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

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership is one of "those" important topics about which there is no shortage of information. But despite all that has been written or said concerning leadership, there are still some important areas that are all but ignored. Leadership always comes before management. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. 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. Related articles.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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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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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. Thus a preference for transformational styles is a predictor for leadership effectiveness.

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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.