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LeadershipNow 140: June 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. 7 Warning Signs You Need to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence @LollyDaskal via @Inc. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. by @fsonnenberg. Kendall Lyman/Tony Daloisio via @TanveerNaseer.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection. ” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection. ” Is your leadership raising or lowering energy?

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I don’t mean to pick on quality circles per se, but these things have a way of taking on lives of their own and before you know it, your goals are going one way and the people who are meant to achieve them are bound up in processes that get lost in bureaucracy, and administration. Management processes will help you get things done.

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Maintaining Your Focus on the Front Lines as Your Company Grows

Harvard Business Review

Proliferating bureaucracies, expanding org charts, increasingly powerful central staffs, competing departmental agendas—all interfere with the focus on the customer and the deep connection with the details of the business that allowed these companies to grow successfully in the first place.

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To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needs

Harvard Business Review

Product developers brainstorm use cases and interview consumers to envision how they’ll interact with a product. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do. Secret shoppers pose as retail customers and record their observations.

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New Books from HBR Press for August

Harvard Business Review

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. This book promises to become your "quantitative literacy" guide — helping you develop the analytical skills you need right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value.

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