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Why Leaders Should Focus on Outcomes Instead of Solutions

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Yesterday morning, before delivering a workshop on how to lead and live at your best , I had the privilege of sitting in as a roomful of high-potential managers shared what they’ve learned so far during their company’s multi-month leadership development program. That’s his team’s job.

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Sharing My Dream to Help You Achieve Yours

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I think that appeals to me so much because it defines what I’ve been doing as a leadership coach for over two decades. One of my favorite definitions of life purpose is that you find it when your great joy meets a great need. Doing that work led, in 2006, to my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.

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Three Things Every Leadership Offsite Needs - Next Level Blog

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In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones. Here, in my humble opinion, are three things that every leadership offsite agenda has to have: Context: You absolutely have to answer the question, “Why are we here and why does it matter?”

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Leadership Lessons from Yoga - Next Level Blog

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Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned? . 

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What We Can Learn About Leadership from the - Next Level Blog

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Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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Thrown Under the Bus. That's Not Leadership.

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Thats Not Leadership. Posted by Scott Eblin on July 21, 2010 in Current Affairs , Leadership , Personal Presence | Permalink Technorati Tags : NAACP , Shirley Sherrod , under the bus , USDA TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Thrown Under the Bus. Thats Not Leadership.

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Leadership and the Ground Zero Mosque

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At the risk of igniting a debate among readers on the efficacy of building the Islamic center a few blocks from Ground Zero, I would argue that both Obama and Bloomberg have shown principled leadership on the issue. Leadership can be lonely. Who’s exhibiting sound leadership in this case?   What’s your take so far?