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Leadership and Work Teams

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This makes teamwork even more crucial to overall success or failure for the organization. The rhetoric surrounding this critical aspect of work tends to indicate that organizations and senior leaders are champions of teamwork and that they have the team ‘nut’ cracked - the reality however, points to a very different scenario.

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Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race

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A timely and stormy guest post by Dennis Perkins: There are two central themes in my book Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race. The first is the importance of exceptional teamwork in overcoming challenges at The Edge. Other boats, were somewhere in the middle.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

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Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Inept managers were responsible for losing talent with leadership potential. So how does an organization go about creating a culture that distinguishes between leadership development and developing leaders?

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Leadership: Leveraging Your Soft Skills

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This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach. This is as much a soft as a hard skill, and clearly relevant to leadership. Achieving now is about accomplishing things that you want to do.

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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

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It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. I’ll s hift my leadership style away from always directing and telling and learn to guide and develop my direct reports. Develop my team. Lead Change.

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

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Welcome to the April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! However, this year is different, because I get to host the April Carnival and bring you an outstanding collection of the “best of the best” in leadership development. Wally Bock from Three Star Leadership presents The Key to Engagement.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

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Research and experience demonstrate that the only difference between so-so organizations and high performing ones is the quality of the teamwork and the collaborative networks that exist within an organization. What great leadership does is to use presence (demeanor an modeling), practices and processes to multiply E.I.,