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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). The more ambitious the project, the greater the obstacles. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company). Low awareness.

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The Transformative Power of Positive Leadership

General Leadership

In tangible terms, a project initially forecast to span 70 years and cost taxpayers $36 billion was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $29 billion dollars under budget… a feat the government’s own General Accounting office declared unlikely, if not impossible.… … Read the rest.

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How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

What’s your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. But What’s the MOST Valuable Leadership Practice? What’s the most valuable leadership practice? It’s not flashy or charismatic.

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6 Uncomfortable Leadership Decisions

Joseph Lalonde

The longer you’re in a leadership position, the more decisions you will have to make. 6 Uncomfortable Leadership Decisions. Let’s look at 6 of these leadership decisions you’ll face. There’s an understanding that someone will hurt while trying to find a new position. It’s not.

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12 Tips for Leaders to Positively Influence Their Teams

Lead from Within

By being present and aware of your interactions with your team, you can foster a positive and productive work environment that ultimately leads to your team on reaching their full potential. Here are 12 tips to help you positively influence your team: Learn from your mistakes. No one is perfect, and that includes leaders. Support them.

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7 Ways Great Leaders Can Positively Influence Their Team

Lead from Within

When you lead with a positive and proactive approach, you inspire your team to do the same, and this can create a strong, positive culture within your organization. By focusing on the strengths of your team members and finding ways to utilize them, you can create a more positive and productive work environment.

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Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown Written by Prebagaran Jayaraman Monday 26 February 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email It’s common to think of ‘risk’ as negative, but did you know that it can also be positive? Reduced competitive edge. Underused resources.

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