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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the May edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. Does social media play a role in developing high performance? Several metaphors were massacred in the writing of this post!

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Unprepared leaders develop work-arounds.

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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934-2012

Leading Blog

The highlight of his career was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. On Leadership Development. Stormin' Norman' led the coalition forces to victory, ejecting the Iraqi Army from Kuwait and restoring the rightful government. His leadership not only inspired his troops, but also inspired the nation.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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The 5 SOF Truths of Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

From 2006-2012 I served as a part-time member of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Some of our hardcore “green beret” colleagues operated as independent 4 man teams conducting unconventional warfare operations.

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Every Day An Idea

Lead Change Blog

Developing editorial guidelines accomplished something every good leader should do: Set expectations. If you’re a regular here at the Lead Change Group, you are probably aware that Weaving Influence, its owner, is going to pause operations on the site starting October 1. Plants that go dormant don’t stop growing.