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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

If our skills, competencies and judgment get us our leadership roles – it’s our Emotional Quotient (EQ), or Emotional Intelligence , that keeps us there and propels us forward into greater leadership scope, work footprint, scale and reach. Role-play at different perceived levels of push back and resistance.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation. Gather Intelligence to Understand and Overcome Barriers Information is power.

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Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn?

Strategy Driven

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) For real change (like learning something new) to occur, our system must buy-in to the new or it will be automatically resisted. It's a systems/change problem. How We Learn. How We Train. Learning Facilitation.

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The Big Picture of Business – Cut the Weeds: Focus on Priorities and Strategy, Avoid the Time Zappers

Strategy Driven

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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The Trouble with Positive Thinking

CO2

— David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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