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Seven Important Questions To Ask Your Team

Eric Jacobson

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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My Favorite Leadership Quotes From The 5 Levels Of Leadership Book

Eric Jacobson

Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leadership is action, not position. People buy into the leader, then the vision.

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How To Build An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobson

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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How To Connect With Your Team Members

Eric Jacobson

Here, from the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Schedule monthly whole team meetings. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Pay attention.

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My 10 Favorite Quotes From The Book, The 5 Levels Of Leadership

Eric Jacobson

Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leadership is action, not position. People buy into the leader, then the vision.

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Best New Leadership Book Of 2023

Eric Jacobson

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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Seven Tough Questions To Ask Your Team

Eric Jacobson

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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