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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! This is my favorite because it addresses fear, a huge negative (and silent) driver that keeps leaders from speaking up against injustice, lack of ethics, morality issues and other things that damage individuals and people in our organizations.

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Reputation Matters But Character Leads The Way

Lead from Within

To make the right decisions you need the right moral compass and the right grounding to tell you what is right and what is important. At times, it may take every fiber of determination to behave in keeping with the values you hold dear, but doing so will allow your moral code to reveal itself in your actions. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

Results from a seven-year study conducted by the Workplace Research Foundation and University of Michigan investigator Palmer Morrel-Samuels, as reported recently in Forbes , confirmed that, as employee morale improves, a firm’s stock price enjoys higher returns. General Business'

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The Best Collection of Advice for New Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Joel Garfinkle , from [link] : “Professionals who want more from their careers have to seize the initiative. Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context : “I''d advise a new leader to intentionally build a strong moral center.

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Three Ways a ‘Noble Goal’ Makes You a Significantly Better Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

As Encore’s team approached their daily work through this new lens, morale increased and collections continued to grow. You no longer have to build your life and career at the expense of others or at the expense of genuine personal fulfillment. Brandon Black retired as CEO and Director of Encore Capital Group in 2013.

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The Final Piece to the Quality Hire Puzzle

Strategy Driven

A Career Builder survey of more than 6,000 hiring managers, worldwide, reveals some eye-opening global stats about just how much a bad hire can wreak company havoc. ranked high in citing an impact on employee morale and cost to recruit and train another worker. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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The biggest thing sales leaders overlook: SALES!

Strategy Driven

You seem to be doing the right thing – INCREASING SALES, and having the best year of your career. Let me address sales leaders… REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”?

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