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Simone Biles: Mental Health Servant-Leader

Modern Servant Leader

We’ve seen Simone Biles as a leader for gymnasts, the Olympics, and other athletes for years. Now, on the largest stage, in the brightest spotlights, at the peak of her career, Simone threw the biggest punch against one of the greatest evils performers on any stage face: attacks on their mental health. She did it anyway.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? instead of adversaries.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2019

Leading Blog

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019.

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When Passion For Our Job Can Cause Us Harm

The Horizons Tracker

A classic example is Harvard Business School academic Ranjay Gulati’s latest book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , which argues that when we tap into our passions and purpose we’re able to achieve things that might otherwise have completely overwhelmed us.

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Developing Your Personal Brand

Decker Communication

You may have heard of it, but Simon Sinek’s TED talk and book, Start with Why , lay out how every successful business and every inspiring leader has a strong why behind what they do. As you navigate your career, start to develop your own personal brand story. Think of it as a value proposition. Those that focus more on the what (e.g.

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February 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

This month, participants were given a choice of submitting a recent post or tackling the question of coping with external leadership challenges (for example, budget allocations or opposition from community entities). Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog contributed Seven Ways To Sell Your Ideas to Management.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.) For example a poor question is asking, “Is there anything here we need to improve?” For example the following should all be considered symptoms: poor teamwork, low employee engagement, quality issues, unhealthy conflict, customer complaints, lower market share and declining sales numbers.