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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. A few years ago, Ed Whitacre took over as CEO at General Motors even though he had limited experience in the automotive industry. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else.

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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Lessons for Leaders from Decisions that Changed History

Skip Prichard

Where is leadership when we need it? “Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.” –Jan-Benedict After studying, researching, and writing so much on leadership, what is your definition? Leadership is “the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.”