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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

A coach and a teacher, not a manager or a boss. 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. They encourage their people to succeed, and do so with a helpful, positive attitude.

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the December 2013 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Enjoy these cartoons from the December issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post. Here’s his winning caption: “How’s this 360-degree feedback working?” “I think we’ve all heard enough debate about the chair budget, Vickers. .”

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership says, “A lot of leaders make the mistake of using the same conflict management strategy for all kinds of conflict. Nick McCormick of The Joe and Wanda on Management Blo g asks Are You a Manager or a Host?

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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. Leadership transitions Managing yourself'

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

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

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

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.