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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Hewitt: Leadership is one of the most regularly used words in the world of business, and arguably one of the most important. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y. The division leader who hired me woke up a few months prior and realized their management-leadership balance was way out of whack.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

Success in Sri Lanka In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI , president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year of facilitating the up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling of managers in Sri Lanka. Annual leave has proven benefits for both productivity and wellbeing.

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leadership and management models download- page 2a

Rapid BI

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets.

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Book Review: E Pluribus Kinko’s

LDRLB

Kinko’s often hired employees for attitude and creativity in order to ensure a cultural fit, believing they could train for skills later. The second was the chapter “Theory X & Theory Why” a tribute to McGregor that makes the case for hiring self-motivated people so management doesn’t have to supervise.

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New Study Shows Women Do It Better Than Men

The Practical Leader

” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. Here are a few interesting conclusions: Women’s overall higher ratings weren’t just for their “soft skills” such as communications and nurturing. We are very optimistic in the ability for people to develop these skills.”

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22 Life Lessons And Quotes From A Story Worth Living

Joseph Lalonde

John and the gang were inspired by Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. They all took up training to improve their skills. When you don’t have the necessary skills, seek out training. Confidence, joy, and skill come from training : You know you’ve got to seek out training to become better.

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