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The Super Clever Strategy for Winning Wild Success

Lead from Within

1. Motivation is the key. Begin by learning the foundation of your inner motivation so you can keep yourself moving toward your vision of the future. No matter how farfetched your dream may be, motivation is the magic that can bring it within reach. 2. Keep creativity flowing. Stay positive to be productive.

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Weekly Round-Up: CEO Mission Statements & Speaking Out, How Comms Can Help AAPI Heritage Education, Question Assumptions for Better Leadership, Appreciation for Remote Workers

leaderCommunicator

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Why Every CEO Should Have A Personal Mission Statement By Melody Wilding ( @MelodyWilding via @ChiefExecGrp ), Chief Executive Do you have a personal mission statement? Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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Has Your Vision Statement Lost Its Focus?

Leading Blog

The key reason: they typically do not connect to what drives and motivates employees. While competitive dominance and service excellence are nice goals for senior managers, they do not motivate frontline employees. At their core, people get motivated for a cause. A cause gets them out of bed in the morning.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

In Never Enough , Mike Hayes recounts dramatic stories and offers battle- and boardroom-tested advice that will motivate readers to do work of value, live lives of purpose, and stretch themselves to reach their highest potential. Blog Post ). Because isn’t it a little unusual for a company to do almost no advertising?

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Integrity – A Critical Cornerstone To Effective Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Long agrees with Hird that when employees believe their leader has integrity, they associate this trait with kindness and having good intentions as opposed to selfish motives. This article originally appeared on The Economist Executive Education Navigator. “Character includes integrity and signals if the leader is friend or foe.”

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7 Effective Tips for Leading Millennials

Joseph Lalonde

I know a lot of millennials and I know exactly what type of leadership does not motivate them: dictatorship. Unlike the baby boomers who value hard work, education, and job security, millennials tend to value “following their heart” and “achieving their dreams”. Image via Creative Commons.

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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. Tanveer summarizes, “Learn about 4 critical leadership traits you need to have in order to motivate employees to help drive organizational success and growth.” Find David on Twitter at @davidmdye. Resilience.