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Leader Isolation: 6 Ways to Conquer Loneliness at the Top

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As Jim Collins says in Good to Great , to give credit, leaders look out the window; to assign blame, they look in the mirror. Collins Click To Tweet. Any attempt to pass the blame to peers or mentors will immediately backfire and you are likely to find yourself more lonely than before. Leader Isolation – The Takeaway.

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Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful

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Want to boost team performance? Here are three things leaders can learn from engineers who have figured out how to make jet engines go faster. The post Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Who’s Your Second? Are We Really Leading, or Just in Charge?

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Are you indispensable? Should you be? We make the plans, give the orders, follow-up on everybody and everything. Nothing happens without our say-so. The machine is humming and we are at the controls. It feels like leadership. Holding it All Together Stanley was charismatic and brilliant. Taking … Who’s Your Second?

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