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Driven to Lead & Succeed: Four Thoughts on Service & Aspiration

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You aspire to lead and succeed because you desire career advancement. To attain a position of power, responsibility, or expertise that is the mark of a successful professional.… You do both because you wish to bring your craft to the world and to make a dent in your corner of the universe. … Read the rest.

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3 Ways to Build Responsibility Skills In Your Subordinates

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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” ” — Michael Korda. Responsibility is a powerful word and one that’s often times packed with a lot of emotion and unstated expectations.

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Tune-in Tonight! SiriusXM Ch125 @ 9pm Eastern (6p Pacific)

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Lori Mixson began her career in the political world as an aide to the infamous Congressman Charlie Wilson and is often referred to as “The Last Angel” of what was known as “Charlie’s Angels”. Lori Mixson, “the Last Angel” Twitter: @lastangel1970.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

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However, a true leader can be successful in any organization. Whether the leader grew-up in the organization or was transplanted into a new ecosystem, they can utilize sound leadership principles to guide the organization to success. Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer.

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7 Skills for Becoming An Emotionally Intelligent Leader

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Leadership success in one’s career and life requires more than just good technical skills, intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision. Daniel Goleman. These are certainly important and necessary, but they aren’t sufficient.

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Leading the Right Team

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I understand that my last blog, “ Heroe s” was well received by readers and I hope this article is equally successful as I feel it is very important for a leader to have the right team for any organization. I feel very privileged that GeneralLeadership.com asked me to make another contribution on leadership.

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LEARN to be that Somebody

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The founders (and those who would follow them) were so successful at everything they did they quickly became confidants and advisors to kings and emperors around the world. The greater your ability to illuminate, activate and celebrate the capabilities of your team, the greater the likelihood you’ll enhance everyone’s potential for success.