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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Personal learner (a commitment to lifelong growth in cultivating your strengths and passions and having the courage to have honest conversations and take necessary actions about transforming your weaknesses) is the #1 leadership competency a person must possess to learn to succeed over the course of their personal and professional life.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. This person is right to be concerned. And keep managing by walking around, even though text-messaging and email seem to make real-world encounters unnecessary.