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25 Coaching Questions to Create your 2013 Leadership Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

What are some challenging assignments or projects, both on the job and outside of work that would give you an opportunity to learn and apply these new competencies? How can you find a good course, a book, articles, websites, blogs, podcasts, and other learning resources related to your learning goals? If so, what would it be?

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3 People to Share Dreams With Today

Jason Womack

The people you spend time with, the communities you're a part of on the Internet and the books you read and magazines you subscribe to will all come together for you if.IF To get you started, open your notebook and do some visionary writing. Write down the year 2013 and ask yourself, "How fast have the past 5 years gone?"

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen.

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. I’m stepping away from my email to finish this project. Why does this matter? I’ll be back in one hour).

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

The major topic of our open dialogue was “Creating a great rest of my life.” The dialogue was amazingly open, candid, and supportive. One investment banker is still at the bank, but is now working exclusively on projects that make the world a better place. ” Lonely at the Top. Innovation Leadership'

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Five years later, Apple opened its App Store, which empowered anyone, anywhere to design and distribute novel applications. There must be a better way.

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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.