Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

As you think about your personal leadership style and how you’ll apply these decision-making guidelines, recall the words of Franklin D. What are the consequences of each of the remaining solutions? What’s the best possible solution? How must we communicate this solution to our stakeholders? Who will do what by when?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

They act with a “compassionate leadership” style. They replace excuse making with full disclosure and offering an effective plan for recovery. They show empathy for those who may have been harmed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many people confuse leadership style with true leadership. If that’s your style, fine. Guest post by Raymond Houser: Being a great leader means getting people to do things that they didn't think possible. It's as simple as that. You don't have to be an extroverted, rah-rah motivator to be a great leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2018

Leaders must adjust their leadership styles accordingly. There may be some standards to rely on (such as, don’t mess with people’s money, honey, or family) but people are like snowflakes: no two are exactly alike. Recent surveys show that lack of development in this area has been devastating.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

I specialize in bringing improvisational skills to the workplace, and one of the key elements of improvisational thinking is the ‘self-audit’—the ability to be aware in real time of how you’re doing your job and how your actions and leadership style are impacting those around you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Step #3: Determine whether you want a mentor who mirrors your leadership style so that you can improve upon how you lead…or decide if finding a mentor with a different leadership style might challenge you more and help you grow as a leader by adding new dimensions to your own personal style.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 25, 2019

Like a cascading waterfall, direct reports quickly emulate the leader’s changes, and cultural transformation follows organically.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The newer, younger work force thrives on more of a relationship-based leadership style and approach. As baby boomers retire and more and more millennials begin their careers, the necessity of building relationship equity has grown exponentially.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2018

This will then give you access to all the different leadership styles and to understand how they work, what they achieve and when (and when not) to use them. Thankfully, all of these things can be learned through practice. You can generate new habits by building new neural pathways.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2014

I have also observed up close and per sonal the leadership styles of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Scott McNealy, Mitt R omney and a number o f others. Here are three ways I have seen leadership demonstrated powerfully- the type of leadership that gets results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2010

Shift my leadership style away from always directing and telling and learn to guide and develop my direct reports. Learn to pay attention and demonstrate to others that that I value what they have to say. Use active listening, open-ended questions, body language, and eliminate distractions that get in the way of my ability to listen.

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JULY 24, 2014

Nadella is known as a quiet listener and team player within Microsoft , but it’s this understated leadership style that has allowed him to sound out his ideas with colleagues, and learn from others at all levels within the company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

It’s all about adapting your leadership style to the developmental needs, or “maturity level”, of your employees. Developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey, it’s a timeless classic. If I could only teach one model to a new manager, it might be this one. It’s easy to understand and can be used on a daily basis.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2016

Their leadership styles are similarly variable. Such outstanding leaders – and others from the ranks of startups, politics, popular culture, and big business – hail from every ethnicity, family and educational background, and rung on the social ladder. Some emerged early in their careers, while some blossomed late.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

The leadership style that goes with this rigid way of organising work is command and control. So could a more balanced feminine-masculine leadership style enhance women’s chances of success? But how does a balanced feminine-masculine leadership style look like?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled. The following are nine essentials that must be in place to ensure success. Corporate culture. Whether an organization realizes it or not, it has a culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. Over time, we all learned facts first, opinions second. It made our days easier and our decisions better.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 8, 2014

The first part, “Study Your Boss,” features ten questions that will help readers figure out their boss’s leadership style, goals, work relationships, and other factors that drive his or her behavior. Given that understanding, readers move on to five questions that reveal “How Your Boss Sees You.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In tandem, the new leadership styles are also able to generate much-needed boosts to productivity levels yielding better corporate results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Here's how to continue the evolution of your leadership style to become more connected: 1. Through my professional, educational and volunteer work, it is my mission to reach as many evolved leaders as I can to spread the message that corporations of the future can serve all equally and still prosper both financially and ethically.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

leadership style. One thing’s for sure: the old ways won’t work. New research from my company Hay Group reveals that compared with peers, financial leaders have up to now been more likely to rely on a coercive, “just do it!” Being authoritarian like this has its uses.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

What’s the "best" leadership style? Trick question, leads to a nice discussion on situational leadership. The answer, btw, way is both, but mostly developed. It’s fun to allow groups to get there by themselves. Does a leader need power? How can a leader avoid being corrupted by power? What made them so great?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 17, 2011

He’s anxious but willing to have you interview his team to hear their perspectives on his management and leadership styles. He indicates that he has a difficult time getting his team to move ahead on initiatives in the department.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2013

However, be forewarned that such a survey typically only provides useful information about the leader’s communications and leadership style as opposed to strategic and tactical needs of the business – still worthwhile feedback and worthy of pursuit. Performance feedback of some form is supplied and accepted as valid.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The challenge with step 2 is that all leaders have a go-to leadership style that they tend to practice in all situations. Moving off this go-to style to meet the true needs of their followers (being a Situational Leader) requires high intention and flexibility.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

They make up what I like to call the Rodney Dangerfield ("I get no respect") subcategories of the leadership topic. Below are four of these Dangerfield topics that are important for leaders to understand and incorporate into their leadership styles. Leadership always comes before management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2015

How do your personal motivations come in to play with your leadership style? Good luck in your leadership journey. It was not without digs and questioning from Princess Leia, but ultimately Han Solo led his crew to safety and the argument definitely resulted in everyone as a winner – and more importantly, a survivor.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 3, 2008

or "What is it in your own leadership style that might be contributing to the trouble with the team?" By asking probing questions, you invite reflection and a thoughtful response instead of telling others what to do. You might ask, for example, "More specifically, what are some of the things you've tried?" Summarizing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

How do you define your leadership style? How do you measure the effectiveness of your leadership style? And, how do you rate? What are the top three mistakes leaders make? How often do you make these mistakes? What commitments have you made to improve your effectiveness as a leader? Who is holding you accountable?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2013

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The founder IS the organization and leaders strive to emulate the founder’s own leadership style. From personal loyalty to a single leader and vision (usually the founder) to commitment to the organization and its customers. Start-up leaders can be tribe-like in their loyalty and dedication to the founder.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

"Many entrepreneurs and senior managers tend to work around the clock, but take too little time for the real leadership tasks.". This blog post discusses the "I-Thou" leadership style. Angie Butcher submits a big play post from Deb Mills-Scofield from Innovanomics called I Don't Have it All - Yeah!".

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Guest post by Steve Coughran : In my two decades of business experience, I have encountered many different flavors of leadership. Some leaders are strong-willed and autocratic, some are open-minded and democratic, some employ laissez-faire, employee-centric leadership styles, and most fall somewhere in the middle.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 7, 2016

Weinberger : A particularly virulent female leadership style is what we label, “Machiavellian Mary” to denote a superficially agreeable, yet ruthless, self-focused, and false individual. As she does not have feminine frills like a democratic style (e.g., The opposite of a Machiavellian Mary is a nurturant leadership style.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Many executives have said that this is where they learned some of their most valuable lessons of leadership. “I This last assignment forced me to develop a new leadership style. I always led from a position of knowledge. I was the expert and had all the answers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Ray Benedetto , from GuideStar Inc , called Leadership Begins with a Capital C. Randy Conley , from Leading with Trust , gives us Ten Signs You Might Be A Frankenboss - " If any of these ten behaviors describe your leadership style then you might be a Frankenboss."

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