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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year. So, how did they do it?

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Do you have these 5 leadership traits?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ron Schutz : Confidence is my #1 trait for leadership as an entrepreneur. 4 Delegation. As an effective leader, your time is so valuable that anytime you can “buy” more time for the “important, and not urgent,” * by delegating to your highly skilled and dedicated team, your effectiveness increases. #5

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What Motivates Power-Hungry Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

“If you can think back to a time when banks had branches with local managers, it has been very well-documented that they are much better at assessing credit risks than people back in head office, for example,” the authors explain. Are they a good delegator or not?

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Five Frequencies That Are Driving Your Culture (for better or worse)

Leading Blog

This can mean avoiding ethical shortcuts, hiring people smarter than you, delegating more, and helping prepare high performers for success beyond your team.”. Fortunately, she spots a rickety old raft on the bank, off in the brush. If it is truly a “value,” what are you willing to pay for it? Think in the long-term. “Go

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The Three Types of Workplace Courage

Leading Blog

Leadership takes courage because it requires making bold decisions that some people won’t agree with or support. The courage of try is associated with: “Stepping up to the plate,” such as volunteering for a leadership role. A common example of TRUST Courage is delegation. TRUST Courage, of course, comes with a risk.

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3 Inexpensive Ways to Develop as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

The church looks to him to lead and, wisely, he knows he needs to develop his leadership skills. Here are 3 suggestions I gave him to develop as a leader: Form a peer leadership group There are people in the community who own small businesses. Start a book club Recruit leaders in the community to read a leadership book together.

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5 Tips To Successfully Transition From Rookie To Leader

Tanveer Naseer

Even in organizations that invest in leadership development struggle with helping new leaders fully comprehend what it means to lead. What most leadership programs neglect to cover, but that new leaders quickly discover, is that leadership is massively freakin’ hard. Leadership can be a lonely endeavor.

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