Leadership Freak
JUNE 29, 2013
'Office drama – interpersonal spats, personality conflicts, p **g contests, and backstabbing – serves no useful purpose. Leaders frequently say people “problems” top the list of concerns they daily address. Drama: Elevates pettiness. Distracts from mission and vision. Drains energy. Reflects power struggles. Creates winners and losers. Encourages turf wars.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 29, 2013
'In the Writing Skills class that Karl Krayer leads, he teaches that you should write your point right up front. Put your key message, in a clear, understandable, short sentence, at the very beginning of your e-mail/memo. In my speech and presentation skill training, I teach that you should state your thesis in a clear, […].
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You're Not the Boss of Me
JUNE 29, 2013
'This post is from 2011. No monkeying around here. =. I think we’ve all heard someone say it at one time or another. Or, we may even have said it ourselves. It goes something like this. Someone asks the question, “ why ?” and the response is “ Because that’s just the way it’s done. We’ve always done it that way”. A statement like that can put the lid on things pretty quickly can’t it?
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 29, 2013
'Here is a brief article written by Vijay Govindarajan and Manish Tangri for he HBR Blog Network. To check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * In Greek mythology, Hydra, an ancient water-serpent had many heads. If one head was […]. Bob''s blog entries Earl C.
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Ron Edmondson
JUNE 29, 2013
'Give her the best time of your weekend. Do something with her you know she enjoys, even if it’s not your favorite thing to do. Share a dessert with her. (Ouch! This one hurts me personally. I don’t usually share desserts.). Take a long walk together and hold her hand. Fix the bed, take out the trash, or pick up your clothes…without being asked.
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 29, 2013
'"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Eric Jacobson
JUNE 29, 2013
'These five quotes from the new book released this week, Manager 3.0 , really impress and inspire me: "The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment." -- Denise Morrison "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." -- John Buchan "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do." -- Apple Inc.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 29, 2013
'Guest post by Adrienne Erin. Something interesting happens in a lot of organizations. A good worker gets promoted to manager, and maybe goes through a little management training. After a solid performance, that manager will be promoted to a leadership position, under the assumption that their management skills will make them good leaders. They won’t.
Coaching Tip
JUNE 29, 2013
'The business world has been buzzing about the rising "global middle class" for at least a decade. A 2008 Goldman Sachs GS -1.47% report defined this group as those with incomes between $6,000 and $30,000 a year and predicted that it would grow by some two billion people by 2030. A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 billion in 2009 to 3.2 billion in
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