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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Power and control, positional authority — we’re all familiar with autocratic leadership styles as these approaches have been around for centuries. And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. trustworthy relationships.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. So how can we set goals that won't disappear faster than a politician's promise? Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3. Focus is the key.

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Gamifying Your Personal Growth

Joseph Lalonde

The leadership book may be a very dry read. The implementation of new leadership skills may be taking longer than I want. One of the coolest iOS apps I’ve seen for the gamification of task lists or personal development has to be EpicWin (or there’s Task Hammer for Android users like myself). Kind of cool, huh?

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How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

Have you ever worked for a manager that consistently helped you learn new skills and develop? From a purely selfish perspective, when you develop your employees, they get smarter, more productive, improve their performance, and ultimately, make you look like a genius. Treat every day as a development day. How do you do that?

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

This is a guest post by Kona Shen , Founder of GOALS Haiti , mentioned here. What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project. In the U.S.,

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Your Team Needs A Mean Leader

Lead Change Blog

If you’ve already developed a reputation for not being a person of your word, then go to those people and apologize, and make it better from this point forward. As the leader, they failed to provide any clear directions or consequences, and yet are ready to drop the hammer in disciplinary actions for a mistake.

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