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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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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. Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock. 7 Warning Signs You Need to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence @LollyDaskal via @Inc. Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock. 9 Leadership Lessons from Dad by @skipprichard.

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

One of the earmarks of good leadership is the ability to keep focused and not allow distractions to get in the way of what we set out to accomplish. 2 Responses to Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership Joe Williams January 14, 2010 at 6:51 pm Oh yes, this topic hits close to home for me, Gwyn. Thanks for your great comment!

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). By Stephen R.

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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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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. Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership. Leadership Managing yourself'

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