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The Biased Manager

Lead Change Blog

Childish, mature. An About.com article on social psychology says we have: “A collection of beliefs and assumptions about how certain traits are linked to other characteristics and behaviors. ” Next time you are making a people management decision, stop and take a critical look at how biases may be informing your choices.

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Three Management Styles

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors. The Three Ds.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn. One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . Passion . Curiosity .

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Author/speaker Jason Seiden just posted a “best of the web&# collection of articles on leadership that includes the post I recently wrote about the CEO of Starbucks. Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. What would be better?”

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How To Get Your Boss to Appreciate and Recognize Your Genius

Let's Grow Leaders

Now you’ve matured into a high-performing, mature leader, but your well-meaning boss, who has known you from the beginning, can’t see the (Tom) you’ve become. I wish I had this article back then to help him with his lack of imagination ? You joined your company as a kid (Tommy).

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

But in the very best leaders McClelland discovered three critical characteristics that acted as controls on their use of power and control that made all the difference – greater emotional maturity, high self-management and a participative, coaching leadership style (think of great professional sports coaches).

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. He wrote an honest article about his experience years later, after he became a business school professor. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all.

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