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You’re It: The Call for Meta-Leadership

Leading Blog

Henderson, and Barry C. Meta-leaders wield influence well beyond their formal authority. The two groups fall into conflict about what is in the cube, and each substantiates the validity of its claims based on professed superior experience, values, intelligence, or power. Dorn, details the mindset of successful crisis leadership.

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Leadership, Passion, And Transformation

Joseph Lalonde

The second American belief I lapped up early on was that success meant power, big salaries, trinkets, and position. Positional leaders—those with name plaques on wooden doors but impotent in influence are the gatekeepers of this ideology. Passion is a powerful conduit through which the vision of your organization is realized.

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Caption Contest 2010.3

Chris Brady

Posted by: Mike Henderson | February 23, 2010 at 04:45 PM "I told you that YOU to cut the tree down AFTER I balance the log between my buttcheeks." Skipper Posted by: Skipper | February 23, 2010 at 04:30 PM That's just great,I tried to get my wifes cat out of the tree for last few days and even plan b failed.

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Got Leadership Grit and Grace?

Lead Change Blog

Be mindful of gender stereotypes that can influence your thinking about which sex is better suited for certain kinds of work. Escape the myth that power is evil and influence is better. Sadly, there are those who use the power of their position for personal gain. Don’t confuse power with the person using it.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

Do you a) switch over to the Democrats, b) raise hell in the media, or c) try to stay welcome in the party's corridors of power in order to quietly exercise your influence? You're a Republican intellectual — David Frum , say — dismayed by the direction your party has taken over past few years. Book report to come.).