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Chew the Gristle: Taking Responsibility Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

When you don’t take responsibility for your team, it founders. Taking responsibility is vitality. You lose it when you don’t own it. When you don’t own your marriage, it dies. It’s self-centered to take failure personally. See how I’m struggling.”

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quickpoint: Responsibility Develops Power

Leading Blog

I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Every man is a stranger to his greatest strength, his mightiest power, until the test of great responsibility, a critical emergency, or a supreme crisis in his life, calls it out.

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4 Responses to Complaints About Others

Leadership Freak

Today I offer 4 responses when you hear complaints about others. You hear more bellyaching when you passively listen to complaints about others. Complaints about others might be self-serving or spoken from genuine concern.

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Ethical Perspectives: Rights, Responsibilities, and Freedom

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton While some people think of rights, responsibilities and freedom separately, in a compartmentalized way, I believe they cannot be separated, and according to John Courtney Murray, freedom was always intended to be grounded in ethical values.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

When the dust settles, we have a responsibility to turn our shock and grief into fierce determination and lead the charge of responsible, strategic, and sustainable future growth. Any return to normalcy may seem far-off, but sales and marketing are on the front lines of restarting the economy.

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7 Responses that Defeat Defensiveness

Leadership Freak

Defensiveness is your response. Defensive language: My natural response to criticism or corrective feedback is self-protection. People don’t make you feel defensive. Defensiveness is feeling attacked when others are trying to help. After… Continue reading →

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How Leaders Foster 100% Responsibility

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

John Izzo Almost every leader of a team or organization of any size wants their people to step up to 100% Responsibility – to take full responsibility for their own careers, for their own engagement, for winning every customer, for driving innovation, for keeping costs down, and on the list goes. […].

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9 Ways to Manage Costs and Prepare for Future Growth

Successfully managing it requires the CFO and HR leader to make complex decisions quickly, without rushing into an uncoordinated response. SMB leaders are working day and night to navigate the COVID-19 crisis. Foremost among these decisions will be cost containment.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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CFO’s Guide to Building an HR Team with Limited Time, Budget and Resources

The responsibilities and key metrics for success. Based on 30 years of working with HR and finance leaders—along with lots of interviews and research— we’ve developed this guide that highlights what it takes to build a high-functioning HR team. How HCM technology can be your secret weapon. Download the guide!