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Welcome to Great Leadership!

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to Great Leadership! This blog is retired and no longer publishing new content or accepting guest posts. However, there are over 1200 posts in the archive that can be accessed chronologically or via the search box on the sidebar. You can also purchase an ebook with over 40 of my best posts organized by chapters. See top tab.

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Values are Worthless Without These Four Things

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Guest post from Beth Miller : Values are more than a list of words on your website or a poster in your office. For values to benefit an organization they need to be lived by everyone and fully integrated into a company’s processes and decisions. Without a focus in your values, a clear definition of each value, and integrating your values into your hiring and performance management system, your values will remain hollow words.

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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

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Guest post from Brendan P. Keegan , CEO, Merchants Fleet One thing all great leaders have in common is that they understand that transformational growth doesn’t happen without a willingness to change. When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. However, with all of that experience, habits were inevitably inherited along the way.

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How the Best Place of Work Became A State of Mind

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Gue st post from Jonas Altman : Matt Mullenweg’s company had a plush office at Pier 38 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero. It was only a five-minute walk from his apartment, but his preference, like many in the company, was to work from home. More than three years ago they shut their office and the company continues to flourish. If ever there was living that giving workers flexibility and control over their life works - it’s Wordpress.

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Three Classic Negotiating Mistakes

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Guest post by Clint Babcock: Recently I was teaching a class on negotiation for salespeople. I set up a buyer–seller role play scenario and I asked two participants to work through the scenario in front of the rest of the class. Both were provided with the pertinent information they needed to secure a good deal; all they had to do was negotiate the price.

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Accountability Under Pressure

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Guest post from Helen Horyza : Under pressure, when you have been disappointed or your direction has been ignored, do you lose your temper? Do you attack the person who made the mistake? It can happen in a split second. Unfortunately, the memory of your behavior will linger much longer in the hearts and minds of your employees. Over time, you create a culture of fear and mistrust.

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The Three Main Organizational Drivers

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Guest post from S. Chris Edmonds : Is your company primarily power-, profit-, or purpose-driven? Approaching a meeting with the CEO of his organization, one of my culture clients (a senior executive of a major retailer) said, “I’m going to ask him whether he thinks we are a power-driven company, a profit-driven company, or a purpose-driven company.” I’d not heard about those differentiators, so I asked him to define them for me.

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