Great Leadership By Dan

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Leaders: Tame the Brain’s Fight-or-Flight Response and Give Helpful Feedback

Great Leadership By Dan

The task of giving feedback triggers so much fear and trepidation that brain cells rush from the frontal cerebral cortex where the brain’s reasoning ability is coordinated toward the emotional parts of the brain where cortisol and other emergency chemicals are shot off to fight or escape the feedback “enemy.”

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Why Great Leadership Requires the Courage to Accept Pain

Great Leadership By Dan

Formerly the Vice President of Leadership Development for a global oil, gas and chemicals inspection company, Angela also serves as principle consultant for the firm Invested Leadership. Angela Sebaly , author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership , a training provider.

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Make Habits, Not Rules

Great Leadership By Dan

More than once, I've seen rules and laws in social systems (such as businesses and societies) being compared to mathematical rules and natural laws in physical and chemical systems. In social systems, it is the habits of people, not laws and procedures, that can best be compared to the rules and laws in physical and chemical systems.

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Overcoming the “Feedback Trifecta” to Communicate Better as a Leader

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Formerly the Vice President of Leadership Development for a global oil, gas and chemicals inspection company, Angela also serves as principle consultant for the firm Invested Leadership, a training provider.

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Leading through the Identity Paradox

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His corporate clients have included AARP, Dow Chemical, Fidelity Investments, Lockheed Martin, Maytag, National Geographic and State Farm Insurance. Larry Ackerman is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity and the pioneer of Identity-Based Management.

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What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about Negotiation

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He dabbled with partners in electric cars, batteries, cement, chemicals, and office machines. Fifty were in countries ranging from Argentina to Canada, from Japan, China, and India to Italy, Germany, and France. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries.

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How Successful People Create Their Own Future

Great Leadership By Dan

Every time you learn something new, your mind physically and chemically changes.” – Joe Dispenza Where we place our attention and focus defines who we are. Nine months later, he was able to walk and function as well as he had before the accident, and he credits a large amount of that recovery to the power of his own mind.