Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2012

Have you ever worked for a manager that consistently helped you learn new skills and develop? A manager that took an interest in your career, challenged you to be your best, and believed in your potential to grow? And if you’re manager, that’s the kind of reputation you should aspire to have. How do you do that?

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Management How To Hammer Delegation 233

Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 29, 2013

No one asked her to do this. Alison developed a reputation as a star assistant throughout the company because she not only got great ideas – she translated them into action. They keep trying other things because they’re confident that at least a small percentage of the things they do will work. But they don’t let that stop them.

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Shaw Hammer Reputation Learning-by-Doing 96

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” Our evidence from both the field study and the experiment points to a clear social downside of high achievement, as peers were more likely to belittle, insult, and damage the reputation of high performers. Such contradictions take a toll.

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Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent explains why your employees may not see you as a leader…and what you can do to change their hearts and minds. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career. The CEO’s reputation for trustworthiness had been wounded forever.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

How do you coach a leader whom others think is a hopeless case? We make assumptions and judgements based on our own experiences that often have little to do with the leader we’re trying to support. He was engaging, open to learning, and willing to accept his need to improve. Sometimes you can’t.

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Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15