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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. For example, IBM hired Lou Gerstner as CEO in 1990s rather than promoting from within. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. You have less energy to think about strategy.

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. I can’t say I’ve met anyone with your level of understanding for authentic, compassionate leadership. So just a great example of a well done. How can I give them that energy? ( 00:00 ).

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director. HR Rising: From Ownership to Leadership by Steve Browne. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

What great leadership does is to use presence (demeanor an modeling), practices and processes to multiply E.I., The answers will sound simple yet applying the insights to multiply effective intelligence will take all three forms of critical leadership capacity: guts, heart and head. of your team, your department and your organization?

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director. HR Rising: From Ownership to Leadership by Steve Browne. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins.

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Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

Leading Blog

Reading her autobiography, My Life in Leadership , I was struck by the importance she places on inclusion, respect, civility, decency, honor, honesty and faithfulness. An example for all would-be leaders to follow. My Life in Leadership is full of lessons. Her mantra is, “to serve is to live.” Ask, don’t tell.”

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Great Customer Service is Not Grumpy, Grouchy or Gross | Navigator Newsletter #173

Chart Your Course

Most businesses spend more time and energy trying to find new customers than retaining and making their current ones happy. Let me provide you an example of what I am talking about.I In the book, From Good to Great, Jim Collins said, “People are not your most important asset, the RIGHT people are.”