us to keep debating the meaning of life, to keep questioning, to keep speaking to one another, to keep looking for answers. However you value him, you cannot argue with the central tenet of his philosophy. Because he beseeches mankind not to be thought-less.”.

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Making the Transition From Bud to Boss

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Often, when we are given a formal leadership role a couple of questions come to mind: Will they take me seriously? and How can I develop the influence I need to do this job? A promotion changes the scope of the kinds of things we have to think about. It changes the degree to which we have to regulate our behaviors, conversation and opinions. In short, it changes our relationship with everyone around us.

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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Outrageous Fortunes is a book about what in economic terms, could be. It is a provocative guide to global trends. Instead of focusing on moment–by-moment market predictions, author Daniel Altman, looks at deeper, underlying economic factors that we frequently overlook in the short-term view. Fundamentally, he states that “ over long periods of time, countries with similar deep factors tend to reach similar limits of growth and prosperity.”.

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2011 Compilation

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2011: @Bill_George: I discussed Apple's Jobs succession plan on @bloomberg yesterday, today the Atlantic continues debate. Tactics Are the New Strategy in @incmagazine. Leadership and Knowledge Management by @mikemyatt. Thought provoking from @David_Gergen: Leadership That Longfellow Would Appreciate. What is Your Leadership Limiting Factor?

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Leading As One: Generating Collective Behavior

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To be successful in the world we’re entering, we will need a new set of mental models. While these new models should not exclude the possibility of commanding and controlling, they need to encompass a much wider range of possibilities. —Thomas Malone, The Future of Work. The challenge facing any leader is turning individual action into collective power.

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The Power of Meeting People Where They Are

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

In Split-Second Persuasion , Cambridge psychologist Kevin Dutton asks why some of us better at the art of persuasion than others. He recounts a story about Winston Churchill’s encounter with war hero James Allen Ward that illustrates the power of meeting people where they are: In the summer of 1941, Flight Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded a Victoria Cross for clambering onto the wing of his Wellington bomber and—while flying 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee—extinguishing a fire in the starb

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The Wisdom of Booker T. Washington

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

4 Building Blocks of Courage

Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 4

Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part I

Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 3

First Look: Leadership Books for February 2011

Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part 2

Socrates on Communication

Making the Transition From Bud to Boss

Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

LeadershipNow 140: February 2011 Compilation

Leading As One: Generating Collective Behavior

The Power of Meeting People Where They Are

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