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207: Helping Your Team Contribute More to the World | with Tom Rath

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Helping your team identify how they can best contribute will maximize how your organization influences the world and achieves long-term financial success. A major key to turning this around is helping employees make their work more meaningful … which is all about discovering how they can best contribute.

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098: Overworked and Overwhelmed: 4 tools for leaders to reclaim their lives and boost productivity | with Scott Eblin

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Hard work tends to go hand-in-hand with success, but over the long term, that […] Many leaders today are chronically overworked and overwhelmed by the seemingly non-stop demands of their time and attention. Plus, if you''re always scrambling to get things done, you may be missing the big-picture perspective.

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082: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability | with Faisal Hoque

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In the 21st century, the businesses and leaders that succeed are a difficult mix of creativity and flexibility on the one hand, and long-burning value on the other hand. In the 21st century, the businesses and leaders that succeed are a difficult mix of creativity and flexibility on the one hand, and long-burning value on the other hand.

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048: How to Build Deep Business Relationships | with David J. Soler

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Deep, long-term business relationships can be extremely valuable. Yet most people seem much more focused on getting a high quantity of customers or other relationships, even if they are low-quality, short-term relationships. Deep, long-term business relationships can be extremely valuable.

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Two Common Misunderstanding About Leadership: Do You Recognize These in Yourself?

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David hired me to help communicate and reinforce his division’s long-term vision and business strategy with their 1,200 employees. About a year into our relationship, we were holding a weeklong strategic planning meeting with the key leaders on his team. On one of those days, during a lunch break, I ran up to my hotel […].

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059: Rebel Leader: 8 Lessons from the Rebellious Leadership of Rosa Parks | with Cody Gascho

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leading people toward a long-term purpose that may not have widespread popularity and may even appear hopeless. Long-term vision and purpose Individual, thoughtful courage Trust and credibility Character lived out We Not Me Humble Investing in young people Reading Resources Mentioned in This Episode Book: The Rebellious Life of Mrs.

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030: Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Isn’t Enough for Superior Leadership | with David Burnham

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David and Jesse discuss five aspects of what David calls Interactive Leadership: Overall long-term focus on impact vs. short-term focus on competition or being liked. In fact, leadership training that focuses on EQ can actually have a detrimental effect if the other components of superior leadership are not taught as well.