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The Manager’s Playbook with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher

Let's Grow Leaders

Training great managers with a consistent system for delivering results is one of the fastest ways to gain a competitive advantage. Leadership is your ability to influence people to eagerly follow your direction. What are some of the common mistakes that people make with authenticity and leaders’ communication?

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Influencers Wanted

Coaching Tip

and Cisco Systems Inc. are seeking out "influencers" among their employees who are particularly well-connected and trusted by their peers. The influencers reap benefits, too: more money, promotions and opportunities to rub shoulders with top executives. Influencer Traits. Influencers Sell Well. Related articles.

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Healing Our Workplaces through Cultures of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

While formal programs and policies can be impactful, the informal practices of everyday life—the norms and culture of how we engage one another—significantly influence social connection. All types of leaders and influencers (national, local, political, cultural, corporate, etc.) Katharine P. Stallard coauthored this article.

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Three Questions We Have of All Leaders

Leading Blog

This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Although business leaders are rightfully concerned with competitive advantage and profitability, employees and customers typically have other concerns or priorities. Who are you?

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

But on the other side of that equation is the influence of sound business practices, planning, due diligence, and adaptability on business success. Here’s the thing: Ventures that grow and maintain success will develop some level of professionalism by creating systems and processes that create some order. The answer is complicated.

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Leadership and Knowledge Management

N2Growth Blog

I prefer to take it one step further and say that “the successful application of knowledge at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the proper emphasis results in a certainty of execution that creates influence and adds value.&# Thoughts?

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Your People are the Hard, not the Soft Side, of Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Much of how I approach change initiatives is influenced by William Bridges, the grandfather of change management and author of Managing Transitions. Valley of Despair Change requires people to work differently, be it on a system or in a specific business process. For example, let’s say you’re implementing a new software system.

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