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LeadershipNow 140: December 2010 Compilation

Leading Blog

Moving Past Austerity —Let's Make 2011 the Year of Honesty, Humanity and Generosity by @pollylabarre. RT @artpetty A "Best of Leadership Caffeine - An Effective Leader's Resolutions are Calendar Blind ". mikemyatt: Discipline - the real difference between good & great. Good Leaders Act Confident by @MGRecruiter.

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Discipline & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline. I’m not suggesting that leaders should be robotic or static in approach – quite to the contrary. Know the type?

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The Fallacy of No | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Does it make you feel like your contributions and opinions are valued?

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

What’s interesting to me is that with every major advancement in the web comes a mixed bag of apathy, over exuberance, confusion, chicanery and even outright skulduggery that makes life much more complicated than it needs to be. When markets make a major move, you either move with them or get run over by them.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows I’ll make my case for resting on your qualifications and performance not your ethnicity, gender, age, sexual preference, etc. However, I refuse to make business decisions that are not in the best interests of the business simply to appeal to the wrong groups for the wrong reasons. We are all biased.

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Freedom for Leg Jigglers

Chris Brady

It was one of those commuter flights between some big town and a smaller one not yet large enough to warrant a real plane. "Er, uh, excuse me, sir. They make it up as they go!  A bunch of control freaks want to MAKE you behave according to THEIR arbitrary value system.   So there you have it.

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Help – It's not a dirty Word! | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. Think about it…do you make it easy for others to want to help you, or is your demeanor such that most people won’t lift a finger to assist you in a time of need? The easiest way to help others is to make it easy for people to want to help you by helping them.

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