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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

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W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Doing so requires CEOs to not only reinvent themselves and their organizations but also to rethink their executive teams.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

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Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. The appeal of empathic leadership extends beyond conventional office environments. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types. A S workplace cultures evolve, we must specifically prioritize the needs of each human being.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

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Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

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H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. Uncommon Greatness : Five Fundamentals to Transform Your Leadership by Mark Miller Virtually every problem can be traced back to one root cause: leadership. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2023

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H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company. What Hollis did was vulnerable, but it was not leadership.

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Why Content Isn’t King in Leadership Communications

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S OME of my executive clients believe, instinctively, that content is king. They maintain that “useful information” is a crucial driver of effective leadership—that their job is primarily to educate and inform their teams with facts and figures. It also fills in gaps in understanding and provides essential context and updates.

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Approaching Leadership Excellence Through New Angles

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The physics of a prism can also be applied to leadership: In an agile work environment, it is valuable to slow down and reconsider which leadership angle to take in particular situations. The PRISM Model offers five angles to leading people and forms the bedrock of leadership excellence. What is your purpose in life?