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How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

A manager that took an interest in your career, challenged you to be your best, and believed in your potential to grow? We will, but the rest of the tips won’t work as well if your employees don’t trust that you have their backs or you’re not using development as a hammer. OK, so when are we going to get to the pragmatic “hows”?

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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When a Leader Is Causing Conflict, Start by Asking Why

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes. Charles Orr/Getty Images. He was described as arrogant, tactlessly blunt, and lacking empathy. Have a broad repertoire of solutions.