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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

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BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” A bigger, bolder, more powerful outcome than goals with a target timeframe of 10 – 30 years from now. It can uncover whether the underlying reasons for your goals/decisions are for healthy or unhealthy reasons.

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Accountability to Possibility: The Next Frontier in Leadership Growth

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Measurement and metrics. You need accountability to achieve your company goals. What if you could achieve ‘x’ (a seemingly impossible) goal, what would be the first step you would take? Do your visions and goals fall well below who you can be and what you can achieve? Push your team to set bigger goals.

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My 12 “Must Read” Best Leadership Books for 2014

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You will learn when and how to recalibrate the balance between performance and growth; how to define a coherent, tightly-drawn business philosophy that maps to specific actions; new ways to promote accountability and alignment; and how to use performance metrics without burying people in meaningless trivia.

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Are You Addicted to Codependent Leadership? 7 Clues You Are.

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The “hard” aspects of business — strategy, systems and metrics – often trump the intangible aspects. Healthy leadership power means having choices and the ability to influence one’s environment and others toward a common goal. Yet the intangibles – beliefs, emotions and values — drive the “bus.”.