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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

Further, this immersion in the technology occurs in the formative years of a person’s higher education and career, when most patterns of social and emotional demeanor are set into personality traits.” ” Dumbing Down by Focusing on the Wrong Smarts Our society admires strength and power. Too many are bully bosses.

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Is the “Silent Killer” Sabotaging Your Performance?

Michael Lee Stallard

Loneliness makes people less sociable, less cooperative and less collaborative, which further isolates them and makes them vulnerable to stress-induced anxiety, depression and suicide. Costco has a reputation for doing the right thing and its employees rightly feel proud, knowing that they are part of an ethical organization.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration.

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents How to stop employee turnover in the first 90 days. “We presents Which of These is Ethical Leadership? The graphic in this post illustrates the point that leaders are interpreting “ethical leadership” at very different levels. Which one of the 3 represents ethical leadership”.

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5 Essential Skills for Contemporary Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Right” in this context implies operating with ethics, integrity, and a positive use of influence others can count on. To do that requires an understanding of healthy conflict and the power of stories, plus a consistent application of c’s: collaborate, cooperate, consider, and contribute. It means building lasting relationships.

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How to Build Trust with Those You Lead

Strategy Driven

The Key to Business and Career Success and as a nationally syndicated columnist on leadership, I share my views on the traits of effective leaders. Stephen Covey, the late motivational speaker, writer, and advisor, once wrote, “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate; we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. About the Author.