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Four Essential Behaviors for Every Leader

Leading Blog

So go run up and down the bleachers while you wait for the baton.” Lead Ethically Unethical behavior by a single employee is often easy to spot and deal with. This slow spread of unethical behavior is called ethical fading. Great leaders set and hold the bar on ethics. One hands off the baton to the next.

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI): How to Establish a Human-Centric Approach

Experience to Lead

From virtual assistants like Siri to self-driving cars, we can now teach machines to solve complex problems with the power of computer engineering and robust data sets. If organizations don’t learn to address AI’s ethical deficits, they may cause irreparable damage to people’s lives.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

We can choose to open ourselves up to others and invite them to share their observations, feelings, and opinions about us and the way we interact as we move through the world. Settling : Stopping at “good enough” instead of aiming for something better in interactions. You asked for a sample goal.

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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

If we’re green and growing , we can smarten up. Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

It differentiates itself from competitors by excelling in the following areas: offers high quality products and services, provides a great customer experience, delights the customer, is trustworthy and is on a journey to be the best in the world at what it does. . What are a few of the qualities followers look for in an effective leader?

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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. It means shedding the old work ethic in favor of a new ethic of work. In many ways, managers tend to rise up in the organization to the stage of their respective incompetence. A leader is only one if they have followers.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

I resisted the temptation to make it a “quiz” where a certain number of yeses totaled up to give you a red, yellow, or green light. Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Hard things don’t come easy. Imagine yourself as an old person.