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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

An article in the Financial Times explores the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’, where people film their resignations and redundancy. It’s yet another issue that requires thoughtful leadership. They discussed equality in the workplace, and how all organisations can do more to promote women to leadership positions. Not any more.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films.

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3 Ways To Believe In Your Ability To Succeed.

Rich Gee Group

My family and I just watched the film, ‘ The Polar Express ‘ last night with Tom Hanks. Their ‘elite belief’ in a sport requires a mental focus and intensity that is different from the way that many others approach tasks. Well — Do You? It’s a wonderful movie — great story, wonderful animation, and the acting is top notch.

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Featured Rascal: Tank Man

Chris Brady

  Yaobang had been a popular figure among students andintellectuals, standing for the concepts of free markets and democracy in acommunist nation.   What began as mourning for the loss ofa national leader, Hu Yaobang, grew into a gigantic demonstration known to theworld as the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business Review

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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The First Secret of Success Is Showing Up

Harvard Business Review

A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. That's why showing up is the first key to successful leadership of change (of course, there are several more, as I indicated in a recent TEDx talk ).