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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

– Seth Godin. ” It’s much easier to encourage someone to think like an entrepreneur if they have a track record of innovation and problem-solving. Hire for courage and innovation and be clear from the very first day of new-hire orientation that you really want your new employees to share ideas.

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret. trustworthiness.

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Leading From Who You Are (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Seth Godin calls this emotional labor in his book Linchpin , quoting Arlie Hochschild. We choose the degree to which we innovate, excite, mobilize and serve others. Although I might trust my wife to want me to be well, I don’t always take her medical advice and I would never let her operate on me.

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Commitment

Lead on Purpose

Listening to Tribes by Seth Godin. Comments, criticism, advice and opinions are welcome here. This is an excellent book that lays out simple steps to become a person other people trust, especially online. I will write more about the book here soon. Leave comments and let me know how you feel, even (especially) if you disagree.

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Summer: A Season to Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

What is the best advice you received? Who are your heroes? Where did you go to college and what did you study? What events in your life shaped you as a person? Who has had the greatest impact on your life and why? These questions should give you plenty to talk about and help you strengthen your connection with the people you rely on at work.

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Burnout Results From Living in Conflict with Values

Michael Lee Stallard

My advice is to invite 2-3 people you trust and respect to meet with you, discuss your analysis and thoughts about how you might take action to close the values gaps. In “ How Peter Drucker Changed My Life &# I wrote about how Drucker’s writings affected my own career decisions. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-04-15

Tanveer Naseer

RT @ ScottEblin : Don’t do it for $ or perks RT @ TanveerNaseer : Becoming A # Leader For All The Wrong Reasons [link] # Five Ways to Hold the Right Kind of Attention [link] # communication #innovation # Tx Gwyn! RT @ MindEdgeOnline : Need #Leadership advice? Congratulations!

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