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Do you have what it takes to be a mature leader?

ReImagine Work

Does this influence the effectiveness and maturity of your leadership? Great article. Age is not perfectly correlated with maturity! Maturity is underrated, i.e. we need more adulting. In looking for definitions of the word mature I am attracted to these: Based on slow careful consideration [= thoughtfulness].

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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. The title is a bit over the top, but the article itself is dead on. Finally, there’s 4 Ways to Become a More Emotionally Mature Leader. This one’s mine.

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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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What Happens When Creative Projects Change Hands

The Horizons Tracker

The article suggests that when we hand an idea to someone else to execute, it ultimately harms the creativity of the final product. “If you already have a mature idea and realize that unique skills are needed to implement it, handing the idea off to someone with the requisite skills may be worth it,” the researchers explain.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. It can help nudge others toward ethical maturity. Ethics training can take at least three forms.

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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. Fit, not in shape. Beautiful, plain, ugly. Cultured, not cultured. Groomed well, not so well. From a top school, from a lesser school.