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Bad Boss Behaviors Cause #2: Unclear Expectations

Modern Servant Leader

Each voice promises to turn you into the next great leader. The circus tent is packed to the brim with books, webinars, and self-proclaimed experts, all jostling for your attention. Amazon lists over 60,000 books on leadership and Google references over 210,000 pages for “leadership development expert”.

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Scott Adams Racist Rant: 5 Lessons for Every HR Professional & Business Leader

Modern Servant Leader

He clearly wasn’t exposed to differing perspectives and thoughts, significantly enough to open up his mind and create some empathy for other groups. Last, but certainly not least, of course, find SERVANT-Leaders in your organization. Servant leaders are thorough. The reality is he created his own groupthink.

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4 Ways to Deal with Quiet Quitters

Leading with Trust

The author was poking holes in the notion that work is the end-all, be-all in life; pretty radical stuff in a culture known for its strict work ethic. Two good resources are an article I wrote about 10 questions great bosses regularly ask their people and Promotions are SO Yesterday , the newest book from my friend Julie Winkle-Giulioni.

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Is There Hope for Leaders?

Persuasive Powerhouse

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Lehrer backs his findings with psychological studies that suggest unethical behaviors that seem to slink into a clueless leader’s character without their knowing it. Is there hope for ethical, moral power to prevail?

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

True leadership starts with the leader working on herself first and serving her team, not the other way around. It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. So what are the top leadership competencies the best leaders exemplify?

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Tomb Raider

Joseph Lalonde

Leaders are hit with a lot of challenging situations. From the possibility of the bank foreclosing on your business to firing an employee to doing the ethical thing (when others are pressuring you to make an unethical choice), you’re going to be hit and hurt. Ethics , morals, business direction, and more.

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Being Wrong is Good

Persuasive Powerhouse

Ellie : December 16, 2010 at 12:18 am I think this is a very good attitude and one we should be fighting for, the only problem is that, in some work place cultures, admitting you were wrong when no one else holds the same philosophy can leave you open to all sorts of nastiness. Yet it is always the moral and ethical thing to do.