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A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013

Tanveer Naseer

Click here to read more – How To Embrace Change In Today’s Organizations ) Developing a new understanding of the importance of failure: “Failure can provide us with some unique insights and understandings of what’s truly required from us to ultimately be successful in our efforts.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. When our motivation is exclusively centered on elevating our own “success,” we create an environment of distrust, competition, animosity, and separation.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. They treated workers as their greatest asset, investing in and motivating them. General Business'

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I Get No Respect -- A Look at "Dangerfield" Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

This means that if you want to make your organization operate smoothly and work as a team, democracy cannot be the order of the day. As Steven Covey says, leaders have to "educate, motivate, and entertain" in order to move a department and its employees from "here to there." Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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Why Leadership Should Be Hard

Tanveer Naseer

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. And it’s meant to be hard.

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Riverside Auto Group: A Roadmap to Improved Customer Service, Employee Engagement and Increased Profits

Chart Your Course

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette). Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader.