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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

As an entrepreneur or founder, the bond you have with the company you created can be as strong as that of a parent with her child. CEOs who take command of a company also forge intense bonds, even if they are not the actual founder. It can affect your ability to make the right business decisions in a timely manner. .

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How Leadership Notes of Appreciation Are So Impactful

Lead from Within

They can build stronger bonds. A note of appreciation can help to strengthen the bond between a leader and their team. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. This can make the note feel more sincere and meaningful. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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How to Differentiate between Self-confidence and Arrogance

Joseph Lalonde

This prevents you from making connections that you may need later in life and from establishing bonds of true affection. When you are arrogant, you show that you are not willing to work in a team, and this negatively impacts other job opportunities and your career progression. When you are arrogant, you tend to talk more than listen.

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Six Types of Stakeholders Leaders Need to Influence

Career Advancement

Her mentor helped her to map out the key people she needed to influence at this stage in her career, and this is what they came up with. Executives. Influencing executives helps a leader to build broad support for her projects and ideas and to gain financial backing when necessary. Building a strong rapport with them is another.

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Stan Van Gundy: The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff—Especially When Leading in the NBA

N2Growth Blog

This kind of a strong bond is necessary when the ‘coach’ asks his players to try something new and unproven, or to work harder, or to push their natural limits, or to bounce back from failure—a lost game, a missed shot, an injury, or the occasional harsh, but constructive criticism. He’s been practicing soft skills his entire career.

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Authentic Leadership: 5 Big Mistakes that Can Derail Your Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

NOTE: if this had been later in my career I would have taken her aside and politely given her some upward feedback — but I was a rookie at the time and lacked the psychological safety or skills to do that well, so I stayed silent. Bonding over stories can be a great way to create common ground. Are you a parent?

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Failing Forward: Brad Smith, Board Chair of Intuit Shares His Perspective

N2Growth Blog

Lots of practice is required, but it will pay off 100X throughout a career. In response to this tragedy, the community rallied in support and forged tight bonds. Go ahead and try. But any aspiring leader should go through this exercise until they become comfortable. All of them came very early in his life.