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If You Live Well, You Lead Well.

Coaching Tip

Personal leadership is the self-confident ability to crystallize your thinking and establish an exact direction for your own life, to commit yourself to moving in that direction, and then to take determined action to acquire, accomplish or become whatever you identify as the ultimate goal in your life." and vice versa. Related articles.

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How to Get Ahead: Self-Directed Learning

N2Growth Blog

It’s laughable by today’s standards, but, back in 1988, I spent countless hours in the New York City Library doing the research needed to complete my first book…and, it was that first book that launched my career. You have to be committed to do whatever it takes to learn what you want to learn.

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4 Reasons to Lead with Questions

Michael Lee Stallard

Over my career I’ve witnessed time and again how people who are ordered to implement a set of actions do so with little commitment and effort. Another worthwhile resource is Peter Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions by Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein and Joan Snyder Kuhl. Talking Improves Engagement. And what else?

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5 Steps to Develop Team Goals

Skip Prichard

Adapted, and reprinted with permission from Career Press. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results. ” -Peter Drucker. Patrick is President of Fulcrum Connection LLC, and is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and professional speaker.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Work with your team members to get their input on how their jobs can be enriched and broadened to align with their personal strengths, passions, and career goals. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively.

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3 Ways to Encourage Knowledge Flow

Michael Lee Stallard

Lafley’s long career in marketing had taught him how to glean insights by listening to P&G’s customers. They wanted a renewed commitment to marketing, more time to listen to customers, the results of programs to determine rewards rather than the quantity of programs launched and more disciplined market planning.

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Leadership Requires Followership

Coaching Tip

For Peter Drucker, leadership is about communicating with people , uniting them behind a shared mission and values, and mobilizing energies toward accomplishing the mission or purpose of an organization. To lead is to make an emotional connection on a very real and human level in every interaction. It's all about the people.