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Discoverin?g Your Team Member's Talents

Great Leadership By Dan

Doing this will allow you to get the right people on the right bus in the right seats (as Jim Collins would say). Figure this out and help place team members into areas where their talents can be put to full use. As you begin to discover the talents of your team, you’ll see a shift begin to take place. The work environment will change.

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“You’re Just Not Leadership Material”

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Learning from others who have successfully gone before – people like Jim Collins, Bill George and Patrick Lencioni – can save you time and frustration. Communicate strategically. Of course, mastering these skills takes effort and motivation. I also hope my modest business treatise will help point you in the right direction.

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20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn

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For instance, Turregano has used the 1957 drama 12 Angry Men to illustrate Jim Collins' ideas in the best-selling book Good to Great, and the classic It's a Wonderful Life to model Robert Greenleaf's ideas of servant leadership.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

This means people feel “safe” offering different opinions, ideas, suggestions and, as outlined in the research and findings in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, engaging in “vigorous intellectual debate.” Google research on the core factor fostering high performance teamwork finds that a sense of “psychological safety” is key.

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How to Identify Leadership Potential

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s a summary of three studies on how to identify leadership potential: Development Dimensions International DDI has developed a set of criteria that they say will accurately predict executive success, based on their own experience and research, and research by others, including work by Jim Collins for his book Good to Great ; Morgan W.

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Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

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In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company?