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Favorites of 2013–Team Building and Leadership Activities and Simulations

Mike Cardus

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2013. In this activity all people are asked to use their Steadiness behavior to be supportive of the team and get satisfaction from helping others be successful.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way. Our belief in ourselves helps us become successful. I behave this way. Why We Resist Change.

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Preview Thursday: Let’s Stop Meeting Like This

Lead Change Blog

In the United States alone, there are 11 million meetings daily (Koehn 2013). Some leaders, contributors, and facilitators can actually work against the success of a meeting. No matter what role you play in a meeting, how you show up in that role is critical to the meeting’s success. Here are two examples.

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Quiet Time: The Introvert’s 5 Keys To Influence

Persuasive Powerhouse

Incorporating some of these steps into your leadership can definitely increase your chances of success and sustainability whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. Executive coach Vinay Kumar said that most of his writings emerge from deep within when he is jogging. Quiet time allows innovative ideas to percolate and emerge.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere.

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

A very wise leader, Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford and Fortune’s #3 greatest leader in the world 2013, once told me, “The key to your success is having great customers. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that not all executive coaching engagements are successful.

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What Does Uncoachable (and Unchangeable) Look Like?

Marshall Goldsmith

This successful adult has no interest in changing. He had a fun, successful company and people liked the work, but feedback said that the boss played favorites in the way he compensated people. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.