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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Ann Bares, Compensation Force : Sales People ARE Different, But Not Every Sales Problem is a Sales Incentive Problem - Sales people can be a mysterious and enigmatic breed and much is often made over what "what makes them tick" and how to better motivate an organization's sales force.  Enjoy! .

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. Get Your Leadership BIG On! It can get pretty complex.

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Don't Hire Entrepreneurs; Hire Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

American leadership in the clean-energy sector extends beyond solar and wind to natural gas, which is much cleaner than other carbon-based fuels and is abundant in the United States. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

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Leader Fatigue: Making the Difficult Choice to Move On

Harvard Business Review

And there was Armand Hammer, CEO of Occidental Petroleum, who put in place a long-term incentive plan for himself with a ten-year payout horizon — when he was in his 90s. There was William Paley, the titan of CBS, who challenged his biographer by asking just why he had to die.