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October Leadership Development Carnival: Autumn Fun Edition

Persuasive Powerhouse

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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Leadership Lessons in Classlessness and Class

Next Level Blog

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

The only sustainable form of business leadership is thought leadership. Founder Dan Gilbert and CEO Bill Emerson call this language the company’s “Isms” — which is why the rollicking, fast-paced, eight-hour orientation session is called “Isms in Action.” In business leadership, as in all forms of leadership, words matter.

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Instead, they require careful, consistent leadership. Transformation is hard work. Persistence.

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Six lessons in how to interview… from the trenches

Roundtable Talk

Share this: This entry was posted in Interviewing , Leadership and tagged behavioural interviews , interview lessons , Jim Collins , STAR interviewing. 2 Responses to Six lessons in how to interview… from the trenches Barbara Gilbert | April 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM | Thank you for this! Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. The benefits of reading literature and poetry for business leaders have been well documented.