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Do You Have the Courage to be Humble?

Lead Change Blog

Bill failed to realize that his paternalistic “take care of my employees” attitude disempowered the people he worked to develop. His promises to provide jobs, education, and even rewards prompted positive responses from his employees. He intended to give the employees personal power over their own careers and the business.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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If Your Vision Is Only About Yourself, You Are Too Narrowly Focused

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

And only 20% will get access to higher education.”. A professional speaker and expert on self-leadership, he volunteers his time speaking in schools with children about how they can take personal responsibility for their own lives. You don’t need to develop new skills. South Africa where “only 500,000 of the 1.5

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9 Leadership Lessons from Mom

Skip Prichard

Personal power is more important than positional power. As I reflect on my childhood, I cannot think of a single time that my mom used her “positional” power as parent. But she always used her personal power, her persuasion, and her personality to influence. Leadership is not a position.

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Listen to Your Conscience. That’s Why You Have One

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Raise your personal standards. Boost your leadership skills. Listen to Your Conscience contains over 65 powerful essays from Frank’s blog — FrankSonnenbergOnline — which has attracted millions of readers. DR. RODGER DEAN DUNCAN , Bestselling author of CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Build trusting relationships.

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The Men Who Mentor Women

Harvard Business Review

From previous research , we already know that these “male champions” genuinely believe in fairness, gender equity, and the development of talent in their organizations, and that they are easily identified by female leaders for the critical role they play advancing women’s careers. And what do they have in common?

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