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Big Hammer or Small Blade? What it Really Takes to Achieve Your Goals

RapidStart Leadership

The post Big Hammer or Small Blade? What it Really Takes to Achieve Your Goals appeared first on RapidStart Leadership. If you want to achieve your goals, take a lesson from this craftsman, who turns chunks of gnarly wood into things of beauty.

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Reshaping the Leadership and Culture Development Puzzle

The Practical Leader

.” Abraham Maslow famously observed, “if the only tool you have is a hammer you treat everything as if it were a nail.” ” Many fad champions swing the hammer of the latest big organizational fix with monomaniacal zeal. We start with how leadership team dynamics and culture development are inseparable.

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Is Thought Leadership the Same as Change Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development As the command-and-control model of leadership rapidly gives way to influential leadership styles, let’s look at two leadership models that are available to just about anyone at any level, change leadership and thought leadership. Change Leadership [.]

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. How do we do that? Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively.

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Leading From the Middle

Lead Change Blog

Traditional leadership paradigms are pretty “top down,” but as modern leadership gurus help us see that such hierarchical decision-making structures are reaching their limits, it’s time to start exploring ways that employees can lead from the middle. Leadership Coaching Self Leadership Middle Mutual Encouragement Peers'

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2010

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Leadership Rules : How to Become the Leader You Want to Be by Chris Widener. Faster Cheaper Better : The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman. Succeed : How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Maximize Possibility Blog Home Archives Subscribe The Rainmaker Group About The Rainmaker Group Chris Young Biography Contact The Rainmaker Group Get Daily Inspirational Quotes Maximize Possibility Blog The Rainmaker Group Homepage Alltop. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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