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It’s Time to Turn Your Leadership Inside Out and Upside Down

Leading with Trust

You may not want to hear this, but your leadership needs to be turned inside out and upside down, too. I mean you can’t approach today’s leadership challenges with yesterday’s solutions. The tired and worn command and control style of leadership doesn’t work in today’s fast paced workplace. Inside Out Leadership.

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Leadership & Perception

N2Growth Blog

The Servant Leader : Whatever the amount of water, I’ll use it first to quench the thirst of those I lead. Those of you more creative than I could likely come up with a much longer list, but I think this exercise makes the point that understanding other’s perceptions is a critical part of being an effective leader.

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Leadership: Blinded by Success?

N2Growth Blog

The pivotal point in leadership maturity is when you remove yourself from the spotlight and focus on building into others. Sadly, too many leaders believe their legacy is something to be constructed at the end of their careers in an attempt to preserve a testimony to their accomplishments and achievements. What say you?

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Leadership Lessons from The Last Dragon

Modern Servant Leader

To add to those fans, I propose a different perspective: leadership lessons from the cult classic. Great Leaders are Often Misunderstood. Similarly, great leaders are dedicated to their role of service to their organizations. Like Leroy Green, great leaders are often misunderstood. In leadership, the same is true.

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6 Principles to Consider Before Electronically Monitoring Remote Employees

Leading with Trust

Monitoring employees in some form or fashion has occurred for decades—think GPS trackers in trucks, timecards, swipe badges, CCTV, regulating web browsing—but some of today’s methods border on outright distrust of remote workers. Extending our trust to someone makes us vulnerable to their actions.

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What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

Young professionals often like to believe that if they keep their heads down and crank, the Great Career Planner in the sky will simply move them from job to job in a stepwise fashion until career dreams are fully realized. Lifting others up as you do so is what it means to be a caring human being with a servant leader mindset.

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Giving Away Your Gifts

Persuasive Powerhouse

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo.

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