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LeadershipNow 140: March 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2013 that you might have missed: 6 Distractions Leaders Need To Resist by John Bossong. 9 Leadership Lessons from the Best Boss I Ever Had by @ryanestis. Managers: How well do you listen? Art of Managing: Beware the Pursuit of False Precision in Planning by @ArtPetty. by Peter E.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

Booksellers, like any other business, must have Strategic Leadership to Prosper. Many in management mistakenly assume that leadership style is always a function of personality rather than strategic choice. However, leaders can choose a different leadership style that best addresses the demands of a particular situation.

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Key Leadership Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Prevent Office Idiocy

Strategy Driven

Importantly, an organization’s leadership plays a critical role not only in terms of identifying office idiocy, but also from the standpoint of taking corrective and preventive action. Not surprisingly, when managers and leaders act like office idiots, the population of office idiots in their departments tends to increase.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

They make up what I like to call the Rodney Dangerfield ("I get no respect") subcategories of the leadership topic. Below are four of these Dangerfield topics that are important for leaders to understand and incorporate into their leadership styles. Leadership always comes before management.

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RESEARCH NEWS: The relationship between emotional and social intelligence and leadership effectiveness

Chartered Management Institute

It was Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) who first defined the terms ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership to describe managers who are strong on individual and group motivation and those who prefer to focus on goals, tasks and processes. The data was subject to a variant of Factor Analysis and structural equation modelling.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. They are transforming each and every business model. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

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Recommended Resources – AMA Business Boot Camp

Strategy Driven

AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. AMA Business Boot Camp edited by American Management Association (AMA) International CEO Edward T. Reilly is a reader’s digest of fundamental management and leadership skills. edited by Edward T.