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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

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. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte. Obsessed with community development. Zondervan Author.

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Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

Leading Blog

From her contribution there, she was named “ Best Nonprofit Manager in America” by Fortune Magazine. Lesson about Developing Leaders at all Levels: At one point she asked her staff to introduce themselves to each other at a meeting. She said, “Think first, speak last” and “the leader of the future asks; the leader of the past tells.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

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. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins.

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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

Herb is featured, along with many frontline employees, in an inspiring 15 minute video we’ve been using for years when working with Clients on leadership and culture development. In their new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, feature Southwest in their extensive research on “10X companies.”