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5 Reasons You Should NOT Set Goals

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The idea that you should not set goals runs counter to what we’ve been taught. Numerous research studies over the years have established a strong link between goal-setting and success, motivation and confidence. For most people, setting goals can make the difference between mediocre and high performance. There […].

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How to Set the Right Goals and Make Them Work for You

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Are you starting to lose focus on your goals? The problem is that annual goal-setting doesn’t work. You can’t plan an entire year and know in advance all the goals you will need to achieve. It’s likely that many of your goals are no longer motivating and many no longer make sense.

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Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Leadership: It’s amazing how complicated leadership “experts” have made the topic. I am a senior ranking officer in what can only be called the Legion of Leadership Complexifiers (the LLC). We members of the LLC make our livelihood plumbing, parsing, and peddling leadership concepts. Guest Post by Bill Treasurer.

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Four Strategies to Make Your Vision a Reality

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Vision, strategy, and goals are important …but they are not enough. 1. Consistently tracking and measuring your progress will help maintain motivation and keep you aware of how you’re advancing toward your goal. I use software called Goal Enforcer. He writes about leadership at his blog: A Slice of Leadership.

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Employee Engagement –It’s Not About Them, It’s About You

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The best way to increase employee engagement is to increase leadership engagement. Here are 7 things you can do to increase employee engagement by increasing your leadership engagement. Assess your leadership. Do you demonstrate the critical leadership characteristics of openness, integrity, resilience, trust, and respect?

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The Value of Vision Series – An Interview With Doug Conant

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Under his leadership, the company generated quality sales growth and some of the best employee engagement rankings in the industry for ten consecutive years. This is one of the challenges of 21st century leadership. The environment is changing, and it’s demanding that we rethink the leadership model in today’s frenetic environment.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.” It’s costly and de-motivating.