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How to Lead Effectively When You’re Not in Charge

Lead from Within

This means being reliable, hardworking, and ethical in everything you do. Collaborate and build consensus: Leadership is often about bringing people together and working towards a common goal. When you’re not in charge, this might mean finding ways to collaborate with others and build consensus around a shared vision.

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Leader Competence: Will it Be A Multiplier or a Divider?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership competence is an issue that is gaining attention. While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today's leadership requires broad, high level thinking.

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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

A cohesive and high-performing board is essential for effective decision-making and strategy development. Assessing Board Performance in Strategy Development and Decision-Making Effective strategy development and decision-making are critical aspects of a board’s responsibilities.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. She explores each of these questions in depth, as well as the six key qualities of leader humility: a balanced ego, integrity, a compelling vision, ethical strategies, generous inclusion, and a developmental focus.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Accelerating globalization, technology convergence, volatile world financial markets and demands for ethical, environmentally responsible business practices are presenting organizations and their leaders with unprecedented challenges. The business models of the past are transforming at a breathtaking pace.

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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

We want to be respected, to be recognized for our talents, to belong, to have autonomy or control over our work and our lives, to experience personal growth, and to do work that we believe is worthwhile and in a way that we feel is ethical. It’s how we are wired. We feel more energetic, more optimistic, and more fully alive.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases).