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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. I've always thought the "leader vs. manager" debate was kind of useless, and I wrote an early post about it here. Leaders vs. Managers. So, here's the distinction I draw between leaders and managers. Hope you've enjoyed it.

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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. You can build only on strengths. What’s the point?

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Why Upskilling and Reskilling Matter

The Center For Leadership Studies

Techniques include microlearning, online courses, mentoring and lunch-and-learn sessions. We provide influence-focused courses to build trust, increase productivity and drive organizational behavior change. Technology creates opportunities for specialization and challenges companies to fill the digital talent gap.

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042: 3 Ways to Become a Resonant Leader | with Richard Boyatzis

Engaging Leader

Richard Boyatzis is a Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of more than 150 articles on leadership, competencies, emotional intelligence, competency development, coaching, and management education. Reflecting.

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The Practical Insignificance Of Exceptional Management Research

LDRLB

That’s the bottom-line findings of an exceptionally well designed study recently published in The Journal of Applied Psychology , one of the top research journals in the field of management. Anyone that is truly interested in management would look at those findings and think “duh!”. The problem is it is hardly relevant.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

Today, Blackstone has over $500 billion in assets under management. They offer a free course from the real world to help you improve. Great managers understand how each part works on its own and in relation to all the others. You will learn new rules for decision making and organizational behavior.

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes.

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