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Leadership – Unsafe at Any Speed?

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And here's where our auto design safety analogy comes together with my thoughts on leadership. While leadership can confer ever-increasing levels of power, authority and compensation, it also carries with it greater and greater responsibility, just like automobile manufacturing. Leadership is a responsibility!

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Intergenerational Leadership Begins with Us: We Have More in Common Than We Thought

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Fowler & Noal McDonald: Leadership is a complex idea: one that is not consistently easy to wrap our minds around. We know good leadership when we see it. If we think of what these experiences have in common, we might think of this quote by Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell: “Leadership molds individuals into a team.”

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25 Questions (and answers) From LinkedIn Members About Leadership Development

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I belong to a number of Leadership Development LinkedIn groups, and everyone once in a while I’ll take a look at the discussions to see what I can learn. Do you believe emotional intelligence is a skill you can develop in others? Do you agree that of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable? –

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Leaders Returning to their First Love

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Guest post by Janet Britcher : Entrepreneurship: Exploring When professionals demonstrate excellence in their chosen field, they are often promoted to leadership, leaving behind their foundational expertise and for some, their first love. She offers executive coaching, leadership workshops, and retreat facilitation.

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The July 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

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Welcome to the July 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! If you just happened to stumble accross this blog for the first time, here's the deal: I maintain a distribution list of over 75 leadership development bloggers who I've gotten to know over the last five years. I'm honored to present them to you.

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Creating a Winning Corporate Culture Through People Power

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Host training workshops to assist teams in finding solutions to their toughest challenges. Host lunch + Learns with deep insights into relevant topics and needed skills, create a library filled with resources to help your staff elevate their game.

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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

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Recently, in a nationwide survey of educators and policymakers, Adobe found that three quarters of the respondents believe that students need to develop creative problem-solving skills for their future careers. Yet the respondents overwhelmingly agreed that this critical skill is either ignored or under-taught in schools.