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What Kind of Innovator Are You?

Leading Blog

DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage. The Engineer The Engineer constantly improves everything. Their charisma lies in their reserve, their willing ness to let people speak. First, we need to get to know ourselves.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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The Key Leadership Skill?

Great Leadership By Dan

Seconds before the crash all four of the plane’s engines stopped working. ·. Leadership may well be about vision and inspiration and charisma and motivation but at its heart leadership is about communication, and at least half of communication is about listening. There was nothing wrong with the plane. ·. 73 people died.

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The Secret to Becoming A Great Speaker and Author

Lead from Within

As founder and CEO of Lead from Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world. What is the secret to impacting audiences through writing and speaking? Is it confidence?

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A Lesson in Leadership from the Melancholic Teddy Roosevelt

Great Leadership By Dan

The 26 th President led a very tragic life; it made him empathetic and a great leader Guest post from Jon Knokey : Certainly there can only be one Theodore Roosevelt: the smile, the bombastic laugh, the unbridled energy that bore him the nickname the “steam engine in trousers.” But Theodore Roosevelt was deeply melancholic and forlorn.

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Helicopter Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

When we land at the site, as we shut down the engine while the headsets are still on, I remind the leader his role is not to look for all the things that could be better (even though there will always be something). His role is to be a culture builder, not a culture buster.

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Early Exits - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

He correctly points out that many companies do financial engineering moves and make short term decisions in the short term interest of profits while sacrificing the long term business. He offers 41 "Smart Moves" on what a business should do to thrive. EG Smart Move 26 - Discover the Benefits of Long-Term Training Programs.

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