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Great Leadership Qualities

Career Advancement

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Which qualities would you say are most necessary for people to develop if they wish to become key leaders in their organization ? —Vince Lombardi.

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Six Qualities That Embody Excellent Educational Leaders

Strategy Driven

Today, we’ll explore six essential qualities that embody excellence in educational leaders. Six Qualities of Excellent Educational Leaders 1. Are Continuous Learners The commitment to continuous and lifelong learning is an essential quality of excellent leaders that sets them apart from the crowd.

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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

Leading Blog

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require? They came to realize that they needed middle managers more than ever.

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4 Steps to Improve Quality and Safety

Michael Lee Stallard

Many “programs” over the years have focused on tasks but overlook the important role that relationships play in achieving high levels of quality and safety. Here are four steps to improve quality and safety by being intentional about achieving both task excellence and relationship excellence. Step 1 – Begin With Humility.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Consider the timelessness of these key qualities: Eight Characteristics of Excellent Companies. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. However, treating the customer with love is the best way to boost the bottom line in the long run. Perhaps not.

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Management Tools For Leaders: The Pareto Principle

Rich Gee Group

Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control, and improvement, naming it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896. Take the bottom 80% and also total the income. Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule or the law of the vital few.

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The Attitude of Quality

QAspire

A retail outlet of a leading shoe brand recently opened up in near vicinity. In a knowledge/service oriented world, quality of product, environment and infrastructure is just the beginning. Quality of interaction, quality of care, quality of being human, quality of walking that extra mile to delight the customer matters more.

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