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You Can't Lead From Behind

Coaching Tip

The leadership skills of the manager may be the most important factor in achieving desired results. Both categories have strengths and weaknesses, and both can and do influence their subordinates to act. To be an effective manager, you should know that people do better in a positive environment of acceptance and understanding.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. 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.".

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds , from Driving Results Through Culture , examines Lance Armstrong's fall from grace from the perspective of personal integrity: Personal Integrity is in Your Hands. A reader asks how a manager can become more professional and get the respect of her employees.". Corporate culture guru S. John Hunter , from The W.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Carrie Koens, from Weaving Influence, completes a pass to Julie Winkle Giulioni , who wrote Talent Management Systems: Sometimes the Cure Makes the Patient Sicker. Well-intentioned talent management systems are frequently to blame for undermining the quality of career conversations. Managers, Address Shadow Expectations.

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A Mistake You Can’t Afford To Make

The Idolbuster

The products I managed were going to help scientists find all the genetic predispositions for disease, and usher in an era of personalized medicine, where an individual would be prescribed the most appropriate medicine based on his or her genetic makeup. What is the biggest influence on how you spend you time? <<Previous

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

3) Mental – My role as host of The Ziglar Show requires me to study the messages of today’s top world influencers, and it’s a dramatic gift. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. That’s difficult of course, and I’m nowhere near perfect, but it’s the cornerstone of influence. Just the two of us.

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When a Public Mistake Requires an Old-Fashioned Apology

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. During the meeting, which was called to announce layoffs and site closings, Armstrong publicly fired Patch’s creative director for apparently recording the meeting. This “brutal” firing created a firestorm of negative publicity both for AOL and for Armstrong.