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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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Collaboration: it’s not what you think it is

Persuasive Powerhouse

On a continuum, they look like this: Competition à Cooperation à Collaboration. In the parlance of Stephen Covey, this is a win-lose situation; one party will get what they want and the other loses out. Collaboration: Collaboration is a step above cooperation, and it’s rarer than hen’s teeth.

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How to Build Trust with Those You Lead

Strategy Driven

The Key to Business and Career Success and as a nationally syndicated columnist on leadership, I share my views on the traits of effective leaders. Stephen Covey, the late motivational speaker, writer, and advisor, once wrote, “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate; we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Top 40 Team Building Quotes

Lead by Adventure

Leadership quotes are abundant and typically easy to find. Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden. Leadership Development Team Building' Quotes about team building are a bit more challenging to uncover.

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Three Secrets of a Super-Fun Team

Lead by Adventure

Fun teams work well together and have an atmosphere of trust and cooperation. According to Stephen Covey, there are 13 behaviors you can us to develop what he calls “the speed of trust.” Lack of any of them, however, can cause any number of team dysfunctions. Super-fun teams are good at collaboration.

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Forgiving May Be The Best Form Of Living (and Leading)

Tim Milburn

I haven’t read a lot of leadership articles that tackle the subject of forgiveness. Yet with all of the other leadership talk pointed at allowing people to fail, learning from one’s mistakes, and getting up one more time after you fall down…forgiveness has a huge role to play here. In the words of C.S.

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