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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2015

Tanveer Naseer

In my penultimate article from 2015, I made the point that in answering the question “ where do we go from here? ”, we have to look back on the journey we’ve taken and what lessons and insights we’ve learned that can help us as we move forward. Read more on this leadership insight here: What’s The Truth About Your Leadership?

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Listen

Marshall Goldsmith

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. It is active and powerful.

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The Business of Kindness

Strategy Driven

The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout. They adopt leadership roles, put in longer hours, and have fewer sick days. All rights reserved.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Actively listen and use a professional tone with one another — that way you don’t make others feel excluded by your closeness or cause unnecessary squabbles when boundaries are breached. It always ends badly.