Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2012

Have you ever worked for a manager that consistently helped you learn new skills and develop? A manager that took an interest in your career, challenged you to be your best, and believed in your potential to grow? That’s the kind of manager that most employees want to work for. In many cases, managers just don’t know how.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you want to learn what it takes to become a great mentor, one place to look is at the great mentors who’ve influenced your success. If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. She always told me, ‘This or something better,’” Sweeney said.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you want to learn what it takes to become a great mentor, one place to look is at the great mentors who’ve influenced your success. If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. She always told me, ‘This or something better,’” Sweeney said.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent explains why your employees may not see you as a leader…and what you can do to change their hearts and minds. The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. The CEO’s reputation for trustworthiness had been wounded forever.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. How do you coach a leader whom others think is a hopeless case? Manage your assumptions and judgements. He was engaging, open to learning, and willing to accept his need to improve.

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