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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

Lead Change Blog

Jayden,* a newly appointed supervisor, approached me with a question at the end of a leadership program. The same is true for your leadership career. Your mission statement should include powerful verbs that reflect your vocation and the people you serve. What can I do to advance quickly as a leader in my company?”

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Unemotional Leadership—an Oxymoron

Lead on Purpose

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me. The Components of Charisma.

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It is the genuine nature of their subtle & quiet charisma/presence, and not the decibel level of their rhetoric that draws you in. While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. It was C.S. link] Ovidiu What a GREAT article!

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Nominations Being Accepted for Exceptional Women in Business.

Women on Business

According to today’s press release from Veuve Clicquot, the award recognizes successful British businesswomen with judges focusing on the following qualities: Achievement Motivational ability Innovation Creativity Business acumen Entrepreneurship Dynamism Charisma A profound concern for the sustainable growth of her business and development of (..)

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh? Do you have great vision?

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You Don’t Need Charisma to Be an Inspiring Leader

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every leader wishes they had the power to inspire people to change. The problem is that most leaders believe that in order to inspire other people, they must exude the uncommon charisma of someone like Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?