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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I suggest using a 360-degree approach to obtain this feedback. I use the LQ360 from RightPath Resources , which groups feedback by leadership competencies like delivering results, building relationships, developing others, and emotional intelligence.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.” Managing uncertainty Strategy The Future of Management'

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Despite that fact, Alex could not shake the perception that he himself had not succeeded, even though there was nothing he could have logically done to anticipate or change this outcome.

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To Build Your Resilience, Ask Yourself Two Simple Questions

Harvard Business Review

How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. David Kopans.

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The Business Case for Reading Novels

Harvard Business Review

Emotions also have an impact on the bottom line. Meanwhile, their hedge-fund-manager best friend is involved in big-time stock manipulation. Joseph Heller, Something Happened — Heller's stream of consciousness second novel follows a regular-joe middle manager as he prepares for a promotion. media empire.