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Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership

Leading Blog

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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Business Chemistry: What Type Are You?

Leading Blog

Using the key sticking points between people, they identify 4 Working Styles : Pioneers value possibilities and they spark energy and imagination. The authors naturally go into detail on each of these types and give an example of a well-known person that fits that type. They’re outgoing, spontaneous, and adaptable.

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Why Character-Based Leadership? (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

In a previous post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. . Today we will examine an excerpt from Chapter Two, Why Character-Based Leadership authored by Chery Gegelman.

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How Mindfulness Rewires Your Brain to Be More Innovative

Great Leadership By Dan

A well-known example of this is Bill Gates. First, understanding the needs of others helps determine whether or not an idea will be useful and worth the energy to develop. This shift away from habitual thinking is what frees us up from the constraints of cognitive biases, like the status quo bias.

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In Search of Audacity

Steve Farber

It was a bold and blatant disregard for normal constraints to change the world for the better. ” I’m not recommending anyone step off a cliff, but I am looking for examples of people who embody that spirit. Letting go of “normal constraints” is easy to say, but hard to do. If his map is true, he’ll somehow live.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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How to Drama-Proof Your Workplace

Skip Prichard

Negative energy had sucked all the air out of their relationships. It literally gave them the energy and confidence to focus on the complex task of running their organization. This anecdote is a good example of an old Chinese parable, “There are two dogs inside of every person. The one that dominates is the one that is fed.”.

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