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Leadership Styles–The Three Ds

Lead Change Blog

The Situational Leadership Theory Model— developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard describes four leadership styles. Goal —What’s our objective? It requires openness and collaboration. His two most recent books are Precise Leaders Get Results and Leadership-Finding Your Sweet Spot (Authors Place Press).

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Highlighting Our January 2017 Sponsor: Bill Treasurer

Lead Change Blog

Bill’s Books Motivate and Inspire. This month, Bill will be releasing his latest book, A Leadership Kick in the Ass: How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps. This book covers how even the best leaders — in fact, most of the best leaders — start out as decidedly bad ones.

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Think You’re Wise in Your Own Eyes? 4 Steps to Develop Leadership Humility

Leading with Trust

Yet a number of research studies have shown that humble leaders are more effective at bringing people together, marshaling resources toward a common goal, and accomplishing organizational objectives. As Ken Blanchard likes to say, “Being humble doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself, it means thinking about yourself less.”

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

We’ve bought books, retained consultants, rolled out surveys, looked deep into the hearts and minds of the people who work for us. Only 44 percent say that they can see a connection between what they do and their company’s objectives. Having strong values protects you from measuring and rewarding the wrong behaviors and objectives.

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

The models concluded — in a sort of "divine coincidence," as the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard and a colleague quipped — that if central banks merely maintained steady, low inflation, they would achieve economic stability and the best growth possible. Washington and London espoused this orthodoxy.