Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration. I call these attributes “The Big Four.”.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Last year, The Conference Board published a report with the subtitle “America’s Unhappy Workers.” ” The report pictured storm clouds on its cover and concluded that employee satisfaction was at its lowest point since The Conference Board began surveying it more that 20 years ago.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Deb Calvert ( People First Productivity Solutions ) The master skill for leaders is ability to learn. They can be learned, absorbed, honed. Leaders are learners.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel, not the senior partner in the law firm, is now often the go-to counselor for the CEO and the board on law, ethics, public policy, corporate citizenship, and country and geopolitical risk. Inside teams emphasize value, quality and productivity, beyond controlling (or abolishing) sheer billable hours.

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