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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Even the military has morphed their ideals on leadership roles, shifting away from the highest ranked official and instead citing the individual or group who knows the mission and territory the best. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. I wholeheartedly disagree. Trust isn’t a switch that you can just turn on.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Voice that “crazy” idea regardless of your title level We are often told that inspirational ideas and leadership capability are directly related to hierarchy level. Do as I do, not only as I say.”

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The Biggest Challenges into Exciting Opportunities

Coaching Tip

Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change. How ideas can come from anyone on the team no matter what their hierarchy level, and how this can be encouraged. Secrets to gleaning “buy-in” from top leadership. Can't Get Enough Leadership , .

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. So down-to-earth? Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? Culture has had a bad press. No wonder that culture seems elusive, and not something you can get a grip on.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Debriefing requires a team leader to lead the debrief.