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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. You can build only on strengths.

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Lisa Petrilli: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this interview with Author, Lisa Petrilli: Chapter Title: “Leading with Character by Leading from Within” Lisa Petrilli CEO, C-Level Strategies, Inc. lisapetrilli Get your copy now at thecharacterbasedleader.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iTunes

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

presidents, and author of over four dozen books and one thousand papers summed it up well, “There are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: Those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”. One of the classic books about the forecasting fallacy was written by Dan Gardner.

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The Inner World of the Leader: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

Leading Blog

And why does the belief persist that management is a rational task performed by rational people according to rational organizational objectives? His background in economics, management, and psychoanalysis, adds a great deal of richness and context to the study of leadership. This series of books cannot be read quickly.

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In a World of Bad Behavior, a Call for Personal Accountability

Frank Sonnenberg Online

In a World of Bad Behavior, A Call for Personal Accountability. When I was a boy of about five, I loved thumbing through my grandmother’s nature books. When my grandmother left the room, I carefully and quietly tore the photo out of the book. I confessed that I knew violating one of her books was wrong.

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Are You Struggling to Lead Change? Try This

Frank Sonnenberg Online

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change is not the enemy.

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