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Positively Energizing Leaders Are Heliotropic

Lead Change Blog

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers

Marshall Goldsmith

Here are 11 guidelines that will help you do a better job of influencing decision-makers, whether these decision-makers are immediate or upper managers, peers or cross-organizational colleagues. In many ways, influencing ultimate decision-makers is similar to selling products or services to external customers. ”—Peter Drucker.

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Three Questions We Have of All Leaders

Leading Blog

This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Setting direction well means establishing a compelling vision and ethical strategies. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Who are you? Do you see me? “Do Do you see me?”

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Organizations suffer when key people can't effectively influence up. Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers.

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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

Strategy Driven

In order to succeed and thrive in modern society, all private and public sector entities must live by codes of ethics. It is important to teach business domestically and internationally that: We must understand how to use power and influence for positive change. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals.

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March 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

A subtle shift in communication – just using the word “and” – is all it takes to move forward with positive energy. Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed It’s Tine For Ethically Adaptive Leadership. There is an opportunity for discouragement or setting a growth mindset.

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Nailing It: How Historys Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

Leading Blog

Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made. As the son of such a man myself, I can imagine the energy—and family support—it took to accomplish what Irineu did. He knew what was expected of him: to fill his father’s shoes.

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