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3 Ways to Be a Positive Leader

Leading Blog

This is a guest post by best-selling author and speaker, Jon Gordon about the value of developing positive relationships with the people you lead. For example, Doug Conant, the CEO of Campbell Soup, has written more than 16,000 thank-you notes to employees in the past seven years and created a very positive business in the process.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Everyone’s Energy – and How to Purge Them in 2011, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. If you are ready to stir the pot and lead by example, Soup is a fun and engaging story that supplies you with the tools you need to build a winning team – at work, school, or home. Leadership is not so much about what you do. The Chronic Deadline Dodge.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Everyone’s Energy – and How to Purge Them in 2011, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. If you are ready to stir the pot and lead by example, Soup is a fun and engaging story that supplies you with the tools you need to build a winning team – at work, school, or home. Leadership is not so much about what you do. The Chronic Deadline Dodge.

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

When Daniel Goleman released “Emotional Intelligence” in 1995, did anyone think that this best-selling book would transform the role of leadership? 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. It’s just that some people regularly (and inadvertently) exhibit energy-draining behaviors.

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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. Back in 2008 I wrote a post called “ 20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn ”. Here are their answers. There is no try."