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LeadershipNow 140: February 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2012 that you might have missed: @LeaderChat: 7 Ways to Build Accountable Organizations @Forbes. Mike Henry Sr: 4 Steps to Building an Emotionally Intelligent Culture. FT: The careerist: Managing the clever but lazy. greatleadership: Top 10 Excuses for Being a Lousy Manager.

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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

absenteeism, job burnout, unhealthy behaviors, negative emotional states, and physical health problems (Robbins, J. In a very comprehensive meta-analysis, 279 studies were reviewed to explore the association between employee perceived fairness at work and diverse health outcomes (e.g., Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 235-272).

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Five Ways to Spot a Leader in the Wild

LDRLB

The psychology of stewardship is a hot topic in management studies. Therefore leadership is about making the best decisions under pressure with “an ongoing sense of obligation or duty to others based on the intention to uphold the covenantal relationship” (Hernandez, 2012). The act of leadership is, at its root, a selfless act.

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4 Keys For Bringing Out The Best From Introverts

Tanveer Naseer

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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Do You Suffer from a Lack of Coachability?

Coaching Tip

The 2012 hiring season is here and 46% of the people about to be hired will fail within the first 18 months on the job. Emotional Intelligence (23%): The ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and accurately assess others' emotions. And the real surprise?

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. Actively manages a pool of successors for mission-critical roles. It’s no surprise that the same companies appear on these lists year over year.

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Nancy F. Koehn on “Lincoln’s School of Management”

First Friday Book Synopsis

A 2012 re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh as captured by a pinhole camera in Michie, Tenn. Such a camera has no lens, viewfinder or shutter — just a pinhole at the front and film at the back. Images can be soft and require long exposures. More photographs are at civilwar150pinholeproject.com.No retouching or Photoshop processes [.].

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