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5 Competencies of the Best Leaders

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Though few people manage to do it, this may be one of the easiest competencies to demonstrate–provided you can resist the urge to talk. One reason that modern leadership is hard is because an effective modern leader must listen to others. This list started with visibility. When the opposite is required, a leader must blend in.

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The Office Holiday Party? It’s Work!

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It’s hard to resist, especially when everyone at the office is talking it up. Resist the urge to make a fashion statement. There’s always a fine line between work and personal life, and no place is that more evident than at office parties. Look around the room and decide who to touch base with.

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Should Klout Scores Affect Hiring Decisions?

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It’s not a perfect science (not even close), but the allure of quantifying online popularity is hard for many people to resist. By analyzing Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+ updates, shares, and so on, Klout compiles a score to evaluate how influential you are across the social web.

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It’s All in the Eyes of the Beholder

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However, it is such a fun way of looking at perceptions I couldn’t resist. At first I was reluctant to blog about this since it may seem superficial and irrelevant to women in today’s workplace. It really underscores what I write about in “GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change”.

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Brand journalism 101: Tell a Better Story

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Put a little skin into your storytelling: Resist the back-patting and open up to your audience by revealing mistakes and struggles, doubts, growth and hard-fought lessons. Give readers room to form their own opinions of what you’re writing about. Keep it real: Too much self-promotion pushes audiences away.

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Komen and Planned Parenthood: The end of a marriage

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While it’s true you are going to have staff members who don’t support the partnership, you need to make sure that their resistance won’t be used to terminate the partnership. You have to have conversations and those conversations have to be meaningful. Align your values.

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Why Customer Experience is So Important

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Overall, they have a colorful, fresh, attractive vibe that is not only hard to resist, but fun to experience. As if all that weren’t enough to lure in the crowds, they also offer tours of their wildflower fields, a butterfly exhibit, and wine tastings. So what can you learn from this wildflower farm?

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