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What If You Changed and No One Noticed?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

He knew his people were capable of more, so he began delegating and stopped checking up on them. Or as Kurt Lewin described in his Force Field Theory , the status quo is maintained by equally opposing forces. I want to delegate more and let you run with the ball without supervising so closely.” Why does this happen?

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Bruce Lewin from Four Groups' Blog presents Why is Understanding People So Hard. People often mistake delegation for empowerment, yet in a networked world empowerment becomes even more vital.”. from valuing what women bring to leadership table.”. If you want to be a more effective leader, be real and relatable. Lead in living color.”.

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

The award for the longest blog title goes to Michael Cardus for Reverse Peter Principle: within a hierarchy tasks tend to be delegated until they have descended to the employees level of incompetence posted at Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog. And besides, it’s from Bret Simmons , nuff said.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. ” Sharlyn Lauby presents Abdicating Your Leadership Role posted at hr bartender , saying, “There’s a big difference between delegating and abdicating.” Have you ever thought about how it affects you?

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. Sharlyn Lauby presents Abdicating Your Leadership Role posted at hr bartender , saying, "There's a big difference between delegating and abdicating.". Have you ever thought about how it affects you? posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On!