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Refuse to be Offended (Justin Maust)

Let's Grow Leaders

Justin and I were introduced to one another through a common connection who just knew we needed to know one another based on our values-based approach to leadership. Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. Bad hammers ruin good nails.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Power and control, positional authority — we’re all familiar with autocratic leadership styles as these approaches have been around for centuries. And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. trustworthy relationships.

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What Leaders Can Learn from the Most Efficient Exit Interview Ever

Next Level Blog

For executives and managers, the default response is often a version of fight – to hammer on deadlines, drive for results, to lose patience with what they view as friction and pushback. Say it out loud – One of the most valuable leadership lessons I learned when I was an executive is that what doesn’t get said, doesn’t get heard.

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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it. Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it.

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate.

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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Adam Sandler’s Pixels

Joseph Lalonde

It also proved to provide insights into leadership, if you looked deep enough. Leadership Lessons From Pixels. You can do the same thing with leadership. This pattern might reveal he has stress because money is tight at the same time every month and he has to make his house payment. Caution: Pixels Spoilers Ahead.

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Demotivation: 7 Ways You Might Be Killing Your Team’s Spirit

RapidStart Leadership

So before getting out the big hammer, think about what you really want to achieve. Leadership: Be the first to take the blame, and the last to take the credit. Your teammate’s faces are like windows into their minds and are one of the ways you can get immediate feedback on your leadership. Raise your leadership game.

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