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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

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Fortunately there are a huge amount of resources out there that can help you become a more successful leader. No matter how much pressure you feel as a leader, always make sure you think positive and visualize success. Set clear goals. Set goals that are clear, reasonable and attainable. Learn to communicate.

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Becoming a decisive leader

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Authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath wrote the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work with the following goals: “We want to make you a bit better at making good decisions, and we want to help you make your good decisions a bit more decisively. Will we be ready for success?” Do a ‘pre-parade’—“It’s a year from now.

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Guest Post: Three Ways to Increase Trust and Eliminate Drama

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If you are delivering feedback to your employees without setting them up for success, you will create a barrier to effective performance and will decrease the trust between boss and employee. Teach Standard Operating Procedures. A good standard operating procedure for each job helps to ensure consistency.

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What is Strategic Leadership?

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Businesses without long-term goals, a clear strategy and good communication between departments struggle to thrive. Operating without clear strategy could ultimately leave you with the potential to be doomed to failure. The Product Management Perspective: Leadership is the key to successful product management.

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Are You Leading… or Just Managing?

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Too many organizations operate on the idea that great managers make great leaders, and vice versa. While managers can find ways to operate more effectively, their main focus is keeping everything on track, working their project management magic, and dotting every ‘I’ and crossing every ‘T’. Leadership inspire success'