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Refuse to be Offended (Justin Maust)

Let's Grow Leaders

Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. It’s impossible for the hammer to hold the structure together alone…the nail is his only hope. Bad hammers ruin good nails. When hammers refuse to swing, nothing gets built.

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Best Jobs for Women in 2012, Stress-Free Management Tips, Victoria’s Secret’s Human Trafficking Problem

Women on Business

4 Principles of Stress-Free Management. Want to learn how to run your business without all the stress? Click the link above to read 4 key tips for stress-free management from Rene Shimada Siegel of Inc.com. The Glass Hammer shares the story of Karen Wimbish whose career soared after her children had grown.

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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.

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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.

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

Lead Change Blog

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work.

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What Your Client And Team Needs Most: THE TRUTH

Clinton M. Padgett

If you agree to an unrealistic customer request , you spend the entire project with your stomach tied up in knots, praying for a miracle to occur but fully expecting the hammer to drop when someone in senior management finally realizes you aren’t going to deliver. Of course, this is easier said than done; but consider the alternative.

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You Should Be Your Own Muse

The Office Blend Blog

How can you better control negativity, tension & stress (which likely fight inspiration and creativity)? Choose a vehicle that attracts you, whether it involves paint, pencil, ink, a hammer or a camera. What are you consuming along with your coffee, first thing in the morning? What fills the first moments each day?