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How SEALs and Fighter Pilots Lead Teams to Success

Skip Prichard

My 10 years as an Air Force Officer and F-15 pilot put me on the front lines during the Cold War, and dealing with constant vigilance and preparation drove the work ethic I use today. So I became 1 of 4 Marine officers in 58 years to successfully transfer from the USMC to the Navy and complete SEAL training. The Power of Focus.

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Leading with Character: Integrity

Michael Lee Stallard

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. If you can’t, trust your judgment and training. It is critical for you to be consistent and clear about your ethical standards.

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June 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders shared How to Prevent Training from Wasting Time and Money. Karin writes: “Your employees go to training. By engaging with others in meaningful, cooperative activities away from the workplace and then leveraging insights gathered there into positive and productive work relationships.”

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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

In recent years, we’ve trained leaders in the fields of education, healthcare and the armed services on how to cultivate cultures of connection that reduce the risk of burnout and suicide ideation that members of their organizations were already experiencing pre-pandemic. Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic?

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

History suggests that women will not be able to fully dismantle the ceiling by sheer force of will and talent without the active contribution and cooperation of male leaders. Most are decent and ethical people. Meet with the diversity manager to ask how you can contribute toward the organization’s diversity goals.

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Two Books to Better Organizational Results

Kevin Eikenberry

He takes five key roles of leaders and explores them in a chapter: Improve vision Ensure accountability Build unity and cooperation Create better decisions Motivate to action Then he opens each section with a list of great questions, and the chapter follows with comments, stories and ideas related to each question.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. And then we do stupid things in the name of the goal get it the way of the aim. We forget the aim sometimes and put the goal in its place. Mike Tveite, Achieving goals but failing to achieve the aim.

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