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Respond: Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

If there is one thing I know, it’s how to respond to feedback. A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better.

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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

One of the tragedies of leadership is that the (overrated) 360-degree feedback process, usually only goes 180 degrees. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The challenge for you, whether you’re a leader or a team member, is to study these qualities, and talk about them openly.

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the December 2013 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Here’s his winning caption: “How’s this 360-degree feedback working?” .” Paula Pratt. And congratulations to our November caption contest winner, Dale Stout of Colorado Springs, Colorado. ” Cartoonist: Susan Camilleri Konar. NEW CAPTION CONTEST.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Miller of The People Equation explores how coaching, training and 360 degree feedback is a key strategy for creating an organization that’s responsive to change. Leadership Practices and Approaches.

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Office Politics: A Skill Women Should Lean Into

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence?

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

He pushed for more transparency, adding 360-degree reviews for all employees and 360-degree feedback of his own work—he promised to resign if his own review dropped to a certain level.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

He pushed for more transparency, adding 360-degree reviews for all employees and 360-degree feedback of his own work—he promised to resign if his own review dropped to a certain level.