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LeadershipNow 140: December 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2016 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone by @JesseLynStoner. 5 People Skills Realizations to Recast Success in New Year by @KateNasser. by @mark_sanborn. Do you make these common leadership mistakes?

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5 Examples of Important SOFT Skills that Ignite Workplace Performance

Great Results Team Building

As important as technical skills and knowledge may be in your industry, team leaders and teammates soon realize that the soft stuff is really the hard stuff. Workplace performance is the result of developing your people beyond the normal range of technical skills. This skill leads to the doing all of the others! initiative –.

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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Lisa summarizes, “There are many essential leadership skills, and bringing a sense of lightness to the teams and organizations (and families) we lead is certainly one of them.” Let’s Get Started. ” Follow Karin on Twitter at @letsgrowleaders.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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How To Sell With A Story

Eric Jacobson

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Including me.

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Sell With A Story

Eric Jacobson

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Including me.

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Dr. Deming’s work lauded by world famous philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre

Deming Institute

Aristotle also held that a flourishing life desires some ‘good’ and seeks to achieve excellence: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and human pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that which things aim.” ( Nicomachean Ethics 1094a1-3).

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