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How to Tell a Story with Data

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

If you learn how to tell a story with data, however, the results can be compelling, interesting, and impactful. Have you ever been hammered with data that you knew was important but you didn’t understand why the person sharing it was so passionate about it? Data can be boring even if it’s critically important.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. How do we do that? We must give people the tools—the how—to change. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.”

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Thor: Ragnarok

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Chris Hemsworth reprises his role as Thor for the blockbuster movie Thor: Ragnarok. This is the third time Hemsworth has been featured in a stand-alone Thor film (surprisingly, I have not done a Reel Leadership article on the other 2 Thor films). Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Thor: Ragnarok.

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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. How do you want your team member to feel at the end of it? What are you trying to accomplish with the review conversation?

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2010

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Shockproof : How to Hardwire Your Business for Lasting Success by Debra Jacobs, Garrett Sheridan and Juan Pablo González. Leadership Rules : How to Become the Leader You Want to Be by Chris Widener. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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How to Hold People Accountable without using Authority

Leadership Freak

If you didn’t have authority, how would you hold people accountable? Authority as a hammer: Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have… Continue reading → Don’t demand what must be given.

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Six Ways Leaders Can Help Others Measure Success

Kevin Eikenberry

One of earliest tools I learned how to use growing up on a farm was a tape measure. There are several reasons for that – it is often used, using it won’t hurt you (think hammer, saw, or torch!), Achievement Leadership Learning Setting Goals measuring success' and my Dad carried a small one in his pocket.

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