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Approaching Leadership Excellence Through New Angles

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Their employees don't have to waste time and energy playing guessing games about their supervisor because they know from the outset what is important to them, and just as important, they know what contribution they make as the team or company strives toward this purpose. I = Instilling Energy Emotional contagion is a fact of life.

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Leading Thoughts for March 21, 2024

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But you’ve got to figure out what the main thing is and transfer the time, energy, resources, and mindshare there. Your WMI might change, and it might be different for you today than three years from now, and it might be different for home with your spouse or with good friends or coaching a team.

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15 Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders

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In Positively Energizing Leadership , Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Kim Cameron, says it is about “how to capitalize on an inherent tendency in all living systems to orient themselves toward light or life-giving positive energy. It is known as the heliotropic effect.

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Leading Thoughts for November 2, 2023

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Amy Jen Su on boundaries: “Boundaries are not about putting on a suit of armor and assuming a defensive posture in trying to protect your time, energy, or emotions like a soldier stationed at the top of a fortress keeping enemies at bay. Source: From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with Wisdom II.

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Leading Thoughts for September 21, 2023

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Remember the Negative Golden Rule—it’s what you don’t do unto others that matters most—you can avoid grief and save energy.” John Tierney and Roy Baumeister on it’s what you don’t do: “Being able to hold your tongue rather than say something nasty or spiteful will do much more for your relationship than a good word or deed.

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Leading Thoughts for March 9, 2023

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You spend too much of your emotional energy on contingency planning instead of on success.” We are full of energy and radiate a successful demeanor. The mere act of contemplating a Plan B sets in motion a feedback loop that dramatically lessens the probability that Plan A will come to fruition.

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Ten Principles to Keep Our Anger in Check

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Take the energy you put into criticizing, judging, or sniping at others and channel it toward behaviors you can actually do something about: your own. Connect your sense of purpose with your everyday behavior to keep your life meaningful and congruent. Enhance your self-awareness. Stay focused on your purpose. Quit judging others.