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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. In contrast: Infinite games are ongoing.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

They all share their methods, their successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership

Leading Blog

The way he dealt with these experiences, defined his leadership. They are the men and women who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and only to those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.” Learning from the Past.

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When Servant Leadership Goes Awry | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature. Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?” ~ Robert Greenleaf The concept of servant leadership can often seem the antithesis to many organizational cultures, where top-down, command and control are the norm.

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Why Don't We Hug More? | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

At the end of the night, when we were saying our goodbyes, instead of handshakes, we got hugs from both of them. I think you got the religious fundamentalist right and thr Taliban Christianists from them. I’ve taken the lesson we each learned there and embraced it, literally. I hope you recover. But I digress.

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Henry David Thoreau - An Abundant Source of Wisdom

Building Personal Strength

On FRIENDSHIP - "We must have infinite faith in each other. Posted by Denny Coates at 12:54 PM Labels: Books , Henry David Thoreau , Inspirational Quotes , Nature , Philosophy 2comments: Christopher said. On FOCUS - "You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D., Copyright 2010.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Meeting and learning from you is one of the years delights. Love this quote from your post.

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