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The Best Collection of Advice for New Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? And related to this is a very good leadership book that I recently read, What Keeps Leaders Up at Night , and on which I wrote a review.

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The Servant-Leadership Times They are a Changin

Modern Servant Leader

I was living in New York City when I first sought opportunities to work with companies focused on servant leadership. While interviewing a well-known author on the topic, his advice to me was simple: “Move”, he chuckled. Do servant-leadership principles seem synonymous with business models birthed from the Big Apple?

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

There's a sea of poor advice to wade through looking for those leadership pearls of wisdom , especially with the popularity of blogging and the ease of self-publishing. Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader?

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

presents Which of These is Ethical Leadership? The graphic in this post illustrates the point that leaders are interpreting “ethical leadership” at very different levels. Which one of the 3 represents ethical leadership”. Advice on listening from Greg Blencoe's book, The Supermanager”.

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Is There Hope for Leaders?

Persuasive Powerhouse

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Lehrer backs his findings with psychological studies that suggest unethical behaviors that seem to slink into a clueless leader’s character without their knowing it. Is there hope for ethical, moral power to prevail?

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. But this post isn’t all about me and only my advice. So what are the top leadership competencies the best leaders exemplify? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well?

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Thought-full Thursday: The Inspiration of Questions

Persuasive Powerhouse

What is the most ethical action we might take?” Johnson & Johnson leaders; the question that helped them to successfully deal with the Tylenol crisis in the 1980’s. ~Albert Einstein; the question that led to the theory of relativity. What might DNA look like in a 3D form?” Where can I get a good hamburger on the road?”

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