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LeadershipNow 140: December 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2013 that you might have missed: Top Themes to Pull Forward from 2013 by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference. 10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Mike Henry Sr: Humility : The 5th Sense of Character-based Leadership. Be aware in 2014 by @TomAsacker.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2013 that you might have missed: Why Managers Haven''t Embraced Complexity by Richard Straub - HBR. Leadership Lesson: The Difference Between Google and Apple by @mikemyatt. From @stratandbiz: Neuroscience insights into Decision-Making & Self-Awareness. A Mind-Set for Success.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) Schein and Daniel H.

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Why Your CEO Just Doesn’t Get It

N2Growth Blog

Quality leadership or a lack thereof is easy to spot if you know what to look for. I was absolutely stunned to read the results of a survey published in the January/February 2014 edition of Chief Executive in which respondents (sitting CEOs) ranked the top 10 skills needed for effective leadership. High self-awareness — 26%.

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Leadership: The Fallacy of Intimacy

Lead from Within

The biggest fallacy that some leaders subscribe to is that intimacy has no place in leadership or business. To bring intimacy into your leadership, you have to be: Aware. When we allow ourselves to be aware, we have no need to look to others to validate our feelings. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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