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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

How many “leaders” are present at your college reunion, your country club, or your annual conference? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. I drive a Fiat 500.

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Review of From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The Practical Leader

Arthur is currently an American social scientist and Harvard professor, writer of “How to Build a Life” column in The Atlantic, and podcast host of “The Art of Happiness.” “What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn’t just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Leadership Inspirations – How to Have a Positive Impact.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

“You might meet with them and ask how they’re doing — at work, at home, and with their career development,” suggests Porath. Include “supporting material” too: formal complaints, relevant information from performance evaluations, such as 360-degree or peer reviews.

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When You Have to Carry Out a Decision You Disagree With

Harvard Business Review

This is what I did early in my academic career when I received peer review comments on a paper I’d submitted for publication. Without fail, there would be at least one reviewer who hated the paper. How to Beat Procrastination. You and Your Team Series. Decision Making. Caroline Webb. Michelle Gielan.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. This, of course, takes time and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Asking for help.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?”

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