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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.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Listen

Marshall Goldsmith

It is active and powerful. Good listeners know this. They regard listening as a highly active process. So what do good (active) listeners do? Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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Assumptions: Why Being Right Is Wrong

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Speaker or Listener: Who’s Responsible For Misunderstandings. Business Communications active listening business communications did you really say what i think i heard personal communications Sharon Drew Morgen strategydriven'

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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. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Big Picture of Business – Mentoring Guides Your Success

Strategy Driven

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. The mentor is a resource for business trends, opportunities, an active listener and adviser on values, actions.

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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). Don’t forget that seeing isn’t observing, and hearing isn’t listening. 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.