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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. How does one motivate staff to acquire this competence and apply it?

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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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You Don’t Need Charisma to Be an Inspiring Leader

Harvard Business Review

The problem is that most leaders believe that in order to inspire other people, they must exude the uncommon charisma of someone like Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr., For example, when your microwave unexpectedly chills food instead of heating it, it can inspire a revelation about your marriage or your job or even your political views.

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How to Increase Your Influence at Work

Harvard Business Review

How do you motivate colleagues to support your initiatives and adopt your ideas? You don’t have to be “the awesome-est person in the room” or make sure “everyone is blown away by your charisma.” “That way, they won’t impute negative intentions or motives to you.”

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Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

Harvard Business Review

In three studies, published in 2010 in the Journal of Applied Psychology , Tom Sy and his colleagues designed vignettes describing an Asian or white leader (Tung-Sheng Wong vs. John Davis) who worked in engineering or sales. Asians were rated as lower on leadership overall, but more so in sales than engineering.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Serves people. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

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Understanding The Power Of Our Words

Tanveer Naseer

The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

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