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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. This simple model for leadership development works! It’s a tricky situation. Change: Change isn’t an academic exercise.

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Developing leaders: it’s your job!

Persuasive Powerhouse

You have too many other things to pay attention to, and besides, isn’t developing leaders the job of human resources? Some of the most important include: Tapping potential: There is leadership potential in all of your employees that is lying fallow, just waiting to be set free by you. Put simply, it’s your job.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Wait! Don't Fire That Person (Yet)!

Persuasive Powerhouse

August 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus As an executive coach for the last eight years, I’ve had some phenomenal clients put on a short list of “leaders to discard” even though they shouldn’t have been. Although I’ve been assured that coaching is not being used as a last resort, I sometimes find out differently later.

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A Good Bye with Humanity

Persuasive Powerhouse

Thought-full Thursday: A Meaningful Enterprise » A Good Bye with Humanity August 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus How often as a leader do you have someone in your circle of influence (manager, peer, direct report, maybe even a customer or consultant) that leaves your organization? Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)!

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It's Not About Perfection

Persuasive Powerhouse

Perfect leadership is just not realistic; there are too many variables outside of your control. Leadership and the people you lead are unpredictable; most organizations are chaotic and moving too fast. None of these factors lend themselves well to perfect leadership. When you strive for perfection, you sabotage your own efforts.

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