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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

The most effective leaders get their teams, their colleagues, and their suppliers to emphasize their priorities. Because Tommy understood the business in such depth, he often knew the answers well before his team did. His team felt undervalued, under-challenged, and demoralized. Tommy felt overworked and underappreciated.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. When this happens, I interpret this as meaning that our team isn’t working very efficiently. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad.

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“Studying doesn’t stop at GCSEs”

Chartered Management Institute

She went from dealing with cancer patients to developing teams, managing projects and helping to drive organisational change. Having qualified as a nurse in 2005, she spent four years as a staff nurse in surgery, before starting her cancer specialist role in 2009 at Sunderland Royal Hospital.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. As the leader, set no more than five challenging but achievable annual priorities for your team. As head of the U.S. Set Your Top Five.

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Ken Melrose Completes His Service on Earth

Modern Servant Leader

Ken had his team take a different approach. Instead of sending legal teams, Toro sent counselors. Billion when he retired in 2005. The industry practice whenever an operator was harmed or killed was to dispatch lawyers to quickly resolve the matter. The objective was to reach a financial settlement.

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source for Nos.

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Snap Out of It! How To Own The Terms Of Your Success

Terry Starbucker

In 2005, she started the seminal blog “ Escape from Cubicle Nation ”, which quickly became, and still is, one of the top career and business blogs on the web (and one of the inspirations for this site). How to take after Cher in “Moonstruck” and “ flip on your winner switch “ A wonderfully simple definition of success.