Sat.Jul 13, 2013

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Women of Innovation – Karie Willyerd, PhD

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Limericks for Leaders

Leadership Freak

'There’s an inverse relationship between smiles and importance. As importance goes up, smiles go down. Truly important leaders seldom smile. Frankly, some days, I’m way too important. For self-centered leaders: There once was a leader named Jim Who thought it all was about him. He took all the glory From everyone’s story. So all of […].

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5 Leadership Failures

CO2

'by Calvin Guyer Here are five key leadership failures: 1. Failure to take the blame and give the credit. “Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.” Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Carnegie had it right way back in 1937. It was true then, and it is true today. Funny thing about truths, they don’t change like the weather.

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Phil Jackson Would Ask for a Physical Step to Commit to Being Coached – from Each Player, for Each Season

First Friday Book Synopsis

'(Note: I presented my synopsis of Phil Jackson’s Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success last Friday. I’ll have a few more blog posts in the coming days from this very useful book). ——————– Your leadership team could take a brief excerpt from Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson once a week for about three months, and […].

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Leadership and Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

'This post is from June, 2011. I happened across a movie the other day called Straight Talk. It’s about a young woman who was accidently hired by a radio station to be an Agony Aunt. This young woman, (played by Dolly Parton ), was delightfully guileless and dished out her unadorned advice with clarity and good humour. For example, her counsel to one caller who was obviously playing the martyrdom card went something like this: “ Get down off the cross honey, somebody needs the wood!

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Throughout his life, Peter Drucker strived […].

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Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of entrepreneurship as “the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value” Let’s say that a Mount Rushmore type of monument for entrepreneurs will be constructed and nominations are requested.

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Celebrity Leaders

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Al Gini and Ronald M. Green. As a species, we are fascinated by the concept of leadership and the conduct of individual leaders. But while we are enthralled by leaders, we are sometimes uneasy in regard to our relationship to them. We alternatively love them, hate them, desire them, despise them, seek them out, shun them. Yet, despite our confusion, we are constantly in search of the latest candidate for fame, the newest model off the assembly line, the next great hope.

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