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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. You Win in the Locker Room First : The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith Jon Gordon and NFL coach Mike Smith describe how to transform a mediocre team into a winning one. Lean is a culture.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests.

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. For example, if a team member has lost a loved one, then you should be compassionate and understand that their mind is elsewhere and ask how you can be supportive of them.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain.

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. People are hungry for positive change and a fresh sense of purpose and passion. Continue on to Worn out at Work?,

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In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs Ambiguity in Leadership is a Certainty → June 16, 2009 · 3:13 am ↓ Jump to Comments In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs Some time ago, I read a book called “ A Peacock in the land of Penguins ”.

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The December 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Leadership at the Movies Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

The movies can be a rich source of leadership inspiration and help us identify role models and examples of leadership skills and characteristics that we can choose to develop. The clarity of purpose, how he supports an atmosphere of true brainstorming.all of the techniques used in the scene can be used as examples of leadership in action.”

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April 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Jill shares, “Instead of using assessments to codify diversity in teams, leaders can learn how to notice and manage challenging workplace behaviours.” Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Were the Founding Fathers Great Leaders?