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What the Lance Armstrong Story Teaches About Sustainable Leadership

Next Level Blog

Anyone in the market for a 24” by 36” signed color portrait of Lance Armstrong leading the Tour de France? Over the past several weeks, Armstrong has experienced one of the most dramatic self induced falls from grace ever. I’ve had one on my office wall for four or five years but I’ll be taking it down now.

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Leadership Is About Alignment

Tanveer Naseer

There are as many definitions for leadership as there are companies that have leaders, yet at the core, leadership is about alignment. When you make a decision that does not match the mission and values stated on the company website, then you are out of alignment in your leadership.

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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? Are we growing in similar ways or are they in a market I need to be in, but can’t get into?’. How do their customers and their staff feel about them’.

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

Being a new author, you don’t really know what to expect in terms of book sales, marketing efforts, media exposure, translation rights, etc. And I now have the opportunity to speak to audiences all over the world about the power of storytelling as a leadership tool — all very humbling for a book that started out as a weekend writing project.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Make sure you have at least a fifteen- to thirty-second message that is so salient it will be obvious to reporters that it should be featured in the broadcasts. Use catchy words.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. The five suggestions I put forward in this post have leadership as the core, though I don’t dwell on leadership per se.

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Out with the Old (but Really Great Business Stories), in with the New

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. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?