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Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew

Kevin Eikenberry

There are things my parents told me a kid that have become a part of my belief system. Recently, I have been hearing my mom and dad in my ear. But when I thought about them as a leader, I gained a whole other level of insight. Because of this mental exercise, I decided to […].

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How to Bounce Forward When Life Throws You a Curve

Leading Blog

He wrote: I returned and saw under the sun that—The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all. Resilience is rooted in our belief system. It’s a good description of the world we live in.

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Never Enough … Excellence, Agility, and Meaning

Leading Blog

I needed to be humble enough to let others take the lead when their skills were the ones we most needed in the moment, and confident enough that I didn’t need to prove my worth and ultimately hurt the mission by trying to do what might be better handled by someone else. It begins by having a belief system in place.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

In short, they lack interpersonal skills. For many talented people “skilled in and rewarded for ‘doing,’ the shift to manager and leader is a hard one. The second most common career stopper right behind poor interpersonal skills is difficulty adapting to change. I’ve got this.” A Version 1.0 A Version 1.0 Version 1.0’s

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064: 5 Principles of Ultimate Influence: Turning Adversaries into Allies | with Bob Burg

Engaging Leader

Together, Jesse and Bob discuss how to take our influence to an entirely new level using Bob’s Five Principles of Ultimate Influence: Control your own emotions Understand the clash of belief systems Acknowledge their ego Set the proper frame Communicate with tact and empathy The technical skills of any profession are vitally important.

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

In this article I’ll explain why and how we fall short, and introduce new skills to enable us to truly serve Others. Since conventional skills focus on placing the idea/solution/information, we haven’t been taught skills to manage the behind-the-scenes activity Others go through to handle their own internal change.

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Character Lessons

Coaching Tip

In short, Character (who the leader is) + Skills (what the leader does) = Results ( Return on Character ). Together, these factors--governed by both our nature and the nurturing we receive--help shape the belief system and moral habits that form our character, and in turn, trigger the habitual behaviors that express it.