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Don’t Blow Past Your Strengths

Next Level Blog

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. And there’s one thing I’ve seen again and again in so many of those feedback conversations.

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Does It Have to Be Perfect or Can It Be Good Enough?

Next Level Blog

Here are some of the tactics my clients have been sharing with me lately that they use to determine when something has to be perfect or “good enough” is good enough. It probably won’t be the last. When you satisfice, you accept an available option as “good enough.”. Is It a 10 or a 2? –

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What Gets in the Way of Listening

Harvard Business Review

She recently received 360-degree feedback from colleagues that she needed to improve her listening skills. To quote from Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind’s article, Leadership Is a Conversation , “Leaders who take organizational conversation seriously know when to stop talking and start listening.”

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Three Myths About Your Strengths

Harvard Business Review

One of the most dramatic changes in leadership development in the last decade has been the shift in focus from correcting weaknesses to identifying and expanding on strengths. But leadership strengths don''t work the same way. To investigate this question, we selected a group of 16,428 leaders for whom we had 360° feedback information.

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How Poor Leaders Become Good Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In our previous blog, Bad Leaders Can Change Their Spots , we described a group of 71 leaders who were able to elevate their leadership effectiveness from the 23rd percentile to the 56th percentile — that is, from being poor leaders to good ones. They improved their communication effectiveness.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Newsletter Signup StrategyDriven (Kindle Edition) StrategyDriven RSS Feed StrategyDriven Podcast iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective iTunes Feed StrategyDriven on Facebook StrategyDriven on Twitter StrategyDriven LinkedIn Users Group Recent Articles Worn out at Work?

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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

In fact, thousands of academic studies have demonstrated the predictive power of scientific EQ assessments vis-à-vis job performance , leadership potential , entrepreneurship , and employability. Importantly, unlike most of the competencies that make it into the HR zeitgeist of buzzwords, EQ is no fad. Related Video.