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Charisma Confusion: It’s Often a Weakness and Humility a Strength

The Practical Leader

As much as I enjoy reading Fortune magazine, they keep adding to this misguided leadership view by continually putting larger-than-life CEOs, politicians, and other leaders on their covers and featuring stories on their forceful personalities. From his good to great research, Jim Collins found humility is a hallmark of the very best leaders.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

There are many human resources books , but they often focus on specific industries or companies. They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

There are many human resources books , but they often focus on specific industries or companies. They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees.

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‘Tis the Season of Prophecies, Forecasts, and Predictions

The Practical Leader

In Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway Dan Gardner writes: “The now-defunct magazine Brill’s Content , for one, compared the predictions of famous American pundits with a chimpanzee named Chippy, who made guesses by choosing among flashcards.

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Love is at the Heart of Strong Leadership

The Practical Leader

. “We have always felt that a company is much stronger if bound by love rather than by fear,” explains Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Entitled It’s So Simple , the video explains how Southwest is “the company that love built.” ” Ya gotta love it!

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Clive Wilson on how to design a purposeful organisation: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He is a director of Primeast, a learning and development company based in the beautiful town of Harrogate in the county of North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, some 220 miles north of London. Clive Wilson is a writer, speaker, facilitator and business coach.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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