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How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

Have you ever worked for a manager that consistently helped you learn new skills and develop? A manager that took an interest in your career, challenged you to be your best, and believed in your potential to grow? That’s the kind of manager that most employees want to work for. In many cases, managers just don’t know how.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Power and control, positional authority — we’re all familiar with autocratic leadership styles as these approaches have been around for centuries. And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. transparency.

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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it. John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it.

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Making Succession Planning “Real”

Great Leadership By Dan

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. We’ve begun a focus on Individual Development Planning – and it is my main cause in life to move names on the chart. How do I get the leadership team to see this as important? Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it.

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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. Sometimes, the “big strength” is a product demo, which isn’t in the slides at all.

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In Praise of Average Joes

In the CEO Afterlife

Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies.

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8 Ways to Have a Successful Partnership

Leading Blog

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. And the vagaries of inventory management, pricing, and product placement had already been solved by the vendor as well. Don''t figure it out.