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Leaders vs. Managers: The Real Answer to What’s Better

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Leadership is about a journey – where you’re going and your actions along the way. Leadership behaviors include: Challenging the current way of doing things: searching for opportunities and taking risks. Setting an example: acting consistently, creating trust. Management is about implementation. Planning work.

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Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager?

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She shares this example of how it works, “When my daughter was eight, we signed her up for recreational soccer. The registration form said: → Read More: Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager? The post Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager?

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Stewardship Is an Alternative to Leadership

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The evidence and research results are in, and we know for a fact that partnership and participation are the management strategies that create high-performance workplaces. Unfortunately too many organizations, including megachurches for example, are being run with this typical business approach. These are not new ideas.

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Why People Don’t Notice You’ve Changed

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Often in coaching, managers work on changing their behaviors. For example, David had […]. For example, David had […]. The post Why People Don’t Notice You’ve Changed appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Manage the Mid-Space or Your Vision Will Fail

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One of the top reasons leaders fail to implement their vision is because they don’t manage the “mid-space.”. The biggest failure in implementing vision successfully is in not effectively managing the airspace between the 3000 ft view from the hot air balloon and the on-the-ground view of day-to-day activity.

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From Corporate Officer to Clown: Reinvent Yourself But Not Your Purpose

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For example, years before either of us had learned about “large group interventions,” Barbara asked me to help her plan a “working meeting” for their annual Managers’ Meeting, where they would make real business decisions. Convinced they need to break down barriers, she was incredibly creative in finding was to do it.

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The Value of Vision Series – Ken Blanchard

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A Leadership Vision for America: Rebuilding a Divided House. The complaints are not so much about the leadership capability of the current president as they are about the political system in general. What about our role as an example of the free enterprise system in action and the most thriving economy in the world?

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