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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. The Song of Significance : A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin What if we could create the best job someone ever had?

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Hiring a hitman? Now that's extreme employee loyalty. | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

Now that’s extreme employee loyalty. For the past few years, many organizations have been wringing their hands about the rapidly declining sense of employee loyalty (gee, I wonder why?). Now that’s employee loyalty to the extreme. Now that’s extreme employee loyalty. Now that’s extreme employee loyalty.

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Five championship strategies

Lead on Purpose

This is the career record of Larry Gelwix, coach of the Highland High rugby team (Salt Lake City) for more than three decades. Where is your loyalty? This team was featured in the recent movie Forever Strong. Decide what ‘jersey’ you’re going to wear in life, in love, in business, in relationships.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. .&# Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.” How about you?

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Who's The Boss?

Next Level Blog

The result of that is an engrossing article that includes a number of intemperate remarks from the General and his aides which have endangered McChrystal’s career. One of my takeaways from the article is that McChrystal encouraged such fierce and insular loyalty to himself that he damaged his judgment and that of his team.

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Political games in organizations: the ones other people play. Not.

Roundtable Talk

Now that’s extreme employee loyalty. Using materials provided by our colleagues at Coaching Ourselves , our lively group of mid-career leaders explored the topic of politics in organizations and reinforced my own view that “playing the game” is a daily reality in organizations… and may even spill over into your personal life.

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Demotivation: how to make your life as a leader more challenging

Roundtable Talk

Now that’s extreme employee loyalty. Now that’s extreme employee loyalty. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome! ← Hiring a hitman? Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Motivation , Communication and tagged Ken Blanchard , demotivation , One Minute Manager , setting expectations.