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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, the key step for being a true leader is active listening. Active listening is the act of repeating back, in your own words, what you believe was said. Active listening and fluid communication takes time and cannot be accomplished overnight. This is leadership!

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They are active listeners, fluid thinkers, and know when to press-on and when to back-off. Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It’s the realm of fashion houses that know to make fewer chokers and invest in more crop tops. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist

Harvard Business Review

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. Clear indications from marketing science underline how chatter affects sales, brand health, and even stock performance.

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