Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Abusing power. Leadership is not about flexing your personal power but empowering others.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Reputation Motivation 161

Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Raise your personal standards. Supercharge your career. In this delightfully simple and straightforward book, Frank Sonnenberg succeeds in both challenging and compelling us to use our personal power to make the world a happier, healthier place to live, love, work, and play — one conscience choice at a time.”.

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Blog Books Self-aware CEO 132

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over a decade later, I'm still reflecting on what this group of talented bankers taught me about power, trust, and teamwork. The first step in our coaching was establishing each member's personal power style. It was fascinating to watch how insightful a group could be as they pondered each other's career challenge together.

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Teamwork Power Committee Bond 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The next lesson to be learned is that power can come through the projection of an image of strength that may not yet be the reality. For devices such as computers or cell phones to be of great value to users, developers have to be interested in writing application software. They only want to develop applications for hot products.

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Power Software Learning-by-Doing Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

To become more systematic about culture design, we use a tool that our company, Strategyzer, and Yves Pigneur co-developed with Gray. Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers.

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Company Tools Incentives Participative 11

You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 11, 2010

Yes, that was the beginning of my new career, I have been a proud bossy woman ever since! I think the difference is that a bossy woman operates from a place of love and a bully from a place of personal power. By the time this baby girl was four years old, I was her boss! To this day, I use tools he gave me at the age of sixteen.

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Leadership Styles Blog Bottom-up Definition 48

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite. A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility.

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Mentor Diversity Self-aware Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Last year, I worked with a senior executive — let’s call him Steve — who had received feedback from his boss that he was wearing the power of his new title in an off-putting way. Steve’s boss told him that he had developed a subtle way of being right in meetings that sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

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Power Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Executive Coaching 8