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Do you have these 5 leadership traits?

Great Leadership By Dan

As a leader, he had a clear vision of what he wanted to accomplish, yet he was willing to get off his white stallion and take a place of an MP directing traffic to keep his vision moving forward toward his goal. #3 4 Delegation. 4 Delegation. They trust those others and give them both responsibility and authority to act.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

Delegation. As my grandfather, my own mentor in management, would remind me, “delegate, but don’t abdicate.” Yes, evaluation is important and progress is our goal, but failure is an important part of the process, and too often swept under the rug. He divides his time between the US and Bamako, Mali.

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Powerful Question #1 | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Most people begin the new year with a new set of goals or resolutions. What is one of your professional goals for the new year? Personal – I honestly don’t have any true goals but a bunch of habits I want to start and/or maintain. That’s a huge goal! Great goal Caleb. Wow, great goals, Tom!

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How Your Leadership Has to Change as Your Startup Scales

Harvard Business Review

If we’re going to scale successfully at the pace we’ve laid out, we’ve got to execute faster and delegate more. They set out a broad vision, provide lofty goals, and model an ambitious work ethic (for recent college grads, it’s not a big leap from “all nighters” to “all weekenders”).

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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process. These leaders can structure problems, delegate work, and help process/detail people see the big picture so that everyone works toward a common goal.

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Doing Less, Leading More

Harvard Business Review

We’re fast, we’re efficient, and we do high-quality work. He revamped his role, delegating almost all of the tasks on his to-do list to his senior managers and had them do the same to their direct reports. Our first accomplishments as professionals are usually rooted in our skill as individual contributors. In a word, we’re doers.

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

The movement’s organizers claim a convergence des luttes (convergence of goals) among those who oppose the reform to open up the railway sector to competition, or the one to allow public universities to screen applicants more tightly, and those who want a wage increase or oppose the labor and tax reforms by Macron. GDP grew by 1.9%