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The 7 Most Popular Leadership and Communication Blog Posts of 2013

leaderCommunicator

Number 4: 5 Truisms About Body Language & How to Manage the Signals You Send in the Workplace. Number 3: AOL CEO Fires Employee During Call Intended to Boost Morale. Number 3: AOL CEO Fires Employee During Call Intended to Boost Morale. In August, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong fired an employee in front of 1,000 other people.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Anne Perschel , from Germane Insights, picked Dear CEO: What's Your 400 Year Business Plan? This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post. Sip slowly and enjoy the read.".

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Business by Perception

Women on Business

This week has been a blur of promotions for the Lance Armstrong interview and I’ve begun to wonder, how do you protect the image of your company when your company is you? Is it reasonable to assume we can manage all of our partnerships and alliances to create a consistent image?

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Armstrong is a principal at Kahler Slater, a global architecture, design, and consulting enterprise specializing in Total Experience Design™. By Barbara T.

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Why Do So Many Managers Forget They’re Human Beings?

Harvard Business Review

Armstrong/Roberts Classic Stock/Getty Images. “Leadership today,” Javier Pladevall, CEO of Audi Volkswagen, Spain, told us, “is about unlearning management and relearning being human.” As leaders, we must be humans before managers. Leadership & Managing People Book. Further Reading.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. Crisis management'

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

How do the best CEOs confront that challenge? For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS. Recently, I watched two CEOs handle similar situations. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .”

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