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Conduct your OWN performance Review

Career Advancement

Ask yourself how you leveraged your successes, advises Sharon Armstrong in The Essential Performance Review Handbook. Have you effectively used them to boost your visibility and influence? Write up specific proposals for ideas you wish to pursue, suggests Armstrong. Examining your leveraging of success. Developing ideas.

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You Can't Lead From Behind

Coaching Tip

Both categories have strengths and weaknesses, and both can and do influence their subordinates to act. Source: Steven D Armstrong: You Can't Lead From Behind: What I learned in combat about leadership, people, and profit. But without a doubt, the calm, collected leader more often than not prevails over the loud, angry leader.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Leaders must learn to recognize their fear when it surfaces and ask themselves several questions – provided in the article - and one very important question in order to take action against negative influences at work.". Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong.

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The Most Successful Leaders Know This!

Marshall Goldsmith

Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Frank Sinatra have left legacies with their music. Think about it: If you are consciously thinking about contribution and what you provide for others, not just for your lifetime but for theirs, might that not color and influence your behaviors and decisions today? Order it at Amazon.

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A Mistake You Can’t Afford To Make

The Idolbuster

Karen Armstrong, international expert on comparative religion and TED Prize winner gave the following example “Often when people talk about God, we attribute to Him the thoughts and feelings and opinions we have ourselves Now, reflect on how you are spending you time. What is the biggest influence on how you spend you time? <<Previous

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Out with the Old (but Really Great Business Stories), in with the New

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

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Shoppers with Strong Religious Beliefs Spend Less and Make Fewer Impulse Purchases

Harvard Business Review

Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. After the grocery shopping task, we assessed each participant’s religiosity based on their level of agreement with items such as, “My religious beliefs lie behind my whole approach to life” and “Religious beliefs influence all my dealings in life.”

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