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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” High-performing operational teams are a hybrid of both types.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

The tyrant boss reported directly to this VP. It took a lot of courage (some may call this stupidity) to report the transgressions of my boss to his boss. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Take a Look at Your Calendar

Persuasive Powerhouse

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Transforming the Way We Work

Harvard Business Review

I'll be joined by five CEOs, among them George Halvorson , who heads the health care provider Kaiser Permanente, Vincent Forlenza who runs Becton Dickinson, the pharmaceutical company, and Tim Brown , the CEO of IDEO, the design and innovation firm. Over the course of the rest of this week, there are a dozen other panels on similar topics.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

The perception is that getting along with people is nice, but “nice-to-have” — secondary to the operation of the business. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders. They aren’t about computers, vehicles, machines and other “hard” equipment.

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