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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Denise empartners people so they feel naturally empowered to reach their mutual goals. As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered.

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. A great manager knows how to successfully transmit the excitement they personally feel about their company and its goals to employees, and employees get excited and energized themselves—leading to higher levels of engagement and goal attainment. (3) 3) Communicate. ” -John Wooden.

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Office Politics Isn’t Something You Can Sit Out

Harvard Business Review

Nearly every goal is achieved by going around people or formal procedures. But it may take a long time for your own organization to see the light and take action, and in the meantime you have a career to manage, to say nothing of keeping your sanity. Find another way to get what you want or change the goal.